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This work argues that Great Expectations best exemplifies Charles Dickens's worldview, and brings together the various themes he addresses in all his works.
Britain's empire was sustained by shipping. These studies are concerned with a range of enterprises, both home and colonial, in which shipping was involved, relating to goods, people, ideas.
Goldsmiths' products examined, combining discussion of object with analysis of inscription and design, and literary and archaeological evidence for smiths and their work.
Fresh perspectives on many facets - political, social, legal, military, and diplomatic - of the reign of one of the most important late medieval kings.
Traces the evolution of medical education at Barts from its foundation in 1123 to the college's merger with The London Hospital and Queen Mary and Westfield College in 1995.
An account of one hundred years of diet (including political influences) and its reflection in the population's health - from wartime deprivation to fast food overkill.
A biography of Winnaretta Singer-Polignac, heiress to the Singer Sewing Machine fortune, who befriended and subsidized some of the most important musical and literary artists of the twentieth Century, including Stravinsky, Proust, Ravel, Cocteau, and Colette.
In Mechanization of the Heart: Harvey and Descartes Thomas Fuchs discusses the similarities and differences of the views of the two seventeenth-century scholars William Harvey and Rene Descartes on the beat and circulation of the blood; Fuchs traces the reception of the two views in the medical literature of the time and the influence both views had.
Arthur and the grail stories appeared in this French prose cycle together for the first time; scholars explore its social, historical, literary and manuscript contexts and account for its enduring interest.
This collection of fifteen essays on various aspects of the problem of evil brings together the opinions of well known authors from various disciplines, including philosophy, theology, literary criticism, and political science.