A noted Russian sinologue, Iulian Shchutskii tried to find out how the I China was put together and what the terms meant when they were written. Accordingly, he goes back…

In MacDonald’s novels, the Christian teaching emerges out of the characters and story line, the narrator’s comments, and inclusion of sermons given by the fictional preachers. These sermons in the…

Pioneers in life writing, Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley are now widely regarded as two of the leading writers of the Romantic period. This volume brings together essays on Wollstonecraft’s…

A comprehensive compendium of basic biochemical information, the convenient easy-to-use format of this revised edition includes physical and chemical data on proteins, lipids, vitamins, nucleic acids and carbohydrates. New sections…

Drawing on philosophy, theology and psychoanalysis as well as on literary criticism, this collection of essays explores a range of fantasy texts with particular attention to the various ways in…

Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) remains a vibrant area of research in statistics, with many new applications appearing since publication of the first edition.

This interdisciplinary volume traces continuities and transformations in attitudes toward, ideas about, and experiences of religion and the senses in the pre-modern era. Spanning a broad temporal and geographic range…

The international conference held in Limerick, Ireland, in May 2005 produced far more than the usual collection of loosely related papers. Rather, this volume from the 17 contributors demarcates and…