This work contains a commentary on one of the most famous comedies from Ancient Greece Aristophanes Frogs as well as the complete Greek text. It also features a comprehensive introduction and offers help with translation. A brilliant new commentary on one of the... Lees meer.

Do people know about God just by being human beings or do they need special divine assistance through the Bible and the church before they can know anything about God. This book examines what the Bible itself says on the question and considers its impact on our rel... Lees meer.

This work by two economists who were involved as experts in the reform of the Polish economy in the 1950s and 1960s present the results of their efforts to develop in theory an economic system which could avoid the worst excesses of both capitalism and central planning.... Lees meer.

This text has been abridged in order to provide students with a more easily approachable and digestible introduction to the subject. The explanations of basic matters have been simplified and additional examples have been included to illustrate the commoner metres.... Lees meer.

This paperback edition of the Medea contains introduction text and apparatus criticus. It aims to elucidate the play and to make it easily accessible to students of English and French literature. This paperback edition of the Medea is the first full-scale edition... Lees meer.

An investigation into Aristotle s metaphysics of nature as expounded in the Physics . It focuses in particular on his perception of change a concept which is shown to possess a unique metaphysical structure with implications that should engage the attention of contem... Lees meer.

Geoffrey Hellman presents a detailed interpretation of mathematics as the investigation of structural possibilities as opposed to absolute Platonic objects. After dealing with the natural numbers and analysis he extends his approach to set theory and shows how to di... Lees meer.

This paperback edition of Euripides Cyclops first published in hardback in 1984 provides an invaluable introduction to the text for students. The play itself is the only example of satyric drama to have survived complete into the modern world. This edition uses the O... Lees meer.

What is music for. How does it work. What can it teach us. This thought-provoking book combining musical and appropriate scientific research seeks the answers to these and other fundamental questions about music. What is music for. How does it work. What does... Lees meer.

Dangerous Enthusiasm considers Blake s prophetic books written during the 1790s in the light of the French Revolution controversy raging at the time. His works are shown to be less the expressions of isolated genius than the products of a complex response to the cultura... Lees meer.

Since the 18th century Western scholars and musicians have been fascinated by the music of India. Whether in the realms of musicological enquiry or as an exotic flavour on the stage or in popular songs Indian music has been part of the West s consciousness for over... Lees meer.

A collection of the writings of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 1689-1762 which includes essays some published anonymously in newspapers her poetry dealing with issues still relevant today and her one comedy which has recently been revived in productions around the UK.... Lees meer.

A critical study of Chopin s music which provides a detailed analysis of its style and structure in the light of Chopin scholarship and recent analytical methods. It also explores the creative process itself which is central to the lives of all composers. The lasti... Lees meer.

...a scholarly wide-ranging and illuminating book ... will be indispensable to students and teachers of Shakespeare and the English Romantic poets. British Book News. Although is is well known that the Romantics were obsessed with Shakespeare extraordinarily litt... Lees meer.

This ambitious study focuses on the great age of English portraiture from the the arrival of Van Dyck 1632 to the publication of Boswell s Life of Johnson 1791 in order to establish the grounds of comparison between biography and portrait-painting - two arts that h... Lees meer.