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World War II dramatically transformed human life and society, resulting in the deaths of 100 million people and shaping the worldview and psyches of generations. The Oxford Handbook of World War II broadens traditional narratives of the war and in the process changes our understanding of this epic conflict. Spanning the rise and fall of the Versailles system to the postwar reintegration of veterans and the eventual commemoration of the conflict and its victims, The Oxford Handbook of World War II marks a landmark contribution to the historical literature of war.

Exploring the benefits of using nonideal theory in social ontology, Åsa Burman argues for a needed paradigm shift in the field. Through the Power View, she accommodates important but neglected social phenomena, such as class, and places the concept of social power at the core of a general theory of the social world.

The defense industry develops, produces, and sells weapons that cause great harm. It operates at the intersection of the public and private sectors, with increased reliance on technology companies. This book brings together the diverse perspectives of scholars and practitioners from academia, government service, the military, and the private sector to discuss the moral and legal challenges facing the global defense industry and to introduce solutions that are innovative, effective, and practical.

A Tripartite Self explores relations between body and mind, spirit, or soul in early Chinese texts from the Warring States and early Han dynasty period.

Questioning the Chinese Model sheds light on oppositional political novels produced in early twenty-first century China.

The first comparative work on Scots and Norwegian law, from town law and state formation to trade and migration Scotland and Norway have much in common when it comes to population size, harvesting natural resources at sea and in mountainous terrain, a historically protestant religious background, trends in urbanisation, state formation and later centralization of government. However, there has never been any attempt made to compare Scottish and Norwegian legal history. Bringing together experts in Norwegian and Scottish legal, economic and political history, this volume breaks new ground by being the first to compare Scottish and Norwegian legal history with a view to establishing connections and points of contact between Norwegian and Scots law. Each topic is covered in tandem by a pair of contributors: one an expert in Scots law looking at the Scottish perspective, the other an expert in Norwegian law looking at the Norwegian perspective. Key features - Brings together contributions from distinguished and early career scholars, with expertise in the fields of legal, economic and political history - Compares Scottish and Norwegian state formation, governance of the realm and town law, migration, trade and seafaring across the North Sea - Reflects on and contributes to the methodology of comparative legal history more generally - Each chapter pair is accompanied by an introduction by the editors drawing out the common themes - Organised chronologically, from the mid-13th to the mid-18th century Andrew R. C. Simpson is Professor of Scottish Legal History at the University of Edinburgh. Jørn Øyrehagen Sunde is Professor in Legal History at the University of Oslo.

The idea that God became human in Christ seems paradoxical: surely nothing can be both divine and human? Robin Le Poidevin deploys the resources of contemporary metaphysics to show how even the apparently unchangeable aspects of the divine might be relinquished by God the Son.

Enlightened Oxford takes a fresh look at the eighteenth-century University of Oxford and its relation to the state, society, and religion of the time, and how a long-established institution managed to navigate the multiple political challenges of the era while maintaining a cultural presence and a surprising capacity for adaptability.

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This book explores the science behind intuitive decision-making in business, and shows how people's innate capacity for intuition can be nurtured and strengthened to maximize performance. The clear and detailed explanations reveal how we can use intuition to navigate a world that is fast-moving, complex, and uncertain.

This fifth edition of the leading work on the CISG has been updated to cover the significant body of international case law, developments in practice, and literature that has appeared since the fourth edition.

The Constitutionalization of Human Rights Law analyses how lawyers representing refugees use human rights provisions in national constitutions to close the gap between the Law and its implementation. The book examines how laws are adapted to suit social, political, and legal contexts, focusing on Colombia, Mexico, South Africa, Uganda, and the US.

Hichem Naar argues for the rationality of love: it belongs to the class of responses, such as belief and action, that are subject to norms of justification and rationality. There are reasons to love others, reasons provided by the unique value of each individual.

This Handbook provides a comprehensive study of ordoliberalism from the intellectual origins and prime exemplars to its main theoretical themes and practical applications up to the most recent debates taking place across a range of disciplines.

This volume is part of the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh critical edition, which brings together all of Waugh's writings for the first time. This is the first fully annotated edition of Robbery Under Law, tracing the expropriation of British and American oil interests in Mexico by its repressive Marxist government.

