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This book offers a groundbreaking account of interactions between the interwar Soviet Union and early Republican Turkey, uncovering a Soviet-Turkish 'statist internationalism' that arose as a direct response/reaction to the Western-led 'Paris order' and that continues to shape the world today.

This is the tenth volume of Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy. The series aims to publish some of the best contemporary work in the vibrant field of political philosophy and its closely related subfields, including jurisprudence, normative economics, political theory in political science departments, and just war theory.

Mark G. Brett the explores the complexities that have emerged in the interactions between biblical interpretation and colonial theories of Indigenous natural rights. This wide-ranging study shows how the legacies of these interactions still shape the laws of property and our understanding of Indigenous rights and responsibilities today.

This innovative exploration of the literature, history, and culture of the Apennines links a twenty-first century journey along the walking trail of the 'Great Apennine Excursion' to accounts and discussions of past travellers--including pilgrims, merchants, tourists, soldiers, partisans, and poets--from the Medieval period up to World War Two.

This is a collective study of philosophical questions to do with experts and expertise, such as: What is an expert? Who decides who the experts are? Should we always defer to experts? How should expertise inform public policy? What happens when the experts disagree? Must experts be unbiased? Does it matter what the source of the expertise is?

Matti Eklund explores the idea that language might have a completely different structure to the languages we know, and that reality might be such that some alien language, using different kinds of semantic tools represents reality better than our languages do: reality might have alien structure.

Drawing on critical theory, criminological analysis, and multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork, Victims and the Labour of Justice at the International Criminal Court illuminates how the ICC's victim engagement functions to reproduce the Court as a relevant institution and to transform victims in the Global South into productive capitalist subjects.

France is famous for philosophy: this Handbook explores the riches and interest of this great intellectual tradition since 1800. Specially written essays by leading experts illuminate key movements and positions, themes and thinkers in French philosophy,exploring the ideas in their historical context.

FIight, Flight, Mimic is the first systematic study of deceptive mimicry in the context of wars.

Examines the historical background and philosophical content of Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten's Elements of First Practical Philosophy and its relation to the work of Immanuel Kant. A comprehensive, balanced, and ground-breaking treatment of this neglected aspect of classical German philosophy.

Through a case study of informers in Communist Czechoslovakia, this book unravels the complex drivers behind informing and the dynamics of societal reactions to informing. This book centres the role of emotions and underscores the value of dignity and reconciliation in transitional reconstruction.

Kofi Annan was the most significant and influential Secretary-General of the United Nations. Kofi Annan and Global Leadership at the United Nations is a study of how Annan conceived his role as Secretary-General and exercised global leadership at a turbulent period in world affairs.

This book describes how chemical reactions take place at the atomic level and how one can calculate the rate of such reactions. The book features a systematic and comprehensive presentation of the subject with a wide range of examples and end-of-chapter problems.

Nearly a century has passed since Eleazar Lipa Sukenik delivered the Schweich Lectures on ancient synagogues in Palestine and Greece, establishing a typology and chronology of synagogue buildings in Palestine that have remained tremendously influential. Ancient Synagogues in Palestine reconsiders his conclusions in light of new discoveries.

Austinian Themes offers a reconstruction of philosophical views on several themes developed by J. L. Austin. Marina Sbisà draws on both published work as well as unpublished manuscript notes to offer a defence of Austin's speech act theory and views on truth, perception, and philosophical method.

Amid the emerging trend of private claims being brought against parent companies of transnational corporations in English and other Western courts, Tort Litigation against Transnational Corporations places the discussion of parent company liability cases in the context of the changing role of private international law in a globalised world.

Newman and Justification examines John Henry Newman's via media 'doctrine of the justifying presence' in his Lectures on Justification. T. L. Holtzen contends that Newman put forth his via media doctrine of the justifying presence by employing a trinitarian grammar of divine inhabitation.

Escrito por profesionales del IB con gran pericia y experiencia y desarrollado en cooperación con el IB, esta edición de 2023 del libro del curso de Biología, del PD ofrece:

A book about Aristotle's rejection of Plato's doctrine of the Form of the Good. It argues that, according to Aristotle, when we generalize from virtues to goodness, we wrongly form a presumption of univocity which, even if defensible in some cases, is indefensible in the general case.

This book systematically examines the portrayals of women in Martial's Epigrams, proposing a new method of exploring the cultural construction of femininity in the Flavian age and demonstrating the extent to which the social roles and identities of women in ancient Rome were constructed and policed through semiotic categories.

Translating Europe in Ælfric's 'Lives of Saints' is the first study of the representation of European peoples, places and geographies in the Lives of Saints, one of early medieval England's most famed works.

Jonathan Herring's unique and bestselling approach of separating out the doctrinal and theoretical aspects of the law, alongside expertly selected extracts, makes this book enduringly popular with students and teachers.

The Oxford Handbook of Indian Politics provides the latest and most comprehensive overview of the state of contemporary Indian politics and examines the evolution of its core institutions, processes, policies, and associated issues over the past decade.

A scholarly edition of The Philocalia of Origen presenting a new translation in English alongside an amended facing-page version of J. Armitage Robinson's Greek text. The edition includes an introduction, critical apparatus, and annotations for the expert and new reader.

This volume traces how American literature evolved in response to widespread conflicts over the very nature of US democracy in the early republic and antebellum eras. It examines how American writers reacted to three moments of profound divisiveness in the 1790s, 1830s, and 1850s.

Glanville and Pattison examine how states should prioritize their global responsibilities while facing multiple ongoing and emerging challenges, from climate change to global disease, mass atrocities to forced displacement, humanitarian crises to entrenched global poverty.

Focusing on the history of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics following its centenary, this book provides a novel and unique perspective on the interrelation of science and politics in international arenas and describes the attempts of physicists to play a diplomatic role in governing international scientific institutions.