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Philosophic Classics: From Plato to Derrida

Philosophic Classics: From Plato to Derrida

First published in 1961 Forrest E. Baird's revision of Philosophic Classics continues the tradition of providing generations of students with high quality course material. Using the complete works or where appropriate complete sections of works this anthology allows philosophers to speak directly to students. Esteemed for providing the best available translations Philosophic Classics: From Plato to Derrida features complete works or complete sections of the most important works by the major thinkers as well as shorter samples from transitional thinkers.

GBP 175.00
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Philosophic Classics: Ancient Philosophy Volume I

Philosophic Classics: Ancient Philosophy Volume I

This seventh edition of Philosophic Classics Volume I: Ancient Philosophy includes essential writings of the most important Greek philosophers along with selections from some of their Roman followers. In updating this edition editor Forrest E. Baird has continued to follow the same criteria established by the late Walter Kaufmann when the Philosophic Classics series was first established: (1) to use complete works or where more appropriate complete sections of works (2) in clear translations (3) of texts central to the thinker’s philosophy or widely accepted as part of the canon. To make the works more accessible to students most footnotes treating textual matters (variant readings etc. ) have been omitted and important Greek words have been transliterated and put in angle brackets. In addition each thinker is introduced by a brief essay composed of three sections: (1) biographical (a glimpse of the life) (2) philosophical (a résumé of the philosopher’s thought) and (3) bibliographical (suggestions for further reading). New to this seventh edition: Changes in translations: New translations of Plato’s Apology and Phaedo and Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics and Politics from the acclaimed Focus Philosophical Library Series. New translations of Plato’s Euthyphro and Crito. New translations of Epicurus’s Letter to Herodotus Letter to Menoeceus and Principal Doctrines. New translation of the Parmenides fragments. Additional material: Gorgias’s model oration Encomium on Helen which gives a defense of Helen of Troy. A selection from Plato’s Gorgias on nature versus convention or law . Additional material from the opening of Plato’s Symposium to contextualize the dialogue. Additional material from Plato’s Republic (Book IX) on the tri-partite soul. Additional material from Aristotle’s Metaphysics (Book IV 1-4 7) on the nature of being and the so-called three rules of thought. A brief selection from Porphyry’s Life of Plotinus giving a sense of the person. Updated and reorganized bibliographies. To allow for all these changes a section of Book V from Plato’s Republic has been dropped. Those who use this first volume in a one-term course in ancient philosophy will find more material here than can easily fit a normal semester. But this embarrassment of riches gives teachers some choice and for those who offer the same course year after year an opportunity to change the menu. | Philosophic Classics: Ancient Philosophy Volume I

GBP 115.00
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Philosophic Classics Volume IV Nineteenth-Century Philosophy

Philosophic Classics Volume IV Nineteenth-Century Philosophy

This anthology of readings in contemporary Western philosophy focuses on 19th-century philosophers who represent a variety of responses to the issue of their day: whether or not there was a knowable nonhuman rational order upon which thinking persons could willfully choose to act. The selections are readable and accessible yet remain faithful to the original works. Accompanying the text are drawings diagrams photographs and a timeline; all of which allow the reader to really study the major philosophical thinkers of the 19th-century: Bentham Wollstonecraft Fichte Hegel Schopenhauer Comte Feuerbach Mill Kierkegaard Marx Peirce James and Nietzche. For anyone interested in owning a collection of works from the greatest philosophical thinkers in the 19th-century. | Philosophic Classics Volume IV Nineteenth-Century Philosophy

GBP 170.00
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Greek and Roman Painting and the Digital Humanities

