Questa istituzione è rinomata per la sua lunga storia e l'eccellenza accademica. Si pone come uno dei più antichi e prestigiosi istituti educativi nel mondo anglofono. Molti dei suoi exallievi hanno raggiunto notevoli distinzioni in vari campi, incluse numerose lauree Nobel. Insieme alla sua controparte storica, rappresenta spesso l'apice dell'istruzione superiore britannica.
For social psychologists and students, this collection of first-person accounts from the field's pioneers and leaders - such as Elliot Aronson, Ellen Berscheid, Robert Cialdini, Susan Fiske, Claude Steele, Rupert Brown and Shinobu Kitayama - offers their riveting stories previously untold, reflections on the past, and predictions about the future.
This series contains poetry and prose anthologies composed of writers from across the English-speaking world.
This book, first published in 2005, explores the whole range of black African experience and representation across Renaissance Europe. It offers an interdisciplinary guide to the variety and complexity of black African life in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Europe, and how it was affected by Renaissance ideas and conditions.
This 2004 volume is an accessible introduction to Rossellini's Rome Open City.
This book is the perfect starting point for those who want to read their way through New Orleans, for it orchestrates all of the most important writing of five different parts of town, both historic and contemporary, as well as the recent writing of its flood-prone outskirts.
The unique conspiracy group called QAnon is growing in both membership and political power, and understanding this phenomenon is key to combating QAnon's negative effects on society. This book uses social science theory to explain the attraction and spread of the defining conspiracy movement of our times.
Joseph Ratzinger, later Pope Benedict XVI, fundamentally shaped Christian theology in the 20th and early 21st centuries. This book surveys the major themes and topics that Ratzinger explored, and highlights aspects of the ideas that he developed in his engagement with a wide variety of intellectual and religious currents.
Trump has used words to fragment and scandalize the world. This accessible book offers a fascinating insight into Trump's presidency, by investigating and illuminating various distinctive features of his discourse. Using many real-life examples, it is an ideal introduction to the interplay of language and politics for non-specialists.
Sappho, the earliest and most famous Greek woman poet, sang her songs about love, friendship, rivalry, and family around 600 BCE on the island of Lesbos. Everything that survives - substantial poems and fragments, including three recently discovered poems - is here presented in a graceful modern translation, together with professional recordings.
Leading scholars examine the increasingly interconnected history of humankind since 1750 in terms of structures, processes, regions, and events.