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This book explores the institution of Sufism, the most dynamic face of Islam in the Indian subcontinent, as it sets out to study the mystical rituals and devotional practices that characterize Sufism's beliefs and traditions.

Renewable Energy Auctions provides an overview of renewable energy auctions globally, focusing on the Global South, since this is where auctions have been pioneered and provided most transformative results.

This book collects works by the late Professor Martin Wight (1913-1972), an historian and scholar of international relations.

This book considers: how innovation through technological change is transforming the service sector; how changing consumer needs and behaviors are forcing firms to alter operations; how firms need competitive strategies and new modes of implementation to respond to this changing landscape; and how public policy will need to adapt.

Drawing on extensive case review and including previously unpublished arbitral awards, this book provides an incisive review of joint venture disputes in the energy and natural resource sectors. It examines the issues typically arising in joint venture disputes, trends in international energy law, and derives lessons for future practice.

Jessica Leech sets out a Kant-inspired theory of modality, i.e. possibility and necessity. She argues that we need logical modal concepts as a condition on our ability to think, and metaphysical modal concepts as a condition on our ability to think about the world. Necessity has its source in the laws of thought and the conditions of thought.

This book demonstrates how the advocacy-focused framework explains the origins of three workstreams of contemporary UN peacekeeping operations: communication, protection, and reconstruction. The issue of strategic communications was promoted by UN officials through the strategy of persuasion.

This Fourth Edition highlights and expands upon previous editions' insights into key legal and practical issues arising from the application of the EIR in practice within each of the EU member-states, while also taking a look at the UK post-Brexit effects on the courts.

The fullest biography of Mark Antony in English, A Noble Ruin provides a fresh account of Antony's personal life and especially his public career, including his administration of the Roman east and his military campaigns.

This book explains how recent deep learning breakthroughs realized some of the most ambitious ideas of empiricist philosophers such as Aristotle, Ibn Sina (Avicenna), John Locke, David Hume, William James, and Sophie de Grouchy. It illustrates the utility of this interdisciplinary connection by showing how it can provide benefits to both philosophy and computer science.

The first English language study on John II Komnenos, re-evaluating an emperor traditionally overlooked in favour of his more famous father and son. The study addresses the empire's neighbours and rivals, the turning points of ecclesiastical history, the shaping of the crusader movement, and the workings of Byzantine government and administration.

Tudor Networks of Power is the product of a groundbreaking collaboration between an early modern book historian and a physicist specializing in complex networks. They reconstruct and computationally analyse networks of intelligence, diplomacy, and political influence over a century of Tudor history, 1509-1603, based on the British State Papers.

Through the histories of English trading companies - the Levant Company, the East India Company, and the Royal African Company - this book shows how non-European peoples in the Middle East, Southeast Asia, West Africa, and Western India used their control over these companies to shape the emergence of English freedom.

The story of women growing up in post-war Britain, rejecting the self-sacrifice of their mothers' generation and embracing new ways of living, feeling, and being in the decades before Women's Liberation. They were feminists before feminism, which we see through their descriptions of themselves, their relationships, their feelings, and actions.

A ground-breaking view of technology trends and their impact on our society, including productivity, and job displacement, while identifying the particular problem of the lack of diversity in AI communities

Every day we face rules of behaviour imposed upon us by norms that happen to be generally accepted in our environment. Laura Valentini illuminates this aspect of our lives by offering an account of when we are morally bound by socially constructed norms and when we should instead disregard them.

This book introduces a systematic framework for understanding and investigating lexical variation, using a distributional semantics approach. It presents a comprehensive model of lexical and semantic variation, and uses case studies of Dutch and Spanish to illustrate both the advantages and disadvantages of a distributional methodology approach.

This volume analyses the political economy dynamics of food system transformation from an interdisciplinary perspective. Drawing on empirical data from a wide range of countries, the book touches on issues as varied as repurposing agricultural subsidies, biotechnology innovations, red meat consumption, and sugar-sweetened beverage taxes.

This volume considers the intersection of two processes: the complex and constitutional process of the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union - Brexit - and the steady yet fragile development of the Northern Ireland constitution deriving, primarily, from the Belfast 'Good Friday' Agreement of 1998.

This book presents a candidate-based approach to party evolution, conceptualizing candidates as 'party genes' that ultimately decide what a party does and what it stands for. It draws on extensive new data from Central and Eastern Europe and beyond to show that candidate change is linked to changes in party organization, programmes, and leadership.

New Conversations in Philosophy, Law, and Politics offers a new agenda for work where these three disciplines meet. Eminent scholars and leading young thinkers provide fifteen conversations about lively current issues in our social world, such as AI and democracy, political obligation, praise and blame, justice, and intersectionality.

New Conversations in Philosophy, Law, and Politics offers a new agenda for work where these three disciplines meet. Eminent scholars and leading young thinkers provide fifteen conversations about lively current issues in our social world, such as AI and democracy, political obligation, praise and blame, justice, and intersectionality.

The Oxford Handbook of Foreign Policy Analysis provides an inclusive and forward-looking assessment of this subfield. Edited and written by a team of word-class scholars, it sets the agenda for future research in FPA and in IR.

William of Ockham Dialogus Part I, Book 7 completes Dialogus Book 1 and continues to utilize theological, legal, and logical arguments urging strong cooperation between all social groups and political classes of the Christian Commonwealth in the struggle with a treasonous Pope.

The defining critical text, Dialogus Part I, Book 6, of Ockham's masterpiece deals with the inquisition and punishment of a Pope betraying the fundamental principles of the Christian Commonwealth he rules. Ockham's comprehensive analysis relies on theology, canon law, and logic as the final arbiter.