<p>The book offers an accessible and very comprehensive survey of the major ideas and concepts encountered in politics. Each chapter discusses a cluster of related terms, exploring how they have been used by different thinkers and traditions, and examining the debates and controversies that have sprung up around them. Lucidly written and clearly structured, the book provides an ideal introduction to politics and political theory.</p>

Political Ideas and Concepts: An Introduction

Politics & Social Sciences

Andrew Heywood

Philosophy

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The Merchant of Venice, Shakespeare's most frequently performed and currently most controversial comedy, continues to confront in its stage and critical history the ongoing debate over its artistic unity. Six chapters explore the degree of dramatic integrity Shakespeare achieves by unifying the play's many hard choices through a tightly-knit interplay of contrarieties and correspondences in structure, language, characters and ideas. Engaging the play's extensive body of criticism, this book contextualizes the most provocative questions raised by the play and provides considerable new evidence about Shakespeare's possible sources and his innovative use of them, especially usury and merchantry, Jew and Christian, biblical and classical allusion, stage law and verbal-visual symbols.

The Merchant of Venice: Choice, Hazard and Consequence

Literature & Fiction

Joan Ozard Holmer

History & Criticism

This book examines the history of US foreign policy since the Vietnam War. It focuses on four themes: the legacy of Vietnam; the ending and aftermath of the Cold War; the debate over American international decline; and the frequently undemocratic conduct of US foreign policy. The book considers alternative explanations for the Cold War's end. It evaluates the foreign policy leadership of Presidents Carter, Reagan, Bush and Clinton and assesses prospects for US foreign policy after the Cold War.

American Foreign Policy: Carter to Clinton (American History in Depth)

History

John Dumbrell

Americas

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