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Christiane Tietz relates Karl Barth's fascinating life in conflict - conflict with the theological mainstream, against National Socialism, and privately, under one roof with his wife and his mistress, in conflict with himself.

What is the point of history? Why has the study of the past been so important for so long? Why History? A History contemplates two and a half thousand years of historianship to establish how very different historians have conceived their activities, and to show the purposes that their work has served.

Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit is one of the great works of philosophy. It remains, however, one of the most challenging and mysterious books ever written. Michael Inwood presents this work in an intelligible and accurate new translation, alongside a detailed commentary that explains Hegel's arguments and the philosophical issues they raise.

This is the first history of cancer in nineteenth-century Britain. It demonstrates that the nineteenth century saw cancer acquire the unique emotional, symbolic, and politicized status it maintains today.

This book introduces the fundamental laws of quantum mechanics, theory of relativity, and cosmology to a lay person in simple language and deals with deep issues related to the mysteries of modern science.

The book examines how the unapplied phenomenon of piezoelectricity became applied for technologies such as sonar, crystal frequency control, the quartz clock, and how its research has consequently changed during WWI and the interwar period.

This volume provides a comprehensive account of the many different facets of the Swiss political system and of the major developments in modern Swiss politics. The chapters offer analyses relevant not only to political science but also to international relations, European studies, history, sociology, law, and economics.

This Handbook provides an introduction to all the major aspects of Catholic theology. As well as covering basic topics of doctrine and moral theology, the book considers some of Catholic theology's most important sources between 200 and 1870, and all the main movements and developments in Catholic theology since 1870.

Blackstone's Statutes on Evidence is edited and designed to help you succeed in your law studies. With a reputation for accuracy and authority spanning over 30 years, Blackstone's Statutes remain first-choice for students and lecturers, providing a careful selection of updated legislation needed for exam/course use.

The non-use of biological weapons has been described as the 'great mystery of biological warfare.' The Biological Weapons Taboo solves that mystery by analysing the bioweapons taboo, in the first comprehensive study of the concept.

The Oxford Handbook of Global Justice explores an exciting area of refreshing, innovative new ideas for a changing world facing significant challenges.

The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence develops the theses that AI is an unprecedented divorce between agency and intelligence and, on this basis, that AI as a new form of agency can be harnessed ethically and unethically. Luciano Floridi argues in favour of a marriage between the Green of environmentalism and the Blue of our digital technologies.

This book demonstrates the conditions, trajectories, and mechanisms of non-hierarchical (experimentalist) governance. Analysing five crucial domains (electricity, gas, communications, finance, and pharmaceuticals) in the European Union, it examines when, how, and why non-hierarchical institutions affect policy processes and outcomes.

Blackstone's Statutes on Employment is edited and designed to help you succeed in your law studies. With a reputation for accuracy and authority spanning over 30 years, Blackstone's Statutes remain first-choice for students and lecturers, providing a careful selection of updated legislation needed for exam/course use.

Exploiting the expressive possibilities of print-from spacing and indentation to alignment and typeface-is one of the defining ways in which poetry was modernized in the twentieth-century. This book explores why British and American poets choose to experiment with the design and lay-out of the printed page.

The book is intended for graduate students and other research scientists who are new to atomic pair distribution function (PDF) and want to use the methods but are unsure how to take the next steps to get started.

Employing a novel theoretical perspective, Julian Scholtes identifies the factors behind legitimate constitutional identity claims and critically analyses the ways in which these claims can be abused. Using examples from various Member States, his book arrives at a comprehensive account of the abuse of constitutional identity claims in the EU.

During the early modern period, the emergence of modern science took place mainly in Latin, the international language of educated discourse. However, the Latin literature in which most new insights were presented at that time has never been studied as a whole and in its own right. This book provides the first overview of this vast body of texts.

This lively and wide-ranging study explores the reception of Aristophanes in the long-nineteenth century. It examines both political and aesthetic strands of this reception, and argues that Aristophanic reception in the period was always a process of speaking to contemporary issues-making Old Comedy new.

Intellectual Property and the Design of Nature brings together scholars from different disciplines to reflect on the historical connections between intellectual property law and nature. It casts a new light on this relationship and demonstrates the central position nature occupies across the whole discipline.

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

The Oxford Handbook of Christmas provides a comprehensive account of all aspects of Christmas across the globe, from the specifically religious to the purely cultural. Contributions by experts from across numerous disciplines cover a range of topics, such as decorating trees, carols, cinema, the Nativity, and the influence of consumerism.

This volume provides an academically-grounded, yet practically-oriented, analysis of the recurring challenges and possible solutions for peace negotiation.