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In a work that surveys an entire tradition of historical thought and writing across a span of eight-hundred years, Tarif Khalidi examines how Arabic-Islamic culture of the premodern period viewed the past, how it recorded it, and how it sought to answer the many complex questions associated with the discipline of history.

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Treating Sex Offenders: A Guide to Clinical Practice with Adults, Clerics, Children, and Adolescents, Second Edition updates the groundbreaking original with new material that integrates adolescent and adult sex offenders, emphasizing similarities and differences in personality type, behavior, and treatment. Author William Prendergast draws on four decades' experience in working in the diagnosis and treatment of habitual sex offenders to prese...

Star-hopping--using easily seen bright stars to locate fainter celestial objects in the sky--is a basic and essential technique for all star gazers, novice and veteran alike. Defining basic astronomy skills, including how to read star charts, finding celestial directions, and understanding telescope types, this guide is essential for sky gazers who want to get the most out of their evening sky explorations. 69 halftones. 57 line diagrams. 13 t...

A revisionist account, questioning Britain's determination to defend Poland and oppose German expansion eastwards.

This book provides and up-to-date introduction to an event of major importance in the history of nineteenth-century Ireland and Britain.

This book focuses critically upon young people's transitions from school to employment and the dilemmas they face. It presents and discusses the findings of seven European research projects on the effects of policies on young people's transitions from school to work. Taking a biographic standpoint it develops the alternative perspective of Integrated Transition Policies. At the heart of the book is a discussion of policy dilemmas that emerge i...

Praise for Enrom The Rise and Fall "A sober and clear-eyed book . . . Fox places the unspooling of Enron in its market-history context, and his book has gravitas." -Barron's "Offers the most detailed explanation of Enron as a business." -The New York Times "A solid, intelligent, and fair account of the hubris that made Enron famous and important, then crazy and crooked." -Martin Mayer, author of The Fed and The Bankers "[Fox's] candid, in-...

F. P. Ramsey was a remarkably creative and subtle philosopher who made significant contributions to logic, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of language and decision theory.

One of the most stimulating and original contributions to Conquest studies, covering the period 950 1086.

A study of the productivity of land in the bishopric of Winchester from 1208 1350.

Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window is one of the icons of American filmmaking. A perfect example of Hollywood cinema at its best, it is an engaging piece of entertainment as well as a fascinating meditation on the nature of the film itself. A suspense thriller about a chair-bound observer who suspects his neighbour of murdering his wife, the narrative becomes the vehicle for Hitchcock's exploration of the basic ingredients of cinema, from voyeuris...

This classic text offers a clear exposition of modern probability theory.

Geoffrey Hawthorn has written a substantial new conclusion for the second edition of his widely acclaimed critical history of social theory in England, France, Germany and the USA from the eighteenth century to the present. Hawthorn begins with the 'prehistory' of the subject and traces, particularly in the thought of Rousseau, Kant and Hegel, the emergence of certain fundamental distinctions and assumptions whose existence is often overlooked...

This study is concerned with one central historical problem, the nature of the changes that transformed the intellectual and spiritual horizons of the Christian world from its establishment in the fourth century to the end of the sixth.

The Continuity of Feudal Power is an analytic study of a family of the Neapolitan aristocracy during the early modern period, with particular focus on the time of Spanish rule (1503 1707). The Caracciolo marquis of Brienza were a branch of one of the oldest and most powerful clans in the kingdom of Naples, and they numbered among the hundred wealthiest feudal families throughout the early modern period. Professor Astarita reconstructs the fami...

Intentionality provides the philosophical foundations for Searle's earlier works, Speech Acts and Expression and Meaning.