Challenges those scholars and popular writers who advance the thesis that societies - past and present - collapse because of behavior that destroyed their environments or because of overpopulation.

Dobranski provides fresh insight into Renaissance constructions of authorship.

A systematic, carefully reasoned, but non-technical analysis of the nature and significance of scientific knowledge.

Reflects the diversity of research in the increasingly popular field of recorded music, including chapters on jazz, composition and ethnomusicology.

This text introduces techniques for teachers to explore their classroom experiences and for critical reflection on teaching practices.

This book revisits the idea of a 'Feudal Revolution' in Europe between 800 and 1100, examining the causes of profound socio-economic change.

Explores the production of John Foxe's 'Book of Martyrs', a milestone in the history of the English book.

Comprises several studies, some formerly published as articles, which touch upon the most important features of Scotland's religious life in the seventeenth century.