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I have heard men say, that seeing is believing; but I should say that feeling is believing.' Anna Sewell's famous 'Autobiography of a Horse, published in 1877, is one of the bestselling novels in ... 続きを読む

The first new translation of this powerful novel since 1894, and the first unabridged translation in English. The eighteenth novel in Zola's Rougon-Macquart series, Money has many conte ... 続きを読む

What is poetry, how many kinds of it are there, and what are their specific effects?' Aristotle's Poetics is the most influential book on poetry ever written. A founding text of European aesthet ... 続きを読む

Now fully revised and updated with the latest guidelines, this new edition of the Oxford Handbook of Paediatrics is a compact guide to all aspects of acute and chronic paediatrics. The handbook's team ... 続きを読む

Based on the bestselling Oxford Companion to English Literature, this is an indispensable, compact guide to all aspects of English literature. Over 5,500 new and revised A to Z entries give unrivalled ... 続きを読む

狂気は恐ろしいと同時に人の心を魅了するものでもあります。そして狂気という言葉は誰にとっても馴染みがあり、人の想像力につきまといます。本書は狂気に対するさまざまな社会的、歴史的、文化的反応を過去に遡って見ていきます。    Provocative, entertaining and authoritative examination of a notorious con ... 続きを読む

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人はなぜ戦争をするのでしょうか。テロリズムや政治的暴力などの研究を専門とするリチャード・イングリッシュが、現代における戦争について考察します。戦争が社会や経済、そして私たちの未来に与える影響とは。政治、経済、歴史、宗教、心理学など幅広い学術分野を参考に、現代の戦争の意味を探ります。     Consider how it can be misunderstood or ... 続きを読む