Ancient Rome

a military and political history

The rights of others

aliens, residents, and citizens

The Rights of Others examines the boundaries of political community by focusing on political membership - the principles and practices for incorporating aliens and strangers, immigrants and newcomers, refugees and asylum seekers into existing polities. Boundaries define some as members, others as aliens. But when state ...

The Cambridge Companion to John Dryden

John Dryden, Poet Laureate to Charles II and James II, was one of the great literary figures of the late seventeenth century. This Companion provides a fresh look at Dryden's tactics and triumphs in negotiating the extraordinary political and cultural revolutions of his time ...

Print, manuscript and the search for Order

1450-1830

This magisterial study re-examines fundamental aspects of what has been termed the printing revolution of the early modern period. David McKitterick argues that many of the changes associated with printing were only gradually absorbed over almost 400 years, a much longer period than usually suggested ...

Republicanism

a shared european heritage.Vol.I: Republicanism and constitucionalism in early modern Europe

These volumes are the fruits of a major European Science Foundation project and offer the first comprehensive study of republicanism as a shared European heritage. Whilst previous research has mainly focused on Atlantic traditions of republicanism, Professors Skinner and van Gelderen have assembled an internationally ...

The economics of information technology

an introduction

The Economics of Information Technology is a concise and accessible review of some of the important economic factors affecting information technology industries. These industries are characterized by high fixed costs and low marginal costs of production, large switching costs for users, and strong network effects ...

Quantum finance

Path integrals and Hamiltonians for options and interest rates

This book applies the mathematics and concepts of quantum mechanics and quantum field theory to the modelling of interest rates and the theory of options. Particular emphasis is placed on path integrals and Hamiltonians. Financial mathematics is dominated by stochastic calculus. The present book offers ...

Languages and communities in early modern Europe

The Cambridge Companion to Adorno

The great German philosopher and aesthetic theorist Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno (1903-1969) was one of the main philosophers of the first generation of the Frankfurt School of critical theory. As an accomplished musician, Adorno originally focused on the theory of culture and art. He later turned ...

The Cambridge Companion to Anselm

Anselm of Canterbury (1033-1109), Benedictine monk and the second Norman archbishop of Canterbury, is regarded as one of the most important philosophers and theologians of the Middle Ages. The essays in this volume explore all his major philosophical and theological ideas, including his teachings on ...

La construcción de las nacionalidades

Éste es un profundo reanálisis tanto del nacionalismo como de la nación. Pone en cuestión la actual ortodoxia modernista de escritores tales como Eric Hobsbawm, Benedict Anderson y Ernest Gellner, y ofrece una crítica sistemática de la conocida obra de Hobsbawm Naciones y nacionalismo desde ...

El confucianismo

El profesor Xinzhong Yao presenta el confucianismo ante todo como una tradición filosófica y religiosa. Presta atención a la presencia del confucianismo tanto en Oriente como en Occidente centrándose no sólo en las doctrinas, escuelas, rituales, lugares sagrados y terminología de esta tradición, sino destacando ...

Introducción a Jung

Este libro es un instrumento de referencia indispensable para el estudio de las teorías junguianas, y una notable contribución a la bibliografía en español sobre uno de los fundadores del psicoanálisis. Aunque su persona ha recibido críticas frontales y apasionadas, la influencia de sus ideas ...

The evolution of morality and religion

Accepted codes of conduct and established religions are features of human societies throughout the world. Why should this be? In this 2003 book, biologist Donald Broom argues that these aspects of human culture have evolved as a consequence of natural selection; that morally acceptable behaviour ...

The Cambridge History of Science

Volume 7: The modern social sciences

This volume provides a history of the concepts, practices, institutions, and ideologies of social sciences (including behavioural and economic sciences) since the eighteenth century. It offers original, synthetic accounts of the historical development of social knowledge, including its philosophical assumptions, its social and intellectual organization ...

The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Drama

Contents Resources Courses About the Authors. This second edition of the Companion offers students up-to-date factual and interpretative material about the principal theatres, playwrights and plays of the most important period of English drama, from 1580–1642. Three wide-ranging chapters on theatres, dramaturgy and the ...

Legal and ethical aspects of healthcare

There can be few aspects of life which have altered so dramatically in the past few decades as the relationship between medicine and the law. Treatments become more and more sophisticated as each advance in medicine is made. At the same time, the legal and ...

Genes and insurance

ethical, legal and economic issues

The result of two key social developments in recent years are examined here: the partial dismantling of the welfare state and the progress of genetics. Genetic insights are increasingly valuable for risk assessment, and insurers would like to use these insights to help determine premiums ...

Early muslim dogma

a souce-critical study

The key sources for the reconstruction of the early history of Muslim dogma are a group of texts ascribed to authors of the late first century of the Hijra. These texts bear on two major doctrinal controversies, the Murji'ite and the Qadarite, raising issues ...

The Cambridge History of Science

Volume 4: Eighteenth-Century Science

This volume offers to general and specialist readers alike the fullest and most complete survey of the development of science in the eighteenth century, exploring the implications of the 'scientific revolution' of the previous century and the major new growth-points, particularly in the experimental sciences ...