Marguerite Deslauriers & Pierre Destree 
Cambridge Companion to Aristotle’s Politics [PDF ebook] 

This book examines the rhetorical force of certain key words in the discourses of Russian state, political thought, and literature. It shows how terms for cultured conduct (kul”turnost”), political …

In the closing years of the second century B.C., the ancient world watched as the Roman armies maintained clear superiority over all they surveyed. But, social turmoil prevailed at the heart of her t …

Women in World History brings together the most recent scholarship in women”s and world history in a single volume covering the period from 1450 to the present, enabling readers to understand women’ …

"Perils within the Transvaal and Zululand" is a gripping historical account that delves into the demanding situations, risks, and adventures encountered within the Transvaal region and Zulu …

This is the first comprehensive biography of a major, but neglected, figure of his age. John Theophilus Desaguliers made his mark on the eighteenth century in several diverse ways. He was an assistan …

Dealing with themes of urban planning, constitutionalism, utopianism and social construction theory, this book analyzes the city of Magnesia, Plato”s second-best city-state in the Laws, as if it wer …

After fifty years the Deutsche Bundesbank – the central bank that dominated European monetary affairs – has stepped down to entrust monetary policy to the European Central Bank (ECB). This is the fir …

Drawing on new primary source evidence, this volume evaluates ancient Rome”s influence on an English intellectual tradition from the 1850s to the 1920s as politicians, scientists, economists and soc …

First published in 1993. The Yezidis are a community of around 200, 000 Kurds who possess their own religion, quite distinct from Islam, which most other Kurds profess, and from the Christian and Jew …

Magic and the Supernatural in Fourth Century Syria presents an in-depth investigation of a variety of ‘magical’ practices with a focused study in the late antique Syria and Palestine. Offering new re …