'Ich shoppe also bin ich ...' - so fasst Zygmunt Baumann den Wandel unserer Gesellschaft zusammen...

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Punishment was an integral element of the Roman justice system and as controversial as it is toda...

Discusses how new ways of thinking about language have uncovered previously 'legitimated' linguis...

First published in 1994. The study of women in the societies of antiquity has assumed a fresh sig...

Classic case studies surveying the use, role and function of language and speech in social life.

This will be essential reading for all who have an interest in Mozart's operas, whether as studen...

Based on a corpus of Texan oral narratives collected by the author over the past fifteen years, t...

Unlike most works in constitutional theory, which focus on the role of the courts, this book addr...

Amid the spiritual and intellectual turmoil of seventeenth-century England, the Quakers emerged a...

Political Trials in Ancient Greece, first published in 1990, explores the relationships between h...