Is That all You People Think About?
'A fine, if sometimes rude, collection of haikus inspired by modern life' Daily Telegraph 'I'm in here!' yelled Mum. Hide and seek was spoilt again. We never found Dad. The word 'Haiku' invokes images of misty mountains, running streams and fallin...
Wild Life
The new Joe the Bouncer organised crime thriller. To find the killer of NYC's most desirable call girls, Joe will have to plunge into the seediest fringes of Manhattan and its surrounding boroughs.
The Marathas 1600-1818
In this book, Dr Stewart Gordon presents a comprehensive history of one of the most colourful and least-understood kingdoms of India: the Maratha Empire. The empire was founded by Shivaji in the mid-seventeenth century, spread across most of India...
The Marathas 1600-1818
This is a most comprehensive history of the Maratha polity, an important regional kingdom in the seventeenth century and the largest political entity of eighteenth-century India. It explores strategies of maintaining loyalty among elite families a...
American Foreign Affairs: A Compact History
This book provides a compact history of the gradual development of the US into a great power. Most histories of US foreign policy and development concentrate either on economic growth or on relations with the major powers outside the continental U...
Calculating Catastrophe
Calculating Catastrophe has been written to explain, to a general readership, the underlying philosophical ideas and scientific principles that govern catastrophic events, both natural and man-made. Knowledge of the broad range of catastrophes dee...
Mathematics Of Natural Catastrophes, The
This is a unique book about natural catastrophes, focusing on the mathematical aspects of these phenomena. Although academic in style and didactic in purpose, it is practical in the treatment of the diverse issues covered, which range from hazard ...
What is Academic Freedom?
This book explores the history of the debate, from 1915 to the present, about the meaning of academic freedom, particularly as concerns political activism on the college campus. The book introduces readers to the origins of the modern research uni...
White Waters and Black
With a wicked eye for absurdities, Gordon MacCreagh recounts his adventures with eight "Eminent Scientificos" as they set out to explore the Amazon in 1923 without any idea of what lies ahead of them: rapids, malaria, monkey stew, and &q...
Plato's Erotic World
Plato's entire fictive world is permeated with philosophical concern for Eros, well beyond the so-called erotic dialogues. Several metaphysical, epistemological and cosmological conversations - Timaeus, Cratylus, Parmenides, Theaetetus and Phaedo ...
Crime, Violence and Modernity
This book makes an original contribution to reconnecting criminological inquiry to the core concerns of the classical sociological imagination and to the intellectual resources of comparative and historical sociology. Throughout the book Hughes ch...
Planning Twentieth Century Capital Cities
The twentieth century witnessed an unprecedented increase in the number of capital cities worldwide. This book explores what makes capital cities different from other cities, why their planning is unique, and why there is such variety from one cit...
Evil and Christian Ethics
Genocide in Rwanda, multiple murder at Denver or Dunblane, the gruesome activities of serial killers - what makes these great evils, and why do they occur? In addressing such questions this book, unusually, interconnects contemporary moral philoso...
Hannah Arendt And Education
Hannah Arendt And Education: Renewing Our Common World is the first book to bring together a collection of essays on Hannah Arendt and education. The contributors contend that Arendt offers a unique perspective, one which enhances the liberal and ...
USAFE Tactical Units in the United Kingdom in the Cold War
USAFE Tactical Units in the United Kingdom in the Cold War
Risky Business in China
Risk is a major reason that companies fail in, or fail to enter, China. Packed with case studies, this unique book demonstrates how correctly applied due diligence can not only reduce business risk in China, but also provide excellent business int...
Latin American Poetry
This study considers the ways Spanish American and Brazilian poets differ from their European counterparts by considering 'Latin American' as more than a perfunctory epithet. It sets the orthodox Latin tradition of the subcontinent against others ...
Education in a Cultural War Era
In the past couple of years, much has been said and written in the media about the notion of "cancel culture" and the way in which various celebrities, journalists, politicians, ideas, and monuments have been cancelled. Yet, the conversa...