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This is the inside story of the International Criminal Court, perhaps the most innovative international institution, from the unique perspective of its first Chief Prosecutor, Luis Moreno Ocampo.

Included in "What Do I Do Now?: Pain Medicine" series, Neuropathic Pain uses a case-based approach to cover important topics in the examination, investigation, management, and treatment of various types of neuropathic pain.

In this volume, Munch-Jurisic offers the first in-depth philosophical analysis of perpetrator disgust: the phenomenon of individuals experiencing severe physiological or emotional distress following acts of atrocity. By examining the relationship between emotions, human nature, and cognition through the lens of perpetrator disgust, she argues that our gut feelings are not moral instincts but should be understood as templates that can embody a broad range of values and morals.

In Theocratic Secularism, author Naser Ghobadzadeh questions the religious logic used to legitimize the rule of the clergy in Iran. Ghobadzadeh argues that orthodox shi'ism considers the institution of government to be outside the realm of religion and religious leaders. Coining the term 'theocratic secularism', Ghobadzadeh ultimately argues for the re-instatement of a form of political secularism in Iran.

Soon after the fall of the Aztec empire in 1521, missionaries began teaching Latin to native youths in Mexico. This initiative was intended to train indigenous students for positions of leadership, but it led some of them to produce significant writings of their own in Latin, and to translate a wide range of literature, including Aesop's fables, into their native language. Aztec Latin reveals the full extent to which the first Mexican authors mastered and made use of European learning and provides a timely reassessment of what those indigenous authors really achieved.

A sweeping history of nineteenth-century America, this book shows how slavery shaped immigration policy in the United States during the years when states controlled mobility within and across their borders. Only after the abolition of slavery did Congress begin to implement a national immigration policy, applying the policies of border control and deportation to different racial groups that continue to generate tensions between state and federal authority to the present day.

Choosing Well considers the challenges associated with effective choice over time. Andreou focuses on the role disorderly preferences play in self-defeating behavior and argues that rationality can validate certain disorderly preference structures while also protecting us from detrimental patterns of choice.

This dynamic reference work brings together an internationally renouned group of scholars to survey the current state Brazilian history and historiography. The collection includes essays whose coverage ranges from the nation's prehistory until the beginning of the 21st century. It features original research that interrogates and reinvents the historiographic tradition; investigates the nation's political, social, and cultural history; and offers new interventions in international relations, environmental history, and a variety of other research areas.

The Oxford Handbook of the Synoptic Gospels presents essays that push the field beyond the Synoptic Problem and theological themes that ignore the particularities of each Gospel. The first section explores some of the traditional approaches of literary dependence and engages with alternative ways to understand Synoptic relations, while the second section treats a variety of historical, literary, and cultural phenomena important to the study of these Gospels.

Written by a leading authority in health equity, Social Determinants of Health and Health Disparities is the definitive classroom guide to understanding and addressing racial and social disparities in health.

Who Should We Be Online? examines how power and social inequality shape knowledge and fuel misinformation on the internet. Drawing on numerous case studies, Frost-Arnold proposes structural and individual changes to make the internet more conducive to knowledge production and sharing.

Elite philanthropy has produced countless essential features of modern life. Today, for-profit philanthropic innovations like donor-advised funds threaten its future. In For-Profit Philanthropy, Dana Brakman Reiser and Steven A. Dean reveal that philanthropy law has operated as strategic compromise, binding ordinary Americans and elites together in a common purpose. The authors start with an overview of the size and role of the philanthropic sector in the United States and then discuss changes in the regulatory environment that has facilitated new forms of philanthropic organizations. Private ordering, targeted regulation, or a new strategic bargain could strike a modern balance, preserving the benefits of the Grand Bargain's partnership between the modest and the mighty, and this book offers a detailed roadmap to show how it can be accomplished.

