Classics: A Very Short Introduction Av Mary (fellow Fellow Newnham College Cambridge) Beard, John (fellow Fellow King's College Cambridge) Hender

In this revised and updated edition of The Tudors: A Very Short Introduction, John Guy offers a compelling and authoritative guide to all aspects of the Tudor period. From politics, religion, and economics, to gender, art, and culture, this is a fascinating...

In this Very Short Introduction, John Hendry provides a lively introduction to the nature and principles of management. Tracing its development over the past century, Hendry looks not only at the jobs managers do today and their place in the culture of...

This book is about how Scotland responded to the dream-vision, Medieval Europe''s most widely known literary form and precursor of the novel. Studies abound in Continental and English dream-vision writing: Dante''s Divine Comedy, France''s...

This is a study of medieval Spain and its historians, from the chroniclers of the middle ages to the revisionists of the post-Franco era. The history of medieval Spain has long been perceived as a tale of original sin followed by a long-drawn-out process...