Kant and the historical turn

philosophy as critical interpretation

Immanuel Kant's work changed the course of modern philosophy; in these essays, Karl Ameriks examines how. He compares the philosophical system set out in Kant's "Critiques" with the work of the major philosophers before and after him (Descartes, Berkeley, Hume, Reid, Jacobi, Reinhold ...

EC employment Law

This new edition of "EC Employment Law" provides a complete revision and update of the leading English language text in the field. The coverage in the new edition has been expanded with material on all the latest developments, including the new Equality Directives, the development ...

Blackstone's EC legislation

2006-2007

Designed specifically for students, "Blackstone's Statutes" lead the market in providing a carefully selected, regularly updated, and well sourced collection of legislation for the core subjects and major options offered on the law syllabus. Each title is ideal for use throughout the course and ...

The dance of the Muses

choral theory and Ancient Greek poetics

This book develops an authentic and at the same time revolutionary musical analysis of ancient Greek poetry. It departs from the abstract metrical analyses of the past in that it conceives the rhythmic and harmonic elements of poetry as integral to the whole expression, and ...

Polis

an introduction to the Ancient Greek city-state

From antiquity until the nineteenth century, there have been two types of state: macro-states, each dotted with a number of cities, and regions broken up into city-states, each consisting of an urban centre and its hinterland. A region settled with interacting city-states constituted a city-state ...

The Oxford handbook of religion and science

The field of 'religion and science' is exploding in popularity among academics as well as the general reading public. Spawning an increasing number of conferences and courses, this field has shown an unprecedented rate of growth in recent years. Here for the first time is ...

The resilience of the spanish monarchy 1665-1700

Christopher Storrs presents a fresh new appraisal of the reasons for the survival of Spain and its European and overseas empire under the last Spanish Habsburg, Carlos II (1665-1700). Hitherto it has been largely assumed that in the 'Age of Louis XIV' Spain collapsed as ...

Explaining growth in South Asia

This collection of essays delves deep into the process of economic growth in five South Asian countries--Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. The individual case studies focus on two key aspects--political process and trade liberalization--as the main driving forces behind growth (or sometimes the ...

Kant, science, and human nature

Robert Hanna argues for the importance of Kant's theories of the epistemological, metaphysical, and practical foundations of the 'exact sciences' - relegated to the dustbin of the history of philosophy for most of the 20th century. Hanna's earlier book, "Kant and the Foundations of ...

Humans and other animals

John Dupre explores the ways in which we categorize animals, including humans, and comes to surprisingly radical conclusions. He opposes the idea that there is only one legitimate way of classifying things in the natural world, the 'scientific' way. The lesson we should learn from ...

John Maynard Keynes and international relations

economics paths to war and peace

Sixty years after his death, the life and thought of the economist, John Maynard Keynes, continues to be a subject of the greatest interest to scholars. Yet, one of the most significant areas of Keynes' thinking has been strangely overlooked - international relations, a subject that ...

Evangelical christianity and democracy in Africa

This is one of four projected volumes to emerge from a massive, Pew-funded study that sought to answer the question: What happens when a revivalist religion based on scriptural orthodoxy participates in the volatile politics of the Third World? At a time when the global-political ...

Democracy in Europe

the EU and national polities

Seeks to explore the impact of the EU on national democracies Theoretically innovative, developing new terms to explain democracy across the EU.Breaks new ground, arguing that the EU is a regional state Contains detailed case-studies of Britain and France (as 'simple' polities) and Germany ...

Innovation, science, and institutional change

a research handbook

Innovation is central to the dynamics and success of organizations and society in the modern world, the process famously referred to by Schumpeter as 'gales of creative destruction'. This ambitious and wide ranging book makes the case for a new approach to the study of ...

Rethinking the Mediterranean

In this collection of essays, an international group of renowned scholars attempt to establish the theoretical basis for studying the ancient and medieval history of the Mediterranean Sea and the lands around it. In so doing, they range far afield to other Mediterranean's, real ...

A history of news

This book is a revision of a versatile and unique text that is suited for introductory courses on the history of journalism and media and society, which are fundamental courses in undergraduate and graduate journalism/mass communication departments. The author's approach in this text ...

Political economy

the contest of economics ideas

In this second edition of Political Economy: The Contest of Economic Ideas, Frank Stilwell provides a fully updated overview of the political economy and its connection with socil concerns. The book investigates the main tradions of economic ideas and provides a 'big picture' overview of ...

Emerging markets and financial globalization

sovereign bond spreads in 1870-1913 and today

The frequency and virulence of recent financial crises have led to calls for reform of the current international financial architecture. In an effort to learn more about today's international financial environment, the authors turn to an earlier era of financial globalization between 1870 and ...

Investor protection in Europe

corporate Law making, the MiFID and beyond

This collection explores the topical issue of investor protection in Europe from both a capital market and a company law perspective, and offers a broad and coherent perspective on regulatory competition and harmonisation concerning companies and securities markets in the EU. Following the unitary approach ...

Enlarging the Euro area

external empowerment and domestic transformation in east central Europe

This book seeks to offer the first in-depth and systematic analysis of the challenges of the Euro Area and the eastward enlargement of the European Union. It focuses in particular on how the prolonged process of accession to the Euro Area is affecting domestic economic ...

The Oxford Handbook of global religions

This is a reference for understanding world religious societies in their contemporary global diversity. Comprising 60 essays, the volume focuses on communities rather than beliefs, symbols, or rites. It is organized into six sections corresponding to the major living religious traditions: the Indic cultural region ...

Not a suicide pact

the Constitution in a time of national emergency

Eavesdropping on the phone calls of U.S. citizens; demands by the FBI for records of library borrowings; establishment of military tribunals to try suspected terrorists, including U.S. citizens - many of the measures taken by the Bush administration since 9/11 have sparked heated ...