Cambridge University Press imprint: 13220 books

by Vladimir V. Mitin, Viacheslav A. Kochelap, Mitra Dutta
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2019

Get to grips with the fundamental optical and optoelectronic properties of nanostructures. This comprehensive guide makes a wide variety of modern topics accessible, and includes up-to-date material on the optical properties of monolayer crystals, plasmonics, nanophotonics, UV quantum well lasers,...
by George G. Brownlee
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014

Considered 'the father of genomics', Fred Sanger (1918–2013) paved the way for the modern revolution in our understanding of biology. His pioneering methods for sequencing proteins, RNA and, eventually, DNA earned him two Nobel Prizes. He remains one of only four scientists (and the only British...
by Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research at Harvard University
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013

The HPCR Manual on International Law Applicable to Air and Missile Warfare provides an up-to-date restatement of existing international law applicable to the conduct of air and missile warfare. The HPCR Manual and its associated rule-by-rule Commentary are the results of a six-year endeavor led by...

Discourse Analysis and Media Attitudes

The Representation of Islam in the British Press

by Paul Baker, Costas Gabrielatos, Tony McEnery
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013

Is the British press prejudiced against Muslims? In what ways can prejudice be explicit or subtle? This book uses a detailed analysis of over 140 million words of newspaper articles on Muslims and Islam, combining corpus linguistics and discourse analysis methods to produce an objective picture of...

Justices and Journalists

The Global Perspective

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Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017

A key intermediary between courts and the public are the journalists who monitor the actions of justices and report their decisions, pronouncements, and proclivities. Justices and Journalists: The Global Perspective is the first volume of its kind - a comparative analysis of the relationship between...
by Elizabeth L. Eisenstein
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 1980

Originally published in two volumes in 1980, The Printing Press as an Agent of Change is now issued in a paperback edition containing both volumes. The work is a full-scale historical treatment of the advent of printing and its importance as an agent of change. Professor Eisenstein begins by examining...

Before George Eliot

Marian Evans and the Periodical Press

by Fionnuala Dillane
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013

Fionnuala Dillane revisits the first decade of Marian Evans's working life to explore the influence of the periodical press on her emergence as George Eliot and on her subsequent responses to fame. This interdisciplinary study discusses the significance of Evans's work as a journalist, editor and...

Building Chicago Economics

New Perspectives on the History of America's Most Powerful Economics Program

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Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2011

Over the past forty years, economists associated with the University of Chicago have won more than one-third of the Nobel prizes awarded in their discipline and have been major influences on American public policy. Building Chicago Economics presents the first collective attempt by social science...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2009

Why study music? How much practical use is it in the modern world? This introduction proves how studying music is of great value both in its own terms and also in the post-university careers marketplace. The book explains the basic concepts and issues involved in the academic study of music, draws...
by Joint Association of Classical Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012

First published in 1978 and now thoroughly revised, Reading Greek is a best-selling one-year introductory course in ancient Greek for students of any age. It combines the best of modern and traditional language-learning techniques and is used in schools, summer schools and universities across the...

Institutional Slavery

Slaveholding Churches, Schools, Colleges, and Businesses in Virginia, 1680–1860

by Jennifer Oast
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016

The traditional image of slavery begins with a master and a slave. However, not all slaves had traditional masters; some were owned instead by institutions, such as church congregations, schools, colleges, and businesses. This practice was pervasive in early Virginia; its educational, religious, and...

The Science of Language

Interviews with James McGilvray

by Noam Chomsky, James McGilvray
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012

Noam Chomsky is one of the most influential thinkers of our time, yet his views are often misunderstood. In this previously unpublished series of interviews, Chomsky discusses his iconoclastic and important ideas concerning language, human nature and politics. In dialogue with James McGilvray, Professor...
by David L. Marshall
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2010

Considered the most original thinker in the Italian philosophical tradition, Giambattista Vico has been the object of much scholarly attention but little consensus. In this new interpretation, David L. Marshall examines the entirety of Vico's oeuvre and situates him in the political context of early...
by Manfred Kuehn
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2001

This is the first full-length biography in more than fifty years of Immanuel Kant, one of the giants amongst the pantheon of Western philosophers as well as the one with the most powerful and broad influence on contemporary philosophy. It is well known that Kant spent his entire life in an isolated...
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