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Gender Identity

Rach Cosker-Rowland

Gender Identity: What It Is and Why It Matters is the first book in philosophy to focus on gender identity and transgender rights. To be trans is to have a gender identity different from the gender you were assigned at birth. But what is it to have a gender identity? In...

Asymptotics for Fractional Processes

James Davidson

Asymptotics for Fractional Processes develops an approach to the large-sample analysis of fractional partial-sum processes, featuring long memory increments. Long memory in a time series, equivalently called strong dependence, is usually defined to mean that the...

The Oxford Critical Guide to Tacitus

Salvador Bartera , Kelly E. Shannon-Henderson

The Oxford Critical Guide to Tacitus presents eighteen chapters surveying individual works and books by Tacitus.The chapters treat a range of interpretive issues, including Tacitus' language and style; historical issues; literary devices; and narrative patterns....

The Paradox of Communicable Diseases Governance in the EU

Thibaud Deruelle

The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) has played a pivotal role in the EU's approach to infectious diseases, but its journey toward empowerment has been anything but straightforward. Historically limited by member states' reluctance to relinquish...

The Idea of the Good Society

Matt Beech , Kevin Hickson

This volume provides a comprehensive analysis of the political thought and practice of Raymond Plant (Professor Lord Plant of Highfield) and celebrates the three aspects of his public life which speak to his idea of the good society: scholarship, politics, and civil...

France Since 1945

Robert Gildea

The last fifty years of French history have seen immense challenges for the French: constructing a new European order, building a modern economy, searching for a stable political system. It has also been a time of anxiety and doubt.The French have had to come to terms...

The Geometry of Christian Contemplation

David Albertson

The writings of ancient and medieval Christian mystics were rediscovered in the twentieth century, and today they are read more widely than ever before. But do modern assumptions about religious experience influence how we hear those premodern voices? Do we do them...

Prospectus Liability Rules in Europe and Beyond

Danny Busch , Matthias Lehmann

Companies in the European Union must publish a prospectus that complies with the detailed information requirements under the Prospectus Regulation before they can offer securities to the investing public. However, the regulation does not feature uniform liability rules,...

The Politics of Constitutional Rigidity

Mariana Velasco-Rivera

What makes a constitution difficult to amend? Many assume it's the stringency of the amendment rules, as seen with the U.S. Constitution. However, Mexico, with similar rules, has one of the most amended constitutions globally. So, if it's not the stringency of the...

Gender Identity

Rach Cosker-Rowland

Gender Identity: What It Is and Why It Matters is the first book in philosophy to focus on gender identity and transgender rights. To be trans is to have a gender identity different from the gender you were assigned at birth. But what is it to have a gender identity? In...

Money in Imperial Rome

Merav Haklai

Money in Imperial Rome offers an in-depth examination of the institutional framework within which money operated as an economic agent in the Roman empire, emphasising its systemic complexity. Analyses focus on classical Roman law as reflected in the writings of Roman...

The Vagabond

Colette , Frances Egan

'Nothing is real except the dance, the light, the freedom, the music.' Colette's semi-autobiographical novel The Vagabond (1910) follows thirty-three-year-old Renée Néré as she embarks on a stage career after a divorce from philandering ex-husband, painter Adolphe...

Art in Contemporary Anglo-American Fiction

Sofie Behluli

This book addresses the recent surge of Anglo-American novels about visual art since the 2010s and interprets it as a coming of age of an old literary sub-genre, which is here termed as the 'ekphrastic novel'. These novels are distinguished by their systematic use of...

Indian Cities or Suburbs?

Kala Seetharam Sridhar

Despite the focus on urbanization as an important theme, the suburbanization of India has received relatively less attention. Indian Cities or Suburbs? is the first comprehensive work on suburbanization in India, exploring its complex dynamics in Indian cities. It...

The Race Illusion

Adam Hochman

In The Race Illusion, Adam Hochman argues that there are no human races, only racialized groups-groups mistakenly believed to be races. He meticulously critiques all of the major defenses of the view that races exist, beginning with biological accounts. While there is...

Economies of Early Modern Drama

Anne Enderwitz

This book provides new insights into how theatre responded to changing economic practices and structures. It reviews discourses on household management and commerce to create a rich context for the discussion of socio-economic actions and transactions in Macbeth,...

Oxford Studies in Metaethics

Russ Shafer-Landau

The Dandy

Peter K. Andersson

A history of the dandy from below, from Beau Brummell and Baudelaire to Bowie and Bolan... and beyond. The historical figure of the dandy has commonly been described as an upper-class gentleman, often exemplified by well-known men such as Beau Brummell, Charles...

The Race Illusion

Adam Hochman

In The Race Illusion, Adam Hochman argues that there are no human races, only racialized groups-groups mistakenly believed to be races. He meticulously critiques all of the major defenses of the view that races exist, beginning with biological accounts. While there is...

Prospectus Liability Rules in Europe and Beyond

Danny Busch , Matthias Lehmann

Companies in the European Union must publish a prospectus that complies with the detailed information requirements under the Prospectus Regulation before they can offer securities to the investing public. However, the regulation does not feature uniform liability rules,...