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Effective persuasion is an art; an art which can be learned and perfected with practice and insight into human behaviour. This innovative book is the first to explain how key concepts from psychology, sociology, and communication science can be productively applied to the art of persuasion in international dispute resolution.

These essays honour leading historian of early modern England, Paul Slack, by engaging with his work on social policy and the history of political economy. They explore how languages of happiness and suffering developed, and how historians might explore the public employment and subjective experiences of happiness and suffering in this period.

Explores the textual representations of fear and its cognate emotions (anger, envy, and hatred) in Flavian epic through the ancient framework of Stoic thought on emotion, with a focus on Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica, Statius' Thebaid, and Silius Italicus' Punica.

The most complete scholarly edition of the letters, writings and recorded speeches of Oliver Cromwell - MP, soldier, statesman, family man, passionate opponent of tyranny and supporter of religious liberty and equality, and also from his own time to now one of the most controversial figures in British history.

The most complete scholarly edition of the letters, writings and recorded speeches of Oliver Cromwell - MP, soldier, statesman, family man, passionate opponent of tyranny and supporter of religious liberty and equality, and also from his own time to now one of the most controversial figures in British history.

The most complete scholarly edition of the letters, writings and recorded speeches of Oliver Cromwell - MP, soldier, statesman, family man, passionate opponent of tyranny and supporter of religious liberty and equality, and also from his own time to now one of the most controversial figures in British history.

This book uses conceptual metaphor theory to explore moral metaphors in English and Chinese. Ning Yu sheds light on the metaphorical nature of moral cognition and how it is systematically manifested in language, and explores the potential commonalities that define moral cognition and the differences that characterize distinct cultures.

Very little has been written of the history of prisoners of war before the twentieth century, and Renaud Morieux seeks to correct this in this new history of war captivity in the eighteenth century, mining archives in Britain and France to take a fresh look at international relations through the histories of prisoners and host communities.

This book reveals the power dynamics and interpersonal politics that lie at the heart of professional organizations. Drawing on the latest academic theory, and based on interviews with over 500 senior professionals, it analyses how professionals come together to create 'leadership'. It explains how change happens and why leaders so often fail.

This book defends the value of democratic participation. It aims to improve citizens' democratic control and vindicate the value of citizens' participation against conceptions that threaten to undermine it.

This text provides a comprehensive analysis of contemporary macroeconomics, within a European and global context. The authors balance the theoretical aspects with up-to-date policy examples throughout, allowing the reader to relate the concepts to their own economic environment.

Fully revised and updated, the third edition of Drugs in Palliative Care provides a practical, easily accessible A-Z of the common drugs encountered in palliative care.

Physics for Clinical Oncology supports clinical oncologists in their understanding of the basic science which underpins radiotherapy. This second edition has been updated to include advances in technology and the increased complexity in modern radiotherapy.

Christina Van Dyke brings to light a rich and neglected philosophical tradition: the writings of mystical and contemplative thinkers, mainly women, from the 13th to the 15th century. She show us how much we can learn today from their ideas on self-knowledge, reason (and its limits), love, persons, and immortality and the afterlife.

This book focuses on the theoretical and analytical challenges that languages with complex morphologies pose for the theory and typology of word-level prosodic phenomena. The first three chapters explore general theoretical issues, while later chapters offer a series of case studies from a range of genetically and geographically diverse languages.

A Handbook devoted to the work of Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), organized in three sections that study Johnson's career, his major and lesser-known works, and the subjects that were most important to him as a writer, thinker, and moralist.

This volume in the 21st Century Oxford Authors series offers readers a generous selection of the poetry upon which Byron's fame depended and his reputation now rests. It presents the poems in the chronological order in which they were published, working in almost every case from their first appearances in print.

This handbook provides a comprehensive account of the languages spoken in Ethiopia, exploring their structures and their function and use in society. It offers overviews of individual languages, many of them less documented, as well as detailed studies of specific aspects of language use in Ethiopia.

Feminist Transformations examines the history of feminist activism against domestic violence in divided Berlin. Centred on this key issue of gender inequality, the book explores how feminists advanced women's rights in Germany. More broadly, it reflects critically on what these advancements have meant for feminism and gender justice.

Interventions in other states on behalf of their populations is often portrayed as a novel phenomenon in state practice, one which breaches the old principle of sovereignty. But is this really a new practice? Patrick Milton argues that such interventions occurred frequently as far back as the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries.

This book explains how we came to think of the climate as something abstract and remote rather than a force that actively shapes our existence. It shows how the writings of American travellers in the Caribbean registered and pushed forward a new understanding of the climate in a pivotal period in modern history, roughly between 1770 and 1860.

Gastrointestinal surgery is performed for a range of benign and malignant diseases in both elective and emergency settings. This volume covers the diseases, surgery, and management of the mesentery, omentum, peritoneum, and retroperitoneum, as well as abdominal trauma.

Police Law provides straightforward but comprehensive coverage of all aspects of law and police procedure for readers of all backgrounds. Updates include the Investigatory Powers Act 2016, the Haulage Permits and Trailer Registration Act 2018, and the Assault on Emergency Workers (Offences) Act 2018, new case law and updates to the PACE Codes.

Drawing on an ethnographic study of novel readers in Denmark and the UK during the Covid-19 pandemic, this book provides a snapshot of a phenomenal moment in modern history - showing what novels people turned to during the pandemic, how people experienced time during this period, and whether they chose to fill it with reading.