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A 1998 collection of essays on the Argentine writer Julio Cortazar.

There are more stories about King Arthur than you ever knew. Some of them may even be true. This massive collection spans the centuries of Arthurian legend. We are taken back to the sixth century in 'A Time Before Tales' by Colin Bradshaw-Jones. This controversial tale gives one possible explanation for a real Arthur. We are then transported to the medieval 'Kilhwch and Olwen' from The Mabinogion, translated by Lady Charlotte Guest. The story ...

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Do people everywhere have the same, or even compatible, ideas about multiculturalism, indigenous rights or women's rights? The authors of this book move beyond the traditional terms of the universalism versus cultural relativism debate. Through detailed case-studies from around the world (Hawaii, France, Thailand, Botswana, Greece, Nepal and Canada) they explore the concrete effects of rights talk and rights institutions on people's lives.

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New translation of Schopenhauer's brilliant and elegant essay on free will and determinism.

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This book provides a solid foundation to a number of important topics in mathematics of interest to science and engineering students.

Examines the role of small firms in developed nations' economies.

National Choices and International Processes will be of interest to students and specialists in foreign policy and international relations theory.

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This book explores the development of big business and the antitrust response in a comparative context.

In Religion, Toleration, and British Writing, 1790 1830, Mark Canuel examines the way that Romantic poets, novelists and political writers criticized the traditional grounding of British political unity in religious conformity. Canuel shows how a wide range of writers including Jeremy Bentham, Ann Radcliffe, Maria Edgeworth and Lord Byron not only undermined the validity of religion in the British state, but also imagined a new, tolerant and m...

The complete Cambridge History of Africa aims to present the most comprehensive and up-to-date synthesis of historical development on the African continent and will be valuable to both students and teachers of African history.

A unique perspective on the Arthurian tradition with particular focus on Geoffrey of Monmouth.

The volume offers new perspectives on Conrad's life and work by one of his most extraordinary critics.

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During the eighteenth century, British critics applied terms of gender to literature according to the belief that masculine values represented the best literature and feminine terms signified less important works or authors. Laura Runge contends however that the meaning of gendered terms like 'manly' or 'effeminate' changes over time, and that the language of eighteenth-century criticism cannot be fully understood without careful analysis of t...