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This book seeks to identify structures that trap workers in conditions of exploitation. It focuses specifically on 'state mediated structural injustice', where legislative schemes that promote otherwise legitimate aims create inadvertent vulnerabilities for workers.

Externalism About Knowledge presents new essays from leading epistemologists working in various branches of this tradition: process reliabilism, tracking views, safety views, virtue epistemology, proper functionalism, naturalized epistemology, and knowledge-first epistemology.

Gracious Forgiveness: A Theological Retrieval articulates the divine disposition to forgive using an often overlooked metaphor for forgiveness: bearing burdens. In the person of Jesus Christ, we can see how God heals people by absorbing into God's own being the consequences of their offense.

This book provides the first full account of Dioscorus as patriarch of Alexandria between 444 and 451 CE. Often historically tarnished as a ruthless 'tyrant-bishop' in the Western Church, Dioscorus is shown rather to be a conflicted reformer against the backdrop of the Later Roman Empire and its political mechanisms for implementing 'Orthodoxy'.

This volume aims to demonstrate the central importance of social roles to moral philosophy. Topics include social roles in the history of philosophy, the origins of social roles' normative force, the relevance of instititions, and the connection between roles and wellbeing.

Atmospheric Thermodynamics provides a comprehensive treatment of a subject that can often be intimidating. The text analyses real-life problems and applications of the subject, alongside of guiding the reader through the fundamental basics followed by an emphasis on moist processes in the Earth's atmosphere.

This unique synthesis uses examples from a diverse and expanding carnivoran literature, drawing from all carnivoran families and spanning the world's oceans and continents, to produce a clearly written and richly illustrated book that reviews our current state of knowledge of carnivoran ecology.

In September 2015, the United Nations adopted the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This historic document constituted a universal 'plan for action for people, planet and prosperity.' The Sustainable Development Goals serves as an expert compendium, the most authoritative ready-reference tool for anyone interested in the SDGs.

The latest volume in Oxford's new edition of Selected Writings of James Fitzjames Stephen, this volume brings together Stephen's writings on the novel and journalism.

This book examines the cultural, historical, and rhetorical functions of forgery that extend beyond the desire to deceive and profit. Its chapters reach from antiquity to the twentieth century and cover literature and art, the two areas that predominate in forgery studies, as well as the forgery of physical books, coins, and religious relics.

This book provides a scholarly and practical analysis of the legal principles which govern the formation of contracts in English law, offering those involved in litigation and in drafting contracts a guide to the application of those principles in practice.

The interpretation of legal texts is, essentially, a question of judgement. But that judgement cannot be exercised arbitrarily. It must be exercised in accordance with the rule of law. Calnan explains this using seven defined principles and provides examples which illustrate how the principles work together.

This edition brings together the four volumes of John Lightfoot's journals, covering a period in the author's life when he was a member of the famous 'assembly of divines' meeting in Westminster Abbey, supplementing the formal minutes with his own observations on religious debates, riots outside parliament, and complicated assembly dynamics.

Jack Pease was at the heart of the British Liberal government from 1908 to 1915, holding the position of Chief Whip through two general elections, and a member of the Cabinet confronting domestic tumult, international tensions, and war. Pease's text provides a uniquely comprehensive understanding of Asquith's government in peace and war.

This book presents the first modern critical edition of the work of Gregory of Nyssa, On the Human Image of God (formerly known as On the Making of Man, De hominis opificio) and the first English translation since the nineteenth century. This treatise is one of the most important of Gregory's texts.

Rant on the Court Martial and Service Law is the essential guide to the service justice system. This fourth edition has been updated to analyse the impact of the Armed Forces Act 2021 on the established role of the service justice system and the Court Martial.

Gastrointestinal surgery (GI) is performed for a range of benign and malignant diseases in both elective and emergency settings. This volume covers the surgery and management of the oesophagus and stomach including anatomy, surgical and non-surgical approaches to different conditions, and dedicated sections on oesophageal and gastric cancer.

How can feminism fight patriarchy while preserving some women's desire for patriarchal sex and other women's desire to liberate themselves from it? In a Rapture of Distress argues for a more capacious definition of sex-positive, via a curious rather than a moral spectatorship upon the sex life of women of different cultures and generations.

This handbook explores multiple facets of the study of word classes, also known as parts of speech or lexical categories. The contributions showcase the importance of word classes for the whole discipline of linguistics, while also highlighting the many ongoing debates in the areas and outlining fruitful avenues for future research.

The Eucharist, Poetics, and Secularization from the Middle Ages to Milton explains the astonishing centrality of the eucharist to English poets writing from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries.

This new volume in the 21st Century Oxford Authors series presents Emily Brontë's work, including Wuthering Heights and her poetry, as it was first known to the reading public.

Performing Time explores our experience of time in dance and music, from the perspectives of both performers and audience, and informed by the most recent research in dance science, musicology, neuroscience, and psychology.

This textbook presents a detailed introduction to the general concepts of quantum field theory, with special emphasis on principal aspects of functional methods and renormalization in gauge theories, and includes an introduction to semiclassical and perturbative quantum gravity in flat and curved spacetimes.

Offering an unparalleled level of assessment support, IB Prepared: Business Management 2nd edition has been developed directly with the IB to provide the most up-to-date, authentic and authoritative guidance on DP assessment.

This book develops a novel understanding of four types of diaspora entrepreneurs based on their linkages to de facto states and different global contexts, and a theory about their interactions with host-land foreign policies, homeland governments, parties, non-state actors, critical events, and limited global influences.

By bridging culture and institutions, this book aims to bring a more integrated and nuanced understanding of unequal work, with a view to casting fresh light on social change in China, Japan, and beyond.