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The advent of the Internet, exponential growth in computing power, and rapid developments in artificial intelligence have raised numerous cybersecurity-related ethical questions across various domains. From a liberal democratic perspective, this work analyses key ethical concepts in the field and develops ethical guidelines to regulate cyberspace.

Diagnosketch is a one-of-a-kind visual book that helps explain medical diagnoses to a non-medical audience. It simplifies human anatomy and pathophysiology into memorable, patient-friendly, understandable images. Created and illustrated by an ER physician with 20 years of clinical experience, Diagnosketch covers bread and butter diagnoses seen in acute care settings: kidney stones, diverticulitis, back pain, gallstones, ovarian cysts, arthritis, and more. It contains diagnostic images, procedural images, and concept images that are useful at different stages of a patient encounter. Medical professionals use this guide, at the bedside, to better communicate with patients in various acute care settings, like Emergency Rooms and Urgent Care Clinics.

Text and Textuality in Early Medieval Iberia offers a new approach to the sociocultural history of the northern Iberian Peninsula in the early Middle Ages, using the first complete survey of the over 4,000 surviving Latin legal records from the period to explore the workings of literacy and documentation.

Analyses a wide range of major COVID-19 legal responses around the world, across criminal justice, regulatory, liability, bioethical, human rights, and other issues.

Provides a sophisticated account of both the internal dynamics and external influences in the evolution of Islam in the region

Attacking conventional wisdom, Weighill and Gaub argue that NATO's intervention in Libya was soundly conceived and executed

A compelling account of the struggle for the soul of Indonesian Islam.

How developing countries manage their climb to power--with case studies from China, Brazil and India.

Providing an on-the-ground account of the Israeli-Palestine conflict, Klein argues that the aggressive Israeli settlement programme has shifted the Israeli-Palestine dispute from a border struggle to an ethnic conflict.

From Tangier to Jakarta, and from Western capitals to those of the Arab world, Saudi Arabia has confirmed its status as a kingdom without borders. This work sheds light on this regional and international power and its ambitions to project its influence beyond its frontiers in three interrelated spheres of activity.

In January 2006 Hamas, an organisation classified by Western governments as terrorist, was democratically elected to govern the Palestinian territories. Drawing on interviews with members of Hamas and its critics, this book offers an analysis of Hamas' understanding of its ideology and the tension between its dual commitment to God and the people.

Offers a set of essays that examines the border zones of Islamic civilisation, be they geographical, cultural or virtual. This book explores the local dynamics in these zones to test whether or not they support or contradict professor Samuel P Huntingdon's thesis of an emerging global confrontation between Islamic civilisation and its neighbours.

George Kassimeris explores the complexity of the motivations and emotions of those who have led Greece's network of modern terrorist groups and urban guerrillas.

An insight into Syria's most influential Islamist movement and how its rebirth from the ashes of history is shaping the conflict in Syria. The author draws on previously untapped sources, including interviews with the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood.

The Mediterranean Sea has been a crucial site of cross-cultural exchange since the beginning of human history. This book is certain to become the definitive work on the Mediterranean Sea for generations.

First published in 1976, J.M. Robert's The New History of the World is a one of the landmark works of our era. It has been fully revised and updated to offer a substantial, authoritative, and truly global narrative of world history.