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First edition of an eye-witness account of seventeenth-century England - the dark side of Pepys.

Backpacking With Babies and Small Children remained in print for almost twenty years. In addition to standard backpacking advice, this book tells you how to take the kids along, from infants to school-age youngsters. From child-friendly planning, to choosing the right equipment and clothing, amusing the kids on the trail and in the camp, managing diapers and meals, handling unforseen difficulties, and on to safety on the trail and in camp, thi...

This collection of fourteenth- and fifteenth-century documents is designed for students of Chaucer and Middle English literature. It makes readily available accounts of key historical events and descriptions of pertinent cultural phenomena. Brings together in one volume fourteenth- and fifteenth-century historical and cultural texts. Documents shed light on the themes and styles that appear in Chaucer and other Middle English literature. Conta...

Who's Afraid of Conceptual Art? is a much-needed philosophical inquiry into these questions and more. Peter Goldie and Elisabeth Schellekens first address, and try to clear up, much of the puzzlement, frustration, irritation and resentment felt about conceptual art. Secondly, they use conceptual art to bring to life and to reformulate some of the main issues and theories in contemporary philosophical aesthetics. These problems include the way ...

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our cont...

This study uses critical theory to investigate the history of how people have thought about the antipodesa "the places and people on the other side of the worlda "from ancient Greece to present-day literature and digital media. Taking into account maps, letters, book illustrations, travel writing, poetry, and drama, Goldie reveals that the history of the idea of the antipodes might be seen as different modes or discourses: mathematical and geo...

Warm, sensitive, creative, outgoing, cheeky, creepy. Scan any personal ads page and it's clear that to get a life you need a personality first. It is also a notion with a long and often bizarre history: in early Greece and medieval Europe, it was thought to depend on the balance of bile in the body. "On Personality" is a thoughtful and stimulating look under the skin of this widely-used but little understood phenomenon. Peter Goldie points out...

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