Social Sciences

P. Ovidius Naso, Heroides 1 to 8

By: J. B. Hall, A. L. Ritchie, Michael Edwards

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Ovid's Heroides gives voice to mythical heroines in letters to their absent lovers. This groundbreaking volume offers the first-ever databank of medieval readings and modern conjectures, an essential resource for understanding how the poems' texts were established.

Ovid’s Heroides gives voice to mythical heroines in letters to their absent lovers. This groundbreaking volume offers the first-ever databank of medieval readings and modern conjectures, an essential resource for understanding how the poems’ texts were established.

P. Ovidius Naso, Heroides 16 to 21

By: J. B. Hall, A. L. Ritchie, Michael Edwards

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Ovid's Heroides, or Letters of Heroines, is a collection of fictional letters from heroines to their absent lovers. This volume offers an essential databank for the final six poems: the three pairs of letters. It is arranged as an enlarged critical apparatus for the text.

Ovid’s Heroides, or Letters of Heroines, is a collection of fictional letters from heroines to their absent lovers. This volume offers an essential databank for the final six poems: the three pairs of letters. It is arranged as an enlarged critical apparatus for the text.

P. Ovidius Naso, Heroides 9 to 15

By: J. B. Hall, A. L. Ritchie, Michael Edwards

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Ovid's Heroides are fictional letters from heroines to their absent lovers. This unique volume presents a comprehensive collection of all medieval and renaissance manuscript readings for poems 9-15, vital for understanding how the established text was created.

Ovid’s Heroides are fictional letters from heroines to their absent lovers. This unique volume presents a comprehensive collection of all medieval and renaissance manuscript readings for poems 9-15, vital for understanding how the established text was created.

P. Ovidius Naso, The Heroides

Text and Translation

By: J. B. Hall, A. L. Ritchie, Michael Edwards

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Ovid's Heroides is a collection of fictional letters from heroines to their absent lovers. This volume presents a radically new text and translation of the collection, separating the original core from later accretions. The translation is designed to aid interpretation.

Ovid’s Heroides is a collection of fictional letters from heroines to their absent lovers. This volume presents a radically new text and translation of the collection, separating the original core from later accretions. The translation is designed to aid interpretation.

P. Papinius Statius

Thebaid and Achilleid Volume III

By: A. L. Ritchie, Mike J. Edwards

£49.99

Volume III on Statius' Thebaid and Achilleid is divided into two parts. The first discusses the textual transmission, manuscripts, and editions. The second part comprises a secondary apparatus with further evidence and all unrecorded conjectures.

Volume III on Statius’ Thebaid and Achilleid is divided into two parts. The first discusses the textual transmission, manuscripts, and editions. The second part comprises a secondary apparatus with further evidence and all unrecorded conjectures.

P. Papinius Statius Volume I

Thebaid and Achilleid

By: A. L. Ritchie, Mike J. Edwards

£39.99

This three-volume work offers a revised text, prose translation, and extensive secondary apparatus for the two epics of Statius: his magnum opus, the Thebaid, and the unfinished Achilleid.

P. Papinius Statius Volume II

Thebaid and Achilleid

By: A. L. Ritchie, J. B. Hall

£39.99

This three-volume work offers a revised text, prose translation, and extensive commentary for the two epics of Statius: his magnum opus, the Thebaid, and the Achilleid, which was left unfinished at his death.

P. Papinius Statius Volume IV

Siluae

Edited By: Mike J. Edwards, J. B. Hall, A. L. Ritchie

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The Siluae of Statius are five books of occasional poems written for rich patrons. This volume presents the text with a facing translation, an introduction to the transmission of the text, and a bibliography of relevant secondary literature.

P. Papinius Statius Volume V

Siluae, Readings and Conjectures

Edited By: Mike J. Edwards, J. B. Hall

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The first-century AD poet Statius wrote epics and the Siluae, a collection of occasional poems. This volume provides a comprehensive conspectus of manuscript readings of the Siluae, with a complete register of conjectures by modern scholars.

