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Economists in the Cold War is an account of the economic drivers and outcomes of the Cold War, told through the stories of seven international economists, who were all closely involved in theory and policy in the period 1945-73.

This volume argues that parody is central to modernism and shows that as a literary technique, parody was a means for modernists to learn their craft, sharpen their historical sense, and define themselves as post-Victorians.

This book comprises the first critical edition and study of a group of poems by Theodoros Prodromos, a leading poet of 12th century Byzantium, accompanied by English translations and commentaries. It adds to a nuanced picture of Prodromos' profile, providing insights into his activity at different settings of Constantinopolitan intellectual life.

The story of the South Asian women who travelled as ayahs (servants and nannies) in the British empire, but often found themselves abandoned in Britain. A unique tale that gives a voice to a largely forgotten group in the historical record.

This book collects seventeen essays published between 1984 and 2020, in which Marina Sbisà develops her distinctive approach to speech acts and related pragmatic phenomena. The essays examine the categories of speech act theory with the aim of providing an accurate analysis of how speech can be action.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the innovative financial instruments and approaches available to implement water security and green growth initiatives in a range of contexts. It also provides in-depth case studies of these innovative applications in various locations of differing climates, lifestyles, and income levels.

This dictionary is a comprehensive yet concise guide to the various legal, regulatory, technical, commercial, and financial abbreviations, acronyms, terms, and phrases which define the oil and gas industry today.

This new edition is a comprehensive update of Introduction to Microfluidics, showing the fundamentals of the technology, providing concepts and methods for understanding, designing and microfabricating microfluidics devices.

Explores how humans have manipulated the ancient forces of evolution and the future possibilities of genetic engineering for conservation and rewilding, de-extinction, and even the creation of viable populations of entirely new species. In so doing, this thought-provoking book explores the potential future of life on planet Earth.

The Oxford Textbook of Respiratory Critical Care provides a standalone comprehensive account of respiratory critical care medicine with a clear focus on how to manage respiratory disease in the critically ill. Each chapter offers key messages, controversies, and further research points, making the book easy to read.

Reconstructs the lives of Henry VII's new men - low-born ministers with legal, financial, political, and military skills who enforced the king's will as he sought to strengthen government after the Wars of the Roses, examining how they exercised power, gained wealth, and spent it to sustain their new-found status.

A considered balance of depth, detail, context, and critique, EU Law Directions offers the most student-friendly guide to the subject; empowering students to evaluate the law, understand its practical application, and approach assessments with confidence.

This book offers a systematic exploration of the role of religion and religiosity in electoral politics across Western Europe and in the United States. The chapters approach the relationship between religion, religiosity, and electoral behaviour from a variety of different angles and on the basis of a range of comparative datasets.

This book gives a general theory of rational belief. Although it can be read by itself, is a sequel to the author's previous book The Value of Rationality (Oxford, 2017). It takes the general conception of rationality that was defended in that earlier book, and combines it with an account of the varieties of belief, and of what it is for these beliefs to count as "correct", to develop an account of what it is for beliefs to count as rational.According to this account, rationality comes in degrees: the degree to which one's beliefs counts as rational is determined by their distance from a corresponding probability function - where this distance is measured by those beliefs' "expected degree of incorrectness" according to the probability function; the accountalso involves an explanation of what determines exactly which probability function plays this role in each case, and of why this probability function should play this role.In developing and defending this account, new light is shed on several central epistemological issues. These issues include: the distinction between propositional and doxastic justification; the debates between internalism and externalism, and between foundationalism and coherentism; the significance - or lack of it - of the notion of 'evidence'; the relationship between credences, full belief, inference, and suspension of judgment; the nature of the kind of possibility that is presupposed bythe relevant sort of probability; and whether rationality is "diachronic" - so that the beliefs that it is rational for us to have now depend, in part, on the beliefs that we held in the past. Finally, some suggestions are made about how this theory bears on a range of further topics, including thedefeasibility of inference, scepticism, and the analysis of knowledge.

A pioneering study of children's social care in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, A Home From Home? presents new information and develops conceptual thinking about the history of children's care by investigating the centrality of key ideas about home, family, and nurture that shaped welfare provision for children at this time.

This book is about the politics of economic ideas and technocratic economic governance, focusing on the Office for Budget Responsibility. It also analyses the changing political economy of British capitalism's relationship to the European and global economies in the face of the global financial crisis, Brexit and COVID.

Philip V of Macedon in Polybius' Histories offers a historiographical and literary study of Polybius' portrait of Philip V, aiming to advance our knowledge of both the historian and his subject. It takes a chronological and thematic approach, exploring how Polybius' political, historiographical, and didactic aims impact the king's depiction.

This book is the first typologically-oriented book-length treatment of morphomes, systematic morphological identities, that do not map onto syntactic or semantic natural classes. It outlines the theoretical and empirical challenges and presents a detailed database of 120 morphomes across 79 languages.

This book explores the development of the Austrian codification of administrative procedure and the subsequent spread of Austrian ideas and institutions across Europe. The book thus provides an unprecedented outlook on the emergence of an increasing common core regarding administrative procedure, and the consequences it had for other legal systems.

The book contains a new critical edition of the Greek text of Aristotle's De Motu Animalium and an English translation of the new text by Benjamin Morison, preceded by a two-part introduction by Christof Rapp and Oliver Primavesi.

Written by experts, this innovative textbook offers students a relevant, contextual account of EU law. Under the experienced editorship of Catherine Barnard and Steve Peers, the text draws together a range of expert contributors for rich understanding of each area of the EU law curriculum and to introduce students to key debates in the subject

This volume provides a unified account of the history of attempts to convert mathematical proof to a syllogistic form of reasoning, from Aristotle to major advances in logic in the nineteenth century. The analysis of the debate provides insights into the relationship between philosophy and mathematics.

A Precarious Life offers an internal view of conflict among one of the most socioeconomically disadvantaged communities in Britain. The book brings to view the disjuncture that exists between top-down theories that guide the criminal law, and norms that make better sense of the social world navigated by residents on an over-criminalized estate.

This book is a study of the concepts of endangerment and extinction. Examining interlinking discourses of biological and cultural diversity loss in western and central India, it problematizes the long history of human endangerment and extinction discourse.

This new edition of Aristotle's Eudemian Ethics completes the task, begun by Walzer and Mingay's 1991 Oxford Classical Text edition, of restoring the corrupted text on the basis of a new understanding of the relationships between the extant Greek manuscripts.

Studies on the Text of Aristotle's Eudemian Ethics is a companion volume to the critical edition of Aristotle's Ethica Evdemia in the Oxford Classical Text series, edited by Christopher Rowe.

In this book, Robert Goodin identifies several fundamental mechanisms of structural injustice: social position, networks, language, social expectations and norms, reputation, and organization. Informed by a wide range of social sciences, he explores what all these mechanisms have in common, and shows what can reasonably be done to overcome them.

The first edition of The Struggle for Health was published in 1985 and was widely acclaimed by those seeking a broader and deeper political understanding of ill health, beyond the medical model of care. It was a revolutionary book, that has now been updated and includes health problems that have emerged since the 1980s.