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Forging Nations considers the relationships between money, power, and nationality in England, Scotland, and Ireland from the Union of the Crowns in 1603 to the present day. Blaazer examines how struggles over monetary power have continued to shape arguments and attitudes in recent debates over the Euro, Scottish independence, and 'austerity'.

The Thirty Years' War was the most destructive conflict in pre-20th-century European history and forced a number of rulers into exile. The Palatine Family and the Thirty Years' War provides a long-overdue examination of the family's experiences of exile in the second half of the Thirty Years' War and their efforts to recover lost lands and titles.

Wilfrid Sellars was one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. The Metaphysics of Practice brings together his writings on practical philosophy-published essays, manuscripts, and correspondence-with an editorial introduction explaining how the pieces fit into Sellars's philosophy as a whole.

European Constitutional Imaginaries promises to open debates on European constitutionalism that are necessary to understanding Europe's present predicament and its various crises, all navigated through the medium of law.

Polymorphism in chemistry is the existence of multiple crystal structures for one substance. The properties of a substance are determined by its composition and by its structure. This book summarizes and brings up to date the current knowledge and understading of polymorphism of molecular crystals.

Should historians make value judgements about the past? Many historians think not, but Donald Bloxham contends that it is legitimate, often unavoidable, and frequently important. History and Morality illuminates how far tacit moral judgements infuse works of history, and how strange those histories would look if the judgements were removed.

Tom Burns explores the nature of psychiatry today, focusing on what it can and cannot do, and considering the main disorders it covers. Discussing the philosophical issues of psychiatry, he reveals psychiatry's past mistakes, before looking forward to the likely changes in its future practice with artificial intelligence and virtual reality.

This volume provides the first in-depth intellectual history of the contractual thought of Viscount Stair, a pivotal figure in the shaping of Scots Law. It traces the key influences from theology, philosophy, and natural law that through Stair contributed to a distinct approach to legal thought in Scotland.

Global threats such as pandemics, climate change, inequality, low growth, and conflict have made it more difficult to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. This book examines the role of budget support in effectively responding to new realities developing countries face set against the backdrop of dramatically changing economic architecture

Prenatal Genetic Testing, Abortion, and Disability Rights explores the intent and effects of prenatal screening in connection to women's bodily autonomy and disability rights, addressing themes at the intersection of genetic medicine, policymaking, critical disabilities studies, and political theory.

The questions related to waste management are not merely technical; what, how, where, and by whom becomes intrinsically political questions. This book is about the power relations in recycling, from the viewpoint of political ecology, and ecological economics.

This fascinating edited volume focuses on the nature and authority of precedent and forms of reasoning that it involves in common law and civil law systems. It addresses fundamental principles as to how and when to act following precedent and reasons for which it may be best to depart from precedent.

Hercules is a tragedy of great theatrical, poetic, and cultural value, addressing central issues of early imperial Rome, even as it speaks profoundly to our times. This edition offers a newly edited Latin text, English verse translation, and a detailed commentary setting the work in its theatrical and historical context.

This volumes offers a study of all known manuscripts and incunabular editions of four classical texts: Vitruvius' De architectura, Cato's De agri cultura, Varro's De re rustica, Porphyrio's Commentary on Horace, and Priscian's Periegesis.

This interdisciplinary edited volume presents twelve papers by Roman historians and archaeologists, discussing the interconnected relationship between religion and the Roman economy over the period c. 500 BC to AD 350.

Heritage and War investigates a variety of philosophical and moral questions arising from the phenomenon of heritage destruction in war.

Each year sees thousands of lawsuits filed to seek recovery from manufacturers of pharmaceuticals and medical devices. In this high-stakes, rapidly-evolving field of practice, this book provides valuable assistance to lawyers through strategic guidance, practice pointers, and discussion on key shifts in the legal landscape since the first edition.

A beautifully illustrated, new edition of the best single-volume guide to Byzantine art, providing an introduction to the whole period and range of styles.

The two volumes of Gravitational Waves provide a comprehensive and detailed account of the physics of gravitational waves. Volume 2 discusses what can be learned from gravitational waves in astrophysics and in cosmology, by systematizing a large body of theoretical developments that have taken place over the last decades.

The story of the reign of Charles I - told through the lives of his people. Prize-winning historian David Cressy re-creates the broadest possible panorama of early Stuart England, as it slipped from complacency to revolution

New edition of a concise easily accessible summary of all currently available surgical guidelines. First line recommendations for investigations and treatment including level of supporting evidence

Over its six editions, the Shorter Oxford Textbook of Psychiatry has come to be widely recognised as the standard text for trainee psychiatrists.

This fully revised and updated second edition provides a distinct analysis and evaluation of the Hague Convention on Child Abduction as a global remedy for international child abductions, as well as the most comprehensive and authoritative examination of the core provisions that give rise to problems of interpretation and application in practice.

Genetics: Genes, Genomes, and Evolution presents fundamental principles of genetics and molecular biology from an evolutionary perspective, as informed by genome analysis. Using what has been learned from analyses of bacterial and eukaryotic genomes as its basis, the book unites evolution, genomics, and genetics in one narrative approach.

When Amina's village is suddenly struck by a civil war, her family is brutally torn apart and her dreams of freedom are shattered. As she begins her journey to safety at a refugee camp, Amina faces some of her most feared situations, with only her imagination to escape from reality.

This anthology is the perfect introduction to the gothic genre. Stories of a mountaineer's mysterious death, a scrimshaw tooth which holds dark powers and an introduction to one of the most famous gothic characters. Superstition runs rife in these stories which are full of suspense, violent wolves, graveyard scenes and terrifying monsters.

Yan Huang's highly successful textbook on pragmatics has been fully revised and updated. It includes a brand new chapter on reference, a major topic in both linguistics and the philosophy of language, as well as new material covering subjects including conversational implicature, emotional deixis, and contextualism versus semantic minimalism.

Aristotle initiated the systematic investigation of perception, the emotions, memory, desire, and action. David Charles argues that Aristotle's account of these phenomena is a philosophically live alternative to conventional modern thinking about the mind: it offers a way to dissolve, rather than solve, the mind-body problem we have inherited.

The true story of the Gestapo - the Nazis' secret police force and the most feared instrument of political terror in the Third Reich.

Definitions, and views, of photons have undergone a remarkable change during the last century, continuing today with advances in nanotechnology and lasers. 'Our Changing Views of Photons - A Tutorial Memoir' describes the changing views of the physics community toward photons, and how photons are viewed today in several contexts.