Greek and Roman Painting and the Digital Humanities

This volume is a groundbreaking discussion of the role of digital media in research on ancient painting and a deep reflection on the effectiveness of digital media in opening the field to new audiences. The study of classical art always oscillates between archaeology and classics between the study of ancient texts and archaeological material. For this reason it is often difficult to collect all the data to have access to both types of information on an equal basis. The increasing development of digital collections and databases dedicated to both archaeological material and ancient texts is a direct response to this problem. The book’s central theme is the role of the digital humanities especially digital collection s such as the Digital Milliet in the study of ancient Greek and Roman painting. Part 1 focuses on the transition between the original print version of the Recueil Milliet and its digital incarnation. Part 2 addresses the application of digital tools to the analysis of ancient art. Part 3 focuses on ancient wall painting. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history classics archaeology and digital humanities. | Greek and Roman Painting and the Digital Humanities

GBP 130.00
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Sanity Madness and the Family

Sanity Madness and the Family

In the late 1950s the psychiatrist R. D. Laing and psychoanalyst Aaron Esterson spent five years interviewing eleven families of female patients diagnosed as 'schizophrenic'. Sanity Madness and the Family is the result of their work. Eleven vivid case studies often dramatic and disturbing reveal patterns of affection and fear manipulation and indifference within the family. But it was the conclusions they drew from their research that caused such controversy: they suggest that some forms of mental disorder are only comprehensible within their social and family contexts; their symptoms the manifestations of people struggling to live in untenable situations. Sanity Madness and the Family was met with widespread hostility by the psychiatric profession on its first publication where the prevailing view was to treat psychosis as a medical problem to be solved. Yet it has done a great deal to draw attention to the complex and contested nature of psychosis. Above all Laing and Esterson thought that if you understood the patient's world their apparent madness would become socially intelligible. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new Foreword by Hilary Mantel.

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Chinese Narratology I Heaven and Human

Chinese Narratology I Heaven and Human

As the first volume of a two-volume set on Chinese narratology this title introduces the cultural fundamentals that nurture Chinese literary works and investigates the structure and time of Chinese narrative. In the introductory chapter the author examines the intrinsic association between Chinese writers’ narrative techniques and China’s cultural background by putting forward a Principle of Duixing to facilitate the study of those techniques and three steps to revisit Chinese narrative. Based on Western narrative theories and a close reading of outstanding Chinese literary classics the volume focuses on structure and time in Chinese narrative. The first part on structure (jiegou) identifies five essential themes to analyze the dual dynamic structure of Chinese narrative. In terms of aspects of time the author demonstrates how the holistic view of time and space in the Chinese tradition influences the chronological framework of narratives and shapes the outset of a story. The book is a must-read for scholars and students interested in narrative theory Chinese culture and literature and the dialogue between Chinese and Western narratological studies. | Chinese Narratology I Heaven and Human

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Classic Readings in Urban Planning

Classic Readings in Urban Planning

This new edition of the best anthology in planning includes 33 selections by many of the profession's most respected thinkers and eloquent writers. Returning editor Jay M. Stein chose the articles about half of them new to this edition based on suggestions from colleagues and students who used the first edition recommendations from planning scholars awards for writing in the field of planning and his own review of recent planning literature. Classic Readings in Urban Planning offers an unparalleled depth of coverage and range of perspectives on traditional aspects of planning as well as on important contemporary issues. This is an exceptional main or supplementary textbook for advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate level students in urban and regional planning. As a general overview of the field of urban planning it is also an excellent choice for planning commissioners practicing planners and professionals in related fields such as environmental and land use law architecture and government. An abstract introduces each reading and each section includes suggestions for additional readings suitable for more extensive study. Many of these are also classics that could not be included as a main selection.

GBP 120.00
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Tattoo Histories Transcultural Perspectives on the Narratives Practices and Representations of Tattooing

Tattoo Histories Transcultural Perspectives on the Narratives Practices and Representations of Tattooing

