Bøger udgivet af Oxford University Press

This book explores the EU legislative process and asks how moving the legislature to the centre of legal analysis changes our understanding of the EU Court of Justice's role. The book offers a theory of legislative interpretation that enables judicial officials to interpret legislation in accordance with legislative intent.

This practical reference guide supplies the reader with a deeper understanding of the relevant co-morbidities in epilepsy as well as providing insights into strategies to help in the holistic treatment of patients.

This book argues that we are currently witnessing a historic arc in the trajectories of state intervention, characterized by a drastic reconfiguration of the state's role as promoter, supervisor, shareholder-investor, and direct owner of capital across the world economy.

This volume presents the first comprehensive overview in English of the languages of the Central Andes, spoken primarily in Peru and Bolivia. Chapters provide detailed descriptions of individual languages and substantial typological comparative analyses, as well as coverage of language history, language contact, and sociolinguistics.

Music, the Market, and the Marvellous examines féerie, the fairy play, recovering a large swathe of the theatrical landscape of nineteenth-century Paris. Forgotten plays are rediscovered, familiar works take on new meanings, and traditional historiographical narratives about drama and 'musical theatre' are thrown into question.

Investigating the grotesque aesthetics of a postdigital era, Memes, Monsters, and the Digital Grotesque offers a fresh and innovative approach to examining informal politics, monstrous aesthetics, and digital media.

Reading the Margins of the Early Modern Bible presents a new understanding of how notes in the margins of the Bible were read in early modernity. Horbury investigates the creative and surprising ways readers engaged with these margins, resisting narratives that present them as dangerous and seditious.

This book aims to review the field of lyotropic liquid crystals from amphiphilic to colloidal systems. It bridges the gap between the two worlds of lyotropics and thermotropics by showing that many of the features observed in standard thermotropic liquid crystals may also be observed in lyotropic systems and vice versa.

In Temporal Experience, Torrengo considers the core facts of temporal experience and their interconnections, ultimately defending the atomist dynamic model of temporal experience.

In this collection of linked essays analysing economic, social, and institutional structures, James Howard-Johnston aims to explain Byzantium's longevity, first as a state geared to fighting a two-centuries long guerrilla war of defence, then as an increasingly confident regional power.

As technology rapidly evolves, AI tools such as automated scoring and intelligent tutors are revolutionizing how we teach STEM subjects. The book discusses the benefits, challenges, and ethical implications. It's a comprehensive guide that showcases the future of education in an AI-driven world.

This volume in the 21st Century Oxford Authors series offers students an authoritative, comprehensive selection of the poetry and prose of John Dryden, the most important poet, dramatist, translator, and literary theorist of the later seventeenth century.

Explores how stones, rocks, and the broader mineral realm played a role in early modern England's religious and cultural systems that, in turn, informs the period's poetic and visual imagination. It studies the writings of Thomas More, William Shakespeare, George Herbert, Henry Vaughan, Lady Mary Wroth, John Donne, and John Milton, amongst others.

This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to Middle High German, aimed at graduate and undergraduate students and designed for both taught courses and self-study. It covers the language and literature of German in the period 1050-1350, including an entry-level grammar and a wide selection of texts with extensive explanatory material.

This volume is the first book-length overview of the Atlantic languages, a small family of languages spoken mainly on the Atlantic coast of West Africa. It is an essential tool for linguists interested in the languages of West Africa, language history and classification, and typology and language contact more broadly.

Environmental Law is structured thematically to provide far-reaching coverage of the fundamentals and allow students to develop critical thinking and high-level understanding. The accessible style provides clear content suitable for both new and experienced students of the subject.

The Universal Republic: A Realistic Utopia? examines whether a democratic world state is a feasible and desirable solution to the problem of establishing effective and just governance on the planet we share.

Alexander Wentker's Party Status to Armed Conflict in International Law explores why it matters and how it is established that a State, international organization, or armed group is a party to an armed conflict.

Beginning with the last years of the reign of Elizabeth I and ending late in the seventeenth century, this volume traces the growth of the literary marketplace, the development of poetic genres, and the participation of different writers in a century of poetic continuity, change, and transformation.

Occupational Health and Wellbeing for British Policing: A Primer aims to examine the role of occupational health within the police force. It considers how a health service is set up within a police force, assessing officer fitness, and managing physical and mental health.