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Book 17 of Silius Italicus' Punica serves as the powerful conclusion of the epic, detailing the final stages of the Second Punic War, culminating in the Battle of Zama, where Roman dominance is secured. The narrative intertwines divine intervention with human conflict....
Parentheticals, it is fair to say, are everywhere, and, as can easily be shown, they come in a huge variety of flavors. Two characteristics set them apart from ordinary arguments and adjuncts: they tend to show some freedom of position within their hosts, and they tend...
Women, Indenture, and Resistance explores the lived experiences of Indian indentured (girmitiya) women in the Fiji Islands between 1879 and 1920, during the height of British colonial rule. Set against the backdrop of sugar-cane plantations, the book delves into themes...
This timely handbook offers a comprehensive, critical overview of current research on knowledge and expertise in international politics that helps readers navigate the growing literature in the field and explore new research agendas. The handbook is based on a shared...
Norms research in international relations has developed sufficiently over the past thirty-five years to become its own sub-discipline within the field. It has its own corresponding 'toolbox' of concepts, approaches, and methods which have often resulted from debates...
This book argues that we have reached the 'peak' of a particular model for pharmaceutical production - the neoliberal value model that has been in place since the early 1980s. 'Peak' designates a state where a value model's contradictions become exacerbated to a point...
The Order of the Hermits of St Augustine has long been sidelined as a pale imitator of the Franciscans. This book provides a fundamental cross-disciplinary re-evaluation of the lives, ideas, and impact of the Augustinian friars. By challenging the scholarly focus on the...
Mathematical logic has grown from an exotic branch of mathematics into an indispensable tool in computer science as well as other parts of mathematics. This concise book presents the subject of mathematical logic in a lively and approachable fashion although logic can...
This book proposes a comprehensive theory of cognitive feelings, also referred to as 'noetic', 'epistemic', or 'metacognitive' feelings. There are pivotal moments in our mental lives when, even before we have explicitly thought or reflected on the matter, we become...
Governing Animals,Governing Humans explores how the global politics of animal protection works as the government of human-animal relations. Responding to recent calls by scholars coming from post-humanist, new materialist, or post-anthropocentric backgrounds who...
Our modern standard of living depends on the transformation of energy from sources like fossil fuels, atomic nuclei, the sun, and wind into usable forms. This book examines the fundamental physics behind energy use that is crucial in our daily lives. Amid widespread...
The ecological crisis at a planetary scale has heightened our awareness of the geological impact of human activities and the possibility of human species extinction. Within the heightened consciousness of hubris and vulnerability encoded in the Anthropocene discourse,...
On 10 July 1943, British soldiers landed in south-eastern Sicily as part of a major Allied invasion. As they fought their way northwards through the Italian peninsula, they frequently encountered local populations, imposing a forced cohabitation that would have a...
The Savilian Professorships in Astronomy and Geometry at Oxford University were founded in 1619 by Sir Henry Savile, distinguished scholar and Warden of Merton College.The Astronomy professorship, in particular, is the earliest University-based chair of astronomy in...
Interwar Britain--called the 'age of noise'--witnessed a pervasive preoccupation with 'unwanted' sound. With the rising hum of air and road traffic, the roar of industry, and the reverberations of newly popular sound technologies, everyday urban din became an...
Powers and compensation in circuits with nonsinusoidal currents discusses one of the most controversial problems in electrical engineering; the definitions of electrical powers and compensation. Many approaches to explain the power properties of electrical circuits and...
Epistemic Impressions advances a new history of image-making and art-text relations in classical antiquity. Moving away from a focus on imitation (mimesis), it looks instead to the concept of the seal-impression (typos), which played a vital role in ancient philosophies...
Kant and the Origins of the Good Will is an in-depth study of the development of Immanuel Kant's moral philosophy from its beginnings in the 1750s up to the mid-1780s. The book also examines how Kant's moral views intersect with aspects of his metaphysics, epistemology,...
Beyond enabling ultra-fast data transmission, 5G and next-generation networks represent a fundamental transformation in how individuals and organizations connect and interact. The success of these future networks is of interest not just to telecom operators but also to...
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