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Philosophy begins with questions about the nature of reality and how we should live. This book introduces the great thinkers in Western philosophy and

'Spain is different,' proclaimed the Franco regime in the 1940s, keen to attract foreign tourists. For the most part, the world has agreed. From the e

This book offers a psychological account of thrills (goosebumps and tears), of the epiphanic experience of seeing ordinary things in a profoundly new

Based on a problem-solving approach to language, this second edition contains numerous exercises to encourage in undergraduate and A-Level students th

Meter in Poetry is the first book to offer a universal linguistic theory of poetic meter. Fabb and Halle outline the theory and then illustrate and de

Introduces the evidence for sentence structure and reveals its purpose. This book is based on a problem-solving approach to language, and teaches the

The Sunday Times Bestseller A new assessment of the West’s colonial record In the wake of the dissolution of t

Nigel of Canterbury’s Miracles of the Virgin, the oldest Latin poem about miracles performed by Mary, features lively tales illustrating her boundless

A new approach to the challenges surrounding artificial intelligence that argues for assessing AI actions as if they came from a human being

This interdisciplinary collection explores the forms and aesthetics of rhyme in a variety of languages and from a variety of perspectives. A wide-rang

This grammar provides one of the most detailed accounts available of the syntax of a Nilo-Saharan language. It fully describes some of the unusual cha

This guide to writing essays and dissertations for English literature students offers step-by-step instruction on each stage of writing, from organisi

Will China’s drive to achieve global technological dominance unravel the world order?

A revelatory new history of Spain, from the late nineteenth century to the twenty-first'Spain is different,' proclaimed the Franco regime in the 1940s

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The Sunday Times BestsellerA new assessment of the West's colonial recordIn the wake of the dissolution of the Soviet empire in 1989, many believed th

Nigel Fabb provides a simple and realistic linguistic explanation of poetic form in English from 1500-1900, drawing on the English and American verse

aeo Offers an overview of how linguistic theory can be applied to the oral and written literatures of the world. aeo Illustrated with examples from a

Nigel Fabb provides a simple and realistic linguistic explanation of poetic form in English from 1500-1900, drawing on the English and American verse