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Soldier, satirist, duellist, principal masque-writer to the early Stuart court, tutor to the son of Sir Walter Ralegh, and Shakespeare's greatest contemporary, Ben Jonson was a complex and volatile character. Ian Donaldson's new biography draws on freshly discovered writings by and about Jonson to provide a vivid depiction of his remarkable life.

What is it for you to be conscious? There is no consensus in philosophy or science: it has remained a mystery. Ted Honderich develops a brand new theory of consciousness, according to which perceptual consciousness is external to the perceiver. It exists in a subjective physical world dependent on both you and the objective physical world.

In this provocative view of human evolution, Clive Finlayson argues that the critical factor to shape us was environmental change, particularly the availability of water. Using these new insights he demonstrates the radical implications for our understanding of the emergence and spread of Homo sapiens.

Everyone uses computers today. But what do you really know about them? Using the voices of pioneers and leading experts, Peter J. Bentley tells the story of computer science; explaining how and why computers were invented, how they work, looking at real-world examples of computers in use, and considering what will happen in the future.

Insight second edition is a thought-provoking course that empowers students to think deeply about the world around them. Real-life and engaging topics, with a focus on Global Skills, encourage students to become thoughtful thinkers with positive attitudes to lifelong learning. The Workbook provides further practice of the language and skills taught in the Student Book. It offers extra exercises for every lesson, Wordlist and new Assessyour Progress sections thatallow students to take responsibility for their learning as part of the new Assessment for Learning approach.

This book provides a timely and in-depth analysis of South Korea's key current issues and foreseeable challenges of the economy, with a provocative reassessment of its future.

The Right of Redress advances the discussion of corrective justice in private law by refocusing the reversal of transactions away from the prevailing account of the wrongdoer's remedial duty and toward the right of an individual to obtain redress, which the author terms 'redressive justice'.

History Mastery includes all the lesson planning, resources and subject knowledge support needed to deliver every KS1 and KS2 history lesson in your school. Offering an exciting well-sequenced curriculum, History Mastery delivers core knowledge, enables progression and develops key skills that children need for life within and beyond school.

Kitty. Theres been a break-in at the museum and superhero-in-training, Kitty, is first at the scene. Rare dinosaur bones missing, glittering jewels, and a precious meteorite are missing. All the clues point to Dodger the robber cat, but is Kitty wrong to jump to conclusions?

Through both textual and iconographic sources, this book examines the representations of the body in Greek Old and Middle Comedy, how it was staged, perceived, and imagined, particularly in Athens, Magna Graecia, and Sicily.

A ground-breaking study on the philosophical exploration of epiphanies by one of Britian's leading philosophers.

History Mastery includes all the lesson planning, resources and subject knowledge support needed to deliver every KS1 and KS2 history lesson in your school. Offering an exciting well-sequenced curriculum, History Mastery delivers core knowledge, enables progression and develops key skills that children need for life within and beyond school.

This is the first book to focus on the liability regimes which apply to financial supervisors and resolution authorities at the EU level, at the level of major individual EU Member States, and in major jurisdictions worldwide.

This collection of papers by Eva Picardi (1948-2017), one of the most influential Italian philosophers of her generation, examines the work of Gottlob Frege. Picardi combines theoretical and historical considerations to bring out the significance of his work for contemporary philosophy of language.

Excommunication was the medieval church's most severe sanction, used against people at all levels of society. It was a spiritual, social, and legal penalty. Excommunication in Thirteenth-Century England offers a fresh perspective on medieval excommunication by taking a multi-dimensional approach to discussion of the sanction.

Providing complete coverage of advanced research methods and their implementation in R to increase students' confidence with programming techniques and their application to new situations and problems.

Neighbours, Distrust, and the State shows that in the past, just like now, many poor people wanted something done by government in their communities, examining how they thought about such things as the role of the police, compulsory schooling, housing estates, and other state provisions.

A study of the authority of the holy man and its limits in times of crisis, taking as its central figure Symeon Stylites the Younger (c.521-592), who, from his vantage point on a column on a mountain close to Antioch, witnessed a period of exceptional turbulence in the sixth century, including plague, earthquakes, and Persian invasion.

This study explores Beckett's representation of physical pain in his theatre plays in the long aftermath of World War II, emphasising how the issues raised by this staging of pain speak directly to matters lying at the heart of his work.

North Americans and Western Europeans increasingly identify as 'spiritual but not religious'. This book combines cultural sociology with intellectual history and political philosophy to examine this 'spiritual turn'.

The first comprehensive study of the thousands of Britons captured and enslaved in North Africa in the early modern period, charting the course of victims' lives from capture to liberation, death, or, escape. The study places the British story within the context of Mediterranean slavery, which saw Moors and Christians as both captors and captives.

Empire Unbound argues that European empires were not the bounded, stable entities that imperialists imagined. Gavin Murray-Miller demonstrates that the era of 'new imperialism' which arose in the late 19th century fostered connections and synergies between regional powers that influenced the trajectories of imperial states in fundamental ways.

Stripping the Veil explores the daily existence, ritual practices, and individual actions of nuns in surviving convents over time against the backdrop of changing political and confessional circumstances in Protestant regions of sixteenth-century Germany.

This third edition provides legal analysis of international corporate, banking, and sovereign debt restructuring, from the perspective of creditors and debtors, providing practical guidance to help practitioners, policy-makers, and academics in the UK and US to understand current developments in debt restructuring.