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Approaching Gulliver's Travels from a variety of critical perspectives, this Cambridge Companion provides students and researchers with a multifaceted understanding of the enduring legacy of one of literature's most profound and provocative works of fiction in the lead-up to the 300th anniversary of its first publication.

Conflicting demands of love and justice are among the most vexing problems of social philosophy, moral theology, and public policy. They often have life-and-death consequences for millions. This book examines how and why love-justice conflicts arise to begin with and what we can do to reconcile their competing claims.

"This Element examines women warriors as vehicles of mobilisation. It argues that women warrior figures from the mid-nineteenth century until the end of the Second World War are best understood as examples of 'palimpsestic memory' and of 'travelling memory'"--

Focusing on criminality, caste, inheritance and adoption, this text illustrates how crosscurrents between literature and the law shaped, and were shaped by, broader Victorian ideological norms, appealing to scholars and students of nineteenth-century literature, colonial and legal history, and particularly Indian colonial culture.

Irene van Oorschot takes the reader on an ethnographic journey through judicial and social-scientific ways of seeing the world, showing how judges and researchers, case files and research methods, theories and narratives become implicated with each other to produce different understandings of the world.

This book is for advanced undergraduates to academic specialists working in biblical and early Christian studies. It provides cutting-edge research on the argumentative function of emotions in the New Testament, notably the deployment of emotions to evaluate objects, construct a worldview, and shape self-understanding, goals, and behaviour.

This study summons historical, archaeological, and iconographic data from Bronze Age Mesopotamia, the Levant, and Egypt to address the legacy of Amorites.

Rwanda has become a touchstone case in genocide studies. This study evaluates the myriad theories behind the genocide. Combining original field data with some of the best existing evidence, it offers a rigorous and comprehensive explanation of how and why the genocide occurred, and how and why so many Rwandans participated in it.

For readers interested in exploring the history of emotional responses to suffering, this volume describes the theory and practice of compassion in the context of early modern Europe's sectarian strife, and will engage those looking to make connections between early modern history and our present political moment.

Examining the triangular relationship between Iran, Britain and the Gulf Arab shaykhdoms, this is the first book to investigate the origins of the present-day Arab-Iranian conflict in the interwar period, filling a gap in the literature on the history of Arab-Iranian relations in the Gulf and Iran's Persian Gulf policy during Reza Shah's rule.

Explores the ways in which Aristotle's legacy was appropriated and reshaped by vernacular readers in Medieval and Renaissance Italy. Focusing on the ethical implications of the theory and practice of translation, it illuminates the cultural and social dynamics that legitimated the vernacular as a language of knowledge.

Explores the neurophysiology of decision-making and the mechanisms behind procrastination, discussing the applications of the LATER model. This is essential reading for psychologists, cognitive neuroscientists, neurophysiologists interested in decision-making in addition to being highly valued by clinicians and medical students.

""Lawfare" describes the systematic use and abuse of legal procedure for political ends which, in post-genocide Rwanda, contributed to the making of dictatorship. Jens Meierhenrich explains how and why Paul Kagame's Tutsi-led government in the period 1994-2019 learned to substitute law for war in its consolidation of authoritarian rule"--

"By drawing on extensive interviews with business founders and CEOs this book explores the complexities and dynamics of business and social relations responsible for present-day China's economic vibrancy. It makes an original contribution both through its empirical richness and theoretical innovations on trust, social networks, crisis and gender"--

In the Roman social hierarchy, the equestrian order stood second only to the senatorial aristocracy in status and prestige. This book offers the first comprehensive history of the order, covering the period from the eighth century BC to the fifth century AD.

A concise and accessible new account of the variety and subtlety of Greek and Roman philosophy of death and immortality, from Homer to Marcus Aurelius. Explores key figures, ideas and debates in Epicurean, Stoic, Presocratic and Platonic philosophy, and relates them to contemporary debates on the philosophy of death.

The French author and traveller Constantin-Francois de Chasseboeuf (1757-1820) adopted the pen name Volney. In 1783-5, he spent time in Ottoman Egypt and the historical region of Syria. Reissued here is the revised and corrected French second edition of his account, which appeared in two volumes in 1787.

Originally published in 1914 as a guide for students preparing for university, this book examines the geographical features of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales. The text is accompanied with diagrams and photographs of points of interest, both naturally occurring and of human design.

The Nautical Magazine, published monthly from 1832, covers subjects including navigation, oceanography, meteorology, exploration, trade, technology and maritime safety. The 1866 volume reports on recent unrest and violence in Jamaica and on piracy in the China seas. It also discusses provision of education, pensions and a 'respectable' lifestyle for seamen.

Considered by many to be the greatest geometer since Apollonius of Perga, the Swiss mathematician Jakob Steiner (1796-1863) did important work on systemising geometry. This two-volume edition of his collected works in German was edited by Karl Weierstrass (1815-97) and published between 1881 and 1882.

George John Romanes (1848-94) was an influential evolutionary biologist and one of the pioneers of comparative psychology. He was a close friend of Charles Darwin (1809-82), and this biography, written in 1896 by Romanes' wife, includes correspondence between the two scientists.

Bringing together influential writers such as A. S. Byatt with leading scientists including Steven Rose, this engaging collection of essays explores the topic of memory in a uniquely interdisciplinary way. Generously illustrated and accessibly written for the general reader, with insights from psychoanalysis, creative writing, neuroscience, social history and medicine.

This 1822 edition of the Patriarch Photius' ninth-century Greek lexicon was published by Peter Paul Dobree. It is based on a transcription by Richard Porson of the only remaining manuscript of the lexicon: Codex Galeanus, in Trinity College, Cambridge. Volume 1 contains entries for the letters alpha to omicron.

This Element investigates the relationship between the narcotics industry and politics and assesses how it influences domestic political dynamics, including economic development prospects in Latin America. It argues that links between criminal organizations, politicians, and state agents give rise to criminal politics (i.e., the interrelated activity of politicians, organized crime actors, and state agents in pursuing their respective agendas and goals). Criminal politics is upending how countries function politically and, consequently, impacting the prospects and nature of their social and economic development. The Element claims that diverse manifestations of criminal politics arise depending on how different phases of drug-trafficking activity (e.g., production, trafficking, and money laundering) interact with countries' distinct politico-institutional endowments. The argument is probed through the systematic examination of four cases that have received scant attention in the specialized literature: Chile,Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay.

Using numerous examples with real data, this textbook closely integrates the learning of statistics with the learning of R. It is suitable for introductory-level learners, allows for curriculum flexibility, and includes R-code script files for students to learn from and adapt and use in their future data analytic work.

In 2015, the Old Fadama slum of Accra, Ghana was a government 'no-go zone' due to the generally lawless environment. Participatory action researchers (PAR) began working with three stakeholders to resolve complex challenges facing the community and city. In three years, they created a PAR cross-sector collaboration intervention incorporating data from 300 research participants working on sanitation. In 2018-2019, the stakeholders addressed the next priorities: community violence, solid waste, and a health clinic. The PAR intervention was replicated, supporting kayayei (women head porters) in Old Fadama, the Madina slum of Accra and four rural communities in northern Ghana. The process expanded, involving 2,400 stakeholders and an additional 2,048 beneficiaries. Cross-sector collaboration worked where other, more traditional development interventions did not. This PAR intervention provides developing-country governments with a solution for complex challenges: a low-cost, locally-designed tool that dramatically improved participation and resulted in projects that impact the public good.