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Oxford School Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet GCSE Revision Workbook provides an accessible and active way for students to revise Romeo and Juliet. The workbook is structured by character and theme and includes a combination of knowledge recap, activities and exam practice, targeting the key skills and information that students need for exam success.

The Oxford School Shakespeare Macbeth GCSE Revision Workbook provides an accessible and active way for students to revise Macbeth. The workbook is structured by character and theme and includes a combination of knowledge recap, activities and exam practice, targeting the key skills and information that students need to master for exam success.

Who Matters at the World Bank explores "who matters" in a 32-year history (1980-2012) of policy change within the World Bank's public sector management and public sector governance agenda, and is anchored within the public administration discipline and its understanding of bureaucracy, bureaucratic politics, and stakeholder influences.

A Renaissance Reclaimed reconsiders an 'essay' (Versuch) seen by many as the greatest work of cultural history ever written: the Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy (1860) by the Swiss Jacob Burckhardt. The contributors also investigate the ways in which this work was also a product of its time and place.

Environmental Law in Arab States offers a comprehensive and authoritative account of the guiding principles and rules relating to environmental protection in the Arab region.

This book presents a series of studies by the late Marilyn McCord Adams of medieval philosophical and theological views regarding the powers that govern human psychological processes. She explores which of them were taken to be ours to exercise and control, and which to be controlled and exercised only by God.

This volume is the first comprehensive attempt to assess the significance of the polis in Plutarch's works from several perspectives, namely the polis as a physical entity, a lived experience, and a source of inspiration; as a historical and sociopolitical unit; as a theoretical construct and paradigm to think with.

This book provides a systematic analysis of the political processes shaping the distribution of social transfers in six countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.

This book explains why the 2030 UN Sustainable Development Agenda for "Transforming our World", including 17 agreed sustainable development goals, requires transforming the UN and WTO legal systems, as well as international investment law and adjudication.

A study of the cultural value of literary manuscripts that explores why they are traded, conserved, and coveted. It focuses on the history of manuscript collection from the late seventeenth to the early eighteenth century, and the emerging strains of commercial, aesthetic, and heritage value driving it.

On Arid Ground focuses on the relationships between empire and environment in Central Asia, using environmental history to examine the practice of Russian imperialism in Turkestan at the end of empire, from the 1860s until 1916.

The fourth edition of the accessible and highly-regarded guide to the law of agency is fully updated including consideration of the implications of Brexit, analysis of apparent authority, and vicarious liability.

Departing from the mainstream practice and conventional wisdom of materialist and rationalist accounts of internal and intrastate conflicts, this book demonstrates how and why emotions, symbolic predispositions, and perceptions are just as powerful and useful in understanding and explaining these phenomena.

The first complete survey of post crisis derivatives regulation, this book provides an indepth examination of the changes made to the regulation of derivatives that were enacted after the global financial crisis, with insights from the Covid pandemic.

The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Comedy features a wide range of essays by leading scholars on key aspects of Shakespeare's comedies with contributions on classical and medieval sources, the literary and theatrical environment of early modern London, as well as chapters on religion, animals, music, sexual desire, architecture, and race.

An exciting and original study of the history of the idea of ghosts in early modern Europe, exploring how the notion of ghosts and the supernatural played a part in France's early modern past, in such disparate areas as politics, law, natural philosophy, and the cultural and emotional history of everyday life.

Using a wide range of clinical images and vignettes, this book examines the essential clinic details of scabies including diagnosis, treatment, and common pitfalls in its recognition and cure. It also reviews the medical history of scabies, including discussion of a set of human experiments performed on conscientious objectors by Kenneth Mellanby.

A study of the writings of Polish laureate Czeslaw Milosz that focuses on the poet's attempts to recover perspectives on transcendence and religious belief in a secular age through creative engagement with sensual or material experience.

Orphaned Robbie was brought up by his cruel uncle, but everything changes when Bonnie Prince Charlie arrives to rally troops for a rebellion against the English. On the run from English redcoats, Robbie encounters a wild wolf cub and the two form a remarkable bond.

This volume brings together contributions from leading specialists in syntax and morphology to explore the complex relation between periphrasis and inflexion from both a synchronic and diachronic perspective. The chapters draw on data from across the Romance language family, including standard and regional varieties and dialects.

The leading textbook on this subject, Introduction to Business Law is an ideal companion for business, management, and finance and accounting students undertaking law modules. Its visual and practical approach will enable students to engage with the legal essentials required to succeed in study and a business career.

An expansive commentary to James Joyce's 1922 novel Ulysses with over 12,000 annotations that explain its many references from Shakespeare to popular culture, from Aquinas to horse racing, and from Dante to Dublin slang.

British Romanticism and Peace brings perspectives from the field of Peace Studies to bear on the writing of the Romantic period. It explores how writers such William Wordsworth and Jane Austen wrote work that inspires others to imagine the possibility of peace and to resist discourses of military propaganda.

An Integrative Guide to Consumer Neuroscience provides a comprehensive guide to a complex, interdisciplinary, and emerging field that cuts across psychology, neuroscience, and consumer research.

This book offers a critical overview of the current debate on the semantics of knowledge attributions. It examines the main principles underlying the various approaches to the topic and outlines how they aim to explain the pertinent data and resolve philosophical puzzles and challenges.

History of Universities XXXIV/2 contains the customary mix of learned articles and book reviews which makes this publication an indispensable tool for the historian of higher education.

Explores printing conventions in the eighteenth century and the gradual tendency to abandon the use of capital letters, italics, and small capitals in English books, heralding the advent of a cleaner, and smoother, printed page. It studies a range of texts and the changing roles of authors, booksellers, printers, and the reading public.

Dissenting Daughters reveals the vital contribution made by devout women to the spread and practice of the Reformed faith in the Dutch Republic in the 16th and 17th centuries, drawing on the histories of six women: Cornelia Teellinck, Susanna Teellinck, Anna Maria van Schurman, Sara Nevius, Cornelia Leydekker, and Henrica van Hoolwerff.

This book explores the debates surrounding eudaimonism, virtue, and happiness. It argues that we should embrace ecstatic or goodness-prior eudaimonism whilst rejecting welfare-prior forms of eudaimonism.