A modern type of sociological analysis has been applied to the rich ethnographical material of northern Southeast Asia. It constitutes an outstanding developmen...
The main body of the book is concerned with the theme that empirical political behaviour among the Kachin is a compromise response to the polarised political do...
A collection of brilliant and provocative essays from Edmund Leach, one of the most original voices in the social anthropological tradition....
byG. Lloyd
G. E. R. Lloyd also investigates the relationships between science and philosophy and science and medicine; he discusses the social and economic setting of earl...
by G.E.R. Lloyd
Is rationality a well-defined human universal such that ideas and behaviour can everywhere be judged by a single set of criteria? Or are the rational and the ir...
by G.E.R. Lloyd
From the 90 or so articles he has published in the last two decades Professor Lloyd has chosen fifteen of the most important and influential to be reprinted in ...
byJingyi Zhao,Qiaosheng Dong,G. Lloyd
Ancient Greece and China Compared is a pioneering, methodologically sophisticated set of studies, bringing together scholars who all share the conviction that t...
This authors of this useful handbook, originally published in 1985, not only summarise Mark Twain scholarship, but also evaluate, in much detail, the various co...
byJ. R. LeMaster,Donald Kummings
The Routledge Encyclopedia of Walt Whitman presents a comprehensive resource complied by over 200 internationally recognized contributors, including such leadin...
byJ. R. LeMaster,James Wilson,Christie Hamric
"A model reference work that can be used with profit and delight by general readers as well as by more advanced students of Twain. Highly recommended." - Librar...
Dr. Leach answers these pertinent questions: Is the Bible really true? Where did the Bible come from? Has our Bible suffered change through the years? When we...
Dr. Leach answers these pertinent questions: Is the Bible really true? Where did the Bible come from? Has our Bible suffered change through the years? When we...
Western philosophy and science are responsible for constructing some powerful tools of investigation, aiming at discovering the truth, delivering robust explana...
An insightful, revelatory and heartfelt narrative that bring out various unknown facets of the ‘world teacher’– J. Krishnamurti – and highlights his dis...
byL. A. Clarke,R J Cope,R. J. Cope
Although the beginning of man's ability to predict the behaviour of slabs dates from the Napoleonic era, analysis and design of reinforced concrete slabs are st...