The Cambridge Companion to the Scottish Enlightenment offers aphilosophical perspective on an eighteenth-century movement thathas been profoundly influential on western culture. A distinguishedteam of contributors examines the writings of David Hume, AdamSmith, Thomas Reid, Adam Ferguson, Colin Maclaurin and otherScottish thinkers, in fields including philosophy, naturaltheology, economics, anthropology, natural science and law. Inaddition, the contributors relate the Scottish Enlightenment to itshistorical context and assess its impact and legacy in Europe,America and beyond. The result is a comprehensive and accessiblevolume that illuminates the richness, the intellectual variety andthe underlying unity of this important movement. It will be ofinterest to a wide range of readers in philosophy, theology,literature and the history of ideas.

The Greek and Roman novels of Petronius, Apuleius, Longus,Heliodorus and others have been cherished for millennia, but nevermore so than now. The Cambridge Companion to the Greek and RomanNovel contains nineteen original essays by an international cast ofexperts in the field. The emphasis is upon the criticalinterpretation of the texts within historical settings, both inantiquity and in the later generations that have been and continueto be inspired by them. All the central issues of currentscholarship are addressed: sexuality, cultural identity, class,religion, politics, narrative, style, readership and much more.Four sections cover cultural context of the novels, their contents,literary form, and their reception in classical antiquity andbeyond. Each chapter includes guidance on further reading. Thiscollection will be essential for scholars and students, as well asfor others who want an up-to-date, accessible introduction intothis exhilarating material. · Comprehensive, sophisticated critical

《劳动论》以人类劳动的社会性为基础，运用辩证唯物史观，以人类劳动的态势差别为核心，对人类社会经济的历史与现实作了相对系统全面的考察和研究。科学地认识劳动及其内部矛盾，是当代政治经济学研究创新的起点。由这一起点阐发的理论可明确地解决人类对自身认识的困惑，科学地认识资本主义社会存在、发展、死亡的必然性，以及未来全球实现社会主义的实质，即通过提升人类劳动智力，消除一切变态动力以完成人类劳动的完善。

This is a history of the early European middle ages throughthe eyes of women, combining the rich literature of women's historywith original research in the context of mainstream history andtraditional chronology. The book begins at the end of the Romanempire and ends with the start of the long eleventh century, whenwomen and men set out to test the old frontiers of Europe. The bookrecreates the lives of ordinary women but also tells personalstories of individuals. Each chapter also questions an assumptionof medieval historiography, and uses the few documents produced bywomen themselves, along with archaeological evidence, art, and thewritten records of medieval men, to tell of women, theirexperiences and ideas, and their relations with men. It covers thecontinent and its exotic edges, such as Iceland, Ireland, andIberia; looking at women Christian and non-Christian alike.

《劳动论》以人类劳动的社会性为基础，运用辩证唯物史观，以人类劳动的态势差别为核心，对人类社会经济的历史与现实作了相对系统全面的考察和研究。科学地认识劳动及其内部矛盾，是当代政治经济学研究创新的起点。由这一起点阐发的理论可明确地解决人类对自身认识的困惑，科学地认识资本主义社会存在、发展、死亡的必然性，以及未来全球实现社会主义的实质，即通过提升人类劳动智力，消除一切变态动力以完成人类劳动的完善。

Marriage choice plays a crucial role in the formation and decayof social classes. Endogamy, the custom forbidding marriage outsideone's social class, is thus central to social history. The studyconsiders the factors determining who married whom, whether partnerselection has changed over time and regional differences betweenEurope and South America. The volume also questions to what extentthese factors have changed over the past three hundred years. Thecase studies presented are preceded by a state-of-the-arttheoretical introduction on the determinants influencing trends insocial endogamy. Each contributor has employed the samesocial-class scheme and thus the volume is the first comparativestudy of social endogamy in an historical context.

