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This volume explores how digitalization - in different forms - affects the welfare state. Digitalization is likely to have a lasting impact on work, welfare, and the distribution of income. The volume studies how digitalization affects policies as well as the underlying power relationship between actors, i.e. the politics of the welfare state.

Why does the United Nations Security Council take up some issues for discussion and not others? What factors shape the Council's actions? With insights from legislative bargaining, this book explores the agenda-setting powers granted in the institutional rules and the international and domestic factors motivating behaviour and shaping resolutions.

Pocket sized and practical, this handbook is the ideal guide to support frontline staff and trainees, as well as all allied professionals in the name of patient safety. It will aim to demystify what is often seen as a complex topic, helping doctors understand the methods needed to provide safe care.

In Consciousness We Trust is a synthesis of Hakwan Lau's 20-year research programme exploring the neuroscience of consciousness. Discussing studies from his own laboratory Lau uses various neuroscience techniques to address challenging philosophical questions about the nature of our subjective experience.

This book argues that contextually sensitive expressions have felicitous uses in which they lack unique semantic values in context. It formulates a rule for updating the Stalnakerian common ground in cases in which an accepted sentence contains an expression lacking a unique semantic value in context.

This authoritative collection offers a detailed overview of religious ideas, structures, and institutions in the making of Europe. Written by leading scholars in the field, it demonstrates the enduring presence of lived and institutionalized religion in the social networks of identity, policy, and power over two millennia of European history.

This book introduces genetic criticism as a reading strategy which investigates the origins and development of texts over time. Using case studies including Samuel Beckett and Ian McEwan, Van Hulle discusses the concrete and more abstract dimensions of this approach.

This book employs insights from literature and the humanities to explore how international law can, once again, become a compelling language for our times. It argues that international lawyers are disabled by the governing idioms of international lawyering, and that they may be re-enabled by speaking international law in new and original ways.

Today you're the tractor driver! Enter a world of imaginative play and build early learning skills. Children will love using their imagination to pretend to drive the tractor and explore the farm! Encourages problem solving and teamwork, as well as recognition of colours, shapes, and numbers.

Today you're the bus driver! Enter a world of imaginative play and build early learning skills. Children will love using their imagination to pretend to drive the bus, pick passengers up, and use the ticket machine. Encourages problem solving and teamwork, as well as recognition of colours, shapes, and numbers.

Kitty is on a camping trip with her family and her friend Ozzy. They are both hoping to test their superpowers on the trip and are ready to leap into action when they meet a fierce wildcat desperately looking for her missing kittens. Kitty must earn her trust and find the missing kittens before the night is over.

Leo Wilder must protect the village from the monsters that lurk in the surrounding forest. But when the magical stones needed to fight the monsters run out, he will have to journey into the depths of the Endless Mines to retrieve more. It will take all of Leo's courage to face the Shrieking Serpent, the dangerous monster that lives in the mines.

How do thought and language manage to be 'about' aspects of the world? J. Robert G. Williams investigates how representation arises out of a fundamentally non-representational world, showing the explanatory relations between the representational properties of language, of thought, and of perception and intention.

As Algeria became connected to international news networks during French colonial rule in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this study examines how news spread through communities and across social divides, how new media changed the communication landscape, and how surveillance by the French government played a role.

This new work is the first comprehensive source of reference on the legal and regulatory framework for financial market infrastructures covering trading and post-trading in the securities and derivatives markets.

This Very Short Introduction explores the nature of bacteria, their origin, evolution, and relationship to the environment to demonstrate the fundamental role they play in our existence. This new edition examines the symbiotic relationship between the human body and bacteria, including their role in disease, wellness, and evolutionary development.

Written by Clare Lloyd, this clearly laid out and accessible textbook draws on the most recent guidance to prepare students for exam success. AO1 and AO2 content is separated and activities help students develop both skills.

Written by Libby Ahluwalia, this clearly laid out and accessible textbook draws on the most recent guidance to prepare students for exam success. AO1 and AO2 content is separated and activities help students develop both skills.

Developed with the IB to reflect all aspects of the latest SL and HL Business Management syllabus, for first teaching in 2022. Integrates globally contextual case studies, revised key concepts, contemporary content and support for the toolkit skills. Full assessment support is included. Supported by digital resources in the online subscription.

This book explores the idea that all of logic can be reduced to two very simple rules that are sensitive to logical polarity. The authors show that this idea has profound consequences for our understanding of the nature of human inferential capacities, and for some of the key issues in contemporary linguistics.

This volume is the first book-length study of the kinaidos, a type of person noted in ancient literature for his effeminacy and untoward sexual behaviour. Sapsford analyses the multiple ways the figure was identified in antiquity, with a focus on its expression in social performance.

The second edition of STP Mathematics for Jamaica provides comprehensive coverage of the National Standards Curriculum. It prepares students for a high level of achievement and lays a solid foundation for study at CSEC level. Written by a team of experts in mathematics education, this curriculum-aligned course fully supports the syllabus in Jamaica.

This book traces the evolution of British welfare policy, politics, discourse, and public opinion since the 1980s, and addresses two main questions: questions: why Britain reformed its welfare system so radically, and why, until recently, these reforms were so popular with the public.

Anselm of Canterbury gave the first "ontological" argument for God's existence as necessary. Yet philosophers have mostly neglected to examine what modal concepts he uses, and what their metaphysical basis is. Brian Leftow sets out Anselm's modal metaphysics, and defends all but one premise of Anselm's best argument for God's existence.

Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion offers a regular snapshot of state-of-the-art work in this longstanding area of philosophy that has seen an explosive growth of interest over the past half century.

This volume is the first detailed, book-length study of Middle English medical recipes in their literary, imaginative, social, and codicological contexts. It explores how the words and structures of recipes could contribute to late medieval manuscripts' healing purpose, but could also confuse, impede, exceed, and redefine that purpose.

This volume offers the most significant analysis of how parliament re-emerged in Myanmar in the span of a post-junta decade (2011-2021).

This volume draws together four decades of work by David Wiggins on topics to do with language, meaning, truth, and the limit of semantic analysis. Topics include the historical background of contemporary philosophical accounts of meaning, sentence structure, definitions, and the nature of truth.

This volume is the first handbook dedicated to language attrition, the study of how a speaker's language may be affected by crosslinguistic interference and non-use. Topics covered include theoretical implications, psycho- and neurolinguistic approaches, linguistic and extralinguistic factors, L2 attrition, and heritage languages.

Written by a leading practitioner in the field, The Law of TUPE Transfers offers a concise, practical treatment of the current transfer of undertakings legislation in the UK, and is an invaluable guide to this complex and unpredictable area of the law.