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Financial Markets and the Ethics of Legal Practice studies the opaque and poorly understood world of Big Law, and its impact on global financial markets. Lawyers at major corporate law firms wield immense influence on the contractual terms of multibillion dollar...
Placing Elysium in Renaissance Britain: Poetry, Politics, Theology, Eros is the first study of Elysium as a place in English Renaissance culture. The absence of such a study in the fields of literature and geography is surprising: from its captivating origin in the...
This textbook provides an introduction to the world of numerical modeling in the physical sciences, focusing more specifically on earth and planetary sciences. It is designed to lead the reader through the process of defining the mathematical or physical model of...
At a time when constitutional democracy is under increasing strain, Let's Agree on Poland offers a bold exploration of how divided societies can break through ideological deadlock and reform their institutions. While rooted in the case of Poland, the book offers both...
New York is a leading venue for international commercial arbitration in the United States, home to the headquarters for the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (the international branch of the American Arbitration Association) and many leaders in the...
The impacts of artificial intelligence (AI) are often framed as an uncontrollable wave of technological change. But AI's trajectory is not preordained—its governance is a human choice, one that hinges on global institutions that are effective, coherent, and resilient to...
Inscribing Flavian Rome offers the first systematic investigation of Martial's dynamic engagement with the full range of Roman epigraphic habits. Breaking new ground in the study of Roman epigram, it establishes a new interpretation of early imperial writing culture...
The notion that Britain was losing its international industrial competitiveness has preoccupied governments since the Second World War. Policymakers have sought to address this over the years, and yet Britain's relative industrial decline has appeared to continue,...
Composite Selves contributes to studies of the novel rooted in but continuing beyond the eighteenth century by reflecting on the ways in which a broad corpus of German-language novels reveals the self as composite. It uses detailed literary analysis to trace the...
This textbook provides the first comprehensive overview of synchrotron physics at an introductory level, covering the fundamental underpinning physics, and combining rigorous treatment of the main concepts with a fresh outlook, rich in images and graphics. Aimed at...
Textile Shakespeare argues for the vital presence of the 'textile imagination' in the works of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, as it explores the economic, cultural, and social centrality of textiles to life in early modern England. Cloth, broadly interpreted,...
This book examines and interprets the uncanny similarity between capitalism and socialism over the twentieth century as both systems found ways to encourage happiness and optimism in their citizens. As inheritors of the Enlightenment's emphasis on scientific...
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...
This book examines the critical role played by colonial peripheries, specifically British India, in shaping the development of zoology and other disciplines emerging from 19th-century natural history. Through an analysis of publications such as the monumental Fauna of...
Radical-right behavior is increasing across Western democracies, often very quickly. Previous research has shown, however, that political attitudes and preferences do not change as quickly. Vicente Valentim argues that the role of social norms as drivers of political...
The 1969 and 1986 Vienna Conventions on the Law of Treaties are essential components of the contemporary international legal order. Codifying to a significant extent the customary rules that pre-existed in the field, they aim at regulating what has become the main...
'Oh, be not afraid. I am cast out of society, but you, is it not true, you walk around as a man of honour? What more do you want?' (Laura Kieler, Men of Honour) Very few readers and audiences know that Ibsen's iconic feminist drama A Doll's House was built upon the...
We can all play a part in triggering positive tipping points that accelerate us out of the climate crisis. How do we get out of a climate crisis of our own making? As global change escalates, we are already starting to experience damaging tipping points in the...
Joseph E. Stiglitz has had a remarkable career. He is a brilliant academic, capped by sharing the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics and the Nobel Peace Prize, and honorary degrees from Harvard, Cambridge, Oxford and more than fifty other universities, and elected not...
Challenging orthodox understandings within modern contract law, Discharge of Contractual Obligations provides an innovative doctrinal, historical, and theoretical account of the discharge of contractual obligations. This book delves into a fundamental question: under...
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