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Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, this edited volume brings together a diverse range of contributions to look beyond the strictly mathematical view of modelling and instead examine the social nature of models, their biases and responsibilities.

This volume presents a new translation into English and the first detailed commentary in any language on Ovid's Amores Book 3. Aimed at both students and scholars, the translation clarifies the poem's surface meaning, while the commentary places the work in broader context.

Hinduism is a global religion with a significant presence in many countries. Hindu Diasporas analyses the religious traditions and practices of Hindus of South Asian descent living outside South Asia, offering a foundation for understanding Hindu traditions in their global diasporic contexts and the dynamic development of Hinduism around the world.

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This volume completes the celebrated edition of John Locke's Correspondence by the late E. S. de Beer, whose eight volumes were published between 1976 and 1989. The supplementary volume presents some 300 documents: newly discovered or augmented, or newly collected, letters by or to Locke, or between his close associates.

An indispensable source of reference for practitioners and tribunal members, Hamer's Professional Conduct Casebook is the only book to provide comprehensive coverage of case law in the field of professional regulation and discipline.

This book presents a cross-regional comparative study of the role of capital cities and urbanization in the rise of authoritarianism. It explores the multiple ways in which authoritarian regimes have been attempting to build and sustain long-term dominance, drawing on six diverse case studies from Africa and Asia.

The book describes, in a single volume, the rules and principles of private international law as applied in English courts in 2023. The radical nature and extent of the changes required by Brexit and its aftermath are considered; the book has been remodelled to reflect the changes and the uncertainties remaining in the law.

This book explores the environmental politics of modernism in relation to the idea of the Anthropocene. It explores how British modernists used forms of narrative breakdown and fragmentation to represent-or fail to represent-a global crisis and epoch beyond human scales of history.

William Worcester's treatise The Boke of Noblesse offers a unique record of military history and political thought in England in the fifteenth century. This new edition draws on the copious surviving records of Worcester's life, reading, and handwritten revisions, which give a unique insight into a medieval author and his work.

This Handbook addresses Chaucer's poetry in the context of several disciplines, including late medieval philosophy and science, Mediterranean culture, comparative European literature, vernacular theology, and popular devotion.

How 'free' is the free movement of persons? This collection of essays reconsiders the fundamentals of EU free movement law. Through different examples - posted workers, social security, Brexit, and Union citizenship - each chapter revisits the categories, and the resulting boundaries, that have become entrenched in these laws.

Infrastructure investment is now crucial to faster and inclusive growth, given that the Indian economy contracted to 7.3% in the financial year 2020-21. This book discusses various aspects of infrastructure financing in detail, with a major section devoted to green financing of infrastructure.

This book charts for the first time the deep relationship between Renaissance literature and logic. Ettenhuber shows how the study of logic creatively inspired writers in the art of argument and reasoning, and offered frameworks for the discovery of literary material and advice on how to synthesise and present it.

How did the Jerusalem high priests go from being cultic servants in the sixth century BCE to assuming political supremacy at some point during the third or second century? This book examines how the conditions were created for the priesthood's rise to power by examining the tabernacle accounts found in Exodus and Leviticus.

The Birth of Psychological War explores the worlds of war, propaganda, intelligence, and espionage from which US psychological warfare emerged in the early years of the Second World War, developed during the 'Cold War of ideas' against the Soviet Union, and culminated in the counterinsurgency campaigns of the Vietnam War.

A volume on the intersections between US literary culture and early peace movements. It studies literature of the Civil War and postbellum fiction as well as novels engaged with problems arising in the aftermath of the Civil War.

The second volume of D. S. Levene's Livy: The Fragments and Periochae contains Books 1-45 of the Periochae presented with an introduction, facing-page translation, and commentaries.

This book develops the idea that standing is a distinct and separable private law concept that can and should be distinguished more clearly from the more dominant concept of a 'right.' By recognising standing's distinctiveness, debates within private law theory, including torts, unjust enrichment and trusts, are informed and contributed to.

This volume provides legal practitioners and scholars with a clear and comprehensive exposition of the legal principles governing contributory negligence.

Combining constitutional and political theory with an in-depth case study of the German Constitutional Court, de Boer argues that national courts' review of European law can constrain democratic debate and risks taking sides in good faith political disagreements among elected legislators about constitutional questions relating to the EU.

An up to date and comprehensive review of scientific evidence and methodological developments in life course epidemiology as applied to women's health.

Classical and Quantum Parametric Phenomena provides a resource for experimental and theoretical physicists entering the field or wishing to gain a deeper understanding of the underlying connections.

This book traces the emergence of European humanitarian culture through the seventeenth- and eighteenth-centuries. Drawing on an exceptionally rich body of pamphlets, periodicals, and newspapers, it uncovers how victims of persecution first learned how to employ the printing presses in the Dutch Republic to raise transnational solidarity.

This book examines the liberation of the economy in Bahrain through market-led capitalism backed by Islamic charities. The vast economic transformation has fractured parts of society in Bahrain using foreign labour and the development of skilled professionals in the private sector which has impeded the investment in the local population.

This book explores how austerity came to be the predominant fiscal policy response to the Great Recession in Europe, even for centre-left governments. It examines the political consequences of this response, combining qualitative and quantitative methods and drawing on a wide range of empirical evidence.

Imagining AI draws attention to the range and variety of visions of a future with intelligent machines and their potential significance for the research, regulation, and implementation of AI. The book is structured geographically, with each chapter presenting insights into how a specific region or culture imagines intelligent machines.

This volume explores subordinate wh-clauses that lack an interrogative interpretation, particularly those in which the wh-word differs from its literal meaning. The chapters draw on data from a wide range of languages, combining the study of cross-linguistic variation in patterns of subordination with formal semantic and syntactic analyses.

This new member of the Oxford Specialist Handbook series provides a practical, comprehensive, and multidisciplinary approach to healthcare within the prison environment, taking a patient-centred perspective to provide complete treatment for the person in detention