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The first study to treat poetry of the Romantic period through the motif of prayer, it covers a range of canonical writers to illustrate how prayer is central to literature's engagement with a secular age.

The book examines the historical significance and contemporary relevance of a body of thought about rejuvenating liberalism that has tended to be neglected in the English-speaking world in favour of the rise of social liberalism.

World Authorship brings together the real-world contexts of authorship and the literary worlds of fiction, and updates Michael Foucault's 'author function' by significantly expanding the network of people and practices involved in literature. At the heart of all contributions is one key question: where is the human element in world literature?

Civil Procedure Rules at 20 considers the successes and failures of the CPR, and current challenges faced by those designing, administering, and using the civil justice system.

This is the first history of cancer in nineteenth-century Britain. It demonstrates that the nineteenth century saw cancer acquire the unique emotional, symbolic, and politicized status it maintains today.

The Oxford Textbook of Paediatric Pain brings together clinicians, educators, trainees and researchers to provide an authoritative resource on all aspects of pain in infants, children and youth.

Violentologies explores how different forms of violence shape identity and political vision in both familiar and unexpected ways using Latina/o writers and performers as case-studies.

Tales of the werewolf are well established as a sub-strand of the popular horror genre; less widely known is how far back in time their provenance lies. This is the first book in any language devoted to the werewolf tales that survive from antiquity, exploring their place alongside witches, ghosts, demons, and soul-flyers in a shared story-world.

Taming the Corporation offers a much-needed positive vision of regulation. Using numerous case examples to address real life challenges, it stresses the role of good regulation in allowing businesses to flourish, serve markets effectively, and respect broader interests, and provides a method of designing regulation in its most productive form.

Echt is a brand new course for 11-14 German written specifically to give students the skills and knowledge to excel. It's packed with fresh, inspiring content written by a dynamic author team with topics that help immerse students in German-speaking cultures.

Lisa Bortolotti argues that some irrational beliefs are epistemically innocent and deliver significant epistemic benefits that could not be easily attained otherwise. While the benefits of the irrational belief may not outweigh the costs, epistemic innocence helps to clarify the epistemic and psychological effects of irrational beliefs on agency.

Max is on a quest to make the world a better place. From saving wild spaces to planning the perfect staycation, Max is determined to help save the planet through positive direct action! But with hilarious and often disastrous results can Max's enthusiasm pay off in the end?

Democracy When the People Are Thinking contributes both to political theory and to the empirical study of public opinion and participation. It should interest anyone concerned about the future of democracy and how it can be revitalized.

The first ever in-depth study of the role played by the nobility in the Nazi rise to power in interwar Germany, this is a fascinating portrait of an aristocratic world teetering on the edge of self-destruction.

This book explores caritas, the idea of neighboury love, as a key ethic that shaped how early modern people lived, loved, and thought about the self.

Exploring the external impact of the Court of Justice of the European Union, this book delves into the influence its judgments have outside EU borders and particularly on the legal systems of countries in the European neighbourhood. A team of scholars from non-EU countries provided analysis and insight into this project.

Africa throughout its postcolonial history has been plagued by human rights abuses ranging from intolerance of political dissent to heinous crimes such as genocide. Yet this book argues that the continent has also been pivotal in helping shape contemporary human rights norms and practices.

Policing Prostitution examines the complex world of commercial sex in the late Russian Empire, investigating the lives of women who sold sex, the men who paid for it, mediators, the police, and wider urban communities.

This book explores how conflicts between secular worldviews and religions shaped the history of the 20th century.

This book looks at the economic history of south Asia from a fresh perspective, through a detailed study of the handloom industry in colonial south India.

Combining an intellectual biography of V.S. Naipaul with a history of cultural thought in the postcolonial Caribbean, this book gives a revisionary portrait of one of the great authors of the twentieth century, and tells an insightful and compelling story about the evolution of Caribbean ideas.

This work studies the approach to the question of human perfection in a number of seminal Byzantine theological figures (from 7th-14th centuries), in conversation with modern Orthodox Christian thought. The Byzantine authors examined include Maximus the Confessor, Theodore the Studite, Symeon the New Theologian, and Gregory Palamas.

The story of two extraordinary gifts from King James I of England to the Shogun of Japan - and what this tells us about says about the seventeenth century England from which they came and the quizzical Asian rulers to whom they were given.

A study of British and American Utopian writing of the 1800s in the context of developments in real architectural, political, and cultural life. The book studies utopian visions published in the UK and the USA in the 1800s by writers such Robert Owen, James Silk Buckingham, Edward Bellamy, and William Morris.

This handbook presents detailed accounts of current research in all aspects of language prosody, written by leading experts from different disciplines. The volume's comprehensive coverage and multidisciplinary approach will make it an invaluable resource for all researchers, students, and practitioners interested in prosody.

This is a ground-breaking volume into the phenomenon of migration in and to England over the medieval millennium. A series of subject specialists synthesise and extend recent research in a wide range of disciplines and marks an important contribution to medieval studies, and to modern debates on migration and the free movement of people.

Jennifer Lackey presents a ground-breaking exploration of the epistemology of groups, and its implications for group agency and responsibility. She argues that group belief and knowledge depend on what individual group members do or are capable of doing, while being subject to group-level normative requirements.

Family Law Concentrate is written and designed to help you succeed. Accurate and reliable, Concentrate guides help focus your revision and maximise your exam performance. Each guide includes revision tips, advice on how to achieve extra marks, and a thorough and focused breakdown of the key topics and cases.

A new and challenging account of Scotland's position within the United Kingdom. Written by a senior policy adviser to the UK government on devolution policy in the aftermath of the EU referendum, ranging from Anglo-Saxon times to the present day.