Encyclopedia of Infectious Diseases

This alphabetically arranged volume presents agents of infectious diseases, the illnesses themselves, associations affiliated with prevention and study of diseases, and explanations of the drugs used to treat the conditions. The explanations are clear and informative and include sufficient cross-references. 

A History of Japanese Literature

First published in 1899, this is the first comprehensive introduction of the subject to western readers.

Principles of International Environmental Law

"This is the most important book on international environmental law ever published. It will change forever the way we think about the subject. I suspect it will have a major impact on the way we teach the subject. And it should change the way people write about the subject." Journal of International Wildlife Law & Policy

While his detractors found his verse to be deliberately obscure, Robert Browning resisted such charges and went on to become one of he most critically acclaimed and popular English poets of the 19th century. Known for his imaginative originality and dramatic power, Browning is one of the most undervalued major poets of the English language, as is evidence in his enduring works such as "My Last Duchess", "Fra Lippo Lippi", "Childe Roland" to the "Dark Tower Came", "Andrea del Sarto", and "Caliban Upon Setebos".

 

Poet laureate of England from 1843 until his death in 1850, William Wordsworth is often credited as being one of the founders of English Romanticism. The 1798 joint publication of Wordsworth's and Coleridge's "Lyrical Ballads" marked a turning point in English poetry, as poets began to emphasize imagination and feeling over the primacy of reason. Wordsworth's poems focused on the natural and the ordinary, as based on the 'real language of men'.