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Simon Shaw-Miller
Visible Deeds of Music: Art and Music from Wagner to Cage
Paperback / softback. New. paperback
Bookseller reference : B9780300107531 ISBN : 0300107536 9780300107531
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Simon Elliott
Ragstone to Riches: Imperial Estates metalla and the Roman military in the south east of Britain during the occupation
Paperback / softback. New. paperback
Bookseller reference : B9781407316529 ISBN : 1407316524 9781407316529
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Simon Spillett
The Long Shadow of the Little Giant: The Life Work and Legacy of Tubby Hayes
Paperback / softback. New. In this new expanded paperback edition award-winning saxophonist and writer Simon Spillett widely regarded as the world's leading authority on Hayes and his work painstakingly outlines a career that alternated professional success and personal downfall. paperback
Bookseller reference : B9781781795057 ISBN : 1781795053 9781781795057
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Simon Shepherd
English Drama: A Cultural History
Paperback / softback. New. An account of the cultural history of English drama it shows how the character of a given theatrical 'age' contains contradictions and is uneven in development. It offers chapters on Medieval Theatre Renaissance Drama Restoration Comedy Melodrama and Naturalism. It concludes with accounts of post-War British Theatre and the State. paperback
Bookseller reference : B9780631199380 ISBN : 0631199381 9780631199380
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James Simon Kunen
The Strawberry Statement: Notes of a College Revolutionary
Paperback / softback. New. The student rebellions of the 1960s caught through the eyes of a Columbia College undergraduate during the spring of 1968. A classic that sold 35000 copies in hardcover The Strawberry Statement retains its appeal to college students sensitive to the world's injustices while confronting their own adult future. paperback
Bookseller reference : B9781881089520 ISBN : 1881089525 9781881089520
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Simon A Gilson
Dante and Renaissance Florence
Paperback / softback. New. Simon Gilson examines Dante's reception in Florence in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries particularly his influence on Boccaccio and Petrarch and on humanism. Ranging across literature philosophy and art Gilson's study fully illuminates for the first time Dante's central place in Italian Renaissance culture and thought. paperback
Bookseller reference : B9780521100182 ISBN : 0521100186 9780521100182
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Simon Gaunt
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval French Literature
Hardback. New. This wide-ranging and stimulating Companion covers literature composed in French from the ninth century to the Renaissance including the Chanson de Roland the Roman de la Rose Christine de Pisan and the Tristan romances. This is the ideal starting-point to discover the riches of the French medieval tradition. hardcover
Bookseller reference : B9780521861755 ISBN : 0521861756 9780521861755
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Simon Franklin
Writing Society and Culture in Early Rus c.950-1300
Paperback / softback. New. This is a comprehensive study of the origins and early uses of Russian writing including analysis of a wide range of writings from a variety of perspectives. The impressive scholarship and idiosyncratic wit of this volume commend it to students and specialists in Russian history and literature alike. paperback
Bookseller reference : B9780521129022 ISBN : 0521129028 9780521129022
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Professor Simon Dixon
The Modernisation of Russia 1676-1825
Hardback. New. Analytical and thematic account of a colourful period in Russian history accessible to undergraduates of European and Russian history as well as to the non-specialist reader. Covers Russia's political social cultural and intellectual life during its emergence as a great power. hardcover
Bookseller reference : B9780521371001 ISBN : 0521371007 9780521371001
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Simon Varey
Space and the Eighteenth-Century English Novel
Paperback / softback. New. In this challenging study first published in 1990 Simon Varey relates the idea of spatial design in the major novels of Defoe Fielding and Richardson to its use in the theory and practice of eighteenth-century architecture. He draws on a wide range of architectural books as well as such novels as Robinson Crusoe and Tom Jones. paperback
Bookseller reference : B9780521031790 ISBN : 0521031796 9780521031790
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Simon S Young
Computerized Data Acquisition and Analysis for the Life Sciences: A Hands-on Guide
