Looks at the history of Faraday's life, placing him in a wider social and historical context
Demonstrates how Faraday was a key figure in developing our modern understanding of the physical world ... Read more
Examines the history from their origins to modern day online and electronic dictionaries
Explores both the myths and reality about dictionaries
Includes examples comparing dictionary entries in ... Read more
Provides an overview of our Solar System and its origins, nature, and evolution
Considers controversial issues, such as what qualifies as a planet
Looks at different types of Solar System objec ... Read more
Written by one of the most outstanding scholars in the field of utopian studies
Examines utopia in literature, social and political theory, theology and communal studies
Considers some of the m ... Read more
This book is a comprehensive guide for practitioners covering all aspects of competition litigation in the UK. It draws on the vast combined experience in the field of the barristers at Brick Court Ch ... Read more
Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to live ...while you have life in you, while you still can, make yourself good.'
The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) is a private notebook ... Read more
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Over a hundred years have passed since Charles Creighton's A History of Epidemics in Britain was published. Then, epidemics of infectious diseases accounted for a third of all deaths in the British Is ... Read more
I have become whore through goodwill and libertine through virtue.'
Orphaned and penniless at the age of twelve, the beautiful and devout Justine embarks upon her remarkable odyssey. Her steadfas ... Read more
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Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year is an extraordinary account of the devastation and human suffering inflicted on the city of London by the Great Plague of 1665 which continues to exert ... Read more
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'In recent decades, interest in hunger artists has greatly diminished.' Kafka published two collections of short stories in his lifetime, A Country Doctor: Little Tales (1919) and A Hunger Artist: Fo ... Read more
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