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This volume explores the relationship between contemporary Irish women writers and literary modernism. Paige Reynolds examines how the work of Elizabeth Bowen, Edna O'Brien, Anne Enright, and others, employs the modernist mode to articule female interiority as a way of thinking about contemporary social problems.

A book which challenges received understandings of the place of the miner in contemporary British history, arguing that the British coal miners went through a cyclical movement - from loser to winner and back again - as Britain underwent a de-industrial revolution in the final decades of the twentieth century.

This volume offers a systematic crosslinguistic account of evidentiality, the linguistic encoding of the source of information on which a statement is based. It explores a range of topics relating to evidentiality and provides case studies from a variety of language families as diverse as Algonquian, Korean, and Uralic.

The Rise and Fall of the People's Parties explores the striking parallels between the history of democracy and that of the people's parties since 1918. It demonstrates that understanding the rise and fall of the people's parties is pivotal to understanding the contemporary crisis of democracy.

A study of distrust of public institutions in Britain and America, showing how this seemingly modern phenomenon actually shaped the political, legal, economic, and religious discourse of the early modern period, inspiring reforms of criminal procedure, changes to public credit and financial systems, and challenges to church hierarchies.

Steven French suggests a radical new approach to the understanding of quantum physics, derived from Husserl's phenomenological philosophy. In this approach consciousness plays a fundamental role that is very different from what has previously been supposed.

This book unravels the centrality of contestation over international institutions under the shadow of crisis. Andrew Cooper makes a compelling case that concertation represents a fundamental institution as a peer competitor to multilateralism.

The best-selling revision tool for all police officers sitting the NPPF Step Two Legal Examination. Designed to be used alongside the College of Policing-endorsed Blackstone's Police Manuals 2024, they provide the most comprehensive and authoritative method of self-testing in advance of the exams.

Visions of Cannabis Control documents the history of cannabis policy, and the role of racism, labelling, and stigmatization. It examines the failure to properly frame cannabis prohibition as the result of moral panics and concludes that to sustain reform those affected by cannabis policies must be consulted, respected, and included.

Archives have never been more complex, expansive, or ubiquitous. Archives: Power, Truth, and Fiction is an indispensable research and reference book: a hugely helpful guide to archives in the twenty-first century. Material discussed ranges from medieval manuscripts to born-digital archival content, and art objects to state papers.

This book uses textual and material evidence - in poetry, prayers, physiologies, sermons, church buildings and monuments, manuscript diaries and notebooks - to explore how material things held spiritual meaning in George Herbert's poetry, and to reflect on scholarly approaches to matter and form in devotional poetry.

This landmark handbook discusses genetic, environmental, and brain factors that shape human development, including emerging research areas such as nutrition and sleep. It considers both health and disease models and also explores adolescence, taking a multidisciplinary approach to understanding change and plasticity in human development.

Finance, Law, and the Courts offers a comprehensive legal treatment of finance's regulatory sources and complex problems. Drawing from European and US case law, the book demonstrates that law and the courts provide finance with the certainty it needs to operate and the elasticity it needs to evolve.

Victimhood has become a shorthand for any injustice suffered. Adopting a history of knowledge approach, Victims takes a fresh look at this phenomenon of classifying people as victims. It goes beyond existing narratives to provide a new and comprehensive explanation of the complex genealogy of modern concepts of victimhood.

Romano and Traù analyse industrial development focussing upon the spreading of manufacturing activities beyond the boundaries of the advanced economies. They explain how this event has completely changed the nature of the relationship between the 'North' and the 'South' of the world linking them together on productive grounds.

This book serves as a definitive reference for inverse morphology across all documented Algonquian languages. It considers not only the morphology of the inverse construction but also its syntax and pragmatics, giving equal weight to diachronic, typological, functional, and formal perspectives.

This book offers in-depth analyses of micro-instances of revenue bargaining across five African countries. The case studies all draw on a common theoretical framework combining the fiscal contract theory with the political settlement approach, which enables a systematic exploration into what triggers revenue bargaining.

This bold and original study centres of the female voice of Aisha in the very heart of Islamic sacred texts; the Prophetic tradition, seeking to wrest Islam from patriarchal orthodoxy and reclaim its egalitarian impulse. Aisha's example legitimises Muslim women's agency and right to question male authority to reach their full self-actualisation.

This is the fourth edition of the established authority on company directors comprehensively covering directors' duties and liabilities, and associated remedies.

This volume provides an accessible, English prose translation of Wace's Roman de Brut, in which Arthur appears for the first time as king of the Britons.

Governing in an Age of Distrust tackles this important gap head on by asking not only whether the public trusts in politicians, but also whether politicians accurately perceive and act upon the trust placed in them.

The best-selling revision tool for all police officers sitting the NPPF Step Two Legal Examination. Designed to be used alongside the College of Policing-endorsed Blackstone's Police Manuals 2024, they provide the most comprehensive and authoritative method of self-testing in advance of the exams.

This book is an timely account of indigenous politics and represents the first-ever attempt to foreground the complex 'political nature' of social justice claims-making in a democracy such as India.