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With its uniquely student-focused approach and authoritative coverage of all key topics, The Oxford Textbook on Criminology is the essential companion to exploring crime and criminal justice. It acts as an energising springboard, equipping readers with the skills to form their own views and the confidence to see themselves as valued criminologists.

The Oxford Handbook of Meditation covers the development of meditation across the world and the varieties of its practices and experiences. It includes approaches from psychology, neuroscience, history, anthropology, and sociology and explores its potential for therapeutic and social change.

This title covers all aspects of international commercial arbitration in Sweden which has long been a leading arbitral centre. Combining a practical approach with scholarly analysis, it provides the reader with in-depth knowledge about Swedish arbitration law as applied in international arbitrations.

This new work contains the most current analysis of the English law of contract, enables easy access to the essence of judgements, and includes clear explanations of the law, especially in areas where it lacks certainty. Written by Neil Andrews, this highly valuable book is essential for all commercial lawyers and scholars.

Dead Men Telling Tales is an original account of the lasting cultural impact made by the autobiographies of Napoleonic soldiers over the course of the nineteenth century.

Jill North offers answers to questions at the heart of the project of interpreting physics. How do we figure out the nature of the world from a mathematically formulated theory? What do we infer about the world when a physical theory can be mathematically formulated in different ways? The notion of structure is crucial to North's answers.

Principles and Persons contains twenty-one new essays addressed to themes drawn from the work of the late Derek Parfit. Topics include the nature of reasons and duties, the rationality of our attitudes to time, and the question of personal identity.

Diplomatic history is the critical study of the management of relations between nation-states. Based on significant historical case studies - the American Revolution, the origins of the Great War and its aftermath, Versailles, the Iraq War, and diplomacy in the age of globalization - this book locates the universal role of diplomatic negotiation.

Through a comparative overview of public administration performance in twenty-eight EU member states, this book takes a critical, multidisciplinary approach to address how management can make a meaningful contribution to the performance of public services.

Bond 11+ Verbal Reasoning 10 Minute Tests for 9-10 years provide bite-sized practice for all key 11+ question types and fun puzzles to support success in SATs, common entrance or the 11+. This new edition now contains fully explained answers in the pull-out centre section. Ideal for parents and children to work through without extra research.

Bond 11+ Non-verbal Reasoning 10 Minute Tests for 9-10 years provide bite-sized practice for all key 11+ question types and fun puzzles to support success in SATs, common entrance or the 11+. This new edition now contains fully explained answers in the pull-out centre section. Ideal for parents and children to work through without extra research.

Bond 11+ Non-verbal Reasoning 10 Minute Tests for 10-11 years provide bite-sized practice for all key 11+ question types and fun puzzles to support success in SATs, common entrance or the 11+. This new edition now contains fully explained answers in the pull-out centre section. Ideal for parents and children to work through without extra research.

Bond 11+ Verbal Reasoning 10 Minute Tests for 10-11 years provide bite-sized practice for all key 11+ question types and fun puzzles to support success in SATs, common entrance or the 11+. This new edition now contains fully explained answers in the pull-out centre section. Ideal for parents and children to work through without extra research

This book investigates the practice of referendums as a method of peacebuilding in conflict societies, their rationales, their successes, and their failures, across a variety of jurisdictions.

This volume draws together notable work on ancient epistemology by a leading figure in the field. In these thirteen essays Gail Fine discusses knowledge, belief, subjectivity, and scepticism in Plato, Aristotle, and the Pyrrhonian sceptics, relating ancient discussions of these topics to more recent ones.

The Yearbook on International Investment Law & Policy is an annual publication which provides a comprehensive overview of current developments in the international investment law and policy field.

A study of the Abbey Theatre, looking specifically at relationships between W. B. Yeats and J. M. Synge and the women who performed their works.

Examines nineteenth-century British fiction in the light of the new realities of human migration.

This volume focuses on women in the Qur'an and Qur'anic interpretation. Comprising translations of the Qur'an, traditional Qur'anic commentaries, and interviews, this work probes the impact of the medieval interpretive tradition on modern Muslim women's rights, social status, intellectual authority, and spiritual standing within their communities.

Analyses the regulatory areas relating to multinational enterprises. This book covers the economic law issues relating to jurisdiction, entry and establishment controls and liberalisation, tax, company law, competition and technology transfer. It also deals with the demands for corporate social responsibility covering labour, rights, and more.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights as it relates to children. It includes detailed analysis of the Court's key decisions on children's rights, highlighting its achievements as well as offering informed critique of its ongoing weaknesses.

A practical introduction to accounting and finance, supported by a wealth of online resources, and learning features.

This book serves as introduction to quantum theory with emphasis on dynamical behaviour and applications of quantum mechanics, with minimal discussion of formalism. The goal is to help engineering and physics students begin to learn the tools for a quantum toolbox they will need to work in this area.

Provides a handbook of ecological methods and analytical techniques pertinent to the study of animals, with an emphasis on non-microscopic animals in both terrestrial and aquatic environments.

Examines the interrelations of Shakespeare studies and disability studies, and demonstrates that Shakespeare can be read through disability theory in ways that need not rely on character-based analysis.

This volume presents over a decade of work by Mark Schroeder, one of the leading figures in contemporary metaethics. One new and ten previously published papers weave together treatments of reasons, reduction, supervenience, instrumental rationality, and legislation, to explore the nature and limits of moral explanation.

Sketches and Scholarly Studies: Part 1: Academic, Classical, and Lectures on Poetry offers an original perspective on Gerard Manley Hopkins's training as a classicist. R. K. R. Thornton's edition reveals how careful a scholar Hopkins was, how intricate his knowledge of the Classics, and how his critical positions developed.

A fully revised and updated third edition, this book details the form, contents, and procedures for preliminary references. Written for both practitioners and academics, this is an essential guidebook covering all aspects of preliminary references.

Imaging is a critical component of the management of patients having radiotherapy. This book covers the basic principles of the main imaging modalities; site specific chapters give best practice for individual tumour sites, and it also contains information on radioprotection and regulatory issues.

As the third part of a philosophy of Christian life, this study builds on a view of Christian life as shaped by the dynamic of call, response, and promise. Leading scholar, George Pattison argues that love is the ultimate content of this dynamic and considers how far this claim extends.