Product Description: Aristophanes, one of the greatest and most important poets of the golden age of classical Greek literature, has remained, in the English-speaking world at least, one of the most forbidding, because least well understood. This is a collection of critical and interpretative essays in English devoted entirely to this poet...read more

From the re-emergence of Japan as an industrial power in the 1950s through to the contemporary rise of China as a potential economic and political behemoth, the story of East Asian development has been central to any serious analysis of the dynamics and trajectory of the global political economy. Integrated into a coherent, critical narrative, this book examines key political-economic and social dynamics that helped forge the ‘miracle’ economies of East Asia and continue to drive them forward in the volatile circumstances of our current epoch. It analyses the relation between the state and markets; the changing nature of economic governance and its relation to inequality; and the rise of China and its international consequences.  Historically informed and comparative in nature, the book contributes to the analysis of the transformations of Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia and China, and is the first to cover the ground in one volume. Written by a leading analyst of East Asian development, the book engages with the relevant issues and debates, in an open, non-technical language, making it useful as an advanced textbook not only for East Asian studies, but more generally in international political economy and development studies.

Presents three comedies by the ancient Athenian playwright depicting the varying social, political, and cultural roles of women in ancient Greece

Product Description: This is an English translation of Aristophanes' popular comedy in which the god Dionysus seeks to bring the great dramatist Euripides from Hades, where he encounters another great Classical playwright, Aeschylus. Includes background material on the historical and cultural context of this work, suggestions for further reading, and notes...read more

An English translation of Acharnians into contemporary form. Both a hilarious comedy and a foceful indictment of war. Includes background material, footnotes, suggestions for further reading, notes on production, and map.

Offers plays by one of the world's greatest comic dramatists in a bilingual edition. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Quintilian, born in Spain about 35 CE, became a widely known and highly successful teacher of rhetoric in Rome. The Orator's Education (Institutio Oratoria), a comprehensive training program in twelve books, draws on his own rich experience...read more

Offers plays by one of the world's greatest comic dramatists in a bilingual edition. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This is an English translation of Aristophanes’ greatest comedy the Birds and is the story of birds taking control of the government. Includes background material on the historical and cultural context of this work, suggestions for further reading, and notes...read more

Offers plays by one of the world's greatest comic dramatists in a bilingual edition. (view table of contents)

Offers plays by one of the world's greatest comic dramatists in a bilingual edition. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This book focuses on state policy and its consequences for economic development and social transformation in East Asia, and demonstrates the importance of state action in underpinning economic growth. The editors argue that an adequate explanation of the `Asian miracle' must take into account the central role played by the state economic and social policy - a requirement that is largely ignored by prevailing `free market' and `culturalist' accounts...read more

Product Description: This book analyses how high technology production has shifted from a regional to a global scale. Using the example of semi-conductors it illustrates the interaction of the developed industrial and developing industrialising nations...read more

Product Description: The Globalisation of High Technology Production analyzes how the production of high technology commodities has shifted from a regional to a global scale. Using the example of semi-conductors it illustrates the interaction of the developed industrial and developing industrializing nations...read more

Product Description: Second edition. Study of 5th century Attic comedy. "The dynamics of Greek obsenity and a detailed commentary on the terminology itself." xvi, iv , 267 pages. cloth, dust jacket.. 8vo..