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A collection of the writings of Sallust, renowned in the latter half of the first century BC for his prose. The volume contains the text of two of his

In this new edition of Herodotus' Histories, Nigel Wilson has revised the original Oxford Classical Text by the Danish scholar C. Hude, published in 1

'A nation without a national government is an awful spectacle.' In the winter of 1787-8 a series of eighty-five essays appeared in the New York pre

First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, John Blair's Very Short Introduction to the Anglo-Saxon Age cov

Written by experts, this innovative textbook offers students a relevant, contextual account of EU law. Under the experienced editorship of Catherine B

Explores the place and importance of literature in Russian culture. How and when did a Russian national literature come into being? What shaped its cr

Rethinking Political Islam offers a fine-grained and definitive overview of the changing world of political Islam in the post-Arab Uprising era.

The Practical Self argues that self-consciousness requires faith in ourselves as the agents of our thinking and that this faith is sustained by practi

This work suggests that the edifice of contemporary philosophy of mind relies too heavily on an ontology of events, processes and states. It offers a

The new understanding of history, developed in the 19th century, created a number of difficulties for Christian theology. This book provides a compreh

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A critique of the foundations of contemporary philosophy of mind, which argues that it relies too heavily on insecure assumptions about the nature of

A volume which examines twelfth and thirteenth century officers and the practices used to regulate them in England, placing them not only within a Bri

This Very Short Introduction is a celebration of rivers in all their diversity. Nick Middleton covers a wide and eclectic range of river-based themes,

J.W. Harris here examines the legal and philosophical underpinnings of the concept of property and offers a new analytical framework for understanding

Challenges the view that human action is driven by thoughts and desires much as a machine is made to function by the operation of physical causes. The

Charles presents a study of Aristotle's views on meaning, essence, necessity, and related topics. He aims, on the basis of a careful reading of Aristo

"How Should One Live?" offers a survey of the remarkable recent revival of philosophical interest in the virtues. It features 12 specially commissione

Explores the theatricality of Jean Racine's language and takes as its analytical tool two relatively neglected parts of rhetoric ("inventio" and "disp

An exploration of how the Victorians perceived and explained female crime, and how they responded to it - both in penal theory and in practice. It exa