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This volume considers the many infectious diseases that have been associated with cognitive and neuropsychiatric function to better understand the role infections play in neurocognitive and neuropsychiatric disorders.

Written by a specialist team of academics and media barristers, The Law of Privacy and the Media offers expert guidance on English media privacy law, outlining key legislation and legal rules. It includes comparative perspectives and addresses current debates about the form and scope of modern privacy protection.

Our ability to use written and spoken signs to mean things is so integral to the kind of creatures we are, we seldom notice how incredible this ability is. Yet on reflection, meaning seems entirely mysterious. What is meaning? How do our words get to mean anything at all? These are the questions that drive this book.

In this work, John Sorabji proposes a new model civil procedure code for England and Wales. Through careful examination of existing and model rules and commentary, he outlines a simplified seventeen-part approach to civil procedure, which covers all stages from issue to judgment, appeal, and enforcement.

This book explores the hybrid and transitional nature of far-right movement parties, which challenge the conventional distinction between institutional and non-institutional politics. It provides new insights into the spread of far-right influence and illuminates the complex organizational and strategic choices underlying far-right mobilization.

This volume gathers a premier group of scholars and practitioners to address cutting-edge dilemmas of "responsible policy engagement". They reflect on their own experiences and provide guidance on how to constructively communicate with policymakers while also being transparent about the uncertainty and subtleties of the research process.

This volume gathers a premier group of scholars and practitioners to address cutting-edge dilemmas of "responsible policy engagement". They reflect on their own experiences and provide guidance on how to constructively communicate with policymakers while also being transparent about the uncertainty and subtleties of the research process.

Why did populists rise across liberal democracies and which variety of populism gains under which conditions? Moving beyond theoretical accounts and bridging comparative politics and international relations, Koch explores such questions and presents comparative evidence across 37 democracies and a case study of eight EU states.

This book argues that children cannot simply learn anything at any age, because their capacities to experience and cognitively represent the world are structured by humans' psychological architecture for agentive decision making and action. Changes in these architectures help to explain why children learn what they do when they do.

Populist Mobilization presents a novel theoretical framework for the study of grassroots populist movements and examines two case studies from the protest cycle of the Great Recession: the Icelandic Pots and Pans Revolution and the Greek indignados.

This volume brings together ten essays in which analytic philosophers engage with existentialism. They take up central existentialist themes, such as freedom, consciousness, and bad faith. All demonstrate that existentialism and analytic philosophy can come together to capture the imagination and rekindle the excitement of philosophical thought.

A Super Happy Magic Forest colour chapter book based on the award-wining picture book series. Deep in the Super Happy Magic Forest, an evil force has been secretly growing. All hopes rest on five brave heroes, only they have the power to stop evil mushroom Fungellus before he and his toxic spores take over.

Draws on more than three decades of research in microbial experimental evolution to provide a sketch of a general, empirically grounded theory of biodiversity and the first synthetic treatment of experimental evolution.

Crisis Management: Recovering the Social License by Corporate Conformance expands the literature on crisis management by drawing on criminological concepts such as individual and corporate deviance by misconduct convenience.

An authoritative and systematic collection of essays by an international team of experts on the reception of one of the most intriguing figures in the history of Jewish and Christian thought, Philo of Alexandria.

Introduction to International Relations and Global Politics provides students with a complete understanding of theory and how it applies to the real world. With comprehensive coverage of all major classical and contemporary theories and approaches, the text focuses on the connections between theory and current issues in international relations.

Traditionally attributed to King Solomon and called by Rabbi Aqiva the "Holy of Holies" among sacred Scriptures (Mishnah, Yadayim 3:5), the Song of Songs is one of the most fascinating and controversial biblical books, and played an essential role in the shaping of European spirituality and culture.

This book provides a detailed study of the unusually large array of interrogative and relative grammars mastered by French speakers. Jean-Yves Pollock draws on the theoretical tools of generative grammar and compares the relevant French constructions with their counterparts in English, Italian, and Northern Italian dialects.

The Political Logic of Cultural Revival, through an in-depth study of the Lhomwe revival, argues that political elites invest in such revivals when doing so will bear political returns via increased ethnic visibility.

European Blame Games challenges the conventional wisdom that the complexity of EU decision-making eschews clarity of responsibility, thereby rendering European blame games untargeted and diffuse.

Technological Animation in Classical Antiquity aims to establish the significance of technological animation within Greek and Roman societies. The chapters focus on artificial animation produced through technical procedures, exploring themes of agency, audience reception, and materiality.

This book develops a theory of direct contestation that explains the varying distributive consequences of the conflicts that entangle many firms.

Drawing on an analysis of contested States like Palestine and Ukraine, this book seeks to ascertain the normative value and effects of recognition in various situations. It also provides an updated overview of the history of recognition, the positions of various governments, and a critical summary of domestic and international jurisprudence.

The Transnational Law of Renewable Energy provides a unified and comprehensive analysis of the transnational law that governs renewable energy projects, providing a transnational legal approach to derisking these projects. The volume establishes the first transnational lex regenerative, or transnational law of renewable energy.

Rights and Right-Holding presents a rigorous philosophical investigation of the two phenomena mentioned in its title. The book engages with a number of key topics, including the Hohfeldian analysis of legal and moral positions and the longstanding debates between the Interest Theory of right-holding and the Will Theory of right-holding.

This book provides a lucid, critical account of when and why a person is under a legal duty to protect others from harm, and not merely a duty not to harm. It explains the legal principles that determine when both private individuals and public authorities will be subject to liability for failures to protect from harm.