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The international legal order is undergoing a crisis of unusual proportions. This book brings together multiple interdisciplinary contributors to explore whether the values underpinning international law itself are changing, the processes and mechanisms through which changes might be taking place, and how these changes can be negotiated.

A complete guide to the most stunning of celestial sights, a total eclipse of the Sun, this book features the eclipse of April 8, 2024 that passes across North America and provides amazing information, stunning photographs, and abundant illustrations to help the public understand and safely enjoy all aspects of solar eclipses.

N. Ángel Pinillos explores what is going on in our minds when we experience skeptical doubt. He suggests that there is a hidden mental rule which, for better or worse, motivates our skeptical inclinations; he gives an account of the broader cognitive purpose of this rule; and he suggests that it may also lie behind certain pathologies.

When Italy unified in 1861, America was emerging as a world power, and advances in communication allowed Italians a view of American life to which they could aspire. America in Italian Culture traces this huge cultural shift, looking at how US fiction, comics, music, and film came to dominate Italian culture, even as the countries went to war.

The fourth edition of Abuse of Process is a practical guide for barristers and solicitors, advising on and litigating abuse of process applications within criminal proceedings at all stages, from pre-charge to appellant level.

The Oxford Handbook of Grand Strategy addresses the conceptual and historical foundations, production, evolution, and future of grand strategy from a wide range of standpoints.

Drawing from his field expertise as a legal advisor in the Middle East and North Africa, Omar Mekky narrates how Islamic Jihadism began and evolved, outlines the laws jihadists apply during combat, addresses how states often respond to jihadist groups, and aims for a pragmatic humanitarian legal formula grounded in insightful readings.

The book looks at insolites readings of the Gita and how they seek to fill the hermeneutical gap between readings tied to its canonical and scriptural status and those readings distant from the text's tradition.

The only introduction to critical security studies to take a question-centred approach, with a unique emphasis on equipping students with the knowledge and skills to think, analyse, and debate using critical perspectives.

This scholarly volume explores the most successful group of new political parties in Central and Eastern Europe: centrist anti-establishment parties (CAPs). Sarah Engler asks how these parties survive when newness is their only selling point and focuses on CAPs' electoral strategies after their first elections.

This accessible and entertaining book explores the fundamental connections between life and information and how they emerged inextricably linked, taking the reader on a journey through all the major evolutionary transitions.

A new account of Middle English book production and circulation that analyzes 202 literary manuscripts from late medieval England (1350-1500) to show how the production of documents underscored the wide availability of literary copying.

Confirmation Bias in Criminal Cases takes a multi-disciplinary approach to assessing confirmation bias among criminal justice practitioners, combining criminal law, psychology, criminology, medicine, and anthropology. The book analyses case studies from international jurisdictions and utilizes a research-based approach to confirmation bias.

Why do people care about this foundational epic poem and its characters? This is the first book to apply to the Iliad research in communications, literary studies, media studies, and psychology on how readers of a story or viewers of a play, movie, or television show find themselves immersed in the tale and identify with the characters.

In this new edition of the Very Short Introduction, Loughlin includes a disucssion of the impact of developments over the decade since its first publication, examining Brexit, the Scottish independence referendum of 2014, and the settlement in Northern Ireland.

In Food, Justice, and Animals: Feeding the World Respectfully, Josh Milburn questions if the vegan food system risks cutting off many people's pursuit of the 'good life', risks exacerbating food injustices, and risks negative outcomes for animals.

Thomas More's Utopia is one of the most iconic, translated, and influential texts of the European Renaissance. This Handbook offers three different ways of thinking about the book: in terms of its renaissance contexts, its vernacular translations, and its utopian legacies.

This book explores the ways in which local governments in England reacted to the UK government's austerity measures after the 2008 crash. Andy Pike examines how local statecrafters act in a variety of realms, and questions the sustainability and resilience of the local state in the longer term.

This volume explores the use of images in legal decisions and its impact upon the transmission and authority of law. It addresses the impact of graphics, gifs, emojis, pictures, screenshots, photographs, film, and animé on judicial reasoning.

The Oxford Handbook of the European Iron Age presents to students, scholars, and interested general readers a broad overview of current understanding of the archaeology of Europe from 1000 BC through to the early historic periods.

An abridged translation of Christian von Bar's Gemeineuropäisches Sachenrecht I, this book outlines the conceptual framework of 'property law' as a domain of erga omnes monopoly rights. In this book, the dynamics of interaction between the objects, contents, and holders of property are examined in a comprehensive analysis.

Complementing the popular Drugs in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, this companion title provides high quality pharmacology practice questions tailored to the FRCA, EDAIC, FFICM, and EDIC examinations.

These two volumes contain selected essays, written over forty years, by Andrew Louth, a major scholar in the fields of Theology and Patristics (early Christian thought). Many of the essays in volume II concern the nature of theology, drawing from a famous group of twentieth century Russian thinkers exiled after the 1917 Communist revolution.

These two volumes contain selected essays, written over forty years, by Andrew Louth, a major scholar in the fields of Theology and Patristics (early Christian thought). The essays in the first volume concern key figures and themes in early Christian theology - especially Maximos the Confessor and John of Damascus.

AMR is arguably one of the most severe long-term threats to human, animal, and environmental health. There is momentum for global political action around novel and emerging disease threats and Steering Against Superbugs contributes with original and insightful research to inform ongoing and future debates.