Disappointment and recovery occur frequently in life, as does irritation regarding one’s financial or economic state compared with others. Incentive relativity is the study of this phenomenon, and this is…

This book examines the literature of the Romantic period as a conscious attempt to effect the religious transformation of society. Robert Ryan explores the Romantics’ participation in the public debate…

In states with weak institutions and strong ethno-regional challengers, consolidating politically by developing a strategic rural coalition is the necessary first step towards state building, economic development, and democratization. Through…

In Spinoza’s metaphysics there is only one substance, God or nature. Martin Lin offers a new interpretation, arguing against idealist readings where the metaphysical is grounded in something epistemic, logical…

The adaptive landscape concept allows the user to view an organism’s evolutionary trajectory through time, as a journey through the landscape driven by natural selection, and genetic morphological and developmental…

This magisterial work is the first comprehensive study of the ethics of killing, where the moral status of the individual killed is uncertain. Drawing on philosophical notions of personal identity…

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This study explores the relationship between the language of seventeenth century British poets and the music of composers who were their contemporaries. McColley combines close readings of particular poems and…