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Representing Homelessness analyses the representation and self-representation of homelessness. The volume features research from the Arts, Humanities, Sciences and the Social Sciences, as well as writings by people with lived experience of homelessness.

This book provides evidence-based analyses of the Dutch tax system's shortcomings, as well as detailed proposals for reform.

After the miraculous economic growth known as the Beijing Consensus, China is now facing a slowdown. The attention has moved to the issue of the middle income trap. This book deals with this interesting issue in the context of China.

Stephen Gaukroger presents the first English translation of a landmark work in the understanding of the mind, Charles Bonnet's Analytical Essay on the Faculties of the Soul (1760), the first to offer a physiological approach to the sensations and operations of the mind.

This book focuses on the question of how much variation in the properties of an individual object there can be, and if it remains the same object. It investigates competing strategies and engages with foundational questions about the metaphysics of modality.

Integrates the theoretical principles underlying disease transmission with the practical health considerations involved in helping wildlife professionals and conservation biologists to manage disease outbreaks and conserve biodiversity.

Democratization is the most comprehensive volume on this critical field of contemporary politics, with insightful coverage of all the key theories, actors, dynamics, and developments. Unrivalled in its up-to-date empirical material and range of expert contributors, this text is an invaluable resource to all students of democratization.

Containing over 3,100 fully revised and updated entries on all aspects of physical and human geography, this dictionary is an essential guide to students at all levels. It has been fully revised and updated, and includes more than 400 new entries, recommended web links for many entries, and over 15 new illustrations.

Written by a leading academic and broadcaster and drawing on interviews with readers, writers, reading groups, bookshop owners, librarians, and figures from literary publishing, reviewing, and festivals, this accessible volume offers an overview of the contemporary scene of women's novel-reading.

Most of the women who ever lived left no trace of their existence on the record of history. In this book, Suzannah Lipscomb recovers the lives and aspirations of ordinary sixteenth- and seventeenth-century French women, using rich source material to show what they thought about their lives, menfolk, friendships, faith, and sex.

Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad offers illuminating new perspectives on contemporary phenomenological theories of body and subjectivity, based on studies of diverse classical Indian texts. He argues for a 'phenomenological ecology' of bodily subjectivity in health, gender, contemplation, and lovemaking.

We speak of earthquakes, floods, and wildfires as 'natural disasters'. In this provocative book, Ilan Kelman argues that the true disaster is not caused by natural phenomena, but by human choices which leave people unprepared and at terrible risk. He explores how we can and should act to stop people dying when nature unleashes its powers.

This book explains the philosophical and historical concepts that shape current debates about science and religion. It also considers some of the themes and issues that have become more prominent in the past decade, such as science denial, climate change and environmentalism, and religion and public health - including responses to Covid-19.

This book provides an accessible and engaging account of the contemporary laws of war. It highlights how, even though war has been outlawed and should be finished as an institution, states continue to claim that they can wage necessary wars of self-defence, engage in lawful killings in war, and imprison law-of-war detainees.

This Oxford Handbook provides a rigorous, interdisciplinary review of the history of interpretations of quantum physics, presenting the key controversies within the field, as well as outlining its successes and its extraordinary potential across various scientific fields.

Bond 11+ English Assessment Papers for 8-9 years provide even more topic-based practice questions that set the foundation for success in SATs, common entrance or the 11+. This new edition now contains clear and fully explained answers in the pull-out centre section. Ideal for parents and children to work through without extra research.

This bestselling dictionary is an invaluable resource for both legal professionals and students of law, defining major legal terms, concepts, and processes within the English legal system. This tenth edition has been fully revised to reflect the UK's new status outside the EU and includes expanded coverage of constitutional and medical law.

One hundred years after a milestone medical discovery, 'Insulin - The Crooked Timber' tells the story of how insulin was transformed from what one clinician called 'thick brown muck' into the very first drug to be produced using genetic engineering, one which would earn the founders of the US biotech company Genentech a small fortune.

Bond 11+ Non-verbal Reasoning Assessment Papers for 8-9 years provide topic-based practice questions that set the foundation for success in SATs, common entrance or the 11+. This new edition now contains clear and fully explained answers in the pull-out centre section. Ideal for parents and children to work through without extra research.

Bond 11+ Maths Assessment Papers for 8-9 years provide topic-based practice questions that set the foundation for success in SATs, common entrance or the 11+. This new edition now contains clear and fully explained answers in the pull-out centre section. Ideal for parents and children to work through without extra research.

Bond 11+ Verbal Reasoning Assessment Papers for 8-9 years provide topic-based practice questions that set the foundation for success in SATs, common entrance or the 11+. This new edition now contains clear and fully explained answers in the pull-out centre section. Ideal for parents and children to work through without extra research

This is volume II of the first scholarly edition of the Golden Legend, the largest and most elaborate production of the first printer in English, William Caxton.

The Cambridge Lower Secondary Complete Mathematics 8 Homework Book, part of the trusted Complete Mathematics series, supports independent practice inside and outside the classroom. It provides plenty of practice opportunities ensuring there are no gaps in students' knowledge, so they can reach their full potential and progress seamlessly to IGCSE.

Explores the extent to which Shakespeare's comedies resist empirical rationalism and resolution, despite that rationalism seeming to be the wished-for ending in plays that turn around magical, mystical, and inexplicable events.

This volume is devoted to life-writing in English from 1945 to the present day, a period in which life-writing became an increasingly popular and accessible form.

The Bible was the lifeblood of virtually every aspect of the life of the early churches. This Handbook explores a wide array of themes related to the reception, canonization, interpretation, uses, and legacies of the Bible in early Christianity.

Explores connections between literary figures and organized secularist movements and groups in the interwar period, with a focus on the works of Vernon Lee, H.G. Wells, George Moore, D.H. Lawrence, and Mary Borden, among others.

Frank Ramsey was a brilliant Cambridge philosopher, mathematician, and economist who died in 1930 at 26 having made landmark contributions to decision theory, game theory, mathematics, logic, semantics, philosophy of science, and the theory of truth. This rich biography tells the story of his extraordinary life and intellectual achievement.

This volume is the first comprehensive analysis of women's ascendance to leadership positions in the European Union as well as their performance in such positions.

This anthology includes some of the best contemporary and classic short stories and poems on the theme of war and conflict, from Jamila Gavin, Eva Ibbotson, John Agard and Robert Westall, among others. The paired stories and poetry help support the requirements of the curriculum and provide ideal preparation for end of Key Stage 4 assessments.