This edition of "The Red and the Black" is based on Robert M. Adams' highly regarded translation of Stendhal's 1831 novel of ambition, love and betrayal. An extensively revised backgrounds and contexts section provides geographical and political insights into France at the time and places the novel [...]
The complete text of Machiavelli's best-known work, along with excerpts from some of his other writings and letters, and critical essays by J. R. Hale, Felix Gilbert, Leo Strauss, and others[...]
This book demonstrates that trade-offs can be very important for conservationists. Its various chapters show how and why trade-offs are made, and why conservationists need to think very hard about what, if anything, to do about them. The book argues that conservationists must carefully weigh up, and[...]