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This is the first volume of the first complete English translation of the extant correspondence of René Descartes, covering the period 1619 to 1638. Translations are provided of both sides of the correspondence, including letters written to and from Fermat, Huygens, and Mersenne.

Northanger Abbey is about the misadventures of Catherine Morland, young, ingenuous, and mettlesome, and an indefatigable reader of gothic novels.

Surveillance is everywhere today, generating data about our purchasing, political, and personal preferences. This book shows how surveillance makes people visible and affects their lives, considers the technologies involved and how it grew to its present size and prevalence, and explores the pressing ethical questions surrounding it.

This book offers a comprehensive account of the phonological structure of modern Turkish, couched within a primarily constraint-based framework. It provides a critical synthesis of research in Turkish phonology, as well as offering new analyses and data from a theoretically-oriented perspective.

The Guidelines are designed to provide a clear and logical framework for the assessment of damages in personal injury cases. This new edition has been fully updated to take into account inflation since the last edition. It also continues to include an additional column of figures indicating the 10% uplift in general damages.

The new interdisciplinary field of experimental philosophy has emerged as the methods of psychological science have been brought to bear on traditional philosophical issues. Oxford Studies in Experimental Philosophy is the place to go to see outstanding new work in the field, by both philosophers and psychologists.

In recent years it has become common for psychotherapists to use psychophysiological approaches such as biofeedback as a part of their therapy. This book provide a guide to professionals in the field on how to effectively integrate psychotherapy and psychophysiology.

Music and Parental Mental Wellbeing provides readers from music, health, and beyond, with a new and comprehensive opportunity to consider how music can support parental mental wellbeing.

Karl Ameriks defends Kant's doctrine that all human beings have a moral capacity that gives them unconditional dignity, and explains how the reception of this influential doctrine in European and American intellectual history has been marred by misunderstandings.

Fully revised according to up-to-date clinical guidance, this second edition provides a practical, accessible guide to emergency situations encountered in the practice of supportive and palliative care. Designed for rapid use, it addresses the immediate clinical challenges while more definitive measures are being put in place.

Tricolore 6e édition is a French course for 11-16 years, with an international focus and an emphasis on French as a global language at its heart. It combines the tried and trusted Tricolore approach to inspire and challenge high ability students, with topics and real-life examples that are interesting and relevant to students worldwide.

Tricolore 6e édition is a French course for 11-16 years, with an international focus and an emphasis on French as a global language at its heart. It combines the tried and trusted Tricolore approach to inspire and challenge high ability students, with topics and real-life examples that are interesting and relevant to students worldwide.

Oxford Revise Eduqas GCSE English Language takes you through what to revise and how to do it. Revise your understanding of the knowledge and key concepts you need for your exam. Learn the best way to approach exam questions and get plenty of practice for how to write your answers and structure arguments.

Oxford Revise Edexcel GCSE English Language takes you through what to revise and how to do it. Revise your understanding of the knowledge and key concepts you need for your exam. Learn the best way to approach exam questions and get plenty of practice for how to write your answers and structure arguments.

This book offers a groundbreaking account of interactions between the interwar Soviet Union and early Republican Turkey, uncovering a Soviet-Turkish 'statist internationalism' that arose as a direct response/reaction to the Western-led 'Paris order' and that continues to shape the world today.

This is the tenth volume of Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy. The series aims to publish some of the best contemporary work in the vibrant field of political philosophy and its closely related subfields, including jurisprudence, normative economics, political theory in political science departments, and just war theory.

Mark G. Brett the explores the complexities that have emerged in the interactions between biblical interpretation and colonial theories of Indigenous natural rights. This wide-ranging study shows how the legacies of these interactions still shape the laws of property and our understanding of Indigenous rights and responsibilities today.

This innovative exploration of the literature, history, and culture of the Apennines links a twenty-first century journey along the walking trail of the 'Great Apennine Excursion' to accounts and discussions of past travellers--including pilgrims, merchants, tourists, soldiers, partisans, and poets--from the Medieval period up to World War Two.

This is a collective study of philosophical questions to do with experts and expertise, such as: What is an expert? Who decides who the experts are? Should we always defer to experts? How should expertise inform public policy? What happens when the experts disagree? Must experts be unbiased? Does it matter what the source of the expertise is?

Matti Eklund explores the idea that language might have a completely different structure to the languages we know, and that reality might be such that some alien language, using different kinds of semantic tools represents reality better than our languages do: reality might have alien structure.

Drawing on critical theory, criminological analysis, and multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork, Victims and the Labour of Justice at the International Criminal Court illuminates how the ICC's victim engagement functions to reproduce the Court as a relevant institution and to transform victims in the Global South into productive capitalist subjects.

France is famous for philosophy: this Handbook explores the riches and interest of this great intellectual tradition since 1800. Specially written essays by leading experts illuminate key movements and positions, themes and thinkers in French philosophy,exploring the ideas in their historical context.

FIight, Flight, Mimic is the first systematic study of deceptive mimicry in the context of wars.

Examines the historical background and philosophical content of Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten's Elements of First Practical Philosophy and its relation to the work of Immanuel Kant. A comprehensive, balanced, and ground-breaking treatment of this neglected aspect of classical German philosophy.

Through a case study of informers in Communist Czechoslovakia, this book unravels the complex drivers behind informing and the dynamics of societal reactions to informing. This book centres the role of emotions and underscores the value of dignity and reconciliation in transitional reconstruction.

Kofi Annan was the most significant and influential Secretary-General of the United Nations. Kofi Annan and Global Leadership at the United Nations is a study of how Annan conceived his role as Secretary-General and exercised global leadership at a turbulent period in world affairs.