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This pack contains 6 copies of each of the 5 titles at Oxford Reading Level 7: The Big Breakfast, The Power Cut, The Riddle Stone (Part 1), The Riddle Stone (Part 2), A Sea Mystery.

This pack contains 6 copies of each of the 4 titles at Oxford Reading Level 7: The Joke Machine, Hunt for Gold, Motorway, Roman Adventure.

This pack contains 6 copies of each of the 5 titles at Oxford Reading Level 2: In A Bit, Poor Floppy, A Present for Mum, Put It Back, The Big Egg.

The Level 2 Oxford Reading Tree Books from the Biff, Chip and Kipper Stories provide humorous storylines to engage children. The stories are unchanged from the previous edition but the cover notes have been updated to support adults in sharing the story with the child. Contains one copy of each of the five titles at Oxford Reading Level 2.

This volume brings together work from leading specialists in Indo-European languages to explore the macro- and micro-dynamic factors that contribute to variation and change in alignment and argument realization. The chapters have a strong empirical focus, drawing on data from Anatolian, Indo-Iranian, Greek, Italic, Armenian, and Slavic.

English Begins at Jamestown explores how people tell and have told the story of English, from its Indo-European origins to its present-day status as a global language. It shows that there are better, worse, and wrong ways to relate the language's history, even if there cannot necessarily be one correct way.

Election Campaigns and Welfare State Change examines how political leaders and the public respond to reform pressures at a pivotal moment in a mass democracy: the election campaign.

Explores the theme of fortune in early modern plays within the context of England's mercantile and colonial ventures, and provides original readings of several plays written for the London stage by dramatists including Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Heywood, William Shakespeare, and Thomas Dekker.

Ignorance and mistake of law tend to exclude responsibility in national and international criminal law. This monograph updates the existing reviews of law and practice on the topic and focuses on the appropriateness of imposing a guilty verdict on the individual defendant.

This volume explores how famine and mass starvation in our lifetime are the result of man-made policies, and invariably occur during times of armed conflict. It provides expert analysis on defining starvation, early warning systems, gender and mass starvation, the use of sanctions, reporting on, and memory of famine.

This book examines a central assumption widely accepted as being crucial in making democracy work, that politicians form a more or less accurate image of public opinion and take that perception into account when representing citizens. Politicians' Reading of Public Opinion and its Biases presents a paradox of representation.

Telling America's Story to the World is the first study to demonstrate the important role that US cultural diplomacy played in the making of postwar US literature. It does so by discussing how the work of Ralph Ellison, Robert Frost, William Faulkner, Langston Hughes, and Maxine Hong Kingston was used to demonstrate American cultural identity.

This book offers an historical account of the period 2001-2020 by focusing on the shifting connotations of certain political catchphrases and words.

By building on a recent research comparing the EU and US and drawing on Riker's influential theory of federalism, this books explores the origins of fiscal unions.

Global Legitimacy Crises addresses the consequences of legitimacy in global governance, specifically: when and how do legitimacy crises affect international organizations and their capacity to rule.

This book offers the first full comparative study of citizen and elite legitimacy beliefs toward global governance.

This book explores processes of legitimation and delegitimation of global governance institutions. It develops a comprehensive theoretical framework for studying processes of (de)legitimation in governance beyond the state.

Studies on the Derveni Papyrus, Volume II brings together two new editions of the first fragmentarily extant columns of the Derveni Papyrus and seven scholarly articles devoted to their interpretation.

This book makes a significant contribution to one of the most persistent debates in contemporary political philosophy: that between liberals and perfectionists.

Through systematic case studies of Faustina the Younger's and Marcus Aurelius' portraits on coins and in sculpture, this book provides new insights into the functioning of the imperial image in Rome in the second century AD, moving a difficult, much-discussed subject forward decisively.

Kant's Grounded Cosmopolitanism introduces a novel account of Kant's global thinking, one that has hitherto been largely overlooked: a grounded cosmopolitanism concerned with spelling out the normative implications of the fact that a plurality of corporeal agents concurrently inhabit the earth's spherical surface.

This book points out issues and lays out a roadmap of policy suggestions which warrant government focus and attention to make India into a self-reliant nation.

The Oxford Guide to Brief and Low Intensity Interventions for Children and Young people provides a comprehensive resource for therapists, services and training providers regarding the use, delivery, and implementation of brief and low intensity psychological interventions within a child and adolescent context.

This is the first new critical edition of Seneca's De Beneficiis in almost 100 years. Robert A. Kaster provides a fresh examination of the extant archetype and extensive critical notes.

Wordsworth's Guide to the Lakes gives a first-hand account of his feelings about the unique countryside that was the source of his inspiration. He addresses concerns that are relevant today, such as how the growing number of visitors, and the money they might bring, would affect such a small and vulnerable landscape.

This handbook, the first volume of its kind, showcases the multiple experimental methods that are used to explore the central questions in syntactic research. The chapters provide reviews of major experimental work, offer methodological guidance, and will inspire new research that will push the boundaries of the theory of syntax.

Grenberg defends the idea that Kant's virtue theory is best understood as a distinctive form of eudaemonism that makes it preferable to other forms: a system of what she calls Deontological Eudaemonism - achieving happiness both rationally conceived (as non-felt pleasure) and empirically conceived (as pleasurable fulfilment of one's desires).

Michael J. Zimmerman investigates the relation between ignorance and moral responsibility. He examines and refines the Argument from Ignorance, which concludes that to be blameworthy for one's behaviour and its consequences, one must at some time in the history of that behaviour have known that one was engaged in wrongdoing.

The Causes and Impact of Climate Change is the perfect way for young readers to get to grips with the subject and its terminology. With a clear and entertaining explanation, comic strips, photographs, and illustrations, it reveals what climate change is, its impact on the planet, how it can be slowed down, and what you can do to help...