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This book discusses some methods of graph decompositions, which are highly instrumental when dealing with a number of fundamental problems of graph theory. The presented topics are united by the role played in their development by Professor Regina Tyshkevich, and the book is a tribute to her memory.

The Age of Coal describes the enormous contribution of coal to the history of Europe over the last 250 years and how it helped to transform the way we live, transforming industrialisation; transport; home life; organic chemistry; international relations; the labour market and labour organization; as well as the vast environmental impact.

Did you know that crocodiles don't sweat? Discover all of the cool ways that different animals beat the heat in this fun non-fiction book.Readerful is designed to motivate children to read more. This Independent Library book is for pupils in Y2/P3 aged 6 to 7 at Oxford Reading Level 7 to read without support.

This book sheds light on emerging and accelerating climate litigation in the Global South. It includes which countries are seeing climate cases, what is driving these trends, the coalitions of actors involved, and the early impacts the litigation is delivering towards global goals of climate mitigation and adaptation.

The Tiny Big Animals love to help! Benjie is due to have a swimming lesson, but he is anxious about swimming. Then Lizzy, a Tiny Big crocodile, comes along to help him enjoy the water.Readerful is designed to motivate children to read more. This Independent Library book is for pupils in Y2/P3 at Oxford Reading Level 8 to read without support.

Examining the role of personalist political parties, or parties that exist primarily to further their leader's career as opposed to promote a specific policy platform, and using original data capturing levels of personalism, this book shows that the rise of personalist parties around the globe is facilitating the decline of democracy.

This book explores the reasons for the acute shortage of some key frontline occupations and explains why economic theory is essential to understanding the way this labour market works and to constructing coherent and effective policy. It proposes policies to improve the market's efficiency and to resolve the problems that currently plague it.

The President's Dilemma in Asia provides one of the first comprehensive and comparative theory of presidential government formation.

A study of demography in the Iberian Peninsula (4th century BC to the end of the Roman period), focusing on its largest province, Hispania Citerior/Tarraconensis. A multidisciplinary approach is employed, compiling archaeological, epigraphic, architectonic, osteological, and genetic data, to paint a nuanced picture of the ancient Mediterranean.

Presenting research on the evolution and diversity of human diet from earliest ancestors to modern days, this Handbook is divided into 3 sections, addressing the diets of early humans, the complexity of dietary adaptations as humans spread across the globe and developed agriculture, and the health and disease correlates of multiple modern diets.

This book examines the representation and creation of shared crime and guilt in late nineteenth-century France: exploring how particular genres--from murder fiction to saucy magazines--encouraged the creation of collusive relationships between writers, readers, and critics.

George Herbert and the Business of Practical Piety employs contemporary nudge theory to illuminate the religious writing of George Herbert (1593-1633). Ceri Sullivan shows how Herbert's The Temple provides a compendium of techniques to support cheerful, godly thought and action, in a way which is comic, not despairing or compulsive.

This indispensable handbook prevails as journalism's foremost authority on media law since its inception in 1954.

A Telic Theory of Trust approaches trust as a kind of aimed performance, capable of not only success but also of competence and aptness. J. Adam Carter shows how this illuminate the nature of trust, the difference between good and bad trusting, and practices of cooperation in general.

A rich study of what medieval Christianity meant for ordinary people, and how it changed across the middle ages, arguably as profound as changes in the Reformation period, providing a wider context for medieval Christianity by focusing on southern France in a period mainly known for heresy and for the Church's attack upon heresy.

Data protection law is seen as an important regulatory response to the challenges posed by innovative technologies, but some scholars are critical of its capacity to make a difference; Data Protection Law and Emotion, however, argues that we, as data subjects, play an essential role in the adoption and operation of these laws.

Written by one of the leading scholars of private international law, this third edition is an accessible introduction to the challenging area of the conflict of laws. Fully reconfigured to take into account the changes brought about by the European Regulations, Adrian Briggs' volume is an essential overview to the field.

This book explores the key implications of digitalization and assesses the challenges for press freedom in the nascent digital news ecosystem.

Ailbhe O'Loughlin deconstructs competing images of 'dangerous' offenders with personality disorders and the legal dilemmas they present. She examines gaps in criminological arguments for preventative detention programmes, developing a deeper interpretation of the laws governing personality disordered offenders.

This handbook provides a detailed account of the phenomenon of vowel harmony, a pattern according to which all vowels within a word must agree for some phonological property or properties. The volume explores all aspects of vowel harmony from a range of theoretical and methodological perspectives.

Plato's Epistemology: Being and Seeming presents an original interpretation of one of the central topics in Plato's work: epistemology. Jessica Moss argues that Plato's epistemology is radically different from our own.

Trial Stories in Jewish Antiquity is the first book to examine what early Jewish courtroom narratives can tell us about the capacity and limits of human justice. Drawing from affect theory and feminist legal thought, Chaya T. Halberstam offers original readings of some of the most famous trials in the ancient Jewish tradition.

Stephen Darwall explores a subject neglected by analytic philosophers: matters of the heart. He shows how the ways in which we humans achieve personal connection with each other in friendship and love, through mutual emotional vulnerability and sharing, are central are to what we value most about our lives, including our lives with animals.

First published in 1864, Dramatis Personæ is the second of the two great collections of Robert Browning's middle years, following Men and Women nine years previously. An extraordinary imaginative and technical achievement, the poems are remarkable for their modernity of subject matter and close psychological interest.

Money Flows studies how remittances shape the relationship between remittance recipients and the authorities in migrant-sending countries by providing a comprehensive study of the political effects of remittances on the attitudes of their recipients.

The Fundamentals of Reasons offers a comprehensive introduction to the philosophy of reasons. The authors explore the twin roles of reasons in explanation and deliberation, show why reasons are so important for a wide range of philosophical issues, and guide the reader through the debates.