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This book brings together the highly scattered and diverse global literature on pure and applied aspects of temporary waters and their biotas, it examines their roles in both natural and human environments, and seeks common evolutionary themes. It will be of particular interest to aquatic ecologists, invertebrate and vertebrate biologists,...

John Maynard Keynes was one of the most influential economists of the twentieth        century. His ideas have had a central influence on many of areas of economics used        today, both in theory and practice. In this Very Short Introduction Lord Robert        Skidelsky looks at Keynes's life, his philosophy, his theories, and the legacy...

Volume III: The Nineteenth CenturyThe Oxford History of the British Empire is a major new assessment of the Empire in the light of recent scholarship and the progressive opening of historical records. Volume III covers the long nineteenth century, from the achievement of American independence in the 1780s to the eve of world war in 1914. This was...

ReissueA stylish reissue of Roger Lonsdale's widely praised anthology of 18th-century poetry: no previous anthology has succeeded in illustrating so thoroughly the kinds of verse actually written in the eighteenth century....

From the rapid expansion of fundamentalist forms of Christianity, with their focus on the end times; to the proliferation of apocalyptic new religious movements; to the recent (and very public) debates about suicide, euthanasia, martyrdom, and paradise in Islam, interest in eschatology is once again dramatically on the rise. This expansive handbook...