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How do we spark new scientific discoveries?How can we accelerate new breakthroughs in science? These are some of the biggest unsolved questions in science. Many believe that discoveries arise by chance or serendipity. The Engine of Scientific Discovery illustrates,...
Who loyally carries out the most brutal violence for a dictator? And who overthrows the very leader they swore to protect? Like no other work before it, Making a Career in Dictatorship dives deep into the authoritarian security apparatus to identify which officers...
A richly detailed collection of transcripts of Henry Kissinger's secretly recorded phone conversations from his time in the Nixon administration that touch on every important issue of Kissinger's day and provide a sweeping view of his era. Henry Kissinger is...
In this second edition of Evaluation for Risk of Violence in Adults, Kirk Heilbrun and Christopher M. King review, analyze, and offer recommendations for best practice in violence risk assessment in adults conducted during forensic mental health assessment (FMHA),...
No American religion has had a more contentious and complex relationship with the law than Mormonism (the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints). Living Oracles delves into the conflicts between Latter-day Saints and the legal system, their efforts to establish...
Corporations in the United States have for many decades sought to preserve and extend their power by claiming attributes and privileges reserved for natural persons. Liberalism and the Reinvention of the Modern Corporation presents a political history of corporate...
Once considered implausible, the demand to make amends for old wrongs has become a pressing contemporary problem. Legal expert Professor Mayo Moran utilizes landmark cases to demonstrate how innovative private law claims have begun to employ reparative justice to frame...
Islamophobia and Translations of Securitization in the UK, France, and Italy develops an alternative framework for studyingIslamophobia and the securitization of Muslims. Gaudino integrates cross-disciplinary resources to investigate how and why European Muslims are...
Willa Cather's novels do not behave like other novels. Indeed, her art is famously uncategorizable. She is not much interested in plots; she works instead by juxtaposition, leaving it up to the reader to feel the vibrations between one situation and another. Nor is she...
The fourth edition of Social Injustice and Public Health, a completely updated edition of the classic text, is a comprehensive, evidence-based resource for understanding and addressing the profound impacts of social injustice on public health. In 31 chapters written by...
This volume comprises forty-five philosophical texts about slavery that were composed in Europe and America between 1765 and 1800. The texts, selected and in some cases newly translated by Julia Jorati, discuss various aspects of slavery, and from many different...
As the 2024 Democratic presidential nominee, Kamala Harris stood to make history as the first Black and South Asian American woman president. Between 2008 and 2024, Americans saw multiracial candidates-Barack Obama and Harris-on four presidential tickets. They rose to...
Bellini is the most complete monograph ever published to-date on the life and legacy of the composer from Catania. His achievements, presented in the historical-social context of his time, explore his relationships with educational institutions, the theatrical...
Occupying the Everyday is a feminist exploration of the everyday politics of living through militarised control in Kashmir. On 5 August 2019, when the Indian government de-operationalised Jammu and Kashmir's nominal autonomy, integrationist and heterosexist discourses...
The U.S. Supreme Court maintains that prosecutorial discretion to charge different offenses authorized by the penal code is practically limited only by the penal code itself. Because typical offense conduct violates multiple statutes carrying different maximum...
Body modification practices express identity, conform to social norms, and convey cultural values that express cultural, social, and individual meanings. The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology ofBody Modification provides a comprehensive understanding...
Spinoza scholarship today resembles a proliferating forest, diversifying and developing every day. Spinoza's Labyrinths invites the reader to explore some recently charted paths in these woods, whilst also forging some new trails. This volume collects essays by Yitzhak...
Defending the Music: Michael Steinberg at the Boston Globe, 1964-1976 brings together, for the first time, some 300 selections from the more than 2,000 reviews, essays, and features written by the eminent critic and musicologist Michael Steinberg during his dozen...
In this novel approach to metaphysics, the philosophy of science, and philosophical logic, Franz Huber explores means-end derivations of the logics of default conditionals and counterfactuals, modal idealism about possible worlds, and the royal rule, a normative...
The Oxford Handbook of Black Dance Studies encompasses the thinking that considers how people in motion craft worlds beyond worlds of imagination, culture, desire, intellect, and practice. Black Dance Studies, which brings together thinking and moving, is foundational...
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