Tattoo Histories is an edited volume which analyses and discusses the relevance of tattooing in the socio-cultural construction of bodies boundaries and identities among both individuals and groups. Its interdisciplinary approach facilitates historical as well as contemporary perspectives. Rather than presenting a universal essentialized history of tattooing the volume’s objective is to focus on the entangled and transcultural histories narratives and practices related to tattoos. Contributions stem from various fields including Archaeology Art History Classics History Linguistics Media and Literary Studies Social and Cultural Anthropology and Sociology. They advance the current endeavour on the part of tattoo scholars to challenge Eurocentric and North American biases prevalent in much of tattoo research by including various analyses based in locations such as Malaysia Israel East Africa and India. The thematic focus is on the transformative capacity of tattoos and tattooing with regard to the social construction of bodies and subjectivity; the (re-)creation of social relationships through the definition of (non-)tattooed others; the formation and consolidation of group identities traditions and authenticity; and the conceptualization of art and its relevance to tattoo artist–tattooee relations. | Tattoo Histories Transcultural Perspectives on the Narratives Practices and Representations of Tattooing

GBP 130.00
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Contemporary New Confucianism I

Contemporary New Confucianism I

As the first volume of a two-volume seminal work on contemporary New Confucianism in China this book charts the development of this intellectual trend and examines four leading thinkers of this intellectual movement in the 20th century. Contemporary New Confucianism refers to the Confucianism or Confucian thought that has emerged in China since the 1920s and that seeks to revive Confucian spirituality in a changing society. This volume first analyzes the cultural context logical approach major themes and problems of New Confucianism before delving into the four leading figures namely Liang Shumin Xiong Shili Ma Yifu and Qian Mu. The chapter on Liang Shumin analyzes his concept of will his arguments on Confucian moral ideals and his theory of culture. It then discusses Xiong Shili's contribution to the philosophical metaphysics of New Confucianism. The following chapter on Ma Yifu examines his theory of the mind nature and the six arts. The final chapter on Qian Mu presents his views on nationality history and the Chinese classics. This title will appeal to scholars and students of modern and contemporary Confucianism intellectual history philosophy and thought of contemporary China and comparative philosophy.

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Contemporary Postcolonial Theory A Reader

Contemporary Postcolonial Theory A Reader

There is a crisis in contemporary postcolonial theory: while an enormous body of challenging research has been produced under its auspices severely critical questions about the validity and usefulness of this theory have also been raised. This Reader is positioned at the juncture where it can address these contestations. It makes available some of the 'classics' of the field; engages with the issues raised by contemporary practitioners; but also offers several of the arguments that strongly critique postcolonial theory. Although postcolonial theory purports to be inter-disciplinary and frequently anti-foundationalist traces of disciplinary formations and linearity have continued to haunt its articulations. This Reader on the other hand offers a uniquely inter-disciplinary mapping. It is concerned with three main areas: definitional problems and contests including the current challenges to postcolonial theory; the 'disciplining of knowledge' where the multiple resonances of the word 'disciplining' are all engaged; and the location of practice where the relations between intellectual practice and historical conditions are explored. Finally since the guiding principle of this Reader is simultaneous attention to the enabling and constraining mechanisms of historical realities and institutional practices the commentary problematizes the writing of histories the formations of canons and indeed the production of Readers. | Contemporary Postcolonial Theory A Reader

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Soul Body and Gender in Late Antiquity Essays on Embodiment and Disembodiment

Soul Body and Gender in Late Antiquity Essays on Embodiment and Disembodiment

Including both traditional and underrepresented accounts and geographies of soul body gender and sexuality in late antique history philosophy and theology this volume offers substantial re-readings of these and related concepts through theories of dis/embodiment. Bringing together gender studies late antique philosophy patristics history of asceticism and history of Indian philosophy this interdisciplinary volume examines the notions of dis/embodiment and im/materiality in late antique and early Christian culture and thought. The book’s geographical scope extends beyond the ancient Mediterranean providing comparative perspectives from Late Antiquity in the Near East and South Asia. It offers critical interpretations of late antique scholarly objects of inquiry exploring close readings of soul body gender and sexuality in their historical context. These fascinating studies engage scholars from different fields and research traditions with one another and reveal both change and continuity in the perception and social role of gender sexuality body and soul in this period. Soul Body and Gender in Late Antiquity is a valuable resource for students and scholars of Classics Gender and Sexuality Studies as well as those working on late antique and early Christian history philosophy and theology. | Soul Body and Gender in Late Antiquity Essays on Embodiment and Disembodiment