Paperback / softback. New. This book is written for the non-engineer involved in computerized data acquisition. It is an indispensable guide to setting up these systems and obtaining useful information from them. Aimed at life sciences researchers it will also be valuable to anyone interested in learning to use data acquisition systems. Illustrations and worked examples accompany the text. paperback
Bookseller reference : B9780521565707 ISBN : 0521565707 9780521565707
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Simon Marginson
International Student Security
Paperback / softback. New. International Student Security exposes opportunity difficulty danger and courage on a massive scale in the global student market. It works through many unresolved issues confronting students and their families including personal safety language proficiency finances sub-standard housing and issues of loneliness racism and segregation. paperback
Bookseller reference : B9780521138055 ISBN : 0521138051 9780521138055
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Simon McVeigh
Concert Life in London from Mozart to Haydn
Paperback / softback. New. Concerts flourished in London during the second half of the eighteenth century as never before. Enterprising promoters developed subscription series around the new symphony orchestra and the lucrative environment attracted both Mozart and Haydn whose last twelve symphonies were written for London. paperback
Bookseller reference : B9780521028905 ISBN : 0521028906 9780521028905
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Simon Chesterman
Secretary or General: The UN Secretary-General in World Politics
Hardback. New. The Secretary-General of the United Nations is a unique figure in world politics. Bringing together the insights of senior UN staff diplomats and scholars Simon Chesterman examines the factors that shape this role and the ambiguities and tensions that surround it. hardcover
Bookseller reference : B9780521876155 ISBN : 052187615x 9780521876155
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Simon C Parker
The Economics of Self-Employment and Entrepreneurship
Paperback / softback. New. Simon C. Parker provides a timely and comprehensive overview of self-employment and entrepreneurship in our modern economy. Bringing together and assessing the large and disparate literature on the subject he explores key issues in the field and provides an up-to-date overview of new research findings. paperback
Bookseller reference : B9780521030632 ISBN : 0521030633 9780521030632
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Simon D Shorvon
Status Epilepticus: Its Clinical Features and Treatment in Children and Adults
Paperback / softback. New. Status Epilepticus is the severest expression of epilepsy. This book proposes a classification scheme and offers a unique comprehensive review of research in this field. This along with the systematic and practical emphasis of the text based on clinical experience make it an invaluable reference text for a range of practising clinicians. paperback
Bookseller reference : B9780521031141 ISBN : 0521031141 9780521031141
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Simon French
Decision Behaviour Analysis and Support
Paperback / softback. New. This valuable resource for managers and students in management engineering and information systems explains strategies for better decisions taken from a wide range of disciplines. It covers computer technology as well as human aids to building analyses and some fast and frugal tricks for more consistent decision making. paperback
Bookseller reference : B9780521709781 ISBN : 0521709784 9780521709781
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Simon Goldhill
Foucault's Virginity: Ancient Erotic Fiction and the History of Sexuality
Paperback / softback. New. This is a study of how sex and sexuality are written about in the first centuries of this era. paperback
Bookseller reference : B9780521479349 ISBN : 0521479347 9780521479349
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Simon Blackburn
Meaning Reference and Necessity: New Studies in Semantics
Paperback / softback. New. A volume of studies in philosophical logic by a group of younger philosophers in the UK. There is a core of problems in the theory of meaning which have been accorded a central importance by philosophers logicians and theoretical linguists and which have stimulated some of the most powerful and original work in these subjects. paperback
Bookseller reference : B9780521113502 ISBN : 0521113504 9780521113502
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Simon Ditchfield
Liturgy Sanctity and History in Tridentine Italy: Pietro Maria Campi and the Preservation of the Particular
Paperback / softback. New. This book offers a new interpretation of what the Catholic Reform meant at local diocesan level in the face of attempts by Rome to regularise worship c.1550-1700. paperback
Bookseller reference : B9780521893206 ISBN : 0521893208 9780521893206
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Simon Keynes
The Diplomas of King Aethlred 'the Unready' 978-1016
