This captivating work charts the history of Tasmania from the arrival of European maritime expeditions in the late eighteenth century, through to the modern day. By presenting the perspectives of…

Relax into the heady mix of central European style and Mediterranean easy living that is modern Croatia. Cadogan’s expert author describes the very best of the country’s spectacular coastal villages…

This commentary records, through notes taken by Hermias, Syrianus’ seminar on Plato’s Phaedrus, one of the world’s most influential celebrations of erotic beauty and love. It is the only Neoplatonic…

The Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 includes over 20,000 analytical, theoretical and practical works on American and British Law. It includes the writings of major legal theorists…

Buddhism is widely known to advocate a stance of total pacifism towards all sentient beings, and because of this, it is often thought that Buddhist doctrine would stipulate that non-violent…

Anna Johnston argues that missionaries occupied ambiguous positions in colonial cultures, caught between imperial and religious interests. She examines texts from Indian and Australian missions to highlight their representation of…

This captivating work charts the history of Tasmania from the arrival of European maritime expeditions in the late eighteenth century, through to the modern day. By presenting the perspectives of…

Using ideas from complexity theory, and its application in the areas of ecology, sociology and economics, this book shows just how complex the idea of achieving sustainability is, when applied…