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Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Tom Holland writes an authoritative introduction to Gibbon and his masterwork, followed by extracts from "The Decline and Fall" which exemplify Gibbon's genius. This series is …
Analysing Language and Social Meaning
The social context of language is key to its meaning: it governs how discourse is perceived. This book takes that as its basis and offers a rich and powerful way to analyze …
Key Terms in Phonology
Phonology is a sub-discipline of linguistics that describes the way sounds function within a given language, or across languages. It can be quite a difficult field of study, but …
Britain's First Empire
Britain's First Empire offers an accessible overview and analysis of Britain's early modern empire, exploring the creation and control of empire, but also looking at why this first …
Psychiatry in Modern Britain
The discipline of psychiatry is foundational to understanding a wide range of modern concepts, from personality and responsibility through to illness and deviancy. A sense of …
The Forefathers of Terrorism
The Forefathers of Terrorism investigates the beginnings of organized political crime. Ever since the beginnings of the modern state in the late Middle Ages, the state has been …
The Rule of Law in Central America
The book is a thorough study that focuses on the impact of the current crime wave on citizens' respect for the law in countries such as Nicaragua, Panama, Costa Rica, Guatemala, El …
Politeness in Turkey and China
There is a long standing gap in the field of politeness studies, namely, the exploration of Turkish and Chinese politeness systems before the modern era. This book looks at …
Critical-Creative Writing
The rapid expansion of creative writing courses in higher education, from undergraduate to MA/MFA and PhD level, has generated its own literature and pedagogical practices. All …
Capital and Labour in Victorian England
Despite extensive scholarship on the social and cultural history of industrial England there is little work that explores how new forms of capitalist production were understood and …
Key Terms in Corpus Linguistics
Key Terms in Corpus Linguistics explains all of the terms which students of linguistics and English language are likely to encounter during their undergraduate study. The book …