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This Teacher's Book offers comprehensive support for the Practice Books with lesson guidance and additional ideas for teaching. Step-by-step support ensures easy implementation of the Practice Books with warm-ups, stretch and support activities, differentiated outcomes, example texts and a grammar glossary.

This book is about felony prosecution in late medieval England, which it argues was shaped by literary and legal ideas. Medieval lawmen found felony distasteful, leaving its definition and prosecution to ordinary people. Wang argues they turned to literary dramatic, and religious sources for their ideas of evidence, proof, and guilt.

The Woomera Manual on the International Law of Military Space Activities and Operations is the first comprehensive examination on international law of military space activities, covering all aspects across times of peace, tension or crisis, and armed conflict. It analyses the rapidly changing development of space by both states and NGOs.

The Woomera Manual on the International Law of Military Space Activities and Operations is the first comprehensive examination on international law of military space activities, covering all aspects across times of peace, tension or crisis, and armed conflict. It analyses the rapidly changing development of space by both states and NGOs.

In this volume Capra and Graziosi translate Luigi Settembrini's The Neoplatonists into English for the first time. They relate the tale to his life experiences, his political commitments, and his work as a classical scholar, offering a reassessment of the history of Italian sexuality, revolutionary thinking, and classical scholarship.

An expansive commentary to James Joyce's 1922 novel Ulysses with over 12,000 annotations that explain its many references from Shakespeare to popular culture, from Aquinas to horse racing, and from Dante to Dublin slang.

This book explains the transition from early to later European Middle Ages and how ideas can move history. By looking at the long lines of intellectual traditions back into Late Antiquity, Gabriele demonstrates the dynamism of medieval Europe's intellectual life and how much we can know about the period by listening closely to our sources.

Many Europeans struggle to understand where EU-centred Europeanization has led them. By reconstructing European public law in light of Article 2 of the Treaty on European Union (TEU), The Emergence of European Society Through Public Law offers a new narrative of European legal integration.

This book offers a sustained analysis of the fundamental rights of humans and nonhuman animals. It pioneers a new approach that focuses on species membership rather than individual capacities to challenge an orthodox view in scholarship on the rights of animals.

A perfect reference source for the practising plastic surgeon; the Oxford Textbook of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery is a comprehensive reference text detailing all aspects of plastic surgery pertinent to a surgeon in training for specialisation while also suitable for use in preparation for the Intercollegiate Examination.

This handbook provides detailed coverage of historical discoveries in cosmology, such as the expansion of the universe, the Big Bang theory and the cosmic background radiation. It also examines erroneous theories and some modern and still controversial theories, such as the idea of many universes known as the multiverse hypothesis.

Meritocratic Democracy examines the effectiveness of democracy as a decision-making system, the role of political leaders and political parties in real-world democracies and shows that cross-cultural dialogue is imperative to generate innovative solutions to pressing political issues and foster reciprocal corrections.

Growing awareness of real-world shocks including market downturns, health surprises, and labor market readjustment is calling into question the ability of global retirement systems to remain healthy and sustain future retirees.

Intervention before Interventionism is about the ways in which statespeople have re-ordered intervention and non-intervention since the middle of the twentieth century.

This book is about Saudi Arabia's efforts to overhaul its economy and the numerous prospects and challenges it faces in doing so. As one of the world's leading oil producers, the outcomes of the most ambitious wave of reforms Saudi Arabia has ever undertaken will also provide valuable lessons for other oil-dependent and resource-based economies.

The Oxford Handbook of British Romantic Prose is the first full-length essay collection devoted entirely to British Romantic nonfiction prose.