Paperback / softback. New. Dr Keynes is concerned to establish what light the royal diplomas issued in King 'thelred's name throw on this unhappy and notorious period. paperback
Bookseller reference : B9780521023085 ISBN : 0521023084 9780521023085
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Simon Blackburn
Reason and Prediction
Paperback / softback. New. In the end Dr Blackburn produces a rationale for belief in certain short-term predictions based on his reinterpretation of the classical principle of indifference. He claims that a justification for induction can be found along the lines he has suggested and must indeed be found there if anywhere. paperback
Bookseller reference : B9780521108225 ISBN : 0521108225 9780521108225
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Anthony Simon Laden
Multiculturalism and Political Theory
Hardback. New. A 2007 collection of essays by leading political theorists that together review the debates surrounding cultural diversity. The contributors survey the development of the debate and its major approaches address the critical questions posed and highlight directions in research. hardcover
Bookseller reference : B9780521854504 ISBN : 0521854504 9780521854504
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Simon Critchley
The Cambridge Companion to Levinas
Hardback. New. Emmanuel Levinas is now widely recognised alongside Heidegger Merleau-Ponty and Sartre as one of the most important Continental philosophers of the twentieth century. His abiding concern was the primacy of the ethical relation to the other person and his central thesis was that ethics is first philosophy. hardcover
Bookseller reference : B9780521662062 ISBN : 0521662060 9780521662062
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Simon Gaunt
The Troubadours: An Introduction
Paperback / softback. New. This book offers a general introduction to the dazzling world of the troubadours. Its sixteen newly-commissioned essays discuss the development of troubadour song the main trends in troubadour scholarship and the reception of troubadour poetry. Appendices offer an invaluable guide to troubadours technical vocabulary research tools and surviving manuscripts. paperback
Bookseller reference : B9780521574730 ISBN : 0521574730 9780521574730
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Simon R Wilkinson
The Child's World of Illness: The Development of Health and Illness Behaviour
Paperback / softback. New. This book discusses the languages of illness which we use to present our discomforts to others through an exploration of the child's world of illness. It looks at how illness concepts are introduced to children how the causes of illness and 'germ' rationales are incorporated into the socialisation of children and how a particular morality about health and illness is expressed. paperback
Bookseller reference : B9780521029049 ISBN : 052102904x 9780521029049
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Herbert A Simon
An Empirically-Based Microeconomics
Paperback / softback. New. Herbert Simon is one of the most distinguished living economists and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1978 for his work at the intersection of economics and psychology. In his Mattioli Lectures Professor Simon traces the evolution of microeconomics and assesses the possibilities for its future development. paperback
Bookseller reference : B9780521118361 ISBN : 0521118360 9780521118361
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Simon Goldhill
Rethinking Revolutions through Ancient Greece
Paperback / softback. New. Fifth- and fourth-century Greece has been held to be the period and place in which civilization as the West knows it developed with revolutionary developments in politics art literature philosophy medicine and music. This book asks whether these claims are well based and what is at stake in making them. paperback
Bookseller reference : B9780521154581 ISBN : 0521154588 9780521154581
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Simon Marginson
The Enterprise University: Power Governance and Reinvention in Australia
Paperback / softback. New. This 2001 book studies the organisational systems and culture of Australia's universities - interviews were conducted with vice-chancellors and other senior academic and administrative staff. The authors argue that the modern university can be understood as an 'enterprise university'. paperback
Bookseller reference : B9780521794480 ISBN : 052179448x 9780521794480
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Anthony Simon Laden
Multiculturalism and Political Theory
Paperback / softback. New. A 2007 collection of essays by leading political theorists that together review the debates surrounding cultural diversity. The contributors survey the development of the debate and its major approaches address the critical questions posed and highlight directions in research. paperback
Bookseller reference : B9780521670906 ISBN : 052167090x 9780521670906
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Simon Jarvis
Wordsworth's Philosophic Song
