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This book describes all aspects of quantitative approaches to urban population growth, ranging from measures and empirical results such as the famous Zipf law, to the mathematical description of their evolution.

This incisive entry in the Classical Presences series explores the afterlife and influence of Apuleius' tale of Cupid and Psyche in European literature and art from 1650 to the present.

David Davies examines the ontology of multiple artworks, such as books and musical performances. He argues against a theory of multiple works as 'types' that are independent of creative and appreciative acts, instead defending a view on which they are performances essentially embedded in artistic practices.

The Thought of Bal Gangadhar Tilak is a systematic study of Bal Gangadhar Tilak's thoughts, focusing on his views on 'communal' relations within the Indian polity, on caste and reform in Hindu society, and on political ethics regarding violence and non-cooperation.

Employing several historical case studies between 1940-2003 and marshalling a host of primary sources, William D. James argues that British politicians and officials have thought in grand strategic terms under American hegemony - even if they do not realise or admit to this.

Roger M. Solomon examines how EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) therapy can help process the trauma of loss and the obstacles that interfere with the grief and mourning process, highlighting how EMDR can help a mourner experience a positive sense of connection through heartfelt, meaningful memories.

This book explores the development of posttraumatic stress reactions and other psychological symptoms in people suffering from physical illnesses. It looks at the differentiating factors in patients with illnesses such as myocardial infarction, cancer, HIV, vascular and neurological diseases, respiratory diseases and autoimmune diseases.

Rational leadership inspires confidence by capably using appropriate rational means, as described in the first edition of Rational Leadership. Now a second, much enlarged edition has added eight new chapters and has looked at redevelopment as well as development

This seventh edition of the leading and most detailed work on the law of minority shareholders examines the impact of recent important case law from the UK, Hong Kong, Singapore, and the Caribbean.

This book offers an intellectually fierce defence of Libertarian Free Will seen from a neuroscientific and biological perspective. Tse argues that causation in living systems is dominated by non-linear goal-seeking automatic feedback loops and a continual criterial reparameterization of what will count as an adequate solution to goal fulfilment.

Stanley Fish focuses on well-known movies (such as Anatomy of a Murder, Twelve Angry Men, or A Man for All Seasons) that take law as their subject, and explains how legal doctrine is made into the stuff of plot and character. A book for movie lovers written in an accessible and engaging style.

Off-Stage Groups in Athenian Drama analyses how off-stage groups in fifth- and early fourth-century tragedy and comedy influence and respond to events on stage, and how characters interact with these groups. Alexandra Hardwick argues that Athenian drama engages with early ideas of group psychology, providing ways to explore collective emotion.

Conversations with Dostoevsky presents a series of fictional conversations between George Pattison and Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky. The conversations deal with a range of topics including suicide, guilt, the Bible, nationalism, war, and God. The volume also includes commentaries which contextualize the issues discussed in the conversations.

Criminalizing Intimate Image Abuse strives to generate new conceptual and theoretical frameworks to address the legal responses to intimate image abuse by bringing together a number of scholars involved in the study of image abuse over recent years.

The first comprehensive study of Italian Christian Democracy in English, Italy's Christian Democracy unravels the encounter between Catholicism and democracy from pre-unification Italy in the eighteenth century to the near-present.

Recent research has found high levels of stress and burnout amongst medical students, leading to students dropping out or leaving the profession early. This book explores burnout in medical students from across the globe, and provides ideas for a model of care to help educators and individuals take steps towards better student wellbeing.

This volume investigates a wide range of topics in the study of Gothic, the oldest Germanic language to be attested in any substantial texts. It covers issues in sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, phonology, derivational morphology, verbal syntax, and discourse structure

This book introduces readers to an important but largely unknown strand of European modernism in Vienna--defining a new domestic culture (Wohnkultur)--one that often found itself at odds with the more well-known sleek, monumental approaches in Germany, France, and Italy, while navigating a complicated and perilous moment in history.

Using extensive original archival research, this book argues that women practiced, learned about, and taught others the Christian faith through their life writings (including letters and diaries) forming and shaping religious communities in ways that supplemented the more formal spiritual and didactic writings of male ministers and theologians.

Character, Circumstances, and Criminal Careers explores and explains the causes and drivers of criminal involvement from adolescence into young adulthood. The book presents an original theory and a uniquely detailed study to explore the relationship between individual and environmental factors across a critical developmental period.

This book explores the micro-variation in the realization of definiteness across languages belonging to the Balkan Romance family: Romanian, Aromanian, Istro-Romanian and Megleno-Romanian. Daniela Isac offers a unified analysis of the different patterns observed, based on a post-syntactic spell-out rule.

An insightful addition to the Oxford Cultural Psychiatry series, Psychiatry of Intellectual Disability across Cultures explores the health, support structures, and societal attitudes towards people with intellectual disabilities throughout the world.

Combining insights from comparative politics, party politics, comparative political economy, and welfare state research, the book provides novel insights into how the radical right manufactures consent for authoritarian rule.

This second edition of Effective Investigation of Child Homicide and Suspicious Deaths offers a sensitive, balanced, and informed practical approach to managing the investigation of child death.

Foreign Policy Analysis puts theoretical approaches front and centre without neglecting the righ connection with international relations theories. This book challenges Western-centric perspectives on foreign policy analysis and reflects the rise of non-Western scholarship in the field.

The Irish experience of Christianity has never been simple or uncomplicated. Here, Crawford Gribben describes the ancient emergence, long dominance, sudden division, and recent decline of Ireland's most important religion, as a way of telling the history of the island and its peoples, from earliest times to the present day.

The credence framework is widely used for working with probabilities in science, social science, and policy. Anna Mahtani argues that credences are not about objects in themselves, but rather about objects under a designator, and that this insight has far-reaching implications for our understanding of rationality, decision theory, and economics.

A new translation of a work by one of the outstanding thinkers of the later Middle Ages, William Ockham. Ockham's purpose in writing was to advocate for freedom of thought and speech within the Church, to restrain coercion in matters of belief, and to provide a theological framework for deposing a pope.