Quine

a guide for the perplexed

Continuum's "Guides for the Perplexed" are clear, concise and accessible introductions to thinkers, writers and subjects that students and readers can find especially challenging. Concentrating specifically on what it is that makes the subject difficult to fathom, these books explain and explore key themes ...

Mindfulness

This brand new translation of Martin Heidegger's "Mindfulness" (Besinnung) makes available in English for the first time Heidegger's second major being-historical treatise. Composed in 1938/39, right after the completion of "Contributions to Philosophy", this work has a significant thematic proximity to that ...

Michel De Certeau

analysing culture

This is a new and comprehensive survey of the life and work of this leading cultural theorist. Michel de Certeau is becoming increasingly recognised as a cultural theorist whose methodologies could rival those of Foucault. His seminal work, "The Practice of Everyday Life", is now ...

In search of the holy Grail

the quest for the middle ages

This is an extremely wide-ranging study of the ways in which medieval culture shaped the modern world. The Middle Ages, the age of Charlemagne, Chaucer and Dante, had an indelible effect on European culture. "In Search of the Holy Grail" is a survey of the ...

Biographical encyclopaedia of islamic philosophy

There has been a long tradition of interest in philosophy in the Islamic world, and it is the aim of these volumes to represent the lives of some of the major thinkers within this tradition. The notion of philosophy has been interpreted broadly to include ...

Bertrand Russell's ethics

Bertrand Russell was not only one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century, he was also a humanitarian and activist who fought for many moral, social, and political causes. During his lifetime, the general public knew him for his activism and popular works, in ...

Hard-science linguistics

The impossibility of testing the depth hypothesis of 1960 of a connection between the complexities of grammar and a limited human temporary memory led to questioning the ancient grammatical foundations of linguistics and to developing standard hard-science foundations. This volume is the first detailed report ...

Hitler's home front

württemberg under the nazis

What was life like for ordinary Germans under Hitler? Hitler's Home Front paints a picture of life in Wurttemberg, a region in south-west Germany, during the rise to power and rule of the Nazis. It concentrates in particular on life in the countryside. Many ...

The death of kings

royal deaths in medieval England

A king's death was a critical and highly dramatic moment, often with major political consequences. Death in battle, whether that of Harold at Hastings or Richard III at Bosworth, could end a dynasty, while the secret murders of Edward II, Richard II and Edward ...

Language and the Law

"Language and the Law" looks at some common areas of interaction between linguistics and the legal process. Each chapter pairs a problem in language with a corresponding issue in law. Sanford Schane thoroughly examines each topic both from a legal point of view and a ...

Law

key concepts in philosophy

"Key Concepts in Philosophy" is a series of concise, accessible and engaging introductions to the core ideas and subjects encountered in the study of philosophy. Specially written to meet the needs of students and those with an interest in, but little prior knowledge of, philosophy ...

Roman catholicism and modern science

a history

In the popular imagination, historical relations between the Roman Catholic Church and modern science are best epitomized in the case of Galileo Galilei. Condemned in 1616 for advancing the theory of a moving earth and a stationary sun, he was only fully exonerated in 1992 ...

Towards a liberal utopia?

The first part of this fascinating book outlines the dreams of liberal economics and political scientists. The thinkers sketch out frameworks for policy, which, in increasing the domain for individual action, will give rise to beneficial results and lead to a better and more prosperous ...

The Continuum encyclopedia of animal symbolism in art

The famous animal tale of the six blind men and the elephant, in which each of the blind men describes the elephant differently, depending on the part of the creature touched, has been interpreted in ways nearly as varied as the blind men's descriptions ...

Linguistic minorities and modernity

a sociolinguistic ethnography

The subject of this book is linguistic minorities and social change, seen through the lens of a linguistic minority school, meeting the challenges of globalization. This is a core topic for sociolinguists, linguistic anthropologists, applied linguists and educators who are concerned about what multilingualism means ...

The coherence of Hobbe's Leviathan

civil and religious authority combined

Seventeenth-century Europe witnessed intense and widespread political and sectarian strife. In England, these conflicts led to the Civil War, the execution of Charles I, the restoration of Charles II, and the Glorious Revolution. Just before and during the English Civil War of the 1640s, Thomas ...

Historical discourse

'Coffin's functional linguistics perspective provides a rigorous and comprehensive analysis of the texts of secondary school history, both those that students read and those they need to learn to write. This is an original and welcome contribution to debates about how to develop students ...

Biographical Dictionary Of British Economists

This Dictionary brings together new essays on over six hundred individuals. It also includes coverage of individuals who are not normally thought of as economists but who nonetheless made penetrating and original contributions, these include writers such as H. G. Wells, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry ...

Arabs

The level of noise about the Arab world is increasing. Security and energy are major concerns. Wars and globalisation are pushing the Arabs and Westerners into closer contact. Understanding the Arabs has never been more important, never so critical to our dealings with the Arab ...

Thinking geographically

space, theory and contemporary human geography

Dictionary of jewish biography

Women, crime, and punishment in Ancient Law and society

.Vol.2: Ancient Greece

Crime and punishment, criminal law and its administration, are areas of ancient history that have been explored less than many other aspects of ancient civilizations. Throughout history women have been affected by crime both as victims and as offenders. Yet, in the ancient world, customary ...