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Ireland was England's oldest colony. Making Empire revisits the history of empire in Ireland-in a time of Brexit, 'the culture wars', and the campaigns around 'Black Lives Matter' and 'Statues must fall'-to better understand how it has formed the present, and how it might shape the future.

This advanced textbook investigates how pathogens shape diversity in plant communities, how features of plant-microbe interactions including host range and mutualism/antagonism evolve, and how biological invasions, climate change, and other agents of global change can drive disease emergence.

Transnational Patriotism in the Mediterranean charts the lives of those who lived along the shores of the Adriatic during the first half of the nineteenth century, when the region was transformed from a 'Venetian lake' into a battlefield between old and new imperial powers and where nationalisms and nation-states emerged.

Kabuki's Nineteenth Century reconsiders the nature of nineteenth-century Japanese theater by exploring the enormous body of printed material related to kabuki: playbills, actor critiques, theater guides, maps, actor prints, calendars, and broadsheets, featuring sixty illustrations from the late eighteenth through the early twentieth century.

Provides a comprehensive, critical, and case-focused introduction to family law. Hayes & Williams' Family Law helps students to gain a firm understanding of family law principles, the developing law, and key reform debates.

There are so many words to discover about the world of plants, and this little book is the perfect first look into the diversity of plant life. With beautiful illustrations, new, familiar, and even challenging words, this is the ideal resource for developing children's vocabulary on nature.

There are all sorts of birds, big birds, small birds, birds that fly long distances, birds that like the dark, and even birds that don't fly at all! This book is the perfect resource for the important first words needed to talk about birds with little children. Why not read all the books in this first 50 Words series for children who love nature.

A.W. Moore presents a series of essays about the ineliminably anthropocentric nature of a priori thought. He suggests that we humans achieve nothing of real significance in philosophy, ethics, or mathematics except from a human point of view, and hence that all three of these pursuits can be said to betoken 'the human a priori'.

Accelerating Expansion explores some of the philosophical implications of modern cosmology, focused on the significance that the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe has for our understanding of time, geometry, and physics.

This book examines the growing role and importance of 'Protection Gap Entities' (PGEs). The authors use practical examples from different countries to explain how PGEs step in to maintain disaster insurance and how their work can, but does not always, improve financial and physical resilience to disaster.

Developments and Directions in Intellectual Property Law celebrates the 20th anniversary of the award-winning intellectual property blog, The IPKat. Bringing together eminent practitioners, academics, and former contributors, this book reflects on the most important developments in intellectual property law, policy, and practice.

The Morality of the Laws of War examines the modern landscape of the ethics of war. Rudolphy assesses the conflicting theories on the legality of just and unjust combatants. While doing this, she proposes an alternative morality of war proceeding from the inescapable fact that regulating war is always a significant moral compromise.

Emerald is learning how to be a mermaid princess, but she doesn't feel like one at all. Will she be able to appear with the King and Queen at the annual Ocean Parade, and still stay true to herself?

Aimed at an interdisciplinary audience (philosophy, psychology and neuroscience), this book is about mental imagery and the important work it does in our mental life. Mental imagery plays a crucial role in the vast majority of our perceptual episodes; but also plays an important role in emotions, action execution and even in our desires.

This book revisits the history of industry and industrial and economic policy in independent Ireland from the birth of the state to the eve of EEC accession.

Prosody in Medieval English and Norse reconstructs aspects of linguistic prosody from the medieval records of two closely related languages: English and Norse. Evidence from a series of case studies points to continuity in the internal rhythms of words in these languages, especially the enduring role of the bimoraic trochee.

This is the first scholarly treatment of the history of public eating in London in the Victorian and Edwardian eras. The restaurant played host to many of the most significant societal changes to occur in this period: technological advances, health regulations, changing gender roles, immigration, and the multicultural dimension to London life.

Developments and Directions in Intellectual Property Law celebrates the 20th anniversary of the award-winning intellectual property blog, The IPKat. Bringing together eminent practitioners, academics, and former contributors, this book reflects on the most important developments in intellectual property law, policy, and practice.

When old enemies resurface and kidnap her niece, Victoria Stitch is intent on revenge. It's time to ride again and remind these Wisklings that Victoria Stitch is undeniable, incredible, and almost certainly unstoppable.

One day a boy is walking past a second-hand shop when he sees a dress. It's no ordinary dress - it's glittering, sparking, dazzling, and red. For the boy it's love at first sight. Can he make enough money to buy it before someone else does?

When things start mysteriously disappearing around town, Rudy and his friends are determined to get to the bottom of it. But when all clues point towards the forbidden lake in the depths of the forest, is Rudy prepared to discover what might be hiding beneath the surface...?

The Corpus enables in-depth study of the coherence of and variation within the Sunjata epic oral tradition. It presents a rich evocation of this still-living performance tradition during almost the entirety of the Western Sudan's turbulent period of European colonial control, from the late 1880s to 1959.