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This Biff, Chip and Kipper collection contains four funny stories, plus activities focusing on reading skills. This Read with Oxford Stage 4 collection is ideal for children who are gaining more reading confidence. Read with Oxford offers an exciting range of carefully levelled reading books to build your child's reading confidence.

This Biff, Chip and Kipper collection contains four funny stories, plus activities focusing on phonics and reading skills. This Read with Oxford Stage 3 collection is ideal for children who are growing in reading confidence. Read with Oxford offers an exciting range of carefully levelled reading books to build your child's reading confidence.

This Biff, Chip and Kipper collection contains four funny stories, plus activities focusing on phonics and reading skills. This Read with Oxford Stage 2 collection is ideal for children who are developing early reading skills. Read with Oxford offers an exciting range of carefully levelled reading books to build your child's reading confidence.

This Biff, Chip and Kipper collection contains six funny stories, plus activities focusing on phonics and reading skills. This Read with Oxford Stage 1 collection is ideal for children who are taking their first steps in reading. Read with Oxford offers an exciting range of carefully levelled reading books to build your child's reading confidence.

Modern American Poetry and the Architectural Imagination: The Harmony of Forms assesses the relationship between architectural and poetic innovation in the United States across the twentieth century.

Blackstone's Senior Investigators' Handbook is aimed at meeting the reference needs of officers who investigate serious, major, and organised crime. It provides step-by-step, easy to understand guidance of all the necessary considerations, procedures, and processes for a Senior Investigating Officer.

Impressive in scope and inventiveness, Democracy Beyond Borders stands at the forefront of a new generation of political thought which reassesses the philosophical foundations of global order. Developing an innovative political theory of representation, it tackles one of today's most pressing issues: how to tame and harness globalization.

This book brings together recent advances and presents a comprehensive picture of the scientific study of networks. It includes discussion of computer networks, social networks, biological networks, and others, and an introduction to the mathematics of network theory, including analysis techniques, computer algorithms, and network modeling.

Drawing on empirical case studies of ten European countries, this path-breaking volume challenges and contributes to existing accounts of Europeanization and varieties of capitalism.

This book examines the obligations of troops to prevent serious abuses of human rights towards civilians under international humanitarian law and international human rights law.

Family Newspapers? provides the first detailed historical study of the modern popular press's coverage of sex and private life, from the start of the mass newspaper reading boom in 1918 to the triumph of the Sun's sexualised journalism in 1978.

Marx is one of the most influential philosophers of all time, whose theories about society, economics, and politics have shaped and directed political and social thought for 150 years. In this new edition, Peter Singer discusses the legacy and impact of Marx's core theories, considering how they apply to twenty first century politics and society.

The corpus of astrological material ascribed to the Egyptian priest Manetho consists of six books of poetry. This book serves as the companion to the one published by OUP in 2020, providing the first scholarly commentary in any language on books four, one, and five of Manetho's poetry.

Nicholas Vrousalis argues that exploitation is a form of domination, namely enrichment through the domination of others. This form of domination, being reducible to neither unfairness nor to defective consent, structurally pervades capitalist relations between consenting adults, as well as oppressive gender and race relations.

Michael Wheatley examines Irish politics in the last years of the Union, before war and uprising transformed Irish and British politics. Focusing particularly on the Irish Party, he provides a detailed, scholarly analysis and challenges the view that the party was doomed.

A study of Britain's food and agricultural preparations in the 1930s, this book examines the relationship between food, agriculture, and the nation's preparations for war. It shows how food and agriculture became closely linked to rearmament as early as 1936; and that in this sector government plans were already well-developed by 1939.

Argues that Duke William of Normandy's claim to succeed Edward the Confessor on the throne of England profoundly influenced not only the practice of royal succession, but also played a large part in creating a novel structure of land tenure, dependent on the king.

Environmental Chemistry: A global perspective describes the chemical principles which underpin the natural processes occurring within and between the air, water, and soil, and explores how human activities have impacted on these processes, giving rise to environmental issues of global concern.

Taguchi and Roever present the latest developments in second language pragmatics research, combining acquisitional and sociolinguistic perspectives.

A unique perspective on intellectual property law. This book examines the complex policies that inform and guide modern intellectual property law at the domestic (including Scottish), European, and international levels, giving the reader a true insight into the discipline and possible future developments.

This book examines the development of mathematics from the late 16th Century to the end of the 19th Century. Each chapter will focus on a particular topic and outline its history with the provision of facsimiles of primary source material along with explanatory notes and modern interpretations.

Treating Violence deals with the problem of violence by mental health patients. Studies have established that mental disorders lead to violence in a minority of sufferers. This book critically reviews risk assessment methods and summarises the evidence. It should be read by anybody working in front line mental health services or criminal justice.

This is the most systematic moral theory of international law available. Allen Buchanan offers principled and realistic proposals for how international law should respond to some of today's most urgent problems, including the justification of humanitarian intervention and secessionist conflicts.

Contains modern concepts about the physics of electrons in solids. This book helps the reader choose an efficient scheme of an experiment, or the optimum algorithm of a calculation. It is useful to those who study or professionally deal with solid state physics.

This is the first full scholarly study of state formation and the exercise of state power in Scotland. It sets the Scottish state in a British and European context, revealing that Scotland - like larger and better-known states - developed a more integrated governmental system in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This study provides an invaluable new contribution to the history of Scotland.

Bridging the disciplines of literature and history, Socioliterary Practice examines how literary language reveals contemporary social issues and practices. Close readings of a range of fourteenth- and fifteenth-century texts, both English and Latin, familiar and less well known, yield challenging new interpretations of literary history and late medieval culture.

This book discusses the relationship between religion and medicine around 1300. Ziegler analyses the spiritual writings of two physicians in the light of their medical background. He examines the use of medical knowledge for non-medical purposes, and by clerics who did not engage in medical practice.

Traces the history of how Arianism has been viewed in later Christian thought, particularly where scholars or religious groups have adopted broadly Arian views. This work also deals with how and why their beliefs took this form, and why this approach disappeared again around the end of the century.

An introduction to the international law of racial discrimination, this book is the first to provide an inside account of how a United Nations human rights treaty body actually works. It will be fascinating reading for anyone interested in the issue of race and racial discrimination.

A blended print and digital Early Years programme for children aged 3 to 5. Oxford International Pre-Primary offers a structured and integrated English, maths and science programme with inspiring characters and a wide range of play-based activities that put each child at the heart of the learning experience