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Shakespeare's visionary women, usually confined to the periphery, claim centre stage to voice their sleeping and waking dreams. These women recount their visions through acts of rhetoric, designed to persuade and, crucially, to directly intervene in political action. The visions discussed in this Element are therefore not simply moments of inspiration but of political intercession. The vision performed or recounted on stage offers a proleptic moment of female speech that forces audiences to confront questions of narrative truth and women's testimony. This Element interrogates the scepticism that Shakespeare's visionary women face and considers the ways in which they perform the truth of their experiences to a hostile onstage audience. It concludes that prophecy gives women a brief moment of access to political conversations in which they are not welcome as they wrest narrative control from male speakers and speak their truth aloud.

This Element provides an analysis of social protection from an economic perspective. It describes the design of social protection programs, assesses the efficiency and performance of social protection programs, analyzes the relative merits of social and private insurance, and focuses on the implications of asymmetric information.

This book asks how competition and its protection through competition law are linked with democracy. It finds that the supposed symbiosis between competition (law) and democracy rests on a republican understanding of liberty as the absence of domination, which originates in ancient Roman thought.

Religion helped launch new journals and generate wide readerships that periodicals demanded. This book investigates the birth of the periodicals of the psychoanalytic movement before the First World War, after which psychoanalysis emerged in new languages, cultures, and media but never returned to its pre-war publishing systems.

The book premises that despite the long history of violence and discrimination against Dalits, their lives have transformed with the political and economic shifts in the country over the last three decades. It addresses these changes and interrogates the major aspects of Dalit experience associated with them.

Part intellectual history and part nuanced argument for change, this book explores how and why the question of what defines Christianity has become so vexing over the past century, and how believers could think differently about it in the future.

"Bringing together Middle East studies, histories of empire, and the medical humanities, Mandatory Madness offers an innovative and deeply researched new social and cultural history of Palestine before 1948, and a rethinking of the history and archives of psychiatry from a non-Western context under British colonial rule"--

What do all human languages have in common and in what ways are they different? How can language be used to trace different peoples and their past? Are certain languages similar because of common descent or language contact? Assuming no prior knowledge of linguistics, this textbook introduces readers to the rich diversity of human languages, familiarizing students with the variety and typology of languages around the world. Linguistic terms and concepts are explained, in the text and in the glossary, and illustrated with simple, accessible examples. Eighteen language maps and numerous language family charts enable students to place a language geographically or genealogically. A supporting website includes additional language maps and sound recordings that can be used to illustrate the peculiarities of the sound systems of various languages. 'Test yourself' questions throughout the book make it easier for students to analyze data from unfamiliar languages.

The book reviews development charges globally and in the specific case of India to show how they are inadequate. It suggests ways to levy development charges that are legally sound, transparent, equitable, and politically and administratively feasible.

What is freedom? What is equality? What is sovereignty? Few texts have offered more influential answers to these questions than Rousseau's Social Contract, and in this new Cambridge Companion, a multidisciplinary team of contributors provide new ways to navigate a masterpiece of political philosophy- and its animating questions.

What is freedom? What is equality? What is sovereignty? Few texts have offered more influential answers to these questions than Rousseau's Social Contract, and in this new Cambridge Companion, a multidisciplinary team of contributors provide new ways to navigate a masterpiece of political philosophy- and its animating questions.

"Leading musicologists and prominent German Lied performers collectively reveal productive connections between their two approaches, thereby opening doors to fresh and exciting modes of interpretative artistry and intellectual discovery. Investigates how historical, cultural and aesthetic research offer new perspectives on this important repertoire"--

"Reporting a large-scale project, this is the first book to investigate heritage language variation and change across 3 generations, in 8 under-documented languages spoken in Toronto, with homeland comparisons. It introduces new methods for multilingual data collection, curation, quantitative analysis and interpretation of spontaneous speech"--

"This volume provides an overview of Latin American law from the pre-colonial period to the present,showcasing commonalities and differences. Written by international experts, it will be the standard reference for legal scholars and historians. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core"

"A unique and complete overview of the mental health challenges facing older people in hospital. Offering a practical guide to the assessment and management of the impact of the hospital on the medical, social and psychological wellbeing of older people. An essential and accessible resource for acute hospital clinicians across all specialties"--

"Bringing together a team of leading scholars in the field, this Handbook provides a full overview of gesture studies, combining historical overviews as well as current, concise snapshots of state-of-the-art, multidisciplinary research. It is essential reading for academic researchers and advanced students in linguistics and cognitive sciences"--

Feldman explains the secretive world of drug pricing deals that push patients into more expensive drugs. This book is intended for an audience of policymakers, scholars, jurists, higher education students, journalists, and general interest readers and aims to provide an accessible, easy-to-read tour of issues faced by the pharmaceutical industry.

"By presenting chapter-specific roadmaps, this book offers a behind-the-scenes chronology of the response to COVID-19 and provides a rubric for future pandemic response. Targeted at lay and scientific audiences, reflections and lessons learned grant the reader an opportunity to leverage this knowledge and improve the outcomes of future pandemics"--