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Imagining Women's Property in Victorian Fiction reframes how we think about Victorian women's changing economic rights and their representation in nineteenth-century novels.

Executive Function in Childhood: Development, Individual Differences, and Real-life Importance examines executive function during infancy and early childhood through the lenses of developmental psychology, neuropsychology, and educational psychology.

A Handbook on Woolf's achievements as an innovative novelist and pioneering feminist theorist. It studies her life, her works, her relationships with other writers, her professional career, and themes in her work including among others feminism, sexuality, education, and class.

This collection of essays breaks new ground in the field of sensory studies. Organized around the five traditional senses, followed by a section on multisensoriality, the collection facilitates a dialogue between scholars working on literature written from the Middle Ages to the present day.

A portrait of the Arab enlightenment and its key figures, Ibn Sina and Biruni. In The Genius of Their Age, S. Frederick Starr brings to vibrant life an age when Muslim scientists and philosophers from Central Asia anticipated the Western renaissance of science by half a millennium.

This book examines the career of the Roman poet Horace, one of the greatest writers in Roman literature. It introduces his poetry with illustrations from all his works, and contextualises his career in Greek and Roman literary tradition and within the tumultuous events of his life as civil war gave way to the reign of the first emperor Augustus.

This book explores how a standard framework for Christological opinion based on the thought of John Duns Scotus and Hervaeus Natalis was established in the late medieval period. It also examines several alternative positions, providing an essential background for the understanding of Reformation Christology.

This book provides a novel analysis of how four key megatrends are changing industrialization, and charts new pathways for industrial policy and global governance. It shows that industrialization remains a cornerstone of economic prosperity, but that power asymmetries in the world economy create uneven opportunities for achieving economic growth.

Organised into three sections, the Oxford Casebook of Forensic Psychiatry expresses the concept that 'knowing is the only part of deciding', offering an essential practitioner's guide to decision making in clinical, forensic, and legal psychiatry.

Covering the wide range of knowledge and skills needed to tackle problems that may lead up to, or follow on from a stroke, this new edition follows the course of a patient's journey from diagnosis to life at home, incorporating recent changes in the field of stroke medicine including the latest clinical trials.

This book offers the first social history of music in undivided Punjab (1800-1947), unearthing new evidence to argue for the power of female performers and the primacy of classical music for a region conventionally understood as a centre of folk music alone.

Public Interest Considerations in US Merger Control: An Assessment of National Security and Sectoral Regulators examines the impact of public interest and national security considerations on the enforcement goals and regulatory frameworks of merger control assessment in the United States

A detailed study of the relationship between England and the papacy across its first five centuries, from the times of Bede up to the Norman Conquest. It reassesses that relationship through a detailed study of a hitherto understudied corpus of papal documentary sources. It sets developments in England within a wider comparative European context.

This book questions the optimistic reading of police peacekeeping often found in both academic and policy circles. Lou Pingeot provides an in-depth study of UN intervention in Haiti to show how a single site can help to shed light on how policing functions globally.

This work is a re-examination of the political dimensions of the Jewish War of Flavius Josephus. It offers a significant new reading of a text vital to understanding both Roman and Jewish history in this period, and illuminates important questions about "free speech" and "censorship" in the increasingly autocratic culture of Early Imperial Rome.

History of Universities XXXVI/1 contains the customary mix of learned articles and book reviews which makes this publication an indispensable tool for the historian of higher education.

This book deals with main-group elements, the rare-earth elements, transition-metal clusters, and supramolecular systems, including selected material from significant recent advances in inorganic chemistry, with particular emphasis on compounds that exemplify new types of bonds.

Feminist AI: Critical Perspectives on Algorithms, Data and Intelligent Machines is the first volume to bring together leading feminist thinkers from across the disciplines to explore the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) and related data-driven technologies on human society.

Bear really wants to play on his sledge, but he's stuck. Will a push and a pull from his friends get him moving?

This volume explores a range of English verse from 1400 to 1500. It studies specific genres and modes of fifteenth-century verse, the contexts for its creation, the material forms of its transmission, and some of its individual practitioners.

A Free Trade Agreement (FTA) is an agreement between two or more countries where the countries agree on certain terms and conditions that affect trade between them. This book tries to capture various aspects of these agreements keeping India's position in mind.

The first English translation of Amalia Holst's daring manifesto for women's education, originally published in 1802. It centres on a basic provocation: as far as the mind is concerned, women are equal partakers in the project of Enlightenment, and should thus have unfettered access to the sciences in general and to philosophy in particular.

Beginning with Britain's 1948 declaration of a Malayan Emergency, and ending with the 1973 withdrawal of US ground troops from Vietnam, this Handbook connects ideas about contested decolonization and the insurgencies that inspired it with an analysis of patterns and singularities in the conflicts that precipitated the collapse of overseas empires.

A history of Russian emotional culture of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, as told through the story of the life and death of Andrei Turgenev (1781-1803), the author of a confessional diary, a gifted poet, and an early Russian Romantic who failed to live up to the principles and models he cherished.

Alongside practical advice on managing clinical and legal situations, the handbook provides concise examples, summaries of relevant legislation, and introductions to different ethical approaches and clinical observations. Uniquely focusing on the interface between psychiatry and law, this title is essential reading for the forensic psychiatrist.

Capturing the compelling personal experiences and views of some of the great thought leaders in psychiatry, the insights in this book will appeal to future generations of academics, clinicians, health care professionals, as well as anyone with an appetite for a diverse array of life stories.

This edition includes all of the known surviving writings of the poet Phillis Wheatley Peters (1753-1784), several of which have been discovered since the last attempt at a complete edition in 2001. The poems and the extant prose writings are accompanied by an Introduction to her life and times, and textual and explanatory notes.

The volume highlights how evolving issue agendas are changing the nature of political accountability in advanced industrialized democracies.

This book examines the issue of financial institutions in distress, and the difficulties of regulating these institutions across political borders. It considers existing hard and soft laws and regulations, advocating for a model law that would address the full range of financial institutions.