GBP 140.00
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Agency And Responsiblity Essays On The Metaphysics Of Freedom

Agency And Responsiblity Essays On The Metaphysics Of Freedom

A companion volume to Free Will: A Philosophical Study this new anthology collects influential essays on free will including both well-known contemporary classics and exciting recent work. Agency and Responsibility: Essays on the Metaphysics of Freedom is divided into three parts. The essays in the first section address metaphysical issues concerning free will and causal determinism. The second section groups papers presenting a positive account of the nature of free action including competing compatibilist and incompatibilist analyses. The third section concerns free will and moral responsibility including theories of moral responsibility and the challenge to an alternative possibilities condition posed by Frankurt-type scenarios. Distinguished by its balance and consistently high quality the volume presents papers selected for their significance innovation and clarity of expression. Contributors include Harry Frankfurt Peter van Inwagen David Lewis Elizabeth Anscombe John Martin Fischer Michael Bratman Roderick Chisholm Robert Kane Peter Strawson and Susan Wolf. The anthology serves as an up-to-date resource for scholars as well as a useful text for courses in ethics philosophy of religion or metaphysics. In addition paired with Free Will: A Philosophical Study it would form an excellent upper-level undergraduate or graduate-level course in free will responsibility motivation or action theory. | Agency And Responsiblity Essays On The Metaphysics Of Freedom

GBP 130.00
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The Politics of Time in China and Japan Back to the Future

The Politics of Time in China and Japan Back to the Future

Drawing on a wide range of texts and using an interdisciplinary approach this volume shows how Chinese and Japanese intellectuals mobilized the past to create a better future. It is especially significant today given a world where amidst tensions within Asia and the rise of China East Asian intellectuals and governments constantly find new political meanings in their traditions. The essays illuminate how throughout Chinese and Japanese history thinkers constantly weaved together nationalism internationalism and a politics of time. This volume explores a broad range of subjects such as premodern and early modern attempts to conjure a politics of Confucianism twentieth-century Japanese Marxist interpretations of Buddhism and Japanese and Chinese endeavors to imagine a new world order. In sum this book shows us why understanding East Asian pasts are essential to making sense of ideological trends in contemporary China and Japan. For example without understanding Confucianism and how modern intellectuals in China grappled with this body of thought we would be unable to make sense of the Chinese government’s current promotion of the Chinese classics. This book will interest students and scholars of political science history Asian studies sociology and philosophy. | The Politics of Time in China and Japan Back to the Future

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Multimodality in Translation Studies Media Models and Trends in China

Multimodality in Translation Studies Media Models and Trends in China

Focusing on multimodality in translation studies this edited volume presents insights into the models trends and practices of multimodal translation across a variety of media contexts in contemporary China. The book is structured into five main themes investigating audiovisual translation in digital media multimodal translation of Chinese classics in print media multimodal design in website translation stance and ideology of paratexts in news translation and the use of paralanguage and visual cues in quasi-on-site multimodal translation such as conference interpreting. Contributors draw on various theoretical models and research methods including systemic functional multimodal discourse analysis narrative theory Skopos-functional theory multimodal analysis of digital discourse corpus-assisted multimodal analysis questionnaire surveys and interviews. The volume covers major topics in multimodal translation studies ranging from emerging multimodal translation models to multimodal creativity in inter-lingual subtitling for social media image framing in multimodal metaphor translation and intersemiotic structure information value cohesion and coherence in different textures of media translation. Through ample solid empirical studies it aims to shed lights on the methodological development of multimodal translation across various media forms including social media websites on-site interactions and books. The title will be of great value to scholars and students studying linguistics translation studies multimodal discourse analysis and digital media. | Multimodality in Translation Studies Media Models and Trends in China

GBP 130.00
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Red Magic The World’s Best Fairy Tales Collected and Arranged by Romer Wilson

