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Michael Ridge presents an original expressivist theory of normative judgments-Ecumenical Expressivism-which offers distinctive treatments of key problems in metaethics, semantics, and practical reasoning. He argues that normative judgments are hybrid states partly constituted by ordinary beliefs and partly constituted by desire-like states.

This book is the first rule-by-rule exposition of the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) Arbitration Rules 2012, providing insight into their composition, application, and practical effects. Its authors are PCA lawyers with first-hand experience of both the rules and PCA administration, and it is fully consolidated by all relevant appendices.

How can legal authority be explained beyond the sovereign state? Roughan argues that instances of transnational and international law, along with overlapping constitutional orders, should be regarded as having shared, interdependent and relative authority.

Recent years have seen a significant increase in the scale and sophistication of cyber attacks employed by, or against, states and non-state actors. This book investigates the international legal regime that applies to such attacks, and investigates how far the traditional rules of international humanitarian law can be used in these situations.

The three-thousand year story of ancient Syria, from Bronze Age to Imperial Rome: the essential back-story to one of the world's most trouble-prone and volatile regions

The Politics of English Nationhood provides a comprehensive overview of the available evidence and major arguments relating to the revival of Englishness in the last two decades. It examines the challenges which the mainstream political parties have encountered in dealing with 'the English question'.

Based on extensive new research, the book provides a unique overview of one of Britain's most successful creative industries, consumer magazines, from its seventeenth-century origins into the digital age. It charts the revolutions that took place in both technology and industrial organization, and the response to these changes.

Explores the scope and character of religious freedom for Russia's diverse non-Orthodox religions during the tzarist regime.

Criminal Law: A Comparative Approach is a comprehensive overview of the criminal law from a comparative perspective. It features cases, materials, and extensive commentary on the central issues in criminal law from two representative common law and civil law jurisdictions, the United States and Germany.

An analysis of the impact of political prisoners during a period when prisons were at the heart of a series of contests in Irish history, including the violent campaign for Irish independence.

Julia Markovits develops a desire-based, internalist account of what normative reasons are-an account which is compatible with the idea that moral reasons can apply to all of us, regardless of our desires. She builds on Kant's formula of humanity to defend universal moral reasons, and addresses the age-old question of why we should be moral.

The first detailed account - based on recently-opened archives - of when, how, and why the British Government changed its mind about giving independence to the Pacific Islands.

Logical pluralism is the view that different logics are equally appropriate, or equally correct. Logical relativism is a pluralism according to which validity and logical consequence are relative to something. Stewart Shapiro explores various such views. He argues that the question of meaning shift is itself context-sensitive and interest-relative.

The story of how we learned to smile. A unique and untold story about a facial expression at the heart of modern western civilization.

The first genuinely global history of how women won the vote - written by a man. A book with controversial conclusions.

A deeply enriched second edition of a classical textbook on fluid dynamics. It emphasizes an experimental (inductive) approach rather than the more formal approach found in many textbooks in the field.

Sets out a radical and innovative new way for understanding how people interpret and make sense of crime, arguing that certain incidents change how people think, feel and behave about their safety due to their actions operating as signals to the presence of wider risks and threats.

This book looks at the relationship between syntax and semantics, bringing together two seemingly unrelated hypotheses: that verbs do not require arguments, and that specifiers are not required by the grammar. The analysis has consequences for the theory of locality, agreement, serial verbs, and multidominance structures.

A practical graduate text on Scientific Computing with a focus on numerical solution of partial differential equations and numerical linear algebra. This book, and its associated freely downloadable MATLAB software, is relevant to engineers, applied mathematicians, numerical analysts, and people working in interdisciplinary Scientific Computing.

Studies the way in which status symbols operated as a key tool for defining and redefining identities, relations, and power in the hierarchical world of Louis XIV's court.

This book provides a synthesis of the latest theoretical and empirical research on the evolution of sex determination mechanisms, the first for 30 years.

An introduction to the political philosophy of Kant, exploring how he developed his views in a context shaped by controversies following the French revolution. It provides new information on his followers and critics as they engaged in high stakes political debates on freedom's relation to the state at this key turning point in history

Alan B. Lloyd attempts to define, analyse, and evaluate the institutional and ideological systems which empowered and sustained one of the most successful civilizations of the ancient world for a period in excess of three and a half millennia.

Jeffrey E. Brower explores the hylomorphic conception of the material world developed by Thomas Aquinas, according to which objects comprise both matter (hyle) and form (morphe). He provides a wholesale alternative to standard accounts of material objects, and highlights the relevance of Aquinas's views to contemporary metaphysical debates.

Exploring the development of heroin smuggling in Turkey since the 1920s, Ryan Gingeras uses newly declassified documents to trace the impact of the drug trade and organized crime on the evolution of the Republic of Turkey, and shows how narcotics syndicates have influenced the political establishment through the 20th century.

The first study since 1915 to describe pre-enclosure agricultural systems throughout England from one of the foremost authorities on medieval field systems.

This book offers a critical assessment of the history of the euro, its crisis, and the rescue measures taken by the European Central Bank and the community of states.

Strategy and Defence Planning: Meeting the Challenge of Uncertainty explores and examines why and how security communities prepare purposefully for their future defence. Professor Gray argues that our understanding of human nature, of politics, and of strategic history, does allow us to make prudent choices in defence planning.

In this revised edition of The Secret Connexion, Galen Strawson explores one of the most discussed subjects in philosophy: David Hume's work on causation. He argues that Hume believes in causal influence, but insists that we cannot know its nature. The regularity theory of causation is indefensible, and Hume never adopted it in any case.

Gail Fine presents the first full-length study of Meno's Paradox, a challenge to the possibility of inquiry that was first formulated in Plato's Meno. She compares the responses of Plato, Aristotle, the Epicureans, the Stoics, and Sextus to the paradox, and considers a series of key questions concerning the nature of knowledge and inquiry.