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Utilitarianism is one of the most famous ethical doctrines, based on the ideal of maximizing pleasure and minimizing pain. But Utilitarians and their opponents lack a clear scientific and philosophical understanding of its foundations, the measurement and aggregation of utility. This is what The Pursuit of Happiness now offers.

The ancient Egyptians are an enduring source of fascination, from mummies and pyramids, to curses and rituals. In this second edition of his Very Short Introduction, Ian Shaw explores the history and culture of pharaonic Egypt, and examines the latest research on Ancient Egyptian ideas of death, kingship, religion, race, sex, and gender.

This book helps candidates prepare for the viva section of the FRCS Trauma and Orthopaedics exam. Drawn from questions asked in the Oxford revision course, this title provides a tried and tested revision tool, ideal for this high-pressure examination.

Conjugated polymers have important technological applications including solar cells and light emitting devices. They are active components in many important biological processes. This book describes and explains the electronic and optical properties of conjugated polymers by developing theoretical models to understand the key electronic states.

A comparative study of Nationalist Army and Republican Popular Army conscripts during the Spanish Civil War. Draws extensively on unpublished archival material to analyse the conflict from the perspective of those who were involved against their will.

The Read Write Inc. Phonics More Storybooks consolidate phonics learning and increase reading fluency. They are matched to the phonic progression of the Core Storybooks and are accompanied by detailed lesson plans on Read Write Inc. Phonics Online.

This book explores how countries' political and policy choices affect the credit ratings that they receive. The authors use statistical analysis of ratings, interviews with sovereign rating analysts, and a close reading of official communications of rating agencies to show that ratings penalize center-left governments and policies.

This is the first detailed study of an important Qur'anic commentary (tafsir) by Sultan 'Ali Shah Gunabadi (d. 1909), the eponymous master of the largest branch of the Ni'matullahi Sufi order (the Gunabadiyya).

This book provides a computational re-evaluation of the genealogical relations between the early Germanic families and of their diversification from their most recent common ancestor, Proto-Germanic. It also proposes a novel computational approach to the problem of linguistic diversification more broadly, using a computational simulation algorithm.

The interest among Victorian readers in classical literature from Asia has been greatly underestimated, and Asian Classics on the Victorian Bookshelf explains the process whereby popular translations were written, published, distributed to bookshops and libraries, and ultimately consumed by readers.

Beyond Deviant Damsels offers a new interpretation of women's criminality in the nineteenth century, countering assumptions that women commit crime in highly gendered ways and questioning the value of using stereotypes to analyse criminality, an approach that marginalises the importance of circumstances and individual choice.

This book examines the conditions under which new democracies succeed or fail in establishing firm and lasting civilian control of the military. It introduces a multi-dimensional conceptual framework to evaluate the degree of civilian control in new democracies, and tests a new theory on a large dataset from 66 countries.

This multi-author text provides in-depth analyses of space ethics and approaches to governance on territories beyond Earth. With insights from a vast background of academic subjects including science, law, philosophy, psychology, and politics it presents a holistic take on the expression of space freedoms and what it might mean for humankind.

This book explores the time that we (think we) experience and the concept of time in our beliefs, our knowledge, and our fears. The chapters bring together insights from linguists and philosophers to examine questions about time on the micro-level of physical reality, as well as time in language and discourse on the macro-level of social reality.

Sally Sedgwick examines a conspicuous feature of Hegel's major works: that they are progressive narratives. She shows the extent to which we can understand Hegel as holding that human reason and the freedom it affords us are determined by the temporal order of nature and history.

The King's Felons examines the subtle development of criminal confinement as an alternative to capital punishment in early Tudor England. Providing the first detailed study of criminal justice in the early Tudor period, McGlynn highlights the Church's role and reframes our understanding of significant acts of the Reformation parliament.

Female Power and Religious Change in the Medieval Near East examines interrelatedly the Islamization of the Near East and the place of women in pre-modern Near Eastern societies.

This book examines the 'anthology period' in Shakespeare's career to demonstrate how these texts used the practice of commonplacing to situate his works into a canon of English poetry. Considering what early anthologies made of Shakespeare, and what he made of being anthologized, leads to new readings of his poems and plays.

The work is an anthropological analysis of death and the dead, which attempts a significant reworking of the idea of death that is prevalent in Hinduism.

This book explains how leaders in the Caribbean and Pacific regions balance the autonomy-viability dilemma of postcolonial statehood by practising statehood a la carte. Jack Corbett shows that this approach is a pragmatic response to the contradictions inherent to coloniality.

This book provides a coherent, innovative, and multidisciplinary examination of the potential effects of AI technology on nuclear strategy and escalation risk. Its findings have significant theoretical and policy ramifications, as well as contributing to the literature on the impact of military force and technological change.

Self-Awareness and The Elusive Subject explores the fact that we are certain of the existence of a subject of experience despite its being objectively and subjectively elusive. Howell provides an account of basic self-awareness according to which we are most fundamentally aware of ourselves indirectly as the subject of our conscious states.

This book examines the etymological and semantic origins of luxuria in key Latin texts. It discusses the influence of Greek culture on the Roman concept and examines a wide array of classical authors and genres to trace how luxuria becomes one of the Seven Capital Sins in late antiquity, representing the vice of lust.

This book considers the overlap between intellectual property rights. Individual chapters examine discrete pairs of IP rights, with a series of comparison tables setting out the law regarding IP rights across the world.

This book delivers an in-depth examination of the policy, legal, and commercial structures relating to the usage and exploitation of Open Source Software, enabling readers to understand the legal environment within which Open Source operates.

Applied Psychology: Putting theory into practice demonstrates how psychology theory is applied in the real world. Uniquely structured as a series of themed 'rooms', it is as novel and engaging as it is essential reading for student mapping a career in psychology.

European Intellectual Property Law offers a full account of the main areas of substantive European intellectual property law - including the law of copyright and related rights, patents and plant variety rights, trademarks, design rights, and rights in data and information.

This book explores those moments of repetition, placing them in the early nineteenth century context from which they emerged, and teasing out through extended close attention to the poetry itself the complexities of repetition and recapitulation.

This Biff, Chip and Kipper collection contains four funny stories, plus activities focusing on reading skills. This Read with Oxford Stage 5 collection is ideal for children who are beginning to read independently. Read with Oxford offers an exciting range of carefully levelled reading books to build your child's reading confidence.