Red Magic The World’s Best Fairy Tales Collected and Arranged by Romer Wilson

With a Preface and biographies from Jack Zipes as well as the original illustrations by Kay Nielsen this collection of fairy tales originally published by the award-winning Romer Wilson – Green Magic (1928) Silver Magic (1929) and Red Magic (1930) – offers a combination of classic fairy tales alongside lesser known global and diverse tales. Red Magic contains such classics as “Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp” from the Arabian Nights “A Child’s Dream on a Star” by Dickens and “The Chimera” by Hawthorne. It also contains previously unpublished tales such as “Princess Silver Silk” and “The Enchanted Deer. ” It was Romer Wilson’s intention to combine the familiar with the unknown and to introduce authors and cultures from a variety of countries. As a researcher Wilson uncovered a remarkable amount of stories from other countries that remain unknown today. This collection gives voice to unique and intriguing tales that inspire children to have a better understanding of how people and their stories are alike despite major differences. Through his Preface and commentary Jack Zipes shows how all three books are a means to bring people together in the name of peace and justice. These books will therefore be of interest to anyone researching or studying fairy tales folklore and children’s literature as well as global or comparative literature and social justice. | Red Magic The World’s Best Fairy Tales Collected and Arranged by Romer Wilson

GBP 120.00
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The Structure of Political Geography

The Structure of Political Geography

This volume seeks to provide a sense of purpose and order to the study of political geography. The editors devise a conceptual structure for the field bringing political geography into line with trends in contemporary geography as a whole and with other social sciences. Not only do the selections contain a wide variety of contributions from other fields but the introductory essays and annotated bibliographies suggest related research. The structure of the book enjoys close parallels in other social sciences. The organization of the book reflects the editors' definitions and structuring of political geography. Part I Heritage includes works that have contributed to the theoretical development of the field. Part II Structure comprises the concern to which political geographers have devoted most of their past attention. Parts III and IV Process and Behavior form the subject where much future theoretical and practical effort is needed. Part V Environment provides the context in which spatial structure process and behavior occur. The Structure of Political Geography includes selections from sociobiology history international relations political economy political science social psychology and sociology. The classics in the field are an essential inclusion since the book would be incomplete without them. The selections in the volume originally published in 1971 remain useful and pertinent to political geographers of diverse persuasion and to social scientists interested in geographical approaches. The fact that there is a clear focus and conceptual interdependence in political geography is the volume's greatest contribution.

GBP 150.00
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City for Conquest

City for Conquest

F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby still captivates readers with its vision of 1920s New York as a city of infinite potential where ambition and defeat live hand in hand. This sentiment is captured with even greater acuity in the pages of Aben Kandel's nearly forgotten masterpiece of urban life City for Conquest (1936). The source of the classic 1940s James Cagney film of the same name this panoramic New York novel captures the complex patterns of city life vividly evoking a metropolis of dreams and nightmares. Kandel portrays a volatile city inhabited by the aristocrat the criminal the idealist the bohemian the driven the entrapped and the impoverished all equally striving to make a dent in this town. The city itself is booming its new constructions callously built on destruction supplanting with equal disdain the slums of Brooklyn and the farm fields of the Bronx. This feverish microcosm of humanity inhabits a world of immense inequality where six blocks from Wall Street people haven't got a dime six blocks from duplex apartments people live in hovels and between the scarlet sore and the apple of the eye there lay a thick eyebrow of indifference. A literary triumph in the tradition of Stephen Crane's Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and John Dos Passos' Manhattan Transfer and out of print for far too long City for Conquest is the inaugural work of fiction in Transaction's new Lost Urban Classics series.

