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Disability in Eighteenth-Century England
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 125.00This is the first book-length study of physical disability in eighteenth-century England. It assesses the ways in which meanings of physical difference were formed within different cultural contexts, and examines how disabled men and women used, appropriated, or rejected these representations in making sense of their own experiences. In the process,... more...
Fashioning Adultery
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 46.00This book provides the first major survey of representations of adultery in later seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England. Bringing together a wide variety of literary and legal sources it charts and explains crucial shifts in perceptions of marital infidelity and the development of a more rational understanding of adultery. more...
Social Histories of Disability and Deformity
Taylor and Francis 2006; US$ 49.95Collecting together essays written by an international set of contributors, this book provides an important contribution to the emerging field of disability history. It explores changes in understandings of deformity and disability between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries, and reveal the ways in which different societies have conceptualised the... more...
Coordination Polymers
Royal Society of Chemistry 2008; US$ 224.00Awarded the 2009 Olle Prize! The field of coordination polymer research has undergone rapid expansion in recent years. No longer are these materials the vaguely defined 'insoluble material' at the bottom of your vessel that spell death for your reaction. They have gone from 'polymeric rubbish' to 'materials of the future'. Great... more...
The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, Volume 2
Oxford University Press 2003; US$ 18.99Purgatorio' is the second of three volumes of a new edition and translation of Dante's masterpiece, 'The Divine Comedy'. Similar to volume I, 'The Inferno', this translation in English prose emphasizes the literal-vs-phonetic. A newly edited version of the Italian text is on facing pages and includes comprehensive notes. more...
Key States, High Stakes
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2011; US$ 24.95In this new edited volume, Charles S. Bullock III collects original contributions from top political scientists to evaluate Sarah Palin and the Tea Party's role in the 2010 midterm elections. Key States, High Stake s focuses on states where Republicans had the chance to pick up Senate seats, as well as examining GOP Senate primaries if they involved... more...
Religion, Culture, and International Conflict
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2005; US$ 29.99A growing international recognition and concern about the consequences of religious faith and its relationship to public policy is a centerpiece of daily discourse and global media coverage. This timely and important book presents a series of conversations steeped in a diversity of viewpoints about the nature, role, and impact of religiously grounded... more...
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