"The tavern is widely acknowledged as central to the cultural and political life of Britain, yet widely misunderstood. Ian Newman provides the first sustained a...
"The main object of this book is to study how the understanding of physical motion in ancient Greek thought developed before and up to Aristotle. It investigate...
"This is a book about the demand for redistribution of income through taxes and transfers. It is also a book about how our main intuition about what affects ind...
"Contemporary Chinese Politics: Sources, Methods, and Field Strategies considers how new and diverse sources and methods are changing the study of Chinese polit...
French legal culture, from the Middle Ages to the present day, has had an impressive influence on legal norms and institutions that have emerged in Europe and t...
"This book is a material culture study, with strong roots in both anthropology (particularly theories of miniaturization and human engagement, as well as the re...
Paul McKechnie explores how Christianity grew and expanded in Roman Asia over the first three centuries of the religion. Focusing on key individuals, such as Ab...
Sub-Riemannian geometry is the geometry of a world with nonholonomic constraints. In such a world, one can move, send and receive information only in certain ad...