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Situates the lives and work of the poets John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley within the literary, cultural, political, and social currents of their time.

This book examines the core paradox of why, in the past 40 years, we have seen an explosion of public accountability but at the same time have also witnessed a plummeting of public trust in politicians and governments.

A study based on a set of filmed interviews with Francophone women writers in Paris that explores the literary phenomenon of an unprecedented number of women from around the world who have moved to Paris and become authors of written works in French.

A study of detective and crime fiction and film from the 1920s to the present day that challenges the commonplace perception that narratives depend heavily on plot for their effects.

This book shows how prose writers in the Victorian period grappled with the sea as a setting, a shaper of plot and character, as a structuring motif, and as a source of metaphor.

This edited collection provides a thorough review of multinational human rights litigation from some of the top practitioners in the field. It provides useful guidance on the relevant laws, procedures, and practical considerations for such litigation in a number of legal systems, including the UK, US, South Africa, and Australia.

Complete Land Law offers students a blend of concepts with analytical commentary, combined with carefully selected cases and extracts which stimulate critical thinking and promotes a complete understanding of how the law works in practice.

This edited collection explores the role of law in the regional integration effort in Africa, and assesses the extent to which African Union law is having in impact on domestic law across the continent. It analyses how the African Union is engendering new norms and standards, in areas such as economic regulation and democratic constitutionalism.

This books tells the neglected story of the relationship between custom and the European natural law and ius gentium tradition. It explores what cultural values and practices facilitated the emergence of custom and rendered it into as a source of the law of nations, and how they did so.

The Cambridge International AS & A Level Economics Exam Success Guide brings clarity and focus to exam preparation, so students are well prepared for and feel confident about their exams.

The Cambridge IGCSE ICT Exam Success Guide fully supports the Cambridge IGCSE ICT syllabus (0417), for first examination in 2023. It is suitable for use alongside the Complete ICT Third Edition series or as a stand-alone resource, helping students to reach their full potential and achieve their best grades in exams.

This new scholarly edition of von Arnim's popular novel will tease out the interplay between seriousness and comedy as a response to war trauma and the wider historical context, while engaging with notions of literary fashion, popularity, and film in the period.

The volume covers different theoretical approaches to legal evidence including the nature and function of evidence, proof, and law of evidence. It also covers a wide range of contemporary debates on topics such as truth, proof, economics, gender, and race.

This textbook provides in depth learning for nurses specialising in caring for patients with coronary heart disease, heart failure, valvular disease, arrhythmias, congenital heart disease and inherited cardiovascular conditions.

This book examines early medical abortion provided by telemedicine, alongside the access barriers created by laws in the US and UK. It critically appraises a series of developments in this rapidly evolving subject providing an up to date and well-informed analysis.

This book proposes a development stage-specific approach to the patent-competition interface for developing countries, taking into account the different ways in which competition law regulation of patent exploitation practices interacts with various means of technology transfer.

The book examines the ways coastal States can exercise authority on the basis of their sovereign rights over living resources in the EEZ.

This second edition of the leading commentary on the European Insolvency Regulation reflects the impact of Brexit and the European Restructuring Directive. It continues to be a vital reference work for all those researching and advising European insolvency law.

Godric of Finchdale was a hermit, merchant, and medieval saint. His life was recorded by Benedictine monk Reginald of Durham, but the work has hitherto only been available in manuscripts and in one nineteenth century edition. This translation uses the original manuscript to open up Reginald of Durham's work to a wider audience.

The first study to analyse popular protest across the Italian peninsula and the Venetian colonies during the early modern period, 1494 to 1559. Drawing on a vast range of contemporary documents, Samuel K. Cohn, Jr. places these incidents of popular protest and their patterns in comparative perspectives.

Lord Herbert of Cherbury was a flamboyant Stuart courtier, soldier, and diplomat, known for his duelling and extravagance but also for his great intellect. His life and writings offer a unique window into the aristocratic world and culture of the early seventeenth century and the outbreak and impact of the Thirty Years War and British Civil Wars.

This new edition of Nelson English provides an integrated approach to teaching the core literacy skills at primary level; comprehension, writing, grammar, punctuation, spelling and vocabulary. Each unit focuses on a different text from a wide range of genres, including both fiction and non-fiction.

This book provides clear, evidence-based information for young people with skin conditions. It covers the most common skin problems including acne, eczema, alopecia, psoriasis, vitiligo, and others. Each chapter describes the condition in an easy-to-read format and offers practical advice for treating and managing symptoms.

What are the arts? What functions do the arts serve in human life? This book presents the first fully integrated cognitive account of the arts that unites visual art, theatre, literature, dance, and music into a single framework, with supporting discussions about creativity and aesthetics.

Tor Hernes combines foundational ideas from philosophy, sociology, and organization theory into an integrative theoretical framework of organizational time. He explores the four dimensions of experience, events, resource, and practice, and how these evolve through mutual interplay and are underpinned by 'narrative trajectory'.

Offering a global history of India's refugee regime, Making Refugees in India explores how one of the first postcolonial states during the mid-twentieth century wave of decolonisation rewrote global practices surrounding refugees - signified by India's refusal to sign the 1951 UN Refugee Convention.

The first work to provide a broad history of the relationship between Eastern Europe and the decolonising world ranging from the nineteenth to the late twentieth century. At its core is the post-1945 period, when socialism's importance as a globalising force accelerated and drew together what contemporaries called the 'Second' and 'Third Worlds'.

Concise, practical, and evidence-based, this new edition of the Practical Management of Complex Cancer Pain is essential reading for all pain and palliative care specialists in the community, hospital, and hospice settings.

How do we organize ourselves to accomplish shared goals? Martin Kornberger pursues experimental models of collective action to offer a new vocabulary and alternative strategies to address the significant challenges and crises of our times.

The only official source for police officers of the full syllabus for the NPPF Step Two Legal Examination. Exclusively endorsed by the College of Policing, Blackstone's Police Manuals are the most effective revision guides for exam candidates.