Collection: Reference

Published in 1928, Volume VII of the Cambridge Ancient History orginally covered both the history of the Hellenistic world from the battle of Ipsus in 301 BC down to the Peace of Naupactus and the battle of Raphia in 217 BC and the history of Rome from its foundation down to the same date. In the...

Philosophy written in Arabic and the Islamic world represents one of the great traditions of Western philosophy. Isspired by Greek philosophical works and the indigenous ideas of Islamic theology.

Miller is regarded as one of the most important playwrights of the 20th century, and his work continues to be widely performed & studied around the world. This edition contains a detailed chronology of the work of this influential dramatist

This book introduces in a lively and succinct way the major writers, literary movements, styles and genres that, at the beginning of a new century, are seen as constituting the field of "Australian literature". The book consciously takes a perspective that sees literary works not as aesthetic obj...

Celebrates the extraordinary riches of the 20th century operatic repertoire in a collection of specially commissioned essays written by a team of academics, critics and practitioners. Beginning with a discussion of the century's vital inheritance....