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The Renaissance Battle for Rome examines the rhetorical battle fought simultaneously between a wide variety of parties (individuals, groups, authorities) seeking prestige or legitimacy through the legacy of ancient Rome--a battle over the question of whose claims to this legacy were most legitimate. Distinguishing four domains--power, morality, cityscape and literature--in which ancient Rome represented a particularly powerful example, this book traces the contours of this rhetorical battle across Renaissance Europe, based on a broad selection of Humanist Latin Poetry. It shows how humanist poets negotiated different claims on behalf of others and themselves in their work, acting both as "spin doctors" and "new Romans", while also undermining competing claims to this same idealized past. By so doing this book not only offers a new understanding of several aspects of the Renaissance that are usually considered separately, but ultimately allows us to understand Renaissance culture asa constant negotiation between appropriating and contesting the idea and ideal of "Rome."

This translation of twenty tales shows Maupassant at his bitter, bawdy, chilling best. It features some of his grimmest and most famous stories such as A Vendetta and The Grove of Olives, and it also reflects both his moods and his mastery of the short story.

This book critically examines human rights due diligence as a tool of transnational labour law. It explores how the concept of HRDD has been received and institutionalised, and what the concept's ascension means for the protection and promotion of workers' rights in global supply chains.

City of God, composed in the early fifth century, is one of the great classics of western culture. Augustine was a teacher of rhetoric before he was bishop of Hippo on the coast of North Africa. In Books 6-10 he used all his skill to argue against those who think that many gods should be worshipped for blessings in the life to come.

This book shows why it is that Dostoevsky became the writer best known for his treatment of the big questions of ethics, religion, and philosophy through an incisive analysis of Dostoevsky's stories within the context of their time.

This volume explores the ways in which historical linguistics and language change interact with ideology. The chapters present twelve in-depth case studies that cover topics ranging from the location of the Indo-European homeland to language policy in the former Yugoslavia.

The story of the troubled accession of England's first Scottish king and the transition from the age of the Tudors to the age of the Stuarts at the dawn of the seventeenth century.

Drawing on feminist and poststructuralist understandings of ethics and hospitality, this book offers a new approach to immigration ethics by exploring state and societal responses to immigration from the Global North and South.

Samuel Pufendorf (1632-1694) is regarded as one of the eminent thinkers of the early-modern era, critical in the shaping of the period's natural jurisprudence. In this interdisciplinary collection of essays, esteemed scholars examine Pufendorf's contributions to international political and legal thought.

The New Oxford Shakespeare edition of The Merry Wives of Windsor provides a friendly yet authoritative introduction to Shakespeare's beloved comedy.

In the first comprehensive study on the issue, Kolawole Olaniyan challenges the conventional notion that sovereign and ownership rights over proceeds of corruption should be exclusively exercised by States. He examines the relationship between the right to wealth and natural resources, proceeds of corruption, and economic activities.

The New Oxford Shakespeare edition of Romeo and Juliet provides a fresh and authoritative introduction to one of Shakespeare's most famous tragedies.

The New Oxford Shakespeare edition of The Tempest provides a friendly yet authoritative introduction to Shakespeare's famous play.

A new edition of one of Shakespeare's most complex and enigmatic plays.

The New Oxford Shakespeare edition of Henry IV Part I provides a friendly yet authoritative introduction to Shakespeare's famous history play.

The New Oxford Shakespeare edition of As You Like It provides a friendly yet authoritative introduction to Shakespeare's beloved comedy.

The New Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative editions of Shakespeare's works with introductory materials designed to encourage new interpretations of the plays and poems.

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Research has shown that young babies - well before they form their first bond to a caring adult - enjoy participating in groups and group processes. Babies in Groups examines the consequences of these findings for science, for early education practice and policy, and for adult psychotherapy. The authors report research showing the extensive capacity of preverbal infants for group-communication in all-baby trios and quartets, backed by findings about primate sociability, the social brain, cultural histories, and human evolution. These studies open up new ways of imagining human development as fundamentally group-based. In addition, the authors explore the changes that a group-based vision of infancy could bring to early child education and care. They also show how ignoring group contexts in many clinical traditions can distort descriptions of what happens in therapy, producing such unintended consequences as 'mother-blaming' for the future problems an infant may experience as she or he grows up. Finally, the book's appendix summarises the main forms of evidence which falsify claims that science has proven that an inborn gift for dyadic 'intersubjectivity, ' or for one-to-one infant-adult attachments, founds human social development.

A uniquely prismatic representation of total solar eclipses, this volume invites us to imagine a liberated mode of discovery, perception, creativity, and knowledge-production across the traditional academic divisions.

A concise and lively overview of the intriguing and provocative life and ideas of twentieth century French philosopher, mystic, and social activist Simone Weil. The breadth, poignancy, and prescience of Weil's philosophy has much to offer us in our times of personal, communal, political, and environmental crises.

State responses to terrorism have shaped politics and society globally. But how far, and in what precise ways, has counter-terrorism actually succeeded? This book offers an historically-grounded, systematic, and expert interrogation of the effectiveness of state responses to terrorist violence from one of the world's leading experts on terrorism.

This account of George Eliot's spiritual life reveals a writer who devoted the full span of her career to imagining a wide religious sensibility that could inform personal and social life. As we range among Eliot's many literary works, we encounter someone whose extraordinary art and intellect offers us company in the search for modern meaning.

Presents current scholarship on race and racism in Shakespeare's works. The Handbook offers an overview of approaches used in early modern critical race studies through fresh readings of the plays; an exploration of new methodologies and archives; and sustained engagement with race in contemporary performance, adaptation, and activism.

When a meteor crashes into a woodland, some of the residents find that they have gained strange new superpowers. Some will use it for evil, but others, like Sonny the Squirrel, will always use his super size and strength for good. A graphic novel series full of supersized heart, adventure, and laughs!

Enter the world of The Wind in the Willows, where Mole and Ratty explore the riverbanks with new friend Toad. This heartwarming tale of friendship, with stunning illustrations and a new introduction from David Roberts, is perfect for all ages.

A staunch loner, lean 'n' mean prickle machine Cactus Joe learns to value having others in his life in this heartwarming story about friendship.

Privacy matters because it shields us from possible abuses of power. In the age of AI and the internet it is more important than ever. Carissa Veliz offers a much needed philosophical account of privacy by exploring five basic questions: What is privacy? Where does it come from? Why does it matter? What should we do about it? Where are we now?

Maja Spener offers an original systematic account of introspection which clarifies its epistemic importance in theorising about the mind. She draws together philosophy and psychology, distingushing between introspection as inquiry and as mental capacity, and presents a new framework for the assessment of introspective methods.

A detailed study of the late Anglo-Saxon stone sculpture of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire. Uses full descriptions of all known carvings as a platform for analysis of ecclesiastical and cultural location of stone-sculpture within late Anglo-Saxon and early Norman society.

This book presents a rare glimpse into the rhetorical machinations of one of the world's most brutal terrorist groups. For scholars of terrorist literature, there is no comparable product on this group or other groups in South Asia.