This is the first modernized and edited version of the 1622Othello. By taking this earliest published version of Othello as abook in its own right, Scott McMillin accounts for the mystery ofits thousands of differences from the Folio version by arguing thatthe Quarto was printed from a theatre * reflecting cuts andactors' interpolations made in the playhouse. McMillin explainsthat the playhouse * was apparently taken from dictation by ascribe listening to the actors themselves, and thus reveals howOthello was spoken in seventeenth-century performance. Thisedition, which consists of a detailed introduction, quarto text,select collation and textual notes, is an important book forscholars in Shakespeare and Elizabethan-Jacobean drama, with wideramifications for other Shakespeare textual studies and forstudents of early theatre history. · The first modernized and edited version of the 1622 Othello ·Accounts for the mystery of why the Othello Quarto differs from thebetter-known Folio version on thou

The world is getting older and no one knows exactly what lifewill be like in tomorrow's older societies. But we do know that agedependency ratios--the ratio of retirees to workers--will be muchhigher than we see today. The combined effects of fewer workers,more retirees and longer retirement periods threaten not only thesustainability of pension systems but also the broader economicprospects of many developed countries. This analysis describescurrent trends in birth rates, longevity and labor forceparticipation and productivity, the cross-border flow of capital,the globalization of labor markets, the financial viability ofsocial insurance programs, and the ways economic output is sharedbetween working-age and retiree populations.

This book shows that Holocene human ecosystems are complexadaptive systems in which humans interacted with their environmentin a nested series of spatial and temporal scales. Using panarchytheory, it integrates paleoecological and archaeological researchfrom the Eastern Woodlands of North America providing a paradigm tohelp resolve long-standing disagreements between ecologists andarchaeologists about the importance of prehistoric Native Americansas agents for ecological change. The authors present the concept ofa panarchy of complex adaptive cycles as applied to the developmentof increasingly complex human ecosystems through time. They exploreexamples of ecological interactions at the level of gene,population, community, landscape and regional hierarchical scales,emphasizing the ecological pattern and process involving thedevelopment of human ecosystems. Finally, they offer a perspectiveon the implications of the legacy of Native Americans as agents ofchange for conservation and ecological restoration

Third party policing represents a major shift in contemporarycrime control practices. As the lines blur between criminal andcivil law, responsibility for crime control no longer rests withstate agencies but is shared between a wide range of organisations,institutions or individuals. The first comprehensive book of itskind, Third Party Policing examines this growing phenomenon,arguing that it is the legal basis of third party policing thatdefines it as a unique strategy. Opening up the debate surroundingthis controversial topic, the authors examine civil and regulatorycontrols necessary to this strategy and explore the historical,legal, political and organizational environment that shape itsadoption. This innovative book combines original research with atheoretical framework that reaches far beyond criminology intopolitics and economics. It offers an important addition to theworld-wide debate about the nature and future of policing and willprove invaluable to scholars and policy makers.

This book studies workers in four factories in Bangalore - anindustrial city of more than one and a half million people in SouthIndia - and seeks to answer questions about the situation andthinking of workers in modern capital intensive factories. It isbased on case studies of Bangalore workers and their families, onstatistical material from management files on workers and fromother sources, and on interviews with managers and union officials.Among the principal questions considered are: who are the factoryworkers and what are their origins, career prospects and livingconditions? Are they a privileged elite in a dual economy and whatrelations are there between them and people outside steady factoryemployment? How do the workers see their own situation, asindividuals and as a class? And how do they think of a 'job' aspart of a 'career' and a career as part of their lifetime, inrelation to other things that matter to them?

The Ngwa region lies in the heart of the Nigerian palm belt.Palm oil is one of the oldest foodstuffs of the region and has alsobeen an export crop, produced mainly by women, from the earlynineteenth century to the present day. This book describes the riseand fall of the oil palm export industry. In contrast to the viewsof both dependency and vent-for-surplus theorists, it is shown thatpatterns of export growth and capital investment were heavilyinfluenced by locally inspired changes in food production methods,gender and intergenerational relationships. The processes of changewithin the domestic and export economies became increasinglyclosely intertwined after 1924, when African coastal middlemenbegan to settle further inland and to spread the knowledge ofcassava and Christianity, and when colonial officials introduceddirect taxation and consolidated their Native Court system. Thisbook draws upon a wide range of economic, botanical,anthropological and historical studies as well as on colonialarchives, b