Books in the OPUS series in order

Introduces the reader to the benefits of applying precise analytical methods to the criticism of texts. This revised and updated edition contains more 20th-century texts and examples for analysis and discussion, and an expanded section on the reader's role in literary criticism.

In this title, P.S. Atiyah introduces the reader to a number of fundamental issues about the law, the legal profession, and the adjudicative process. He also discusses the effect of membership of the EC on our law, the recent controversy over the independence of the judiciary, and the problems arising from the cost of legal services and legal aid.

Some of the greatest philosophers, notably Kant and Hegel, have turned their minds to philosophical history. However, it has received little attention in the analytical tradition. This work aims to bring the methods of analytical philosophy to the critical examination of some of these questions.

The long 18th century was characterized by the gradual erosion of consensual politics: the transfer from a cross-class consensus based on the Whig/Tory divide to divisions based instead on the notion that the state privileged the interests of certain social groups over others.

An introduction to Irish literature from the 1920s onwards. The title suggests the immense influence Yeats and Joyce have had on the styles, stances, and preoccupations of 20th-century Irish literature. Authors from Kinsella and Beckett to William Trevor, Seamus Heaney and Mary Lavin are included.

Provides a history of children's literature, and relates it to everything from censorship and criticism to education and realism. Children's literature is one of the roots of Western culture, enjoyed by children and adults alike. Hunt is the author of "Approaching Arthur Ransome".

The 20th century has been a time of tremendous social change and development in Japan. This study outlines the role of the ordinary Japanese citizen in modern Japanese history, exploring the rapidly altering relationship between the state and its people.

This highly influential study takes a fresh look at one of the most fertile periods in English literature, a period wich produced writers such as Blake, Keats, Coleridge, and Austen. Marilyn Butler shows that one of the most dynamic and stressful periods of modern history fostered a literature that was itself various and contradictory.

Discusses Aristotle's views on change, natural science, the mind, logic, philosophical method, metaphysics, and ethics, and suggests why the Greek philosopher still provokes controversy.

From the end of the eighteenth century, throughout western Europe, the official clergy, champions of privilege and tradition, were challenged by religious dissenters and minorities. This book maps out these polarizations and analyses the impact on religion of socialism, capitalism and the growth of cities.

Philosophy plays an integral role in French society, affecting its art, drama, politics, and culture. In this chronological survey, Eric Matthews traces the development French philosophy has taken in the twentieth century, from it roots in the thoughts of Descartes to key figures such as Bergson, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Foucault, Derrida, and the recent French Feminists.

An analysis of a number of different cultures which takes particular interest in the individual and collective pursuit of self-interest. Singer looks at whether or not selfishness is in our genes and how we may find greater satisfaction in an ethical lifestyle. This volume is one of the OPUS series.

Thinking About Logic explains to a non-specialist audience what the aim of logic is. It examines its central concepts and techniques and asks whether logic is successful in achieving its aims.

The later years of Elizabeth and the reign of James I were the age of Shakespeare, but also the age of Sidney, Spenser, and Donne, of dramatists Marlowe, Jonson, and Webster, and of prose writers Nashe, Bacon and Burton. This study examines the social conditions which produced this array of talent.

Preesnts an account of English law, explaining the body of the modern law as set in its historical context. This edition takes into account the Royal Commission on Criminal Justice, alterations to the law of manslaughter, and legislation concerning children, intellectual property, and contract and leasehold reforms, amongst others.

This text is an introduction to the use of logic in everyday thought and argument. It emphasizes the use of logic in helping to settle and clarify disputes, seeking to help the reader avoid bad arguments, to detect them in others, and so to think and argue more effectively.

Concentrates on the ideas and practices which constitute the common heritage of the different traditions of Buddhism. From the narrative of the story of the Buddha, through discussions of aspects such as textual traditions, the framework of the Four Noble Truths, this work provides an introduction to Buddhism.

First published as European Community: The Building of a Union, this third edition provides a detailed and coherent view of the evolution of the European Union.

An historical survey of Greek literature from 700 BC to 550 AD which concentrates on the principal authors and quotes many passages from their work in translation. Poetry, tragedy, comedy, history and science are covered. This is the revised edition of the title published in 1980 and is a title in the OPUS series.