Bøger udgivet af Oxford University Press

This book analyses the nature, significance, and implications of the transformation of the prohibition of torture and other cruel, inhuman treatment or punishment in international law. Through an integrated human rights approach, it argues that the prohibition plays a critical role in highlighting and addressing widespread structural suffering.

Set against the rapid aging of the world's population, Human Rights and the Care of Older People explores the potential for the rule against torture and ill-treatment in international human rights law to better protect older people from care-related mistreatment.

Palestinian Political Organizations in Israeli Prisons looks at Palestinian political activity within Israeli prisons. It traces the changes from the Oslo Accords onwards and examines the evolution and changes within the Palestinian Prisoners Movement and the structural opportunities and constraints that inform collective resistance today.

The Oxford Critical Guide to Homer's Iliad makes learning about this foundational epic easier than ever, investigating each of its 24 books in order, devoting one chapter to each book. Chapters summarize a books' plot, then investigate its themes and poetics, providing close readings of individual passages and reviews of current scholarship.

This book is the first to examine the history of imaginative thinking about intelligent machines, featuring contributions from leading humanities and social science scholars who detail the narratives about artificial intelligence (AI) that in turn offer a crucial epistemic site for exploring contemporary debates about these powerful technologies.

Iterated Knowledge presents new theories of the strongest form of knowledge: when one knows something, knows that one knows, and knows every iteration of knowledge regarding it. Goldstein critically compares these theories, giving treatments of justified belief, rational certainty, and normative requirements on assertion and action.

Authoritative, analytical, and concise, McFarlane, Hopkins and Nield's Land Law provides succinct coverage on the core areas without sacrificing depth or detail. The authors' unique approach to land law arms students with the tools to apply an independent, critical thought process to the content covered in classes and assessments.

A comprehensive guide to the cognitive analytic therapy (CAT) model, balancing established theory and practice alongside a focus on innovation in both direct work with clients and the application of CAT more broadly within teams, organizations, and training.

This handbook provides a comprehensive account of how international law is understood and practiced in Europe, separated into parts covering Europe's values, intellectual traditions, and institutions, as well as examinations of European countries.

The epic is an ancient, diverse, and global art form. This Very Short Introduction aims to showcase the scope and variety of epic storytelling around the world. Welch takes a global approach that traces key resemblances between the European classics and traditional heroic poetry from Africa, Central Asia, and the Near East.

This book provides a systematic analysis of the principle of non-intervention from a historical, theoretical, and systematic perspective. Roscini argues that the principle is strictly linked to some fundamental notions of international law, such as sovereignty, use of force, self-determination, and human rights protection.

Zero Poverty Society assesses the current state of minimum income protection in the rich world, building on original empirical analysis.

This Very Short Introduction argues that all faith needs reason, putting contemporary discussions into historical perspective, and shows that faith also involves a commitment to action. It matters for all social life, because religion is typically directed at what is seen as of crucial importance for human life.

Katharine Sykes examines a new type of household to emerge in early medieval England: the monastic household. Reproducing through education and training, rather than biological means, monastic households introduce new ideas of spiritual, non-biological reproduction to their royal and secular counterparts.

Using documentary evidence and interviews from leading policy actors from the period, Women and Employment in Public Policy takes as its starting point the UK Women and Work Commission, which was convened in 2004 to examine causes of the gender pay gap.

This book provides a comprehensive exploration of the intricate interplay between national security, foreign direct investment, and competition policy in an increasingly interconnected global economy.

Using an Africa-centric approach, Protecting Geographical Indications in Africa guides readers through the opportunities offered by GIs and the legal mechanisms available for their protection. The book provides a systematic overview of the laws regarding GIs at OAPI and ARIPO, as well as in 10 African countries.

Read Write Inc. Phonics Book Bag Books are engaging texts to support children with additional reading practice outside the classroom. The books are uniquely matched to the existing Read Write Inc. Phonics Storybooks to reinforce children's learning of phonics at the appropriate level, helping them to make even faster progress in reading.

Read Write Inc. Phonics Book Bag Books are engaging texts to support children with additional reading practice outside the classroom. The books are uniquely matched to the existing Read Write Inc. Phonics Storybooks to reinforce children's learning of phonics at the appropriate level, helping them to make even faster progress in reading.

Read Write Inc. Phonics Book Bag Books are engaging texts to support children with additional reading practice outside the classroom. The books are uniquely matched to the existing Read Write Inc. Phonics Storybooks to reinforce children's learning of phonics at the appropriate level, helping them to make even faster progress in reading.

This book explores the deep contestations of the liberal script in the contemporary United States from a variety of perspectives, and shows that the rise of Donald Trump is a symptom and a catalyst, but not the cause, of the current crisis in US democracy.

The first book in any language to provide a comprehensive portrait of the origins of aid to political prisoners and exiles in late nineteenth-century Russia, showing how a series of aid organizations emerged from the nascent radical liberationist movement of the 1870s-80s.