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There has been a surge of recent interest in a family of phenomena that may broadly be described as emergent. This includes much lively and ongoing debate concerning whether any kind of emergence can be accommodated within a functionalist framework, whether emergence...
There is a widespread idea that we experience our world as if it is other than a block world; as if, instead, our world is dynamical and time passes in a robustly A-theoretic manner. In light of this, some argue that there is good reason to think that our world is...
As a liminal state with contrasting identities, Japan often struggles to define its consistent strategic objective due to its fluctuating power status and social role in international relations. In this volume Katada and Koga employ a historical institutionalist...
Thomas Hardy asks of the ghost stalking him: 'Whither, O whither will your whim now draw me?' Immediately tripping up on its own laid-out comma, then pausing to howl theatrically, and hedging its bets with a stuttering, archaic 'whither' that sceptically hovers between...
In this collection of eighteen essays, two-thirds of them appearing here for the first time, Aaron Ridley addresses the full range of Nietzsche's aesthetics, from his discussions of tragedy, music, and language to his conceptions of taste, beauty, and the sublime. Some...
In Phases of Objects, Justin Mooney argues that all objects should be treated like children: just as a child can cease to be a child without ceasing to exist when it grows into an adult, so can a clay statue cease to be a statue without ceasing to exist when it is...
Iris Murdoch was a thinker of extraordinary breadth and ambition. Over the course of her lifetime she published nearly thirty novels, numerous plays and poems, three philosophical monographs, and two collections of philosophical essays. However, the breadth and novelty...
Revision Notes for the MCEM Part A has helped countless candidates to succeed in their emergency medicine membership exams. This fully updated edition is aligned with the latest MRCEM Primary syllabus. It comprehensively covers the core basic sciences relevant to...
A beautifully illustrated and accessible account of the medieval crusades. The Oxford Illustrated History of the Crusades provides an accessible introduction to the medieval crusades and to the changes and developments that have taken place in their study over the last...
The Oxford Textbook of Paediatric Surgery offers a succinct yet comprehensive overview of paediatric surgery, including chapters on related specialties beneficial to paediatric surgeons. It emphasizes a logical approach to management decisions and addresses challenging...
The Covid-19 pandemic brought about both the most serious public health crisis as well as, for many states, the most profound public interventions in individual liberties in the last century. Comparing Covid Laws: A Critical Global Survey examines the evidence of how...
Comparative Reflections in Private Law celebrates the scholarly legacy of Professor Simon Whittaker, whose work has left a profound mark on the field of comparative law. Reflecting the breadth and depth of his influence, the volume brings together leading scholars to...
Fertility and Pregnancy: An Epidemiologic Perspective offers a comprehensive and engaging exploration of human reproduction-its biological foundations, historical context, and the factors that can disrupt its processes. In this thoroughly revised edition, Allen J....
Agon: Poetry's Challenge to the Mathematization of Reality narrates the battle for truth-telling authority between poetry and mathematics in the 1920s-1960s. Analysing subversive uses of mathematical metaphors in British and American poetry, it argues that modernism...
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...
Chapters [6, 12, and 14] of this work are available under the terms of a [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International] open access licence. This part/these parts of the work is/are free to read on [the Oxford Academic platform] and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected...
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...
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