This book is a unique storehouse of surprising, thought provoking, fascinating and useful facts about human speech and the written word.

Written with full access to the Gulbenkian Foundation's archives, this is the fascinating story of the man who more than anyone else helped shape the modern oil industry.

This edited volume provides a critical overview of the new stabilization agenda in international relations. The primary focus of so-called stability operations since 9/11 has been Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq.

This book explores liberalism's past and present transformations and proposes a prospective future as a neo-republican democratic liberalism.

This is the first English translation of one of the classical works of Marxist economic theory.

These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions.

Now available in this revised and expanded English edition, "Slave Rebellion in Brazil" is a portrait of the conditions of urban slavery and an absorbing account of conspiracy, uprising and punishment. --

Curtin combines modern research and statistical methods with his broad knowledge of the field to present the first book-length quantitative analysis of the Atlantic slave trade.

A tale of Europe in the days just before the war. It tells of a small group of Jewish holiday makers in the resort of Badenheim in the Spring of 1939. Hitler's war looms, but Badenheim and its summer residents go about life as normal."