GBP 130.00
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Microeconometrics Using Stata Second Edition Volume I: Cross-Sectional and Panel Regression Models

Microeconometrics Using Stata Second Edition Volume I: Cross-Sectional and Panel Regression Models

Microeconometrics Using Stata Second Edition is an invaluable reference for researchers and students interested in applied microeconometric methods. Like previous editions this text covers all the classic microeconometric techniques ranging from linear models to instrumental-variables regression to panel-data estimation to nonlinear models such as probit tobit Poisson and choice models. Each of these discussions has been updated to show the most modern implementation in Stata and many include additional explanation of the underlying methods. In addition the authors introduce readers to performing simulations in Stata and then use simulations to illustrate methods in other parts of the book. They even teach you how to code your own estimators in Stata. The second edition is greatly expanded—the new material is so extensive that the text now comprises two volumes. In addition to the classics the book now teaches recently developed econometric methods and the methods newly added to Stata. Specifically the book includes entirely new chapters on duration models randomized control trials and exogenous treatment effects endogenous treatment effects models for endogeneity and heterogeneity including finite mixture models structural equation models and nonlinear mixed-effects models spatial autoregressive models semiparametric regression lasso for prediction and inference Bayesian analysis Anyone interested in learning classic and modern econometric methods will find this the perfect companion. And those who apply these methods to their own data will return to this reference over and over as they need to implement the various techniques described in this book. | Microeconometrics Using Stata Second Edition Volume I: Cross-Sectional and Panel Regression Models

GBP 89.99
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Microeconometrics Using Stata Second Edition Volumes I and II

Microeconometrics Using Stata Second Edition Volumes I and II

Microeconometrics Using Stata Second Edition is an invaluable reference for researchers and students interested in applied microeconometric methods. Like previous editions this text covers all the classic microeconometric techniques ranging from linear models to instrumental-variables regression to panel-data estimation to nonlinear models such as probit tobit Poisson and choice models. Each of these discussions has been updated to show the most modern implementation in Stata and many include additional explanation of the underlying methods. In addition the authors introduce readers to performing simulations in Stata and then use simulations to illustrate methods in other parts of the book. They even teach you how to code your own estimators in Stata. The second edition is greatly expanded—the new material is so extensive that the text now comprises two volumes. In addition to the classics the book now teaches recently developed econometric methods and the methods newly added to Stata. Specifically the book includes entirely new chapters on duration models randomized control trials and exogenous treatment effects endogenous treatment effects models for endogeneity and heterogeneity including finite mixture models structural equation models and nonlinear mixed-effects models spatial autoregressive models semiparametric regression lasso for prediction and inference Bayesian analysis Anyone interested in learning classic and modern econometric methods will find this the perfect companion. And those who apply these methods to their own data will return to this reference over and over as they need to implement the various techniques described in this book. | Microeconometrics Using Stata Second Edition Volumes I and II

GBP 150.00
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Microeconometrics Using Stata Second Edition Volume II: Nonlinear Models and Casual Inference Methods

Microeconometrics Using Stata Second Edition Volume II: Nonlinear Models and Casual Inference Methods

Microeconometrics Using Stata Second Edition is an invaluable reference for researchers and students interested in applied microeconometric methods. Like previous editions this text covers all the classic microeconometric techniques ranging from linear models to instrumental-variables regression to panel-data estimation to nonlinear models such as probit tobit Poisson and choice models. Each of these discussions has been updated to show the most modern implementation in Stata and many include additional explanation of the underlying methods. In addition the authors introduce readers to performing simulations in Stata and then use simulations to illustrate methods in other parts of the book. They even teach you how to code your own estimators in Stata. The second edition is greatly expanded—the new material is so extensive that the text now comprises two volumes. In addition to the classics the book now teaches recently developed econometric methods and the methods newly added to Stata. Specifically the book includes entirely new chapters on duration models randomized control trials and exogenous treatment effects endogenous treatment effects models for endogeneity and heterogeneity including finite mixture models structural equation models and nonlinear mixed-effects models spatial autoregressive models semiparametric regression lasso for prediction and inference Bayesian analysis Anyone interested in learning classic and modern econometric methods will find this the perfect companion. And those who apply these methods to their own data will return to this reference over and over as they need to implement the various techniques described in this book. | Microeconometrics Using Stata Second Edition Volume II: Nonlinear Models and Casual Inference Methods

