The papers in this volume are arranged chronologically for optimum coherence of the development of Russell's thinking and are divided into five main sections:* Personal statements* Religion and Philosophy* Religion and Science* Religion and ...

Written in a detailed and fascinating manner, this book is ideal for general readers interested in the English language.

New collection of literary-critical essays and reviews of C. S. Lewis, including previously unpublished and long-unavailable works.

This volume includes over twenty of C. S. Lewis's most important literary essays, written between 1932 and 1962.

A thorough review of the worldwide problem of language endangerment and death.

Tackles one of the most enduring and contentious issues of positive political economy: common pool resource management.

A fascinating study of the important role of biology in European expansion, from 900 to 1900.

He argues that 'good reading', like moral action or religious experience, involves surrender to the work in hand and a process of entering fully into the opinions of others: 'in reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet ...

They offer a fascinating fragmentary account of his life as a background to his scientific writings, making this volume a valuable additon to the shelves of scientist and layman alike."

This book explores examples of this process of invention - the creation of Welsh and Scottish 'national culture'; the elaboration of British royal rituals in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; the origins of imperial rituals in British ...