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This book explores the emergence, change, and consolidation of institutional restraints on power. It argues that combining the traditional focus on efforts to acquire power with the "Lockean" focus on restraining power offers a more complete depiction of international politics, and shifts focus away from the actions of a handful of powerful states.

This book explores unusual patterns of agreement, one of the most intriguing and theoretically challenging aspects of human language. The chapters provide detailed treatments of a wide range of rare and complex agreement phenomena in seven typologically diverse languages.

Celebrating over 30 years as the market-leading series, Blackstone's Statutes have an unrivalled tradition of trust and quality. With a rock-solid reputation for accuracy, reliability, and authority, they remain first-choice for students and lecturers, providing a careful selection of all the up-to-date legislation needed for exams and course use.

This volume describes both the history and the contemporary forms, functions, and status of English in Southeast Asia. The chapters provide a comprehensive overview of current research on a wide range of topics, addressing the impact of English as a language of globalization and exploring new approaches to the spread of English in the region.

Situating the South-Eastern European region at the crossroads between the Near East and the rest of Europe, The Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers of South-Eastern Europe provides an interdisciplinary exploration of the Balkan record of prehistoric foragers in terms of dispersal, ecologies, evolution, and symbolism.

'Clock time', which denotes particular ways of valuing temporal duration, is typically associated with monetary worth or labour. Comparing the Worth of the While in Fiji and Finland, however, employs unique methodologies and case studies from Fiji and Finland to reconsider the wide range of values that it is capable of expressing.

The book describes the process by which the narratives of Piers Plowman are composed and how they mediate and reconfigure their listeners' experiences.

The Abstract and the Concrete draws together Peter Van Inwagen's essays in ontology from the last decade. They range over topics in meta-ontology, the author's distinctive version of platonism, mathematical fictionalism, analyticity, and colour.

This book explores the politics of American housing from the perspective of poets. Hunter follows the emergence of an "American house poem," which offers uniquely vivid expressions of the expansion of homeownership as a core tenet of American prosperity and democracy.

This volume brings together an international group of linguists from a diverse range of research backgrounds to explore the cycles of change in the world's languages. The chapters in this book draw on data both from languages from the distant past, such as Hittite and Proto-Bantu, and from a wide range of present-day languages.

These Red Ditty Books allow children to practise reading short decodable passages. They include practise of the Read Write Inc. Phonics Set 1 sounds. Linked reading activities help children to develop accuracy, fluency and comprehension, as well as prepare children for reading the longer Read Write Inc. Storybooks and Non-fiction books.

Unlocking the Moon's Secrets tells the fascinating story of how scientists solved the mystery of the Moon's origin and the cause of the Moon's craters. By showing how science evolves, complete with misunderstandings, contentious arguments, difficult to relinquish assumptions, and shifting views as new facts come to light, we can finally understand our Moon.

This volume presents two closely related essays by Thomas Nagel: "Gut Feelings and Moral Knowledge," discusses the value of intuitions in understanding human rights and argues against subjectivist and reductionist accounts of morality of the kind offered by evolutionary psychology or based on brain scans. The second essay, "Moral Reality and Moral Progress," proposes an account of the historical development of moral truth, according to which it does not share the timelessness of scientific truth. This is because moral truth must be based on reasons that are accessible to the individuals to whom they apply, and such accessibility depends on historical developments. The result is that only some advances in moral knowledge are discoveries of what has been true all along.

Consistent Democracy offers an intellectual history of democracy and the so-called woman question from the 1830s through the 1890s. It shows that in asking and answering questions about women's roles, responsibilities, and rights, Americans grappled with fundamental ideas about democracy.

In Bob Dylan: Prophet Without God, Jeffrey Edward Green defends the idea of Bob Dylan as a modern-day prophet, albeit a prophet of an unprecedented type. Placing Dylan into conversation with a wide array of intellectual figures, Green argues that Dylan is not a prophet of salvation, but rather a "prophet without God." Dylan speaks to the ideals that have animated earlier prophets but breaks from past tradition by testifying to the conflicts between these ideals, leading him to make novel contributions to the meaning of self-reliance, the quest for rapprochement between the religious and non-religious, and the problem of how ordinary people might operate in a fallen political world.

In The Afterlife of Race, Lionel McPherson demystifies the Western concept of "race" and reframes race ideology in America as a caste device that sponsors absurd pretexts for inherited slavery, enforced segregation, and the wilful nonrepair of historical injustice. This reframing paves the way for an anti-caste vision of social equality that emphasizes the moral importance of Black American national specificity--not general antiracism, identity politics, or diversity "of color." The result is a non-racial, non-exclusionary account of Black political solidarity that would welcome everyone who supports reparative justice for Black American "blacks" as descendants of American slavery.

This revision guide covers everything your students need to know about the thematic topic Crime and punishment in Britain, c1000-present. They will cover all of the areas they need to do well in Edexcel GCSE History. Their learning is supported by case studies of crime and punishment from Medieval England right up to Modern Britain.

This revision guide will help your students revise the full specification for the period topic The American West, c1835-c1895. They will build the knowledge they need to do well in the Edexcel GCSE History exam. Each area is clearly covered, from the beliefs of indigenous peoples to changes to their way of life.

This revision guide covers all the beliefs and practices from Christianity and Islam that your students need to know for the AQA GCSE Religious Studies A exam. They will revise everything from sin and salvation in Christianity to The Five Pillars of Islam. Thematic studies will help them look at themes through the eyes of both religions.

This revision guide covers all the beliefs and practices from Christianity and Buddhism that your students need to know for the AQA GCSE Religious Studies A exam. They will revise everything from the nature of God in Christianity to the Buddha's life in Buddhism. Thematic studies will help them look at themes through the eyes of both religions.

This revision guide covers all topics for the OCR B GCSE Geography specification. Your students will revise their knowledge and skills as they explore everything from extreme weather to international development. Case studies from the UK and Africa will help them apply and retain what they have revised.

This revision guide will help your students revise all of the key information they need to know from the Edexcel B GCSE Geography specification. They will revise how to apply their geographical skills and work through a decision-making exercise. It covers changing landscapes and populations with case studies to revise and build their knowledge.

This revision guide will help your students revise and practise everything they need to do well in Edexcel GCSE Foundation Maths. Support is tailored to the Foundation paper so that they are revising at the right level to build their confidence for the exam.

This revision guide will help your students revise and practise everything they need to know to do well in AQA GCSE Higher Mathematics. It offers all the extra support they need to perform well on the Higher paper, including lots of practice for Higher topics.

This revision guide will help your students revise everything they need to know to do well in AQA GCSE Foundation Mathematics. It will build their confidence with practice tailored to the Foundation paper.

This revision guide will help your students revise all the topics they need to know to do well in the AQA GCSE Geography exam, from changing economies to ecosystems. They will revise how to apply their Geographical skills. Case studies are included to revise and build their knowledge.

This revision guide has everything your students need to revise for AQA GCSE English Language. It will build their knowledge and skills for Papers 1 and 2 Reading and Writing. They will get support to approach exam questions and plenty of practice for how to compose answers and structure arguments.