This book explores the increasingly coordinated effort that is underway in botanic gardens around the world to find and apply the best methods of halting the steady erosion of plant diversity and saving wild plant species from extinction.

This book, first published in 2000 is a vivid and accurate rendition of Plato's classic work of political thought.

Designed to make poetry in English accessible to upper-intermediate and more advanced students.

A revisionist 1999 account of the career of Elizabeth I's 'favourite', the 2nd Earl of Essex.

A new introduction surveys the considerable literature in linguistics, psychology and social sciences that the original essay on the phenomenon of politeness stimulated.

This book questions the effectiveness and legitimacy of rights-based judicial review by constitutional courts.

This book provides an in-depth analysis of seventeenth-century Irish political thought and culture.

Exploring early modern concepts of honour, this book brings a cultural perspective to our understanding of English imperialism in Ireland.