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Get Set for Teacher Training
Edinburgh University Press 2005; US$ 19.88This is a guide to getting the most out of a teacher training course in the United Kingdom. It covers both primary and secondary teaching and is suitable for students following undergraduate, postgraduate or alternative routes. The book gives a clear idea of what to expect from such courses, how to succeed on them and so make the best possible start... more...
An Introduction to Early Modern English
Edinburgh University Press 2006; US$ 83.56An introduction to Early Modern English, this book helps students of English and linguistics to place the language of the period 1500-1700 in its historical context as a language with a common core; but also as one which varies across time, regionally and socially, and according to register. more...
The Lives of Scottish Women
Edinburgh University Press 2006; US$ 107.46The nineteenth and twentieth centuries witnessed great changes in women's position in Scotland. This work tells the stories of ten women, providing evidence of the contribution made by women to the shaping of modern Scotland. Each is the subject of a chapter devoted to her particular story and the times in which she lived. more...
The Judiciary, Civil Liberties and Human Rights
Edinburgh University Press 2006; US$ 19.88Considers the constitutional position of the judiciary and its role in shaping the individual's relations with the state. This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the history of civil liberties and human rights in the UK, and the judiciary's role in upholding them, and an appreciation of the importance of political accountability. more...
Citizenship in Britain
Edinburgh University Press 2006; US$ 107.46An introduction to the varieties of citizenship in Britain, from the Middle Ages to the contemporary times. This work introduces both the status and understanding of citizenship in practice and the theoretical and advisory writings on the subject, and explores their inter-relationships. It examines key themes like local and national strata. more...
Crimes of Loyalty
Edinburgh University Press 2006; US$ 129.35Sectarian murder, torture, bloody power struggles and racketeering are what for many define their image of the Ulster Defence Association. This book explores issues such as the UDA's descent into criminality and its relationship with the 'secret war' conducted by Britain's undercover services. more...
The Myth of Evil
Edinburgh University Press 2006; US$ 49.73The Myth of Evil explores a contradiction: the belief that human beings cannot commit acts of pure evil, that they cannot inflict harm for its own sake, and the evidence that pure ?evil? truly is a human capacity. Acts of horror are committed not by inhuman ?monsters?, but by ordinary human beings. This contradiction is clearest in the apparently ?extreme?... more...
Reading Virginia Woolf
Edinburgh University Press 2006; US$ 129.35Explores Virginia Woolf's writings. Individual essays analyse Woolf's neglected second novel, "Night and Day", and her preoccupation with the significance of history in her novels of the 1930s. They investigate Woolf's links with other writers (Byron, Shakespeare), her ambivalent attitudes to 'Englishness' and to censorship, and more. more...
Media Policy and Globalization
Edinburgh University Press 2006; US$ 31.82A comprehensive study of media and communications policy, this book examines policy areas that have proved to be of common concern for societies across different socio-economic realities. It also seeks to address profound gaps in the study of policy by demonstrating the centrality of historical, social and political context in debates. more...
Adam Smith, Radical and Egalitarian
Edinburgh University Press 2006; US$ 33.81Aims to show that Adam Smith (1723-90), the author of "The Wealth of Nations", was not the promoter of ruthless laissez-faire capitalism that is frequently depicted. Smith's "right-wing" reputation was sealed after his death when it was not safe to claim that an author may have influenced the French revolutionaries. more...









