Offers an examination of the role played by the body in perception and in the development and practice of thinking. This book uses the concepts of body image and body schema to address a range of philosophical questions about cognition drawing on work in developmental... Lees meer.

Published on the centenary of Hopkin s death this edition of manuscripts and texts aims to provide insights into Hopkin s methods of composition revision and refinement. The poems whether finished or unfinished are arranged in a single sequence based on their date o... Lees meer.

These essays three of which appear for the first time examine and elucidate aspects of the Arab exodus from Palestine in 1948 focusing on Israeli decision-making and the causes of the mass exile. In this authoritative collection of essays Benny Morris examines and... Lees meer.

World-famous Estonian-born composer Arvo P rt is a unique voice in today s music. From his own extensive experience of working with P rt Paul Hiller here provides the first full-length study of the composer s music. The music of the Estonian-born composer Arvo P rt... Lees meer.

This book provides an account of the daily experiences of women in Tudor England using first-hand sources such as diaries letters and household accounts. The book focuses on the preoccupations of ordinary women comparing the makeshift economy of the poorest with the... Lees meer.

Examines the relationship between verse and prose in Kormaks Saga to show how some Icelandic sagas whose origins have been the subject of critical speculation and controversy might have been composed. The origins of many of the Icelandic sagas have long been the... Lees meer.

Apart from individual rights claims have long been made for collective minority rights. Now a third generation of rights is appearing the rights of peoples exemplified by the African Charter of Human and Peoples Rights of 1981. This volume discusses the new gener... Lees meer.

Livy Ab Urbe Condita Books XXVI-XXX... Lees meer.

Fifty years on from its original publication HLA Hart s The Concept of Law is widely recognized as the most important work of legal philosophy published in the twentieth century and remains the starting point for most students coming to the subject for the first time.... Lees meer.

This is the first examination of the origins and development of the International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights ICESCR as a human rights treaty. It looks at the work of the UN Committee charged with monitoring States compliance with their treaty ob... Lees meer.

This selection drawn from Mark Storey s complete Oxford edition of the Letters covers the whole of Clare s adult life until a few years before his death in 1864. Preserving Clare s idiosyncrasies of spelling and punctuation this book also provides biographical infor... Lees meer.

Wrapping in Images is a comparative analysis of tattooing in Polynesia in its original setting. It shows how tattooing played a key role in the social construction of the person in the main Polynesian societies and provides a new perspective on Polynesian comparative s... Lees meer.

Fiefs and Vassals has revolutionized the way we think of the Middle Ages. It offers a fundamental challenge to orthodox conceptions of feudalism and overturns centuries of misconceptions about the nature of medieval social relations. Fiefs and Vassals has changed our... Lees meer.

Based upon observation of murder squads at work interviews with detectives and detailed analysis of police case files this is an account of the practices and processes involved in the investigation of serious violent crimes as well as some of the problems that are of... Lees meer.

Did the Soviet Union want world revolution. Why did the USSR send missiles to Cuba. What made the Cold War last as long as it did. This text presents a comprehensive comparative history of the conflict from its origins to it most dangerous moment - the Cuban Missile... Lees meer.