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Where does disease come from? How is it transmitted from one person to another? Why are some individuals more susceptible than others? Marta Wayne and Benjamin Bolker address these questions through the lenses of ecology and evolution and illustrate why major diseases still threaten populations all over the world.

In this wide-ranging study, Erica Sheen explores the various ways in which Shakespeare, or the idea of Shakespeare, was entangled in literary, cultural, political and diplomatic, legal, and economic attempts to articulate the tensions and opportunities of the early Cold War period.

Excavating experiences of over a thousand women in service from church court testimony, Mansell argues that early modern service was unstable, but finely graded, fluid, and contingent. Intervening in histories of labour, gender, freedom, and law, Female Servants in Early Modern England rethinks our understanding of the institution of service.

Preparing for War, based upon extensive archival research and critical legal methodologies, explores the often misunderstood history of the 1949 Geneva Conventions, among the most important rules for armed conflict ever formulated.

Derek Ball argues that disputes about matters of definition are not just about the meanings of words or our concepts, and they do not typically involve change of meaning. Instead, engaging in an investigation or a discussion helps determine the meanings of our words without changing them; what is determined is the meaning our words had all along.

Freedom of Speech in International Law charts the minimum protections for speech enshrined in international human rights law. It not only addresses the problems facing free speech today but offers recommendations to give effect to the international-law obligation to protect freedom of expression.

Drawing from interviews with refugees and asylum seekers, Dehumanization in the Global Migration Crisis presents a philosophical, yet empirically grounded account of what dehumanization entails.

Building a New Economy uses an evolutionary conceptual framework of states-and-markets, organizations-and-technology, and institutional change. It shows how the institutional coherence of the manufacturing-centred postwar model broke down, and was followed by the ideological and institutional dissonance of the 'lost decades'.

This volume offers new perspectives on the tension between the rich patterns of language variation that emerge from comparative studies and the quest for simple theoretical primitives. The chapters analyze a wide range of phenomena, and relate them to fundamental questions of universality, linguistic variation, and learnability.

Big Science, Innovation and Societal Contributions offers a connection between Big Science and its societal impacts from a multidisciplinary perspective, drawing on physics and astrophysics scholars to explain the reasoning behind their work, and how such knowledge can be applied to everyday life.

This book deals with the category of case and where to place it in grammar. Chapters explore a range of issues relating to the division between syntactic Case and morphological case, investigating the relevant phenomena, and drawing on data from a variety of typologically diverse languages.

The Practical Self argues that self-consciousness requires faith in ourselves as the agents of our thinking and that this faith is sustained by practices which relate us to other thinkers. Self-consciousness connects us to a world of others.

London, 1984 examines the history of London during the tumultuous 1980s. Against the backdrop of dramatic political and social change driven by Margaret Thatcher and the Conservative government, it explores the radical politics of the capital, tracing the impact of political and social changes on the lives of ordinary Londoners.

Cancer is a problem that touches virtually everyone either directly or indirectly. As one of the biggest killers in the Western world it is feared by many people. In this Very Short Introduction, Nick James examines the trends and treatment of cancer, looking at efforts to develop treatments, research into cures, and the future of cancer care.

Derek Walcott's Encounter with Homer puts Walcott's epic poem Omeros in conversation with Homer to show how reading them against each other changes our understanding of both. Rachel Friedman examines Walcott's use of the Homeric persona of Omeros to explore his own deepening relationship with his craft and his identity as a Caribbean poet.

A well-articulated response to the growing scholarly conversation on democratic backsliding and resilience, this essay collection considers recent democratising events in Ethiopia, The Gambia, Malaysia, Maldives, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, and Thailand.

This volume showcases the most innovative current scholarship in historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, and in the burgeoning field of historical sociolinguistics which lies at their intersection. The work is underpinned by a range of different approaches and highlights new directions for linguistic research on the French language.

