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The first scholarly edition of Byrhtferth's Historia regum, an important source for the early history of Anglo-Saxon England from 560 to 887 AD. The Latin text is provided with facing-page English translation, and extensive annotation explains the significance of Byrhtferth's references to historical events (many of which are unrecorded elsewhere).

A multi-authored volume of original essays by scholars in literary studies and philosophy on the question of the aesthetic in the current critical climate.

This study traces the rise of the cult of St Stephen in Jerusalem in the fifth century, exploring such episodes as the fabrication of his relics, the construction of a grand basilica in his honour, and the multiplication of feast days, as a conscious attempt to position Stephen as their patron saint and embodiment of Christian identity and power.

This pioneering collection of original essays aims to remedy the neglect of social needs and rights in human rights theory and practice by exploring the social dimensions of the human-rights minimum.

A collection of essays situating twentieth-century American literature in a global frame. This volume reads US literature through the a range of critical lenses, including critical race and indigenous studies, disability and care studies, environmental criticism, gender analysis, and media studies.

Volume IV of the first collected edition since 1869 of the works of the major Jacobean author John Ford. All texts have been freshly edited from the original Quarto editions, which have been collated to identify press corrections.

In order to challenge the widely-held assumption that Early Modern women could not write the history of wars, Claire Gheeraert-Graffeuille reads Lucy Hutchinson's Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson as a comprehensive history of the English Revolution.

Correspondence is the ninth volume in the ten-volume Collected Works of Walter Pater. This volume presents for the first time all of Pater's known correspondence, fully annotated, offering a complete overview of Pater's academic, professional, and personal lives.

The Wireless World sheds new light on the transnational connections created by international broadcasting, using a single analytical frame to draw together the periods from the pioneering days of wireless, through WWII and the Cold War, to the decades since the fall of the Berlin Wall to reveal key continuities and transformations.

The Rise of Mass Advertising is the first cultural legal history of mass advertising in Britain c. 1840-1914 and its legal shaping; drawing together the history of capitalism, the history of fields of knowledge, and the history of modern disenchantment to present a new account of advertising's significance for modernity.

Ambulance services and paramedics perform critical roles in contemporary healthcare economies, yet this occupation is widely misunderstood. Through in-depth interviews and ethnographic observation, Leo McCann offers the first detailed study of the nature, development, culture, and future of the paramedic profession in England.

A unique comparative study of women's leadership and the law, offering new ways for understanding the impact of female presidential leadership on women's everyday lives. By analysing the legal legacies of four women presidents in Asia, this book challenges and expands our understanding of what constitutes a woman's issue.

An analysis of the poetic line in Milton that considers the resources made available to the poet by lineation, and how Milton explored and exploited them more resourcefully than any other English poet.

The Tangle of Science argues that the scientific method, rigour, and objectivity are insufficient to guarantee reliability. It shows how reliable science is underpinned by a vast network of other scientific products, brings into focus neglected areas of science, and emphasizes how every product works together to support results we can trust.

This investigation aims to demonstrate how the concept of heresy emerges in the work of Justin Martyr. First published in 1985 under the title La notion d'hérésie dans la littérature grecque (IIe-IIIesiècles), it has been newly translated into English, with the addition of a new introduction surveying literature in the intervening decades.

Some of our attitudes are fitting, others unfitting. Fitting attitudes get things right. Conor McHugh and Jonathan Way argue that fittingness is the key to understanding the normative domain - the domain of reasons, obligations, and value. They argue that fittingness is a normatively basic property, on which all other normative properties depend.

The Investment Treaty Regime and Public Interest Regulation in Africa is a legal, normative, and principled framework for rethinking the making and reform of investment treaties, and investment disputes settlement.

On 24 July 1923 the last Treaty ending hostilities in the Great War was signed at Lausanne in Switzerland. Jay Winter tells the story of the peace conference, and its outcome. He shows how peace came before justice, and how the conference and the Treaty set in motion forces leading to the global war that followed in 1939.

This accessible text surveys emerging research into fascinating new connections between animal behavior and the ecology and evolution of infectious diseases. Chapters focus on fundamental topics at the interface of animal behavior and parasitism, and authors have been selected to provide a diverse and international perspective.

Knowledge-making in the field of alternative economies has limited the inclusion of Black and racialized people's experience. This book aims to close that gap in development through a detailed analysis of cases in about a dozen countries where Black people live and turn to co-operatives to manage systemic exclusion.

Concise, and, critically, accessible, Algorithms for Emergency Medicine supports the key decision-making requirements of clinicians working in the Emergency Department, covering everything from common non-life-threatening emergencies like headaches to life-threatening acute events such as major traumas.

This book considers the importance of applying a systems-thinking approach to Global Health challenges: one that examines both the individual elements within a system as well as the interrelationships between them. It outlines the core concepts of a systems-thinking approach and how they can be applied to current Global Health problems.

Tracing the Indian state's engagement with aviation, both civil and military, from the Second World War to the nationalization of airlines in 1953, this book argues that aviation played a critical role in state formation in modern South Asia.

This book makes a case for acknowledging the importance of information infrastructures in our lives, the factors that have contributed to India's development as an Information Infrastructure hub and why we should not take access to information infrastructures for granted.

A comprehensive doctrinal study of states' obligations on climate change mitigation, showing that obligations arise not only from climate treaties, but also from customary international law, unilateral declarations, and human rights treaties, and exploring the interactions between these multiple obligations.

Cities in Federal Constitutional Theory seeks to offer a fresh theoretical account of cities as federalism subjects, exploring the increased importance of cities in recent decades from political, economic, socio-cultural, and demographic perspectives.

The seventh edition of Lunney & Oliphant's Tort Law: Text and Materials provides a complete, authoritative guide to the subject. The book combines clear overviews of the law with well-chosen extracts from cases and materials supported by insightful commentary.