Paperback / softback. New. Simon Jarvis argues that Wordsworth's aspiration to 'philosophic song' is central to his greatness and changed the way English poetry was written. Jarvis reads Wordsworth's writing both critically and philosophically to show how Wordsworth thinks through and in verse. paperback
Bookseller reference : B9780521123501 ISBN : 052112350x 9780521123501
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Simon Trezise
The Cambridge Companion to French Music
Hardback. New. This accessible Companion provides a comprehensive introduction to the music of France from the early middle ages to the present day. With chapters on a range of music genres internationally renowned authors provide a chronological history of music-making in France and analyse the key themes and topics. hardcover
Bookseller reference : B9780521877947 ISBN : 0521877946 9780521877947
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Simon Williams
Shakespeare on the German Stage: Volume 1: 1586-1914
Paperback / softback. New. Professor Williams focuses on the classical period of German literature and theatre when Shakespeare's plays were first staged in Germany in a relatively complete form and when they had a potent influence on the writings of German drama and dramatic criticism. paperback
Bookseller reference : B9780521611930 ISBN : 0521611938 9780521611930
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Simon Hillson
Teeth
Paperback / softback. New. In this up-dated 2005 edition of Teeth Simon Hillson examines the mass of information on dental studies in archaeology and offers an expanded treatment of mammals giving descriptions and illustrations for 325 mammal genera. The work provides the student with charts tables and details of techniques. paperback
Bookseller reference : B9780521545495 ISBN : 0521545498 9780521545495
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Simon Price
Religions of the Ancient Greeks
Hardback. New. This 1999 book describes the religious life of the Greeks from archaic times to the fifth century AD looked at in the context of a variety of different cities and periods. It examines local practices and ideas in the light of general Greek ideas. The evidence is literary inscriptional and archaeological. hardcover
Bookseller reference : B9780521382014 ISBN : 0521382017 9780521382014
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Simon Franklin
National Identity in Russian Culture: An Introduction
Paperback / softback. New. The question of national identity has long been a vexed one in Russia and is particularly pertinent in the post-Soviet period. This wide-ranging study designed for students of Russian literature culture and history explores aspects of national identity in Russian culture from medieval times to the present day. paperback
Bookseller reference : B9780521024297 ISBN : 0521024293 9780521024297
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Simon Gaunt
Gender and Genre in Medieval French Literature
Paperback / softback. New. In this wide-ranging study of Old French and Occitan literature Simon Gaunt draws on contemporary feminist theory to examine how masculinity as well as femininity is constructed in these texts and shows the crucial role of gender in the formation of the ideologies that underpin medieval literary genres. paperback
Bookseller reference : B9780521022606 ISBN : 0521022606 9780521022606
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Anthony Simon Laden
Reasoning: A Social Picture
Paperback / softback. New. Anthony Simon Laden explores the kind of reasoning we engage in when we live together: when we are responsive to others and neither commanding nor deferring to them. He argues for a new social picture of the activity of reasoning in which reasoning is a species of conversation-social ongoing and governed by a set of characteristic norms. paperback
Bookseller reference : B9780198706410 ISBN : 0198706413 9780198706410
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Joan Simon
Education and Society in Tudor England
Paperback / softback. New. This book discusses educational developments during a crucial period of English history in their social context revising a long-standing interpretation of the effect of Reformation legislation. paperback
Bookseller reference : B9780521296793 ISBN : 052129679x 9780521296793
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Simon J Charlesworth
A Phenomenology of Working-Class Experience
Paperback / softback. New. This book examines the effects of poverty and class through the personal testimony of the people living in the industrial area of Rotherham in South Yorkshire England. It argues that the themes and problems identified in this book will be familiar to marginalized groups everywhere. paperback
Bookseller reference : B9780521659154 ISBN : 0521659159 9780521659154
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Simon Hix
Democratic Politics in the European Parliament
