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Zero Poverty Society assesses the current state of minimum income protection in the rich world, building on original empirical analysis.

This Very Short Introduction argues that all faith needs reason, putting contemporary discussions into historical perspective, and shows that faith also involves a commitment to action. It matters for all social life, because religion is typically directed at what is seen as of crucial importance for human life.

Katharine Sykes examines a new type of household to emerge in early medieval England: the monastic household. Reproducing through education and training, rather than biological means, monastic households introduce new ideas of spiritual, non-biological reproduction to their royal and secular counterparts.

Using documentary evidence and interviews from leading policy actors from the period, Women and Employment in Public Policy takes as its starting point the UK Women and Work Commission, which was convened in 2004 to examine causes of the gender pay gap.

This book provides a comprehensive exploration of the intricate interplay between national security, foreign direct investment, and competition policy in an increasingly interconnected global economy.

Using an Africa-centric approach, Protecting Geographical Indications in Africa guides readers through the opportunities offered by GIs and the legal mechanisms available for their protection. The book provides a systematic overview of the laws regarding GIs at OAPI and ARIPO, as well as in 10 African countries.

Read Write Inc. Phonics Book Bag Books are engaging texts to support children with additional reading practice outside the classroom. The books are uniquely matched to the existing Read Write Inc. Phonics Storybooks to reinforce children's learning of phonics at the appropriate level, helping them to make even faster progress in reading.

Read Write Inc. Phonics Book Bag Books are engaging texts to support children with additional reading practice outside the classroom. The books are uniquely matched to the existing Read Write Inc. Phonics Storybooks to reinforce children's learning of phonics at the appropriate level, helping them to make even faster progress in reading.

Read Write Inc. Phonics Book Bag Books are engaging texts to support children with additional reading practice outside the classroom. The books are uniquely matched to the existing Read Write Inc. Phonics Storybooks to reinforce children's learning of phonics at the appropriate level, helping them to make even faster progress in reading.

This book explores the deep contestations of the liberal script in the contemporary United States from a variety of perspectives, and shows that the rise of Donald Trump is a symptom and a catalyst, but not the cause, of the current crisis in US democracy.

The first book in any language to provide a comprehensive portrait of the origins of aid to political prisoners and exiles in late nineteenth-century Russia, showing how a series of aid organizations emerged from the nascent radical liberationist movement of the 1870s-80s.

This book studies the impact of ethnic minorities on politics. Jan Rovny draws on both existing and new data and adopts experimental, quantitative, and qualitative methods to investigate the ideological potential of ethnicity, providing both comparative analyses and three in-depth case studies.

This book explores the responses to admitting refugees adopted by governments in six different countries. It shows that government policy - as well as the stance of opposition parties - is dependent on the framing of both the country's collective identity and the identity and characteristics of the refugees.

Celebrated and respected, this is the stand-alone guide to contract law. Written by renowned contract lawyer Professor Ewan McKendrick, it uses a unique balance of commentary, cases, and materials to show students the law at work and help them to gain a thorough understanding.

The Private Enforcement of Competition Law offers the first comprehensive and truly international overview of private competition enforcement. Providing new insight into a topic of growing importance, this book is designed to aid practitioners, policymakers, and researchers in dealing with competition matters.

The Oxford Critical Guide to Homer's Iliad makes learning about this foundational epic easier than ever, investigating each of its 24 books in order, devoting one chapter to each book. Chapters summarize a books' plot, then investigate its themes and poetics, providing close readings of individual passages and reviews of current scholarship.

This volume presents together with contextualizing headnotes and annotations all of Anna Letitia Barbauld's known essays, political writings, and discourses. Thirty essays featured in this collection from The Monthly Magazine and The Athenaeum are attributed to Barbauld for the first time.

This Very Short Introduction provides an accessible and authoritative guide to Tolkien's works, and it places The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings in the context of his full body of writings.

Can archaeologists help solve the 'Wicked Problems' that the world faces, such as climate change, conflict resolution, and social injustice? This book suggests that they can, but that it requires them to think about archaeology in an entirely new way.