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The Book of India's Folk WisdomThe Pa--ntilde--;catantra is the most famous collection of fables in India and was one of the earliest Indian books to be translated into Western languages. It teaches the principles of good government and public policy through the medium of animal stories, providing a window onto ancient Indian society.This new...

Political and social change during Woolf's lifetime led her to address the role of the state and the individual. Michael H. Whitworth shows how ideas and images from contemporary novelists, philosophers, theorists, and scientists fuelled her writing, and how critics, film-makers, and novelists have reinterpreted her work for later generations....

An exploration of G.K. Chesterton's imaginative and spiritual development, from his early childhood in the 1870s to his intellectual maturity in the first decade of the twentieth century. William Oddie draws extensively on Chesterton's unpublished letters and notebooks, his journalism, and his early classic writings....

The Hegel Lectures SeriesSeries Editor: Peter C. HodgsonHegel's lectures have had        as great a historical impact as the works he himself published. Important elements        of his system are elaborated only in the lectures, especially those given in Berlin        during the last decade of his life. The original editors conflated materials...

The history of tuberculosisThe story of tuberculosis is a rich and fascinating one. It is a complex and ancient disease that, after many years of virtual disappearance in the developed world, is now making something of a comeback. Helen Bynum tracks the historical development of the disease, and considers the challenges it presents to the modern...

Ben Jonson was the greatest of Shakespeare's contemporaries. In the century        following his death he was seen by many as the finest of all English writers, living        or dead. His fame rested not only on the numerous plays he had written for the        theatre, but on his achievements over three decades as principal masque-writer...