GBP 89.99
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Muslim Studies Volume 1

Muslim Studies Volume 1

This is the first volume of Goldziher's Muslim Studies which ranks highly among the classics of the scholarly literature on Islam. Indeed the two volumes originally published in German in 1889-1890 can justly be counted among those that laid the foundations of the modern study of Islam as a religion and a civilization. The first study deals with the reaction of Islam to the ideals of Arab tribal society to the attitudes of early Islam to the various nationalities and more especially the Persians and culminates in the chapter on the Shu'ubiya movement which represents the reaction of the newly converted peoples and again more especially the Persians to the idea of Arab superiority. The second essay is the famous study on the development of the Hadith the Traditions ascribed to Muhammed in which the Hadith is shown to reflect the various trends of early Islam: Goldziher's name is mainly associated with the critical study of the Hadith of which this essay is the chief monument. The third essay is about the cult of saints which though contrary to the spirit and letter of the earliest Islam played such an important part in its subsequent development. These essays with the author's marvelous richness of information profound historical sense and sympathetic insight into the motive forces of religion and civilization are today as fresh as at the time of their original publication and their reissue is indispensable for the growing number of students of Islam. Hamid Dabashi contributes a major eighty-five-page study of Goldziher's life and scholarship situating both in the intellectual and political currents of his own time while evaluating his work in the context of the current debate over Orientalism. | Muslim Studies Volume 1

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Essays On Entrepreneurs Innovations Business Cycles and the Evolution of Capitalism

Essays On Entrepreneurs Innovations Business Cycles and the Evolution of Capitalism

Ordinarily the word essays is invoked at great risk by authors and publishers alike. But in the case of this special collection by Joseph A. Schumpeter the great Austrian economist who finally settled at Harvard the scholarly world knows this particular volume as his Essays. For a less pious younger generation a subtitle has been added describing what these essays are about. In addition to the major themes of Schumpeter's life: the place of the entrepreneur in economic development the risks and rewards of innovation business cycles and why they occur and the evolution of capitalism in Europe and America the Essays contain statements on how Schumpeter viewed his own development; they discuss how he looked at Marxism and how he feared that economics was in danger of becoming too ideological. Several of the Essays are classics. This is the case for The Creative Response in Economic History in which Schumpeter makes a plea for the close cooperation between economic theory and economic history. Another is Science and Ideology which constitutes Schumpeter's presidential address before the American Economic Association. Finally there is the intriguing preface to the Japanese translation of Theory of Economic Development in which Schumpeter names Walras and Marx as his two great predecessors. Even those who treasure the original publication were irritated by the remarkably poor quality of much of the book which reproduced everything from typewriter script to nearly unreadable reduced double columns. These lapses have been corrected in this new edition. Here Schumpeter's Essays can finally be read with the enjoyment no lesS than enlightenment they deserve. The volume is alive to the basic issues of our time. The reader can look forward to intellectual insight and stimuli of the highest order. | Essays On Entrepreneurs Innovations Business Cycles and the Evolution of Capitalism

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Constitutional Government in the United States

Constitutional Government in the United States

One of the genuine classics of American political science literature Constitutional Government in the United States is also a subtle and influential criticism of the American founding fathers produced during the Progressive Era. Wilson's interpretation of the Constitution shaped the thought of scholars and students of American politics. His definition of constitutional government and the place of the United States in the development of constitutional theory continues to shape discourse today. Wilson discusses the three branches of government in the United States the relation between the states and the federal government and party government in a manner quite distinct from the founding fathers. Constitutional Government has its origins in a series of lectures Wilson delivered at Columbia University in 1907. It is carefully organized around three separate but mutually supporting arguments. First is the idea that constitutional government evolves historically from primitive beginnings of the state toward a universal and ideal form. Second this idea of historical evolution contains within it an analysis of how and where the Constitution fits into the evolutionary process as a whole. Third the historical thesis itself provides a prescription for bringing American government and with it the Constitution into accord with his first principle of the ideal form of modern government. In his new introduction Sidney A. Pearson explores how with Constitutional Government in the United States Wilson helped create a new genre of political writing using the point of view of a literary politician. He discusses Wilson's intention to replace the constitutional argument of the founders with one of his own based on the application of Darwinian metaphor in a political science framework. And he examines the differences between the views launched by Wilson and those set forth by James Madison in The Federalist. This is an essential work for all interested in the evolution of American political thought.

