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Statius' Achilleid tells the story of the mythical Achilles and, in particular, his time hiding disguised as a girl on the island of Scyros. This new Latin text with facing-page English translation is accompanied by an introduction and commentary exploring the poem's mythical background, literary models, and treatment of gender and sexuality.

The main focus of this volume is to increase our understanding of the "learning turn" referring, in this book, to the frequent occurrence and usage of terms in the last few decades where the word "learning" is the premodifier, such as "learning city" and "learning organization".

Rabbit wants to enjoy a day at the park with his friends, but the sun, rain and snow make picking the right outfit impossible. The animal friends find out all about weather, with plenty of silliness along the way!

Company Law provides an in-depth, sophisticated but readable account of the major topics commonly studied in company law courses. Hannigan captures the dynamism of the subject, highlights its relevance and topicality and, above all, helps students master its intricacies.

This text presents statistical mechanics and thermodynamics as a theoretically integrated field of study. It stresses deep coverage of fundamentals, providing a natural foundation for advanced topics. The large problem sets (with solutions for teachers) include many computational problems to advance student understanding.

Criminal Law explains, analyses, and critiques the criminal law. Contextual coverage ensures that students can enjoy a comprehensive understanding of this most fascinating subject.

Gianferrari explores the early education Dante would have received in medieval Florence and its influence on his literary works. He reconstructs literacy instruction in late-medieval Italy to offer a compelling new reading of two of the world most famous literary works, Dante's Vita nova and Commedia.

Anderson and Piccinini offer the most systematic, rigorous, and comprehensive account of computational implementation to date. Their robust mapping account holds that the key for establishing that a computation is physically implemented is that the physical states bear neither more nor less information than the computational states they map onto.

Written primarily for 16-19-year-old students, this primer introduces the subject of developmental biology through a diverse range of organisms.

Have you ever wondered why music is so powerful? Want to know why it impacts what we feel? Written by musical expert Professor Nathan Holder, The World of Music and How it Moves Us will tell you everything you need to know.

This book explores how premodern Ottomans characterised public office corruption and what specific transgressions they associated with this notion before the nineteenth century. It identifies articulations of self-interested abuses of power in this context and illustrates how they resonate in some ways with modern perspectives.

There is a long-standing tradition in philosophy that defines imagination as engaging with things that are not real or present; as a kind of fantasy. Immanuel Kant offered an original theory of imagination as something that shapes our encounters with what is real, present, and pervades our lives. This book brings this theory of imagining to light.

With contributions from the world's leading scholars and emerging research leaders, this volume develops the theoretical, disciplinary, empirical, and normative boundaries of blame-based analyses.

Instead of taking a regional approach which dominates the literature on political parties, this volume takes a global perspective. It brings together experts from four continents, which opens up fresh comparative perspectives on the role of political parties in the democratic process.

Richard Rufus of Cornwal: Scriptum in Metaphysicam Aristotelis offers a profound insight into Aristotelian philosophy and introduces fresh interpretive perspectives, the analytical depth and clarity of which rival those of Thomas Aquinas. Rufus addresses critical questions that enhance our understanding of medieval thought.

Glorification Spells from a Priestly Milieu in Ancient Egypt presents the first comprehensive edition of a collection of glorification spells attested in five papyri from around 300 BCE. It includes a hieroglyphic synopsis of all known examples of the spells, and a transliteration and translation of the copy preserved in the Louvre.

This book is about how poems, as well as other kinds of art, show us how to experience them. It offers a new approach to criticism that recognises poetry as one among the arts of the built environment, insistently demonstrating art's ability to shape our understandings and practices of spatiality, movement, sensation, relation, and presence.

This book offers a historical account of the public debates, institutional monitoring, and private experiences of youth sexuality in Britain between the 1960s to the 1990s. It uses the Brook Advisory Centre-a leading sexual health charity-as a case study to explore the changing British landscape of sexual politics during this period.

This little hardback book introduces the words little ones need to explore the science of the human body with confidence. The engaging art style and entertaining characters make the book fun to share, and because it's from Oxford, it's packed with educational goodness!

This little hardback book introduces the words little ones need to explore the science of the coding with confidence. The engaging art style and entertaining characters make the book fun to share, and because it's from Oxford, it's packed with educational goodness!

This book provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary analysis of the Trade & Cooperation Agreement (TCA) between the European Union (EU) and the United Kingdom (UK). It unpacks the complex provisions of the agreement, identifies emerging security challenges, and examines the evolution of EU-UK trade relations as a result of the Windsor Framework.

The Oxford Handbook of Environmental and Natural Resources Law in India offers the most comprehensive coverage of the diverse and complex discipline of environmental and natural resources law in India over the past fifty years.

Shelby and Wade go to stay with Gran for the summer, and Gran reveals an amazing secret - she comes from a city under the sea! Together, they must thwart the plans of Captain Pincer.Readerful is designed to motivate children to read more. This Independent Library book is for pupils in Y3/P4 at Oxford Reading Level 13 to read without support.