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This volume presents a series of essays by Sabina Lovibond on moral philosophy, drawing on ideas from Platonic-Aristotelian ethics, the later Wittgenstein, and Iris Murdoch. A common theme is the lived experience of the socially situated subject, and Lovibond considers the role of imaginative literature (especially the novel) in ethical formation.

This book presents twenty-three in-depth case studies of successful public policies and programs in Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Iceland.

The first critical study to apply the tools and insights of the energy humanities to the work of William Faulkner. The volume explores the imaginative, affective, social, and cultural impact of Faulkner's work in relation to southern energy history.

Humans and animals are entangled in a number of commercial or organizational settings, and organization theory needs to respond more comprehensively to this relationship. This interdisciplinary volume maps the contours of an emerging discipline, touching on the politics, theory, and empirical experience of multispecies life-worlds.

What conceptual frameworks did the inhabitants of early monastic communities carry into relationships of spiritual direction? What did they hope to achieve through confession and discipline? This study shows how early Christian writers applied the logic and pretensions of Galenic medicine to develop practices and concepts of spiritual direction.

Examines the European Left's attempt to think and give shape to an alternative type of European integration-a 'social Europe'-during the long 1970s, showing that the western European Left-in particular social democratic parties, trade unions, and 'Eurocommunist' parties-formulated a project to turn 'capitalist Europe' into a 'workers' Europe'.

Using the case study of Prussia, Marcus Colla presents a multi-perspective approach to the way that a distinctive 'historical culture' was constructed in the German Democratic Republic, evaluating the roles played by political figures, historians, and cultural elites, but also purveyors of popular culture, such as writers and musicians.

In the first book-length study of ecclesiology in analytic theology, Joshua Cockayne offers a vision of the Church, according to which the Church is united as the body of Christ through the work of the Holy Spirit, despite the apparent diversity of the Church in its gathered, particular forms.

What Happened to the Soviet University? explores how one of the largest geopolitical changes of the twentieth century - the dissolution of the Soviet Union - triggered and inspired the reconfiguration of the Soviet university.

A concise and evidence-based summary of the current understanding and practice of hypertension

This is the first book dedicated exclusively to presenting the current state of scholarship on multilingual development and language use among adolescents. Drawing upon the fast-growing interdisciplinary field of youth studies, the book provides a detailed examination of the linguistic, cognitive, and literacy development of multilingual teenagers in home, school, community, and global contexts.Areas covered include: effective needs analysis using the CEFR as a resource for course planning writing scenarios for classroom teaching and assessment triangulating course objectives, materials, and learners' goals key terminologyExtra resources are available on the website:www.oup.com/elt/teacher/lcpBrian North is a co-author of the CEFR and of its companion volume, and wasChair of Eaquals from 2005 to 2010. Mila Angelova is the Academic Vice Chair of Eaquals and Head Director ofStudies at AVO Language and Examination Centre, in Sofia. Elzbieta Jarosz is a member of the Eaquals Certification Panel and is theAcademic Director of Gama College, in Krakow. Richard Rossner is a co-founder of Eaquals, and a co-author of the EuropeanProfiling Grid and the Eaquals Framework.

Global Sales and Contract Law continues to provide comparative analysis of domestic laws of sale and contract in over sixty countries, delivering a global view of national and international sales law. With coverage of key international developments and new case law this is an invaluable work for practitioners dealing in international sales law.

The first textbook to challenge and expand the canon of political thinkers, Rethinking Political Thinkers presents political thought in a new light, invites debate, and brings diverse perspectives to the fore, giving students the tools to think about political concepts, theories, and arguments critically and analytically.

Voices in Psychosis deepens and extends the understanding of hearing voices in psychosis in a striking way. For the first time, this collection brings multiple disciplinary, clinical and experiential perspectives to bear on an original and extraordinarily rich body of testimony.

This volume explores and analyses the formation, functioning, and performance of minority governments. It presents thirteen in-depth case studies by leading country experts that provide rich, contextualized analyses of minority governments in different settings.

Original Sin and the Evolution of Sexual Difference re-examines Christian thinking about original sin and sexual difference in conversation with recent developments in evolutionary biology and feminist philosophy and theology.

Poverty in Modern Europe explores the spatial dimensions of poverty in nineteenth and twentieth-century Europe. Its essays focus on a variety of regional, local, and institutional settings and apply different approaches and methods.

Bringing together a range of material from various genres, periods, and countries, this comparative study explores the developing status of misanthropy in the European literary and intellectual imagination from the late Renaissance to the dawn of Romanticism.

Offers a new historical and thematic perspective on the work of the renowned Japanese director Akira Kurosawa through a detailed discussion of the four films he made based on Russian sources.

How much does rationality constrain what we should believe on the basis of our evidence? Richard Pettigrew provides a novel philosophical argument for permissivism about epistemic rationality, and explores a variety of applications, including a discussion of conspiracy theories and the morality of imposing your attitudes to risk on others.

Offers an alternative account of Shakespeare's blank verse (his unrhymed iambic pentameter) and provides a new history of the first blank verse in English and of Shakespeare's involvement in its development.

The Studies in the Contract Laws of Asia series charts the divergence in and common principles of contract laws across Asia, with a view to providing the scholarly foundations for future harmonization and reform. This fourth volume deals with factors affecting the validity of contracts.

Shows that analyzing meter as it is discussed and deployed in different historical moments offers crucial insights about language and how human beings use it, and explores how meter illuminates the interplay of culture, cognition, emotion, and embodiment.

A collection that explores how libraries have been represented in English-language fiction, drama, and poetry from the early modern period to the present day. This accessible volume covers literature from Don Quixote to the work of M. R. James, Agatha Christie, and Haruki Murakami and draws together original essays by prestigious contributors.