hurst co sep 2015 (18 results)

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - In this new offering from Stanley Wells, the pre-eminent Shakespearian scholar, comes a Very Short Introduction to the life and writings of the world's greatest and best-known dramatists: William Shakespeare.Looking at his early life and education, Wells explores Shakespeare's social and intellectual background and the literary traditions on which Shakespeare drew. Examining the theatres and theatrical profession of the time, he also considers how Shakespeare experienced this world, both as an actor and as a writer. Examining Shakespeare's narrative poems, sonnets, and all of his plays, Wells outlines their sources, style, and originality over the course of Shakespeare's career, to consider the fundamental impact his work has had for subsequent generations. Written with enthusiasm and flair by a scholar who has devoted a lifetime to the study of Shakespeare and his works, this is an engaging and authoritative introduction. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Tells the story of Genoa's journey from obscurity to its status as a merchant-pirate superpower that helped create the medieval world.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - A House Dividing: The Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858 updates the Lincoln-Douglas debates for the sound-bite era. Instead of 100,000 words, this volume in the Dialogues in History series gives students 20,000 words from the debates. Rather than long, uncontested ramblings, it offers rapid-fire accusations and responses. Despite their reputations as intellectual heavyweights, Lincoln and Douglas were not above mudslinging; their arguments prove surprisingly studded with ad hominem attacks, political grandstanding, and gross appeals to the candidates' respective bases.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - A hilarious account of a group of bachelors getting married in due course, the play Chirakumar Sabha (The Bachelors' Club), originally written by Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), is neatly aimed at matrimony and against celibacy.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - An original introduction to the book of Revelation through the use of art history, with attention also given to the reception of the text in music, literature, and popular culture.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - The Novel: A Survival Skill radically reevaluates traditional literary criticism offering an exciting account of what is really at stake in the business of writing and reading.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Oxford Studies in Metaethics is the only publication devoted exclusively to original philosophical work in the foundations of ethics. It provides an annual selection of much of the best new scholarship being done in the field. Its broad purview includes work being done at the intersections of ethical theory with metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mind. The essays included in the series provide an excellent basis forunderstanding recent developments in the field; those who would like to acquaint themselves with the current state of play in metaethics would do well to start here.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - This remarkable book reveals how little we know about what lies behind the superficial antagonism between the PRC and Taiwan, especially where business is concerned.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - This is a book on the relationship between mathematics and religious beliefs. This book shows that, throughout scientific history, mathematics has been used to make sense of the 'big' questions of life, and that religious beliefs sometimes drove mathematicians to do mathematics to help them make sense of the world.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Energising Leadership is based on a key idea: that professional leadership is a process of deliberately and transparently influencing the human energy that is available to get things done, how that energy is used, and how it is maintained and replenished. It focuses on the practice of leadership, on leadership-in-action: what people actually do to engage the energy of others in roles and contexts in which leadership work is located.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - British Library MS Harley 913, known as the 'Kildare Manuscript', contains the earliest examples of Anglo-Irish writing. It includes numerous well-known poems and gives vivid insights into the lives of Anglo-Irish Franciscans at a time of unrest between native Irish and English settlers.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Psychosocial Care of the Adult Cancer Patient introduces psychologists and other mental health professionals to the field of psycho-oncology, educates them about evidence-based interventions for individuals, groups, couples, and families, and describes how to successfully collaborate with oncologists and other cancer care professionals.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - This volume reveals how agricultural systems and wildlife interact, presenting examples from scales varying from landscape to microcosm, from populations to individuals, covering plants, invertebrates, birds, and mammals.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - The first cultural and transnational history of modern procedural reform in the Westminster parliamentary system in the nineteenth century, explaining how and why governments in Britain and the British world gained control over parliament through the application of new concepts of time and efficiency.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - A study of an exceptionally interesting primary source - the Henryk¿w Book - and of the local and regional world which that source reflected and helped shape. This volume mines the Henryk¿w Book for the information it provides about the social, political, religious, and literary contexts of medieval Europe.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - This Handbook brings together a group of leading scholars, thinkers, policy makers, and business leaders to identify, articulate, and analyze what influences and shapes local competitiveness and what places can do to enhance their economic performance.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - This innovative two-volume book highlights and examines the most important challenges facing farmers, conservationists, and policy makers, using examples of real-life, linked studies from a farmed landscape, which bridge the divide between the theory and practice of wildlife conservation on farmland.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Psychiatric ethics is an excellent framework in which to examine social changes in the field of psychiatry over the past 25 years, changes which are dramatic in nature and profound in impact. The Oxford Handbook of Psychiatric Ethics is the most comprehensive treatment of the field in history, with global coverage of this important field.