Deze instelling staat bekend om zijn lange geschiedenis en academische excellentie. Het is een van de oudste en meest prestigieuze onderwijsinstellingen in de Engelssprekende wereld. Veel van zijn alumni hebben aanzienlijke onderscheidingen behaald op diverse gebieden, waaronder talrijke Nobelprijswinnaars. Samen met zijn historische tegenhanger vertegenwoordigt het vaak het hoogtepunt van het Britse hoger onderwijs.
For social psychologists and students, this collection of first-person accounts from the field's pioneers and leaders - such as Elliot Aronson, Ellen Berscheid, Robert Cialdini, Susan Fiske, Claude Steele, Rupert Brown and Shinobu Kitayama - offers their riveting stories previously untold, reflections on the past, and predictions about the future.
This book, first published in 2005, explores the whole range of black African experience and representation across Renaissance Europe. It offers an interdisciplinary guide to the variety and complexity of black African life in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Europe, and how it was affected by Renaissance ideas and conditions.
This 2004 volume is an accessible introduction to Rossellini's Rome Open City.
The unique conspiracy group called QAnon is growing in both membership and political power, and understanding this phenomenon is key to combating QAnon's negative effects on society. This book uses social science theory to explain the attraction and spread of the defining conspiracy movement of our times.
Trump has used words to fragment and scandalize the world. This accessible book offers a fascinating insight into Trump's presidency, by investigating and illuminating various distinctive features of his discourse. Using many real-life examples, it is an ideal introduction to the interplay of language and politics for non-specialists.
Sappho, the earliest and most famous Greek woman poet, sang her songs about love, friendship, rivalry, and family around 600 BCE on the island of Lesbos. Everything that survives - substantial poems and fragments, including three recently discovered poems - is here presented in a graceful modern translation, together with professional recordings.
Leading scholars examine the increasingly interconnected history of humankind since 1750 in terms of structures, processes, regions, and events.
This updated Companion has been fully revised and includes an extensively overhauled bibliography and four new chapters by leading scholars.
A comprehensive view which bridges the gap between scholarly and popular images of Mozart.
The sixth volume of The New Cambridge Medieval History offers an authoritative synthesis of the major themes in European fourteenth-century history, providing a wide-ranging account of a period of major social, political and cultural change, punctuated by the greatest natural disaster experienced by mankind, the Black Death.