Paperback / softback. New. This 2007 book establishes that the parties in the European Parliament are cohesive and that political competition in this chamber is dominated by the left-right dimension just as in other democratic parliaments. The authors argue that this is a positive development for the future of the EU's democratic accountability. paperback
Bookseller reference : B9780521694605 ISBN : 0521694604 9780521694605
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Simon Halliday
Conducting Law and Society Research: Reflections on Methods and Practices
Paperback / softback. New. This book provides students and scholars with a candid look at how empirical research projects actually happen. paperback
Bookseller reference : B9780521720427 ISBN : 0521720427 9780521720427
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Simon Kuznets
Economic Development the Family and Income Distribution: Selected Essays
Paperback / softback. New. This is a collection of essays by Simon Kuznets winner of the 1971 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences dealing with 'modern economic growth' and the interrelations between demographic change and income inequality. An introduction by Professor Richard Easterlin discusses the relationship of the essays to the balance of Kuznets's writings. paperback
Bookseller reference : B9780521521963 ISBN : 0521521963 9780521521963
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Simon Goldhill
Performance Culture and Athenian Democracy
Paperback / softback. New. The specially-commissioned essays from leading scholars in this 1999 book discuss the ways in which performance is central to the practice and ideology of democracy in classical Athens. Drama rhetoric philosophy literature and art are all discussed in an interdisciplinary frame to explore how the culture of democracy depends on performance. paperback
Bookseller reference : B9780521604314 ISBN : 0521604311 9780521604314
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Simon Gaunt
Troubadours and Irony
Paperback / softback. New. Troubadours and Irony re-examines the work of five early troubadours namely Marcabru Bernart Marti Peire d'Alvernha Raimbaut d'Aurenga and Giraut de Borneil to argue that the courtly poetry of southern France in the twelfth century was permeated with irony and that many troubadour songs were playful laced with humorous sexual innuendo and far from serious. paperback
Bookseller reference : B9780521058483 ISBN : 0521058481 9780521058483
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Simon Goldhill
Who Needs Greek: Contests in the Cultural History of Hellenism
Paperback / softback. New. Does Greek matter To whom and why This lively illustrated interdisciplinary study focuses on moments when passionate conflicts about Greek and Greek-ness have erupted in the modern and ancient worlds ranging from ancient Greece through the Renaissance to modernist opera. It takes reception studies in an exciting alternative direction. paperback
Bookseller reference : B9780521011761 ISBN : 0521011760 9780521011761
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Simon Barton
The Aristocracy in Twelfth-Century Leon and Castile
Paperback / softback. New. Drawing on an extensive range of original sources this study examines the nature and role of the aristocracy in twelfth-century Spain. paperback
Bookseller reference : B9780521894067 ISBN : 0521894069 9780521894067
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Simon Collier
Chile: The Making of a Republic 1830-1865: Politics and Ideas
Paperback / softback. New. This book examines the formative period of Chile's history and combines an analysis of the ideas and assumptions of the Chilean political class with a narrative of the political process from the consolidation of the Conservative regime in the 1830s to the beginnings of liberalization in the early 1860s. paperback
Bookseller reference : B9780521033121 ISBN : 0521033128 9780521033121
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Simon Gikandi
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Paperback / softback. New. Simon Gikandi's study first published in 2000 offers a comprehensive analysis of all the works of the influential Kenyan dramatist novelist and critic Ngugi wa Thiong'o. Gikandi provides fresh insight into the historical and cultural context of Ngugi's work tracing his literary career through to his imprisonment and exile in the 1980s. paperback
Bookseller reference : B9780521119016 ISBN : 0521119014 9780521119016
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Simon MacLean
Kingship and Politics in the Late Ninth Century: Charles the Fat and the End of the Carolingian Empire
Paperback / softback. New. This major study deals with the collapse of the pan-European Carolingian empire in 888 as seen through the reign of its last ruler Charles the Fat. It argues against traditionally pessimistic views of this important period offering alternative interpretations of early medieval kingship. paperback
Bookseller reference : B9780521044455 ISBN : 0521044456 9780521044455
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