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First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Review: A unique contribution to the literature of business cycles and depressions, this encyclopedia will be invaluable

This dictionary, now in its sixth edition, contains over 66,000 terms and 90,000 translations from the following subject areas: automationtechnology; components; electrical energy conversion; electrical installation; electric power technology; electroacoustics; high voltage

In recent years international migration has become a growing political issue in many countries, and a major topic of international debate. In the 1960s, only a handful of countries, mainly the traditional

What does it mean to be political in an age of postmodernization and globalization? Where former debates on globalization have so far remained polarized between purely economic perspectives, political perspectives that are

Are there existing alternatives to corporate globalization? What are the prospects for and commonalities between communities and movements such as Occupy, the World Social Forum and alternative economies? Globalization Development and Social

Shakespeare Left and Right brings together critics, strikingly different in their politics and methodologies, who are acutely aware of the importance of politics on literary practice and theory. Should, for example, feminist

This book makes an original contribution to international relations and British politics. It identifies for the first time the dominant pre-modern theory of international relations, which fatalistically assumed that war was beyond

By examining linguistic variation in Aristophanic comedy, Andreas Willi opens up a new perspective on intra-dialectal diversity in Classical Attic Greek. A representative range of registers, technical languages, sociolects, and (comic) idiolects

This is by far the most detailed commentary yet on Horace's Epodes. The line-by-line commentary on each epode is prefaced by a substantial interpretative essay which offers a reading of that poem

The recent history of broadcasting on both sides of the Atlantic, characterized by a great increase in the number of services on offer to the public, has been brought about by technological

Students reading the Iliad for the first time are often bewildered by the sheer volume of information on apparently unrelated subjects which it contains. The central narrative seems to unfold very slowly,

VolumThis volume collects the scattered quotations of the Greek writers of the 6th to the 4th centuries BC who first recorded in prose the tales of Greek mythology (the mythographers ). e

The Homeric Hymn to Demeter Review: Offers an incomparable approach to understanding archaic Greek poetry and religion...Richardson shows a good knowledge of the archeological and artistic evidence and a sure control of

This is the first full-length study of Gothic to be written from the perspective of Bakhtinian theory. Dr Howard uses Bakhtin's concepts of heteroglossia and dialogism in specific historical analyses of key

This title contains the customary mix of learned articles, book reviews, conference reports, and bibliographical information, which makes this a tool for the historian of higher education. Its contributions range widely geographically,

A rebel against Victorian mores, Jane Ellen Harrison (1850-1928) became one of the first women to hold a research fellowship at Cambridge. A friend of such distinguished figures as Gilbert Murray and

Journalists often claim that they write the first draft of history, but few historians examine the press in detail when preparing later drafts. This book demonstrates the value of popular newspapers as

In the 1980s and 1990s French Fiction has emerged from the towering shadow of the formalist literary debates of the fifties and sixties and has reclaimed the ground of history, or narrative,

T. C. W. Stinton was a highly respected classical scholar who died in 1985. He was a Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford, for over thirty years and devoted his life to teaching,

In this, the first book-length study of Greek prayer to appear in English, Simon Pulleyn presents a comprehensive treatment of an aspect of religion which together with sacrifice was at the centre