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Onjefu F. Ngbede
Miriam margolyes biography: A Journey from Cambridge to Hollywood
From the lecture halls of Cambridge University to the dazzling lights of global cinema, A Journey from Cambridge to Hollywood traces the extraordinary path of one of Britain’s most beloved and outspoken actresses—Miriam Margolyes. This compelling biography delves into the remarkable evolution of...
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John Cottingham
The Cambridge Companion to Descartes (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy)
Descartes occupies a position of piviotal importance as one of the founding fathers of modern philosophy; he is, perhaps the most widely studied of all philosophers. In this authoritative collection an international team of leading scholars in Cartesian studies present the full range of Descartes' e...
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Michael N. Forster
The Cambridge Companion to Hermeneutics (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy)
Hermeneutics, the study of interpretation, is an essential and valuable branch of philosophy. Hermeneutics is also a central component of the methodology of the social sciences and the humanities, for example historiography, anthropology, art history, and literary criticism. In a sequence of accessi...
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Daniel Ogden
The Cambridge Companion to Alexander the Great (Cambridge Companions to the Ancient World)
Has any ancient figure captivated the imagination of people over the centuries so much as Alexander the Great? In less than a decade he created an empire stretching across much of the Near East as far as India, which led to Greek culture becoming dominant in much of this region for a millennium. Her...
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Christopher Hogwood
Handel: Water Music and Music for the Royal Fireworks (Cambridge Music Handbooks)
This Handbook covers Handel's best known public music, the Water Music, written at the outset of his English career, and the Music for the Royal Fireworks, the last and largest of his orchestral creations. The genesis of the two orchestral suites is examined in its political as well as musical conte...
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Philip McCosker
The Cambridge Companion to the Summa Theologiae (Cambridge Companions to Religion)
Arguably the most influential work of systematic theology in the history of Christianity, Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologiae has shaped all subsequent theology since it was written in the late thirteenth century. This Companion features essays from both specialists in Aquinas' thought and from constru...
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Tom Stern
The New Cambridge Companion to Nietzsche (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy)
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) remains one of the most challenging, influential and controversial figures in the history of philosophy. The New Cambridge Companion to Nietzsche provides a comprehensive and up-to-date guide to his most difficult ideas, including the will to power and the affirmati...
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Ben Etherington
The Cambridge Companion to World Literature
The Cambridge Companion to World Literature introduces the significant ideas and practices of world literary studies. It provides a lucid and accessible account of the fundamental issues and concepts in world literature, including the problems of imagining the totality of literature; comparing liter...
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Paul J. Hopper
Grammaticalization (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics)
Grammaticalization refers to the change whereby lexical terms and constructions serve grammatical functions in certain linguistic contexts and, once grammaticalized, continue to develop new grammatical functions. Paul Hopper and Elizabeth Traugott synthesize research from several areas of linguistic...
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Susan J. Wolfson
The Cambridge Companion to Keats (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
In The Cambridge Companion to Keats, leading scholars discuss Keats's work in several fascinating contexts: literary history and key predecessors; Keats's life in London's intellectual, aesthetic and literary culture and the relation of his poetry to the visual arts. These specially commissioned ess...
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Simon Franklin
The New Cambridge History of Russian Literature
This is the essential new guide to Russian literature, combining authority and innovation in coverage ranging from medieval manuscripts to the internet and social media. With contributions from thirty-four world-leading scholars, it offers a fresh approach to literary history, not as one integral na...
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James N. Loehlin
The Cambridge Introduction to Chekhov (Cambridge Introductions to Literature)
Chekhov is widely acknowledged as one of the most influential literary figures of modern times. Russia's preeminent playwright, he played a significant role in revolutionizing the modern theatre. His impact on prose fiction writing is incalculable: he helped define the modern short story. Beginning ...
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Sharon Lamb
The Cambridge Handbook of Sexual Development: Childhood and Adolescence (Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology)
The Cambridge Handbook of Sexual Development is a carefully curated conversation that brings together the top researchers in child and adolescent sexual development to redefine the issues, conflicts, and debates in the field. The Handbook is organized around three foundational questions: first, what...
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David Bagchi
The Cambridge Companion to Reformation Theology (Cambridge Companions to Religion)
Each chapter in this Companion includes an up-to-date account and analysis of the thought associated with a major Reformation theology figure or movement. The book also focuses on lesser reformers such as Martin Bucer, and on the Catholic and Radical Reformations, as well as the major Protestant ref...
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Alison I. Beach
The Cambridge History of Medieval Monasticism in the Latin West 2 Volume Hardback Set
Monasticism, in all of its variations, was a feature of almost every landscape in the medieval West. So ubiquitous were religious women and men throughout the Middle Ages that all medievalists encounter monasticism in their intellectual worlds. While there is enormous interest in medieval monasticis...
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José Antonio Bowen
The Cambridge Companion to Conducting (Cambridge Companions to Music)
Written by many working conductors, this book considers all facets of musical conducting. It includes practical advice on how to conduct different groups (choral, opera, symphony, early music) and a history of conducting presented as a study of national traditions. Designed for the lay reader who wa...
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Adrian Kelly
Homer: Iliad Book XXIII (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics)
Book XXIII of the Iliad deals with the Funeral Games of Patroclus, whose death Achilles has avenged in Book XXII with his slaying of Hector. It provides a crucial element to the closure of Homer's epic, encapsulating its narrative and prominent themes, preparing the audience for the future of the st...
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Sacha Golob
The Cambridge History of Moral Philosophy
With fifty-four chapters charting the development of moral philosophy in the Western world, this volume examines the key thinkers and texts and their influence on the history of moral thought from the pre-Socratics to the present day. Topics including Epicureanism, humanism, Jewish and Arabic though...
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Thomas Faulkner
Law and Authority in the Early Middle Ages (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series, Series Number 104)
The barbarian law codes, compiled between the sixth and eighth centuries, were copied remarkably frequently in the Carolingian ninth century. They provide crucial evidence for early medieval society, including the settlement of disputes, the nature of political authority, literacy, and the construct...
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Apollonius of Rhodes
Apollonius of Rhodes: Argonautica Book IV (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics)
Apollonius' epic, the Argonautica, is not just a masterpiece of Hellenistic poetry drawing on the entire tradition of previous Greek literature, but was enormously influential on Latin epic, especially Virgil's Aeneid. Book IV tells the story of the Argonauts' return to Greece with the Golden Fleece...
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