GBP 130.00
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The Other Victorians A Study of Sexuality and Pornography in Mid-nineteenth-century England

The Other Victorians A Study of Sexuality and Pornography in Mid-nineteenth-century England

Taking as his point of departure the authors the audience and the texts of Victorian writings on sex in general and of Victorian pornography in particular Steven Marcus offers a startling and revolutionary perspective on the underside of Victorian culture. The subjects dealt with in The Other Victorians are not only those to have been shocking in the Victorian period. The way these subjects were regarded-and the way our notions of the Victorians continue to change as the efforts of contemporary scholarship restore them to their full historical dimensions-are matters today of some surprise and wonder. Making use for the first time of the extensive collection of Victoriana at the Kinsey Institute for Sex Research Marcus first examines the writings of Dr. William Acton who may be said to represent the official views of sexuality held by Victorian society and of Henry Spencer Ashbee the first and most important bibliographer-scholar of pornography. He then turns to the most significant work of its kind from the period the eleven-volume anonymous autobiography My Secret Life. There follows an analysis of four pornographic Victorian novels-an analysis that throws an oblique but fascinating light on the classics of Victorian literature-and a review of the odd flood of Victorian publications devoted to flagellation. The book concludes with a chapter propounding a general theory of pornography as a sociological phenomenon. With the publication of The Other Victorians understanding of this period took a giant stride forward. Most of the writers and writings discussed by Marcus belong to Victorian sub-literature rather than to literature proper; in this way the work remains connected to a consideration of the exotic sub-literature. A brilliantly written book in its own right this work transformed the study of the Victorian period as did no other. | The Other Victorians A Study of Sexuality and Pornography in Mid-nineteenth-century England

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Religion of the Semites The Fundamental Institutions

Religion of the Semites The Fundamental Institutions

Scottish Semiticist and Arabist William Robertson Smith was a celebrated biblical critic theorist of religion and theorist of myth. His accomplishments were multiple. Smith's German mentors reconstructed the history of Israelite religion from the Bible itself; Smith ventured outside the Bible to Semitic religion and thereby pioneered the comparative study of religion. Where others viewed religion from the standpoint of the individual Smith approached religion-at least ancient religion-from the standpoint of the group. He asserted that ancient religion was centrally a matter of practice not creed and singlehandedly created the ritualist theory of myth. Since Smith's time the ritualist theory of myth has found adherents not only in biblical studies but in classics anthropology and literature as well. Smith's accomplishments are seen most fully in Religion of the Semites adapted from a number of public lectures he gave at Aberdeen and first published in 1889. Smith delivered three courses of lectures over three years. It is this set that is reprinted here. Only recently were the notes for the second and third courses of lectures discovered and published. Religion of the Semites combines extraordinary philological erudition with brilliant theorizing. Among the fundamental emphases of the book are the foci on sacrifice as the key ritual and non-ancient sacrifice as communion with God rather than as penance for sin. Most important is Smith's use of the comparative method: he uses cross-cultural examples from other primitive peoples to confirm his reconstruction from Semitic sources. Smith combines pioneering sociology and anthropology with a staunchly Christian faith. For him Christianity is an expression of divine revelation. For Smith only continuing revelation can account for the leap from the collective ritualistic and materialistic nature of ancient Semitic religion to the individualistic creedal and spiritualized nature of Christianity. Lectures on the Religion of the Semites manages to meld social science with theology and remains a classic work in the social scientific study of religion. | Religion of the Semites The Fundamental Institutions

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