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Do we have a right to know about each other's criminal past? And if so, just how publicly accessible should criminal records be? Does publicity serve an important purpose in fulfilling the public's right to know about who amongst their fellow citizens is dangerous or...
The Oxford Handbook of Iconicity in Language offers a comprehensive guide to the role that iconicity - resemblance between form and meaning - plays in all modes of languages, on all levels of language, and in all aspects of language.The originally semiotic notion of...
Spinoza on the Human Perspective gathers a variety of contributions concerned with the role of the human perspective and the human lifeform in Spinoza's philosophy, as well as the resources thatSpinoza provides for such a philosophy. While significant parts of the...
Pragmatism Works presents what became a unified pragmatist view of quantum theory, science, and metaphysics developed over the past fifteen years. The essays show what work pragmatism can do in philosophy, but also in science. Indeed, the distinction between science and...
The Pauper Body in England and Wales 1750 to 1914 is based on a unique collection of 8 million words of pauper letters. It features fascinating body biographies of ordinary people living in deepest poverty who used their voices to secure welfare support.The Old and New...
How do different generations remember the democratic transitions in the post-authoritarian European South fifty years later, and why does that matter? A Collective Biography of Southern European Democratization shows how individual stories, family stories, and the...
Dreams have been fascinating multiple disciplines for centuries, from philosophy and literature to contemporary cognitive science. Why we dream remains an enduring mystery, but cognitive research on dream has experienced a new wave of interest in recent years....
Schadenfreude, "pleasure in other people's misfortunes", is an emotion that pervades Greek texts and pervaded Greek communities. Many of their salient characteristics provided the ideal terrain for schadenfreude: competitiveness, a fierce attachment to honor and...
People have always travelled for health, but as industrial pollution increased in nineteenth-century Britain, doctors started ordering their patients abroad in ever-growing numbers. Self-styled 'English Colonies' sprung up, not in the far-reaches of the Empire, but in...
Human Capital for the Knowledge Economy offers a compelling investigation into how advanced capitalist democracies have reshaped higher education to meet the demands of their national knowledge economies. As non-routine cognitive tasks become increasingly crucial in...
This book examines the importance of Classics and classical reception in the poetry, novels, translations, essays, and letters of Richard Aldington (1892-1962). The book has a double focus: first, to demonstrate the ubiquity of Classics in Aldington's writings from...
This volume presents a newly edited text of Euripides' Electra with a scene-by-scene and line-by-line commentary that addresses a wide variety of questions, including the nature of Euripidean tragedy. In his Introduction and across several discussions in the commentary,...
There are numerous practical challenges in the creation and enforcement of international commercial contracts for the sale of goods. Global Commercial Contracts provides an accessible but comprehensive overview of these challenges and the impact of various international...
Lawyer and royalist, political prisoner and polemicist, Pierre de Belloy (c. 1550–1611) had the misfortune to live through interesting times. During the 1580s, Belloy became a notorious opponent of the French Catholic League for his position as the leading Catholic...
This book examines the political subordination and repression of one or more peoples by another people and its elites within the same polity.This sort of domination is surprisingly more common than we may think, given the value we are said to place on multiculturalism,...
'One afternoon in the autumn of 1851 a solitary horseman, followed by a pack-mule, was pushing through an arid stretch of country somewhere in central New Mexico. He had lost his way' Death Comes for the Archbishop is the story of two missionary priests, travelling...
Famine is humanity's oldest fear.Famine memorials and stories are literally carved into the stones that lie on the beds of Europe's rivers. Our science fiction and fantasy literature often begin by evoking a world of hunger and scarcity.Famine shapes our past, it...
The Oxford Handbook of Constituent Power maps and systematically examines the revival of constituent power. In recent decades, scholars, as well as political actors, have rediscovered the category and used it in ever new ways, challenging traditional accounts of its...
Rabindranath Tagore and Music in the Age of Nationalism explores the political, social, cultural, and emotional history of Bengal, focusing on the development of modern Bengali subjectivity. The unifying theme isRabindranath Tagore's creative and critical progress,...
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