I go about the street with water-creases crying, "Four bunches a penny, water-creases."' London Labour and the London Poor is an extraordinary work of investigative journalism, a work of literatur ... 続きを読む

New paperback edition of Ian Donaldson's fascination biography An accessible and generously illustrated biography of one of the great writers of the early modern period, whose eventful life hasn' ... 続きを読む

社会文化的にとても重要な意味を持つ「信頼」の概念。哲学や心理学、生物学、さらにゲーム理論においてさえも中心となる概念です。人はなぜそれほどに信頼を重んじ、信頼されたがるのでしょうか。本書では幅広い分野での考え方を紹介し、大切な人との親密な絆から、国との関係まで、さまざまな状況の中で信頼し、信頼されるとはどういうことなのか、またその重要性について探ります。      ... 続きを読む

Explores throughout the text - in the context of business ethics - the three major challenges that businesses face when making ethical decisions: globalization, sustainability, and corporate citize ... 続きを読む

西洋史の時代区分における中世とは、1450年頃から始まる約1000年のヨーロッパの歴史の年代を指す言葉です。ローマ帝国を起源にヨーロッパに広がり、その商業や情報伝達システムはグローバルなものでした。本書は王から庶民、家族、農業や商業、集団と個人など、社会のあらゆる階層を取り上げ、この時期に起因する複雑な変化が現代の文化や社会にもたらした影響についても検討します。 　　　 Consider ... 続きを読む

This edition presents a critically established text based on comparisons of every revised version. Hardy placed this tale among his Novels of Character and Environment, a group which is held to includ ... 続きを読む

Tracing its distant origins to the villa of the Roman emperor Hadrian in the second century AD, the eccentric phenomenon of the ornamental hermit enjoyed its heyday in the England of the eighteenth ce ... 続きを読む

External beam therapy is the most common form of radiotherapy, delivering ionizing radiation such as high-energy x-rays, gamma rays or electron beams directly into the location of the patient's tumour ... 続きを読む

Ambush marketing is any attempt to create an unauthorised or false association with an event thereby interfering with the legitimate contractual rights of the event's official marketing partners. Look ... 続きを読む

I took it: - and in an hour, oh! Heavens! what a revulsion! what an upheaving, from its lowest depths, of the inner spirit! what an apocalypse of the world within me!' Thomas De Quincey's Confessio ... 続きを読む