The religion of the Aztecs boasted a god of espionage –an unusual deity in any other new world religion. The Aztecs were brilliant soldiers and administrators and viewed espionage and intelligence gathering as a key to domination. The successor regimes to the Aztecs also created elaborate and successful entities for political and spiritual control: this monograph discusses the efforts of the Hapsburg and Bourbon administrations to exact information (as well as gold and silver) on a wide scale.

The authors, who have served in the Intelligence services, have made a close and original study of Sir Francis Walsingham and his associates in the Elizabethan secret services. Walsingham is seen as a darkly effective (the Queen called him “my Moor”)master of a comprehensive intelligence gathering network with sophisticated centralized control and all-source processing.

This ambitious and complex monograph by one of Africa’s emerging literary critics and philosophers is focused on the ways that both Nietzsche and Wilde sought aesthetic solutions to the moralistic problems generated by what Nietzsche identified as “the will to truth”. The author examines the inadequacy of the Romantic demand for an “undivided” subject both in their era as well as our own.

Dr Lovatt's book is a comprehensive look at the relevance of the teachings and philosophy of Plato and the pedagogical methods open to the teaching of the Platonic canon. The author invites his readers to enter into a collegial discourse and view the modern world through Plato's eyes and question their own beliefs, as he relates Plato's words to various contemporary issues including bioethics, politics, education and the process of scientific discovery. Lovatt is also interested in rehabilitating Plato’s methodologies from heterodox misinterpretations and frambold orthodoxies.

The Dictionary of Vital Expressions is a reference tool based on the classical reasoning of Aristotle and other rhetoricians i.e. the importance of metaphor in persuasive communication. The metaphor is so essential in discourse that it has many synonyms BIdioms, figures, figures of speech, phrases, clause, tropesBall explored in this work.

This collection by one of America’s most distinguished scholars, biographer of Sean O’Casey, and emeritus scholar at Brown University, examines a number of key issues and arguments in Irish intellectual life: Yeats as a political thinker, modern Irish criticism, the treatment of Dublin in modern literature, the conscience of Ireland and the poetry of Synge and Shaw. Additionally there is an in depth examination of O’Casey’s work and his place in the canon.

This research monograph analyses and describes how multiracial undergraduates have come to think about race and racism. The work begins with an overview of the problem of race and racism in education, then discusses the way in which race is typically construed along a continuum of mono-racial thinking( a surprisingly inept conceptualization given the increasing birth rates of mixed or multiracial school populations). The text is then split into seven distinct case studies based on individuals with multiracial, multicultural and ambiguous racial identities and their K-12 experience.

This monograph is a study of the Woolfian approach to the poetics of the sublime as demonstrated in Virginia Woolf's The Waves. This novel was one of the author=s experiments in fictive creation and it called for a new poetics of the sublime. Dr Klitgard discusses Woolf's methods, technique and narrative in this work as well as in the entire oeuvre in a direct and informative style.

This work is the study of a family’s century long involvement with Irish self rule and political freedom. Joe Johnston (1890-1972), from a Tyrone Presbyterian small-farm background, had 3 elder brothers who made their careers in the Indian Civil Service. The family were 'Home Rule within the Empire' supporters in the Ulster liberal tradition. After studying classics and ancient history in Trinity College Dublin (TCD) and then in Oxford, JJ became a Fellow of Trinity in 1913.

This major research study provides a fresh, critical look at the way automobile electronics are and should be built. Written by Silicon Valley pioneer John Hall, this book is based on his nearly 40 years of experience in developing and producing semiconductors for the automobile industry and other customers.