The Palgrave Macmillan Dictionary of Women's Biography contains essential details of the lives of over 2100 women from all periods, cultures and walks of life--from queens to cooks, engineers to entertainers, pilots to poisoners. In addition to new entries covering the past five years, the historical coverage has also been broadened in response to new research, as has coverage of women from Third World countries. With subsections for further reading, a comprehensive subject index and bibliographical survey, the Dictionary of Women's Biography is an invaluable reference source, priced for every woman's bookshelf.

This book is an unrivalled indictment of the banality of mass culture - Adorno's finest essays are collected here, offering the reader unparalleled insights into Adorno's thoughts on culture.

Modernity in Spanish America has been viewed by a 'postmodern' cultural studies as a condition of the first half of the twentieth century whose major political, philosophical and cultural assumptions the region would do well to leave behind. This book explores a corpus of Spanish-American literary texts from that 'modern' period which dramatize the constitutive dynamics of modernity, in particular the legacy of the French Revolution, the logic of nationalism, the founding of the modern city, and the awkward relationship to both Western and indigenous traditions. Its argument is that one cannot so easily take leave of modernity.

The Student Life Handbook is a comprehensive guide that looks at every aspect of student life from the perspective of new undergraduates. It outlines what to expect, offers information and practical advice on how to meet the challenges, and suggests strategies to ease lifestyle problems and optimise opportunities and resources. Drawing on the experiences of over 160 students from all over the United Kingdom, this book presents an extensive exposition of contemporary student life.

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Roger Scruton's "Dictionary of Political Thought" has been widely acclaimed as a profound and incisive guide to political ideas. This new edition takes stock of the revolutionary political changes that have taken place since the dictionary was first published in 1982, bringing the dictionary right up to date. Some 1790 entries cover every aspect of political thought, defining concepts and ideologies, surveying the arguments on issues, giving capsule histories of political institutions, and summarizing (with newly expanded treatment) the thought of major political theorists.

The dictionary provides a readable and impartial survey of political thought, of immense value to students of political science, government, philosophy and jurisprudence as well as to the general reader with an interest in ideas. It is an indispensable guide to the thought, the wisdom and the folly of modern politics by one of the most lucid philosophers of our time.

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This first volume in the new "Palgrave Literary Dictionaries" series aims to provide readers with a convenient source of reliable, scholarly, and accessible information on Chaucer's work, life, and times. It consists mainly of alphabetical entries, ranging in length from 10 to 3,000 words. These cover topics and issues, including Chaucer's works, major fictional characters, historical, social, and political contexts, writers who influenced Chaucer or were influenced by him, people and places of significance in Chaucer's life, genres and traditions, manuscripts, editions, scholars and editors.

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'One of the most important documents of the twentieth century.' - Peter Medawar, New Scientist 'One of the most important philosophical works of our century.' - Richard Wollheim, Observer 'One cannot help feeling that, if it had been translated as soon as it had been originally published, philosophy in this country might have been saved some detours. Professor Popper's thesis has that quality of greatness that, once seen, it appears simple and almost obvious.' - Times Literary Supplement

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'He was unfathomably profound... the genius among geniuses who discovered, merely by thinking about it, that the universe was not as it seemed.' - Time - 'Einstein's little book serves as an excellent tying together of loose ends and as a broad survey of the subject.' - Physics Today - '[Einstein], far more than any other single person, is responsible for the way we think nowadays about material things.' - The Times Literary Supplement -