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.

A study of the history of Shakespeare criticism in the modern era. Hugh Grady charts the construction of Shakespeare as a 20th-century Modernist text by redirecting new historicist methods to an investigation of the social roots of contemporary Shakespeare criticism i... Lees meer.

This is a biography of Rainer Maria Rilke 1875-1926 the 20th-century lyric poet whose works - the New Poems the Duino Elegies the Sonnets to Orpheus and in prose the Cornet and the Malte Laurids Brigge are of lasting importance to European literature. Th... 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.

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.

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 book follows the story of an argument which arose out of the performance of the British economy in the period of depression between the wars and provides an account of John Maynard Keynes s thinking in the years that led up to the General Theory making it comprehe... Lees meer.

Winner of the 1988 Paul Reuter Prize awarded by the International Committee of the Red Cross this book examines the rights of national liberation movements to resort to force to secure self-determination and the application of laws of armed conflict to national libera... 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.

This work covers the themes and personalities of the Catholic revival in Anglicanism. 1983 marked the 150th anniversary of John Keble s Assize Sermon a sermon which Newman recognized as the beginning of the Oxford Movement. The religious revival which it signalled... 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.

The latter decades of the 18th century were for Ireland an era of momentous political development. This book surveys the social economic and intellectual background and describes the course of politics at a time when political activity greatly accelerated and was stron... Lees meer.