Every generalisation that we settled forty years ago, is abandoned'
As a journalist, historian and novelist born into a family that included two past presidents of the United States, Henry Adams wa ... Read more
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The last man! I may well describe that solitary being's feelings, feeling myself as the last relic of a beloved race, my companions extinct before me.'
Mary Shelley, Journal (May 1824). Best rememb ... Read more
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Roderick Random (1748), Smollett's first novel, is full of the dazzling vitality characteristics of all his work, as well as of his own life. Roderick is the boisterous and unprincipled hero who answe ... Read more
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Aurora Leigh is the foremost example of the mid-nineteenth-century poem of contemporary life. This verse-novel is a richly detailed representation of the early Victorian age. The social panorama exten ... Read more
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For the first time, perhaps, since that land emerged from the waters of geologic ages, a human face was set toward it with love and yearning. It seemed beautiful to her, rich and strong and glorious. ... Read more
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This is the first unabridged verse translation of Book One of the Masnavi for more than a hundred years. Skilfully rendered in rhyming couplets, the translation is an attractive and faith ... Read more
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An introduction to the nature and value of humour and all of the leading theories
Explores the connections between humour and cognition
Looks at its moral dimensions - when does humour become i ... Read more
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Considers the theory of communism from Marx's time to its practice in the Bolshevik Revolution, and its collapse in 1989-91
Highlights the inner dynamics, crises and demise of communism as a glob ... Read more
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Explores a concept central to modern science and society, from thermodynamics and DNA to our use of the mobile phone and the Internet
Considers concepts such as 'Infoglut' (too much information t ... Read more
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To practice evidence-based medicine, doctors need to understand how research is conducted and be able to critically appraise research evidence. A sound understanding of medical statistics is essential ... Read more