This volume brings together for the first time two lesser-known aspects of Gerard Manley Hopkins's creative drive: his sketches and drawings and his musical compositions. The drawings are presented with a full introduction and annotations. The musical compositions feature as both manuscript facsimiles and new transcriptions.

Justice and Memory after Dictatorship: Latin America, Eastern Europe and the Fragmentation of International Criminal Law provides a ground-breaking socio-historical account of the global transformation of international criminal law after the fall of dictatorships at the end of the 1980s.

This book examines the causes and resulting harms of corruption and collusion in the public procurement sphere and offers practical guidance for states to combat these practices.

Combining the key theoretical and empirical approaches of political economy and EU scholarship, this textbook is key reading for studying the European political economy. Drawing on theoretical debates and recent policy case studies, a team of expert editors and contributors help students apply theories and methods to real life issues in European political economy. This textbook offers a clear analysis of some of the most pressing challenges confronting Europe, such as the political impact of rising inequality, the functioning and the effects of Economic and Monetary Union, the future of the 'European' social model, the ongoing impact of Brexit, Europe's role in a changing global economy, and Europe's response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Key features: - Delivers a research-informed, yet reader friendly textbook on European Political Economy. - Establishes 4 key theoretical and methodological approaches, giving students the conceptual tools needed to examine the dynamic interactions between politics and economics in Europe.- Covers substantive issues in European Political Economy, including monetary and financial integration, welfare and labour, trade and development, migration, health and inequality, globalisation, and the environment.- Supports students' learning with 'key debate' boxes and case studies, helping students to apply theories and methods to real life issues.Digital formats and resources European Political Economy is available for students and institutions to purchase in a variety of formats. The e-book offers a mobile experience and convenient access along with links to further reading and links that offer extra learning support: www.oxfordtextbooks.co.uk/ebooks https://www.oxfordtextbooks.co.uk/ebooks

Smith, Hogan, & Ormerod's Criminal Law is rightly regarded as the leading doctrinal textbook on criminal law in England and Wales. Published in its first edition over fifty years ago, it continues to be a key text for undergraduates and an essential reference source for practitioners.

This book is about the idea that goodness is the correctness condition for desire, in the same way that truth is the correctness condition for belief. Allan Hazlett argues that, given this similarity between desire and belief, desires, like beliefs, can both amount to knowledge and be justified or unjustified.

Phronesis, or practical wisdom, has interested philosophers and psychologists for millennia. In this book Kristján Kristjánsson and Blaine J. Fowers work through some of the relevant puzzles created by the recent phronesis discourse, filling gaps in the current literatures, and pushing the research agenda in new directions.

Thomas Hobbes is now regarded as one of England's greatest political philosophers. This book considers his reception in Ireland, where, it is suggested, the 'Leviathan' was released. In doing so, the book demonstrates the variety and sophistication of political thought in Ireland.

Keeping the Peace in the Village is a study of how rural society evolved in the century after 1650. Based on extensive research in German archives, particularly in local court records, the book examines how rural people sought peace in the aftermath of the Thirty Years' War. An understandable desire for peace and order co-existed with the reality of day-to-day conflicts common to any face-to-face community. An important consequence of the tension between conflict and the desire for peace was that people increasingly used local courts to help in resolving conflicts. One focus of the book is on the nature of conflicts in rural society. While the majority conflicts that appear in the archival record are between propertied men, women, farm laborers, and servants also found reasons for conflict and also brought their cases to court. Honor disputes were ubiquitous in this society and everyone defended their honor, in court, with their fists, and with their words. Slander cases made up a large part of each court session.>The interplay of peacemaking and conflict at the local level, and the growing role of local courts, had important implications for the growth of state power. Although study examines developments in several small and lightly governed southwest German states, there is nevertheless clear evidence of state formation in the century after 1650. Key to this process was the way local people used local officials and local judicial institutions to solve local conflicts. The result was a kind of state formation from below. This study argues that a local perspective is vital for understanding the development of the state and provides evidence of popular support for a state that provided important services to rural people.