There is much more to being a college professor than just teaching and doing research. Most new faculty struggle because they have to figure out how to juggle a complex mix of activities that are dominated by the human and institutional structures they live within--from departments up to international professional communities. Your Future as a Faculty Member: How to Survive and Thrive in Academia discusses these human elements that are core to surviving and thriving as a faculty member. It guides readers through lessons in building successful and supportive relationships with communities of students, campus colleagues, professional peers, and university administrative and support staff.

This volume reflects the multiplicity of English poetry between 1100 and 1400. The chapters focus on the historical, linguistic, and poetic transitions of the period, including major innovations and developments in language, topics, poetic forms, and means of expression.

In The Oxford Handbook of Expertise and Democratic Politics, Gil Eyal and Thomas Medvetz have brought together a broad group of scholars who have engaged substantively and theoretically with debates regarding the nature of expertise and the social roles of experts to examines these areas within sociology and allied disciplines. The analyses take an historical and relational approach to the topic and are motivated by the sense that growing mistrust in experts represents a danger to democratic politics today. Bringing together investigations from social scientists, philosophers, and legal scholars into the political dimensions of expertise, this Handbook connects interdisciplinary work done in science and technology studies with the more classic concerns, topics, and concepts of sociologists of professions and intellectuals.

R. H. Charles: A Biography situates Charles's work in the history of biblical scholarship. Drawing on material stored in several archives and other sources it provides an account of his early life and education in Ireland, devotes a section to his Oxford years, and furnishes a biographical overview of his work as a canon of Westminster.

Of all the characters bequeathed to us by the Hebrew Bible, none is more compelling or complex than David. This study traces the language of 'innocent blood' and 'bloodguilt' through David's story in the books of Samuel and 1 Kings, to understand how this concept shapes the entirety of David's history.

How did charismatic renewal transform the churches in the twentieth century, moving from the periphery to the mainstream? In Age of the Spirit, John Maiden looks at the rise of charismatic Christianity before, during, and after the 'long 1960s' across the English-speaking world.

When, why, and how are people motivated? This is the essential question that motivation science has sought to address since the field's inception, and yet motivation scientists have offered many contrasting and even conflicting perspectives that have stalled some key conversations in the research. This volume captures the nature of these critical debates, while also moving the field towards greater coherence by bringing different perspectives together in one volume. Posing 10 fundamental questions to 57 prominent motivation researchers around the globe, Motivation Science: Controversies and Insights covers topics such as the nature of motivation, cultural differences in motivational processes, evidence-based strategies to enhance motivation, and predictions for the future of the field.

The Jurassic Coast in the United Kingdom is a World Heritage Site and one of the most important geological and geomorphological locations on earth. Geological Pioneers of the Jurassic Coast examines the lives and achievements of over forty pioneering researchers of the area. Progressing chronologically, the book tells the stories of fossil collectors, geological mappers, stratigraphers, and paleontologists from the seventeenth century to today.

This is the first comparative edition of Religio Medici ever to appear. It includes the 1643 authorized print version as well as the first manuscript witness and a representative of several middle-stage witnesses, to offer an authoritative overview of the evolution of this remarkable and influential work.

This book brings together fourteen essays by Christopher Janaway on the philosophy of Schopenhauer and Nietzsche. They illuminate central philosophical issues in the work of these thinkers - the death of God, the meaning of existence, suffering, compassion, the will, Christian values, the affirmation or negation of life.

The Oxford Handbook of Portuguese Politics brings together the best scholars in the field offering an unrivalled coverage of the politics of the country over the past 50 years. The eight sections examine historical background, institutions, policymaking, European integration, and defence, amongst others.

The Insanity Defence provides an essential comparative perspective on the theory and practice of the insanity defence in both common law and civil law jurisdictions. It is a companion volume to Fitness to Plead (OUP 2018) by the same editors and is written and edited by a team of leading experts in the field.

A. A. Long presents fourteen essays on the themes of selfhood and rationality in ancient Greek philosophy, ranging over seven centuries of innovative thought. He shows how the notion of a rational self was bound up with questions about divinity and happiness, and draws out the relevance of the book's themes for modern discussions of the self.