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Indian Arrivals, 1870-1915 examines how Indian influences and ideas were threaded through British society at the height of the empire, in spite of colonial divisions.

Calculus Set Free: Infinitesimals to the Rescue is a single-variable calculus textbook that incorporates the use of infinitesimal methods.

This book examines rotating savings and credit associations, especially those organized by women of colour. The chapters provide studies on the organization and use of these associations in Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, and Asia.

Explores how late Victorian, Edwardian, and modernist literary texts responded and adapted to institutional change that characterized the emergence of the welfare state, and links the development of the institutional forms of the state to the aesthetic forms of literary writing.

Explores how early American Republic literary texts about urban life played an important role in constructing urban spaces and identities in the young United States, and how books allowed readers to access and practice being urban.

Stochastic Limit Theory has become a standard reference in its field. This new edition offers updated and improved results and an extended range of topics. It works both as a textbook and as an account of recent work in a field of particular interest to econometricians.

Bond 11+ Mixed Standard Test Papers are realistic 11+ timed test papers, with full answers included. This new edition now contains an additional challenge paper with extra tricky questions across all four 11+ subjects: English, Maths, Non-verbal Reasoning and Verbal Reasoning.

Explores the ways in which the non-elite literary culture of the late seventeenth to mid eighteenth centuries worked to produce knowledge through collaborative means, in opposition to this period's more widely recognized focus on the authority of individuality.

This volume collects twelve essays by Sanford C. Goldberg on the topic of social epistemology. The first half develops a proposal for a programme for social epistemology; the second focuses on applications of this programme to topics like testimony, inquiry, and epistemic aspects of social norms.

This book assembles an international team of the leading specialists in the field to review the main diseases and pathologic manifestations of all the major invertebrate groups, whilst describing their emergence in contexts such as climate change and global food security.

The link between homelessness and mental health disorders is undeniable and providing optimal care in the community requires understanding of the cultural context. Written and edited by experts from different cultural and geographical perspectives, this unique resource covers key topics such as COVID-19 and chronic pain, as well as case studies.

This Handbook provides a detailed and wide-ranging coverage of the key economic questions in South Africa, concentrating on the more recent economic challenges facing the country.

This book examines the organization of informal workers across the globe, and the differing degrees to which they vary. The reality of informal work described in this book is supported by surveys in 60 countries, over 150 interviews with informal workers in Latin America, ethnographic data, and administrative data.

This Handbook interrogates Origen's legacy for the twenty-first century, exploring problems of translation, transmission and the positioning of Origen in the histories of philosophy, theology, and orthodoxy.

Reverend Apolo Kivebulaya was a clergyman in the Native Anglican Church of Uganda, becoming a teacher after his 1895 baptism. His writing illustrates a literate Christian identity formed away from centres of power, while oral and written accounts about him show the responses of African admirers and how Christianity influenced their societies.

Now in its 4th edition, How Languages are Learned is highly valued for the way it relates language acquisition theory to classroom teaching and learning and draws practical implications from the research for the language classroom. How Languages are Learned is widely used as a reference book on teacher training courses, and for new and experienced practising teachers.

Eighteenth-century Methodism was a divisive phenomenon which attracted a torrent of printed opposition, especially from Anglican clergymen. Yet, most of these opponents have been virtually forgotten. Anti-Methodism and Theological Controversy in Eighteenth-Century England is the first large-scale examination of the theological ideas of early anti-Methodist authors.

The Struggle for Human Rights evaluates the themes of law, politics, and practice which define international human rights practice and scholarship. The essays examine foundational debates, critiquing the reform of human rights institutions and reflecting on the place of human rights in society.

John M. Doris has been a leading proponent of interdisciplinary approaches to moral psychology for decades. His work has transformed the way in which philosophers approach questions of character, virtue, and agency. This selection of his work focuses on the ways in which human personality orders (or fails to order) moral cognition and behaviour.

The Oxford Handbook of Quintilian aims to trace Quintilian's influence on the theory and practice of rhetoric and education up to the present. Chapters cover topics including Quintilian's Institutio oratoria, his views on education and literary criticism, and his reception and influence.

This book examines the church architecture of Northern Mesopotamia between the fourth and eighth centuries. Keser Kayaalp employs archaeological and epigraphical evidence with hagiographical sources to present a holistic picture of the church architecture of this frontier region.

Samuel H. Greenblatt providing an in-depth analysis of Jackson's work within the professional, social, and intellectual contexts of his Victorian milieu in this fascinating biography.

Much of what we take to be meaningful and significant in life is inextricably linked with our capacity to experience emotions. Here, Jonathan Mitchell considers emotional experiences as sui generis states to be given their own place within our mental economy, and proposes an original view of emotional experiences as feelings-towards-values.

The volume explores the integration of language and society as reflected in the grammar of a language. It draws on data from a range of diverse languages to examine how aspects of grammar such as honorifics and possessives relate to societal practices. It will be a valuable resource for typologists, anthropologists, and sociolinguists.

This title offers a new way to think about human rights and the type of harm caused by discrimination globally. It traces the growing recognition of intersectionality in the work of human rights organizations around the world. This work argues that these groups should look for ways to fully incorporate intersectional analysis into the work they do.

Utilizing detailed case studies from Nigeria, Ethiopia, and South Africa, this title traces African constitutionalism from precolonial times to the present. The volume offers a new framework for understanding African constitutionalism and a range of practical proposals for its future development.

Celebrating over 30 years as the market-leading series, Blackstone's Statutes have an unrivalled tradition of trust and quality. With a rock-solid reputation for accuracy, reliability, and authority, they remain first-choice for students and lecturers, providing a careful selection of all the up-to-date legislation needed for exams and course use.

The book explores the surprising connections between the study of the universe on the largest scales, and the physics of the infinitely small, and investigates the extraordinary potential of multi-messenger astronomy to provide answers to the key questions of fundamental physics and thus revolutionise our understanding of the universe.

Written with a focus on multi-disciplinary integrated care systems and a greater emphasis on prevention and patient autonomy, this title incorporates the most recent evidence-based guidelines and developments in nursing roles and contraceptive methods. An invaluable guide to women's health nursing.

Focussing on the Global South, this book examines the emergent processes of stalled industrialization and the spectre of premature deindustrialization in middle-income developing countries. Through detailed analysis, Sumner challenges existing economic myths and outlines what deindustrialization means for the future of global development.