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The Cambridge Lower Secondary Complete English 8 Workbook, part of the trusted Complete English series, supports independent practice both inside and outside the classroom to help learners reach their full potential and progress seamlessly to IGCSE English.

This book anchors its study of inspiration firmly in the Scriptures and examines the inspired nature of the Bible and its inspiring impact.

A comprehensive overview of the study of Buddhist ethics in the twenty-first century. This collection offers an invaluable reference resource for current and future scholars in this burgeoning field of study.

The third edition of this established textbook provides an updated and comprehensive overview of the essential background, concepts, and tools required to understand how genetics can be used to conserve species, reduce threat of extinction, and manage species of ecological or commercial importance.

An account of the performance of poetry from late Antiquity to the Renaissance that explores the role and importance of poetry in western culture.

Sidney's Defence of Poesy is generally taken to present a model of poetry as ideal: the poet depicts ideals of human conduct which readers are inspired to imitate. Catherine Bates challenges this view, and shows how idealist poetics is complicit with the money form and its related ills: commodification, fetishism, and the abuse of power.

Emma is considered by many to be Austen's finest and most representative novel. The story of Emma Woodhouse's matchmaking, and her awakening to the true feelings of others as well as herself, is told with consummate wit and humour. This new edition contains lively notes and an introduction that explores how Austen transmutes the everyday into the revelatory.

Supramolecular chemistry is a fundamental area of modern chemical research. This Primer provides a concise and fully illustrated overview of the field suitable for newcomers to the area. The text forms the basis of a lecture course suitable for advanced undergraduates and researchers, and given the increasing importance of Supramolecular Chemistry, should play a central role in their education.

The Cambridge AS & A Level Complete Economics Student Book provides a comprehensive, easy-to-follow approach to the syllabus that builds advanced understanding and prepares students for success in their assessments and in future study.

Artefact evidence has the unique power to illuminate many aspects of life that are rarely explored in written sources. This book presents the first in-depth study that uses everyday artefacts as its principal source of evidence to transform our understanding of the society and culture of Roman and Late Antique Egypt.

This book demonstrates the benefits of placing disabled people at the heart of international human rights law. It explores the impact of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on the whole field of international human rights law, and studies the relationship between the Convention rights and those protected by other treaties.

Learn the most important words in English, including the words you need to study other subjects and prepare for international exams such as IELTS, TOEFL (R), International GCSEs and Cambridge English: B1 Preliminary and B2 First.

Explores the role of the English theological scholar Hugh Broughton (1549-1612) in the development of biblical criticism in the early modern period, and illustrates the contribution that laypeople and 'average believers' made to religious and cultural change, shifting critical attention away from the clerical and academic elites.

Ann Whittle offers a fresh approach to questions about whether our actions are free and whether we are morally responsible for them. She argues that the answers to these questions depend on the contexts in which we make claims about our abilities and our control over our actions.

A study of the career and writings of Zaynab Fawwaz (c.1860-1914) an early feminist thinker and writer in Egypt. It focuses on her newspaper essays, novels, poetry, and her play which was the first to be published by a female author in Arabic.

The book proposes a new relationship between people and their doctors, fostering self-efficacy so that people can be empowered to manage their own health and live happier, healthier lives. It gives practical advice and provides an accessible, challenging, thought-provoking view of how medical practice needs to change to become person focused.

Digital work has become increasingly common, taking a variety of forms including working from home, mobile work, and gig work. Here, real-world research projects bring together innovative methodologies to capture its organizational, interpretive, spatial, and temporal complexity in an accessible sourcebook for organizational and work researchers.

Digital work has become increasingly common, taking a variety of forms including working from home, mobile work, and gig work. Here, real-world research projects bring together innovative methodologies to capture its organizational, interpretive, spatial, and temporal complexity in an accessible sourcebook for organizational and work researchers.

The First Chapters uncovers the origins of the first paragraph or chapter divisions in copies of the Christian Scriptures. Its focal point is the magnificent, fourth-century Codex Vaticanus (Vat.gr. 1209; B 03), perhaps the single most significant ancient manuscript of the Bible.

This is a book about Frege, his contribution to philosophy in general, thus his claim to be a great philosopher. It concerns truth, thought (the thinkable), logic (the most general structure of truth and falsehood), the relation of logic to what thinkers think, and, to a small extent, the space between the notions human being and rational being.

The book offers an alternative explanation of why the British state propelled radical financialization in the 1970s and 1980s.

In The History of MDMA, Torsten Passie aims to explore a deeper and more differentiated understanding of MDMA and its history. He has conducted personal interviews with most of the people significant in the history of MDMA and provides a lot of new material to present the first comprehensive overview of the history of MDMA in Europe and the U.S.

This two-volume collection showcases Michael C. Rea's ground-breaking work in analytic theology. TThe first volume considers the nature of God and our ability to talk and discover truths about God, whereas the second volume focuses on theological questions about humanity and the human condition.

Manual of Cardiovascular Medicine is a pocket guide for trainees and junior cardiologists containing procedures, drugs and guidelines. It is succinct, with bullet pointed information and numerous illustrations and flow charts in each chapter, making it quick and easy to use.

Demonstrates the importance of physical pain to late-nineteenth century aesthetic sensibilities and, in particular, to American literary realism with a focus on the work of William Dean Howells, Henry James, Edith Wharton, Mark Twain, and Charles Chesnutt.

This book provides the most comprehensive and detailed formal account to date of the evolution of French syntax. It covers syntactic variation and change across all periods of French, and in standard and non-standard varieties, and explores phenomena such as subject positions and null subjects, verb movement, object placement, and negation.

From Literacy to Literature: England, 1300-1400 is a cultural history that draws a line between canonical Ricardian writers and the school-books of their time.

Explores the influence that public opinion polling, and the developing idea of a public consciousness in the British mid-century, had upon the literature of the period. It traces the emergence and growing dominance of public opinion research in cultural and governmental bodies, and the ways in which it came to be aestheticized by British writers.

Beyond Duty presents key works on Kantian moral theory and practical ethics from a distinguished Kant scholar and moral philosopher. With a new emphasis on ideals beyond the strictest requirements of moral duty, Thomas E. Hill, Jr. expands the core aspects of Kantian ethics to offer a broader perspective on familiar moral problems.

This volume explores emotional development, with contributions from leaders in psychology, neuroscience, sociology, primatology, philosophy, history, cognitive science, computer science, and education. It examines how emotions develop and manifest themselves neuronally, intra- and interpersonally, across cultures and species, and over time.