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This volume presents the first comprehensive overview in English of the languages of the Central Andes, spoken primarily in Peru and Bolivia. Chapters provide detailed descriptions of individual languages and substantial typological comparative analyses, as well as coverage of language history, language contact, and sociolinguistics.

Music, the Market, and the Marvellous examines féerie, the fairy play, recovering a large swathe of the theatrical landscape of nineteenth-century Paris. Forgotten plays are rediscovered, familiar works take on new meanings, and traditional historiographical narratives about drama and 'musical theatre' are thrown into question.

Investigating the grotesque aesthetics of a postdigital era, Memes, Monsters, and the Digital Grotesque offers a fresh and innovative approach to examining informal politics, monstrous aesthetics, and digital media.

Reading the Margins of the Early Modern Bible presents a new understanding of how notes in the margins of the Bible were read in early modernity. Horbury investigates the creative and surprising ways readers engaged with these margins, resisting narratives that present them as dangerous and seditious.

This book aims to review the field of lyotropic liquid crystals from amphiphilic to colloidal systems. It bridges the gap between the two worlds of lyotropics and thermotropics by showing that many of the features observed in standard thermotropic liquid crystals may also be observed in lyotropic systems and vice versa.

This volume brings together approaches to biblical interpretation that take the hermeneutical view that contextuality is a catalyst for interpretation. The book focuses on framing contextuality, key issues in contextual biblical interpretation, and theoretical resources for contextual biblical interpretation in the future.

Reorganizing menstruation explores what happens when menstrual practices change, and what is revealed and made possible when longstanding menstrual stigma is disrupted.

In Temporal Experience, Torrengo considers the core facts of temporal experience and their interconnections, ultimately defending the atomist dynamic model of temporal experience.

In this collection of linked essays analysing economic, social, and institutional structures, James Howard-Johnston aims to explain Byzantium's longevity, first as a state geared to fighting a two-centuries long guerrilla war of defence, then as an increasingly confident regional power.

Philip Gould examines nineteenth-century literature in light of the transformation of the federal state's power during the American Civil War. How do literary works engage the subjects of censorship, propaganda, and the reconfigured meanings of "loyalty" and "treason" at a time of political crisis?

A practical guide that helps staff working in anaesthesia, critical care, and pain to successfully communicate with patients and colleagues in daily clinical practice. The book provides useful tools for difficult or unfamiliar circumstances.

As technology rapidly evolves, AI tools such as automated scoring and intelligent tutors are revolutionizing how we teach STEM subjects. The book discusses the benefits, challenges, and ethical implications. It's a comprehensive guide that showcases the future of education in an AI-driven world.

This volume in the 21st Century Oxford Authors series offers students an authoritative, comprehensive selection of the poetry and prose of John Dryden, the most important poet, dramatist, translator, and literary theorist of the later seventeenth century.

Explores how stones, rocks, and the broader mineral realm played a role in early modern England's religious and cultural systems that, in turn, informs the period's poetic and visual imagination. It studies the writings of Thomas More, William Shakespeare, George Herbert, Henry Vaughan, Lady Mary Wroth, John Donne, and John Milton, amongst others.

This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to Middle High German, aimed at graduate and undergraduate students and designed for both taught courses and self-study. It covers the language and literature of German in the period 1050-1350, including an entry-level grammar and a wide selection of texts with extensive explanatory material.

This volume is the first book-length overview of the Atlantic languages, a small family of languages spoken mainly on the Atlantic coast of West Africa. It is an essential tool for linguists interested in the languages of West Africa, language history and classification, and typology and language contact more broadly.

Environmental Law is structured thematically to provide far-reaching coverage of the fundamentals and allow students to develop critical thinking and high-level understanding. The accessible style provides clear content suitable for both new and experienced students of the subject.

A reinterpretation of the political crises of the thirteenth-century England, wherein ideas are subordinated to interests; less an era of revolution, reform, and rebellion and more one of crisis, born of political instability but in broader institutional, administrative, economic, and legal contexts.

The Universal Republic: A Realistic Utopia? examines whether a democratic world state is a feasible and desirable solution to the problem of establishing effective and just governance on the planet we share.

Beginning with the last years of the reign of Elizabeth I and ending late in the seventeenth century, this volume traces the growth of the literary marketplace, the development of poetic genres, and the participation of different writers in a century of poetic continuity, change, and transformation.

Occupational Health and Wellbeing for British Policing: A Primer aims to examine the role of occupational health within the police force. It considers how a health service is set up within a police force, assessing officer fitness, and managing physical and mental health.

Bond 11+ Maths Assessment Practice Book 1 for age 9-10 years offers exam-style practice questions for children preparing for the 11+ test. This revised edition includes essential guidance and full answer explanations and will develop the skills that are vital for success.

This book connects the two famous fields of Condensed Matter Physics, Semiconductors and Superconductors, through the composite boson nature of their key particles, excitons and Cooper pairs. The goal is to understand through these key particles how composite bosons made of two fermions interact.

David Russell describes his experience of reading Marion Milner's writings and sketches on creativity. The book introduces Milner's unique body of work, which acts at the interface of literature, art, and psychoanalysis. Milner explored how people could feel responsive to their own lives through creative practices of attention.

Bond 11+ Maths Assessment Practice Book 1 for age 10-11+ years offers exam-style practice questions for children preparing for the 11+ test. This revised edition includes essential guidance and full answer explanations and will develop the skills that are vital for success.

This book explores the theoretical and practical dimensions of deference in six common law jurisdictions to answer two key questions: what devices courts should use to exercise deference, and how to make deference more workable for judges and predictable for litigants.

Galen Strawson argues for a comprehensive account of metaphysical categories, in defence of categorial monism, the view that there's only one fundamental metaphysical category. Stuff, Quality, Structure also provides a treatment of the notion of structure, arguing that structure cannot be fundamental.