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Analyses 'comparative thinking'. This involves situating living systems into models of various evolutionary processes, comparing them with ancestral relatives and with analogous evolutionary outcomes. The importance of comparative thinking is demonstrated via examination of comparative psychology and macroevolution.

This Element adds to the current discourse on the study of policy design by presenting behavioral assumptions and structural features of policy design and presenting a multi-level analytical framework for organizing policy design research. It also highlights the role of policy compatibility and policy adaptability in influencing policy efficacy.

Environmental rights are a category of human rights necessarily central to both democracy and effective earth system governance. We analyze how human rights are made democratically and, in particular, how they can be made with respect to environmental matters, especially those that have import beyond the confines of the modern nation state.

Attempts to avoid bias in comparative psychology have harmed the science by limiting research topics and minimising animal consciousness. We can advance by treating animals as sentient research participants, and through a greater integration of the subdisciplines of comparative psychology, such as field and lab approaches to chimpanzee cognition.

A reassessment of Beckett's alleged Cartesianism using the theoretical framework of extended cognition. The argument defended here is that Beckett's fictional minds are not isolated 'skullscapes': they are grounded in interaction with their fictional storyworlds, however impoverished those may have become in the later part of his writing career.

Contract Law: Cases and Materials presents a selection of well-chosen cases and illuminating commentary ideal for introducing students to the study of contract law in Australia. This casebook maintains the accessibility of the principles text while providing the depth and analysis of topics required to learn contract law.

This is a unique overview of a fascinating topic in mathematics - the Mahler measure - and its numerous interconnections with areas such as number theory, analysis, arithmetic geometry, special functions and random walks. The text can be used for graduate courses or self-study, with exercises at varying levels of difficulty.

This book explores the relationship between gods and humans and between the divine nature and human nature in the Ancient Near East. It will appeal to scholars and students interested in the history, philosophy, theology and anthropology of the Near Eastern or biblical world.

A comprehensive and mathematically accessible introduction to digital signal processing, with clear explanations of elementary principles, advanced topics, and applications. It features over 600 full-color figures, 200 worked examples, hundreds of end-of-chapter problems, and computational examples of DSP algorithms implemented in Matlab and C.

In this Element we develop: stochastic models, which add a crucial element of uncertainty to human interaction; models of human interactions structured by social networks; and 'evolutionary' models in which agents using more effective decision rules are more likely to survive and prosper than others.

Incorporating theory, development of method, and the use of the finite element method in the commercial sector, this textbook integrates basic theory with real-life, design-oriented problems using ANSYS, the most commonly used computational software in the field.

A summary of state-of-the-art research on how the river environment impacts biodiversity, species invasions, population dynamics, and the spread of waterborne disease. Blending laboratory, field and theoretical studies, it is the go-to reference for graduate students and researchers in river ecology, hydrology, and epidemiology.

Understand critical principles of composites with this interdisciplinary text. Covering such topics as design of durable structures, choice of fibre, matrix, manufacturing process and mechanics, it is an essential guide for scientists and engineers wishing to discover the benefits of composite materials for designing strong and durable structures.

Solve problems in elementary structural mechanics thoughtfully and efficiently with this self-contained collection of essays. Illuminates concepts and methodologies with clarity and insight, with minimal recourse to heavy working out. Perfect for students invested in structural mechanics, and aims to complement their learning and understanding.

This textbook provides a rigorous yet accessible introduction to ecohydrology and its applications to biogeochemical cycles, agroecosystems, and human society. It is an invaluable textbook for advanced students in environmental engineering and the natural sciences, and a reference textbook for researchers, professionals, and engineers.

This Element discusses how shiny, an R package, can help instructors teach quantitative methods more effectively by way of interactive web apps. The interactivity increases instructors' effectiveness by making students more active participants in the learning process, allowing them to engage with otherwise complex material in an accessible way.

"Presenting over 50 expertly argued debates in controversial areas of management of gynecologic cancers, each debate incorporates recent evidence and clinical trial data and includes global perspectives on management. Topics discussed include perioperative management, screening and prevention, surgical management, immunotherapy and radiation therapy"--

"A History of the Surrealist Novel offers a rich, long, and elastic historiography of the surrealist novel, taking into consideration an abundance of texts previously left out of critical accounts. Its 20 thematically organized chapters examine surrealist prose texts written in French, English, Spanish, German, Greek, and Japanese, from the emergence of the surrealist movement in the 1920s and 1930s, through the post-war and postmodern periods, and up to the contemporary moment. This approach extends received narratives regarding surrealism's geographical locations and considers its transnational movement and modes of circulation. Moreover, it challenges critical biases that have defined surrealism in predominantly masculine terms, and which tie the movement to the interwar or early post-war years. This book will appeal both to scholars and students of surrealism and its legacies, modernist literature, and the history of the novel"--

New Orleans is an indispensable element of America's national identity. As one of the most fabled cities in the world, it figures in countless novels, short stories, poems, plays, and films, as well as in popular lore and song. This book provides detailed discussions of all of the most significant writing that this city has ever inspired - from its origins in a flood-prone swamp to the rise of a creole culture at the edges of the European empires; from its emergence as a cosmopolitan, hemispheric crossroads and a primary hub of the slave trade to the days when, in its red light district, the children and grandchildren of the enslaved conjured a new kind of music that became America's greatest gift to the world; from the mid-twentieth-century masterpieces by William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams and Walker Percy to the realms of folklore, hip hop, vampire fiction, and the Asian and Latin American archives.

A History of Colombian Literature explores the genealogy of Colombian literature from the colonial period to the present day.

"The book builds on hand-coded data on nearly 300 dimensions on the substance of property law in 156 jurisdictions globally and applies plain-language economic analysis to real-world legal schemes. Cutting-edge machine learning algorithms and statistical analysis are applied. Detailed citations to laws in each jurisdiction are useful to lawyers"--

"Drawing on a rich variety of case studies, this book provides the first comprehensive analysis of how propaganda and fake news are utilized to promote misinformation in America. It is ideal reading for anyone interested in how people are socialized to think about fake news in contemporary politics and society"--

This book explores how the city was transformed to accommodate different political ideologies in the period from 1870 to the end of World War II. It offers a new approach to understanding the sophisticated relationships between archeology, urban planning, and politics within the city of Rome.

"A history of colonial legacies in United Nations peacekeeping from 1945-1971, focusing on the influence of UN staff deployed to conflicts in the Global South. Margot Tudor identifies the unexplored colonial structures, racial prejudices, and organisational politics that shaped UN peacekeeping practices during the instability of decolonisation"--

"This book is aimed at professionals, researchers and postgraduate students interested in techniques for assuring the behaviour of autonomous systems and how these systems may be programmed so that such assurance can be given. Several case studies are included, along with tutorials for the technologies used in those case studies"--

"Demonstrates the limits of narratology in understanding ancient texts and forges a new approach that investigates the specific logic of ancient narrative. An invaluable introduction to ancient views of narrative but also a major contribution to a historically sensitive theory of narrative"--

"Provides a guide to Plato in an unexpected key with well-grounded views of Plato's works (particularly major middle to late dialogues). The reader meets important questions of perception, embodiment, mimetic art, imagination, divine inspiration, the Forms and the Good, beauty, myth and logos, and generative epistemic art"--