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Mind as Metaphor shows that mental fictionalism can make sense of our concept of mind, avoiding the difficulties faced by alternative approaches, such as behaviourism or instrumentalism. Adam Toon sheds light on a range of issues, from the mind's capacity to represent the world to the way in which new practices expand the limits of inquiry

Gone Girls, 1684-1901 examines how the persistent trope in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British novels of female characters running away from home helped to shape both the novel form and modern feminism.

The 19th century was a time of extraordinary scientific innovation, but with the rise of psychiatry, faiths and popular beliefs were often seen as signs of a diseased mind. By exploring the beliefs of asylum patients, we see the 19th century in a new light, with science, faith, and the supernatural deeply entangled in a fast-changing world.

A team of some of the world's most distinguished First World War historians chart the causes, course, and profound political and human consequences of a conflict that changed the world.

Cleaning Up Renaissance Italy takes us to the streets, bridges, and waterways of Renaissance Genoa and Venice, exploring how environmental management - street cleaning, water provision, waste disposal, and reuse - relates to cultural ideals, individual and collective behaviour, political reputations, and social identities.

The story of the British Army, from the first standing army in the seventeenth century, via the imperial army of the nineteenth century, the world wars, and the people's army of the twentieth century, through to the much smaller force of the 21st century and the new challenges it faces.

The fifth volume of The Oxford History of British & Irish Catholicism, which assembles synoptic chapters from leading historians of modern Catholicism, offers a comprehensive and accessible overview of the changing contours of the Church on two islands (and with connections across the world) throughout the twentieth century.

Dan Stone tells the story of the last great unknown archive of Nazism, the International Tracing Service, set up to find missing persons at the end of World War II. Spanning across death marches, slave labour, and liberation, Fate Unknown uncovers the history of this remarkable archive which holds over 30 million documents.

Garry Hagberg investigates the role that literature plays in the constitution of a human being, and the connection between the language we see at work in imaginative fiction and the language we develop to describe ourselves. He asks whether self-descriptive or autobiographical language itself plays an active role in shaping our identities.

The book spans the entire QBIP process from foundation in fundamental theory, to development and machine-learning optimization of accurate potentials for real materials, to the application of the potentials to materials modeling and simulation of structural, thermodynamic, defect and mechanical properties of important metals and alloys.

Since the early twentieth century, Moore's paradox has been a challenge to the philosophical understanding of belief, assertion, knowledge, and rationality. This book offers a compelling study of the paradox by the world's leading authority on the subject, the late John Williams.

The period AD300-1050, spanning the collapse of Roman rule to the coming of the Normans, was formative in the development of Wales. This book uses archaeology and other evidence to uncover how people lived in late Roman and early medieval Wales and how their lives changed over time, as well as drawing comparisons with Britain and the wider world.

What if the American experiment is twofold, encompassing both democracy and tyranny? This book traces some of ways that nineteenth-century Americans used the figure of Napoleon to understand the perameters of tyranny and the perversions it introduced into both their polity and society.

This volume explores the uneasy relationship between crime, crime control and colonialism, foregrounding the relevance of the legacies of this relationship to criminological enquiries. It invites and pursues a better understanding of the links between imperialism and colonialism on the one hand, and nationalism and globalisation on the other.

Simona Giordano investigates the moral concerns raised by current clinical options available for transgender and gender diverse children and adolescents. Children and Gender thus combines a detailed ethical analysis with an accurate clinical description of gender development and available clinical pathways.

Embodied Idealism argues that Maurice Merleau-Ponty's early thought stands as a form of transcendental idealism. In spite of his overt criticisms of idealism, Merleau-Ponty holds that our experience is inextricably structured by our minds, and that reality is ontologically dependent on the mind.

Following the discovery of the Higgs boson, Frank Close has produced this major revision to his classic and compelling introduction to the fundamental particles that make up the universe.

The story of Charles Stewart Parnell, one of the greatest Irish leaders of the nineteenth century and also one of the most renowned figures of the 1880s on the international stage, and John Dillon, the most celebrated of Parnell's lieutenants. As Paul Bew shows, the differences between the two men reflect both Ireland's past and its future.

Being Single in Georgian England explores what eighteenth-century family life looked like, and how it was experienced, when viewed from the perspective of unmarried and childless family members, explored through the lens of three generations of the famous musical and abolitionist Sharp family.

The first book-length study of complaint in Shakespearean drama, arguing that poetic forms of complaint-expressions of discontent and unhappiness-operate as sites of thought about human flourishing; and that Shakespearean configurations of these forms of complaint in theatrical scenes model new ways of thinking about ethical subjectivity.

This is the first volume compiling English translations of Leibniz's journal articles on natural philosophy, presenting a selection of 26 articles, only three of which have appeared before in English translation. It also includes in full Leibniz's public controversies with De Catelan, Papin, and Hartsoeker.

This book offers the first comprehensive analysis of United Nations military protection operations across time and UN missions. It draws on a novel dataset that covers 200 operations from ten UN peacekeeping missions in Africa from 1999 to 2017, and evaluates the successes and failures of UN military troops in protecting civilians from violence.