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This book examines England's relationship with its island fringe from the Tudor times to the eighteenth century. It tells the dramatic story of sieges and battles, pirates and shipwrecks, and kings and commoners negotiating the political, military, and administrative demands of the early modern state.

This book is about the protection from disinheritance. Regardless of what a person's will might say, the closest relatives usually have a claim to some of the deceased's property. The book explores this issue in a sample of countries in Europe as well as in the USA, Canada, Latin America, China, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand.

Plato and Aristotle used moral philosophy to influence the way people actually live. Focusing on the Republic and the Nicomachean Ethics, this book examines how far they thought it could succeed in this.

Dieter Grimm is one of Germany's foremost scholars of constitutional law and theory with a high international reputation and an exceptional career. In this biographical interview, Grimm gives insights into his experience and shares background information that cannot be found in legal textbooks or treatises.

This volume explores the question of why languages differ in the meanings expressed by their grammatical systems. It offers a new methodology to explore the differences and the motivations behind the emergence of meanings, based on data from a wide range of languages, including English, French, Polish, Chadic languages, and Sino-Russian idiolects.

Based on legal case studies, this book focuses on how gender discourse shaped the lives of prostitutes in medieval Germany.

Companies across all industries are engaging in digital transformation. Henri Schildt provides an in-depth look at how data and algorithms are reshaping management practices, organizational structures, corporate culture, and work roles, and presents 'the data imperative' as a framework for understanding digitalization as a new normative mind-set.

Although King John is remembered for his political and military failures, he also resided over a magnificent court. This book uses records of his reign to reconstruct his life at court, and explore how it produced both pleasure and soft power for the king.

This book details and contextualizes the trial of Hissene Habre, who was prosecuted by a court in Senegal for his role in atrocities committed against Chadian citizens during the 1980s. It employs an innovative combination of first-person accounts from direct actors and academic analysis from leading experts on international criminal justice.

Written by experienced teachers and examiners and comprehensively matched to the latest Cambridge syllabus, this Student Book drives achievement in reading, writing, listening and speaking, with skills-focused activities and extensive digital content.

Principles of International Criminal Law is one of the leading textbooks in the field of international criminal justice. This fourth edition retains the detailed and systematic approach of previous editions, whist adding substantial new material on new theories, laws, and prosecutions.

This novel reassessment of the field presents the central concepts in evolutionary game theory and provides an authoritative and up-to-date account. The focus is on concepts that are important for biologists in their attempts to explain observations. This strong connection between concepts and applications is a recurrent theme throughout the book.

This is a comprehensive study of the relationship between law and religion in English law. In an increasingly religiously and culturally diverse country, it offers a vital legal analysis of fundamental questions regarding individual and group rights, and how the political and legal systems regard and engage with such diversity.

The book sheds new light on the history of the Eurozone crisis and provides crucial lessons for the way forward.

Competition law now affects virtually all aspects of economic life in many parts of the world. This book provides an overview of competition law's substantive content and methods as well as an analysis of its dynamics. It is a critical tool for anyone dealing with competition law.

This book steers a middle course between the logical and cognitive approaches to semantics. Patrick Duffley argues for a radical revision of the semantics/pragmatics interface, proposing that the dividing line be drawn between content that is linguistically encoded and content that is not encoded but still communicated.

Nussberger traces the history of the European Court of Human Rights from its political context in the 1940s to the present day, answering pressing questions about its origins and workings. This first book in the Elements of International Law series, provides a fresh, objective, and non-argumentative approach to the European Court of Human Rights.

Linear Algebra for 21st Century Applications adapts linear algebra to best suit modern teaching and application, and it places SVD as central to the text early on to empower the students in these disciplines to learn and use the best techniques.

This accessible primer has been completely revised and updated to provide a concise but comprehensive introduction to the basic concepts of population genetics and genomics.

Mass Exodus is the first serious historical and sociological study of Catholic lapsation and disaffiliation. Drawing on a wide range of theological, historical, and sociological sources, Bullivant offers a comparative study of secularization across two famously contrasting religious cultures: Britain and the USA.

In 1931,Tobias Straumann reveals the story of the fatal crisis, demonstrating how a debt trap contributed to the rapid financial and political collapse of a European country, and to the rise of the Nazi Party.

Strategic Advertising Management offers a systematic look at advertising within a theoretical and strategic planning framework. The authors present an overview of how advertising works and what is required from a manager's perspective, in the development of an effective communication plan.

This volume presents the Greek text of approximately 200 stone inscriptions, which detail the laws of ancient Crete in the archaic and classical periods, c.650-400 BCE.

Gwen Bradford presents the first systematic account of what achievements are, and why they are worth the effort. She argues that more things count as achievements than we might have thought, and offers a new perfectionist theory of value in which difficulty, perhaps surprisingly, plays a central part in characterizing achievements.

Combining the gothic, the romantic and the supernatural, Jane Eyre is a classic tale of self-discovery, dealing with complex issues such as class, status, love, passion and religion within Victorian society.

Celebrates the 50th anniversary of the remarkable book written by one of the most highly respected authors of children's literature, Rosemary Sutcliff.

An avalanche may be defined as the destabilization and flow of part of the snow cover. The book essentially deals with the former, focusing on avalanche triggering mechanisms. Avalanche triggering mechanisms have been debated for a long time. The book provides the reader with a re-foundation on clear scientific bases.

This book integrates the properties of ion channels, synaptic interactions, and intrinsic cellular mechanisms into biophysical models of neural oscillations in local circuits and distributed networks. Reissued after several years out of print, this revised edition includes numerous updates highlighting developments since its first publication.