Paedophilia and Child Sexual Abuse in Drama and Theatre

By: Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe, Amanda M. Young-Hauser

£58.99

A hazy cloud of facts and fiction surrounds paedophilia and its relation to Child Sexual Abuse. This book analyzes their depiction in contemporary British and American drama, illustrating the ambiguity of the topic and asking difficult questions.

Pagan Mysticism

Paganism as a World Religion

By: Michael York

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How do the world’s religions understand the mystical, and how does paganism offer something different? This volume explores the re-emergence of pagan thought, a nature-based spirituality that challenges the obsolete and unlocks new forms of transpersonal emancipation.

Paganism and Its Discontents

Enduring Problems of Racialized Identity

Edited By: Holli S. Emore, Jonathan M. Leader

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While some use Norse spirituality to promote racist ideologies, many contemporary Heathens reject this thinking. This book delineates between two communities using shared symbols for widely different purposes to help mitigate the rising tide of hate and racialized identity.

Pageants and Processions

Images and Idiom as Spectacle

Edited By: Herman du Toit

£39.99

Before beauty contests, pageants were spectacles of social, religious, and political power. This anthology reveals the global history of pageantry across centuries and cultures, exploring its purpose as a powerful civic tool.

Painting, Photography, and the Digital

Crossing the Borders of the Mediums

Edited By: Carl Robinson

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This anthology investigates the interconnections between painting, photography, and the digital. Featuring acclaimed artists, it offers unique insights into medium cross-over—from painted virtual reality worlds to digital collage—questioning the position of traditional genres.

PaintingDigitalPhotography

Synthesis and Difference in the Age of Media Equivalence

Edited By: Carl Robinson

£64.99

This publication investigates aspects of interconnectivity between painting, the digital and photography in contemporary art practices. It contributes to discourses around networks of associations by examining where syntheses occur, and differences remain, between these media.

Paisleyism and Civil Rights

An Ambassador Unchained

By: Richard Lawrence Jordan

£61.99

This book examines Ian Paisley’s opposition to the Northern Ireland civil rights movement. It reveals how his ties to North American militant fundamentalists shaped his counter-demonstrations and helped create the atmosphere for sectarian strife and the “Troubles.”

Pakistan after Trump

Great Power Responsibility in a Multi-Polar World

By: Saloni Kapur

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This book questions the dominant narrative of Pakistan as a "safe haven" for terrorists. It shows how great powers—the US, China, India, and others—directly caused the militant ecosystem in Pakistan, a country whose people have borne the brunt of terrorist violence.

This book questions the dominant narrative of Pakistan as a “safe haven” for terrorists. It shows how great powers—the US, China, India, and others—directly caused the militant ecosystem in Pakistan, a country whose people have borne the brunt of terrorist violence.

Palaeoart of the Ice Age

By: Robert G. Bednarik

£61.99

In the first book to offer a comprehensive synthesis of the known Pleistocene palaeoart of six continents, Bednarik contemplates the origins of art in a balanced manner, based on reality rather than fantasies about cultural primacy.

Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Sailors in the Aegean and the Near East

By: Adamantios Sampson

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Challenging theories of mass migration, this book shows that Mesolithic hunter-gatherers used a dense maritime network to transfer domesticated species from the East. Based on 25 years of excavations, it reveals how these Aegean populations drove the Neolithisation process.

Palestine Membership in the United Nations

Legal and Practical Implications

Edited By: Mutaz Qafisheh

£54.99

Leading scholars explore the legal and political aspects of Palestine’s UN membership as a State. This collection goes beyond statehood to consider prospects for resolving one of history's longest conflicts as the two-State solution seems to be failing.

Leading scholars explore the legal and political aspects of Palestine’s UN membership as a State. This collection goes beyond statehood to consider prospects for resolving one of history’s longest conflicts as the two-State solution seems to be failing.

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