This volume is part of the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh critical edition, which brings together all of Waugh's writings for the first time. This new edition of Edmund Campion provides extensive biographical and contextual notes to help the reader unfamiliar with early modern history.

This book brings together phonologists working in different fields to explore key questions relating to phonological primitives. The studies cover a wide range of methodologies and domains, including experimental work, fieldwork, language acquisition, theory-internal concerns, and many more.

Anaesthesia for Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Second Edition is a practical, easy to read and engaging guide to the entire perioperative management process, encompassing everything that the practitioner needs to know. This comprehensive second edition will empower the novice, but also support more experienced practitioners.

Combining legal and philosophical analysis, Reciprocal Freedom offers a sequenced and legally informed argument for understanding law as necessary to our existence as free beings. Exploring the relationship between private law and the state, this book covers conceptions of corrective justice, rights, ownership, and the role of legal institutions.

This volume is part of the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh critical edition, which brings together all of Waugh's writings for the first time. This new edition of The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold provides extensive biographical and contextual notes to help the reader unfamiliar with early modern history.

The Oxford Handbook of Freedom presents the first wide-ranging analysis of freedom in all its dimensions: legal, cultural, religious, economic, political, and psychological. It includes 28 new essays by well-regarded philosophers, historians, and political theorists.

From minor nomadic tribe to major world empire, the story of the Parthians' success in the ancient world is nothing short of remarkable. Reign of Arrows provides the first comprehensive study dedicated entirely to early Parthian history and the first comprehensive effort to evaluate early Parthian political history since 1938.

In The Myth of Left and Right, Hyrum Lewis and Verlan Lewis makes the case that public discourse in America today is confused and hostile largely because we are thinking about politics all wrong. They argue that the assumption that the left-right divide is philosophical leads Americans to absolutism and extremism, but the reality is that nothing other than tribal loyalty unites the various positions associated with the liberal and conservative ideologies of today. Further, the book shows why the idea that the political spectrum models competing worldviews is the central political myth of our time.

Since John Esposito published his first book nearly 40 years ago, he has been guiding readers beyond misleading and dangerous stereotypes of Muslims. The essays in this volume highlight the contributions of scholars from a variety of disciplines who, like Esposito, present Islam as a multi-faceted and dynamic tradition embraced by communities in globally interconnected but substantially diverse contexts over the centuries.

In this ground-breaking synthesis of art and science, Diana Deutsch shows how illusions of music and speech have fundamentally altered thinking about the brain. Deutsch addresses many fascinating questions: Why is perfect pitch so rare? Why do some people hallucinate music? Why do we hear phantom words? Why do we sometimes hear speech as song? Drawing on psychology, music theory, linguistics, and neuroscience, this book will prove engrossing to specialists and non-specialists alike.

The Oxford Handbook of Hegel is a comprehensive guide to Hegel's philosophy, from his first published writings to his final lectures. The Handbook includes many essays from younger scholars who have brought new perspectives and rigor to the study of Hegel's texts.

Mirrors of the Divine examines four early Christian authors--Tertullian of Carthage, Clement of Alexandria, Gregory of Nyssa, and Augustine of Hippo--and analyzes their writings on vision and knowledge of God to show how they envisioned one's relationship to the world and how they imagined the unknown. Emily R. Cain explores how contradictory theories of sight shaped their cosmologies, theologies, subjectivities, genders, and discursive worlds, and shows that early Christian arguments about the phenomenon of visual perception are deeply intertwined with broader debates about identity, agency, and epistemology.

Downsizing and outsourcing have contributed to increased job insecurity and inequality across the industrialized west. But under what conditions do companies take alternative approaches to restructuring that balance market demands for profits with social demands for high quality jobs? Virginia Doellgast compares the US and European telecommunications industries to show how labor can succeed. Market liberalization and shareholder pressure pushed employers to adopt often draconian cost cutting measures, but in certain countries labor unions pushed back with creative collective bargaining and organizing campaigns. Their success depended on the intersection of three factors: constraints on employer exit, support for collective worker voice, and strategies of inclusive labor solidarity. Based on findings from ten country studies, this book shows how different national political economic contexts shape what workers can and cannot accomplish.