Books published by Oxford University Press, USA

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.

Explores the notion of the bystander in the Nuclear Age by focusing on the Italian situation as a paradigmatic case. It re-frames Italy's mix of implication and powerlessness not only as a geopolitical question, but as a way to re-think the role of the side-lined intellectual in the face of mass extinction.

Sentencing and Human Rights develops a systematic account of the importance of human rights principles at sentencing stage. It examines how principles of legality, proportionality, equality, and judicial responsibility may be expected to limit sentencing practices and suggests that the concept of state punishment needs to be reconsidered.

Aesthetic judgements that are formed on the basis of testimony are commonly held to be defective, illegitimate, or otherwise problematic. But Jon Robson argues that aesthetic testimony is in no way inferior as a source of judgement when compared to either first-hand aesthetic judgement or testimony concerning non-aesthetic matters.

This third edition of the leading work on the Law of Rescission has been updated to consider the impact of new technology, such as machine generated contracts, as well as new legislation and case law.

This book provides a systematic account of the role of distributive justice in the normative legitimation of liberal constitutions. The requirements of distributive justice are highly contested, and constitutions are susceptible to influencing those they govern. Rosenfeld suggests that liberal constitutions must incorporate "justice essentials".

This Handbook presents and analyses contemporary South Korean politics, bringing together domestic political, economic, social cultural, and demographic developments and putting them in the context of trends in fellow developed countries.

Policing and punishment, once regarded as central to the state's power and its monopoly on violence, are increasingly outsourced to private providers. This collection of essays explores the growing use of the private sector and private actors in border control, and its implications for our understanding of state sovereignty and citizenship.

This book examines the response of financial regulators to the problem of banks being 'too big to fail'. David Howarth and Scott James explore the politics of bank structural reform across six key jurisdictions, and propose a novel framework for analysing the influence of financial industry influence.

In the period 1575-1625, civic peace in England, Scotland, and Ireland was persistently threatened by various kinds of religiously inspired violence, involving conspiracies, rebellions, and foreign invasions. This study seeks to understand how this was addressed in local communities, between the three nations, and more broadly, across Europe.

Judging the Law of the Sea focusses on the development of law by examining how Judges interpret and apply the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea. The book analyses the decisions to date, assessing their influence on the law of the sea. It also considers what role Judges play in reaching decisions to resolve international disputes.

Discusses how modernist techniques for depicting characters' thoughts, feelings, and desires have been reinvented by some of the most influential and innovative writers of the postwar period, including Vladimir Nabokov, Samuel Beckett, Toni Morrison, John Banville, J. M. Coetzee, and Eimear McBride.

In this short book, based upon his Spinoza Lectures at the University of Amsterdam, Robert B. Brandom offers a pragmatist approach to representation and reality, drawing on Richard Rorty and Hegel.

Many people believe the global economy is unjust, but they don't know what to do about it. What responsibilities do American consumers have to workers in China making their iPhones? Should they still buy clothes made in Bangladesh's sweatshops? Offering an overview of how neoliberalism orients us to the world, Benjamin L. McKean shows the practical shortcomings of neoliberal approaches to the world and develops an alternative way of thinking and acting guided by a compelling new account of freedom. Disorienting Neoliberalism offers a framework for understanding the politics of the global economy and shows how we can act in solidarity to promote justice.

The Oxford Handbook of Digital Media Sociology is an indispensable resource for students and scholars interested in understanding how new information and communications technologies shape social life. Chapters written by experts from around the world explore the role digital media play in numerous contexts including the intimate and personal elements of social life, such as our identities and closest relationships, as well as in larger social phenomena, such as racial inequality, labor markets, education, and war. This handbook is ideal for classroom use and library acquisition, as each stand-alone chapter--whether on dating apps or disinformation--offers accessible and succinct overviews of what research has shown thus far and what questions remain unanswered.

Rhythm Man: Chick Webb and the Beat that Changed America presents the first full-length biography of the Swing Era icon, restoring this pioneering virtuoso drummer and bandleader's primacy alongside other 20th century jazz giants.

In this lively guide, Richard Barrios looks beyond the ballyhoo and legend at Monroe's best-known films, and some that even today remain obscure. Besides her films, it also addresses the work she did on television and the stage, as well as her underrated abilities as a vocalist. Both an informative study and a perceptive critical assessment, On Marilyn Monroe: An Opinionated Guide gives this brilliant performer the attention she desired-that of an artist whose work deserves both examination and celebration.

The Power of Narrative provides fresh insight into the rhetorical and semantic properties on both sides of the climate change debate that preclude dialogue around climate science, and proposes a means for moving beyond ideological entrenchment through language mediation, further ethnographic study, and research-informed teaching.

Firefighters are taught to battle flames. Police learn to respond quickly to 911 calls. So why are so few health officials prepared for public health crises?Updated to consider the COVID-19 pandemic, The Public Health Crisis Survival Guide is here to help. Whether it's an infectious disease outbreak, a scathing news report, or a sudden budget calamity, this book gives public health readers an honest and practical overview of what to do when things go wrong -- not just to survive, but to lead and thrive in the most difficult circumstances.

In Social Protection under Authoritarianism, Xian Huang analyzes the transformation of China's social health insurance in the first decade of the 2000s, addressing its expansion and how it is distributed. Drawing from government documents, filed interviews, survey data, and government statistics, she reveals that Chinese leaders have a strategy of "stratified expansion," perpetuating a particularly privileged program for the elites while developing an essentially modest health provision for the masses. She contends that this strategy effectively balances between elites and masses in order to maximize the regime's prospects of stability.

The tourism, hospitality and events industries comprise one of the largest and most diverse workforces in the world, creating high demand for graduates with strong technical and managerial competencies. Case-based learning encourages students to think, understand, and apply the concepts and theories they're taught into practical, everyday situations faced in the world of work. Providing a broad selection of extensive global cases, this book forms a comprehensive one-stop-shop resource for readers to test their analytical skill and abilities in solving complex management issues. Cases include teaching notes to reflect theoretical perspectives, as well as questions, detailed learning activities, and solutions. The book covers: General management, including innovation, ethics, and sustainability;Strategic management, including business models, SWOT analyses and internationalization;Human resource management, including motivating employees, conflict management and work-life balance;Marketing, including managing service quality, branding and new service development;Financial management, including budgeting, risk management and forecasting;Operations management, including food and beverage delivery, revenue management, and health and safety.A useful and engaging read for students of tourism, hospitality and events, this book is also a valuable compilation of examples of practice for people working in industry.

"She loved to rule up red margins and write in black ink on white - deciphering texts and decoding maths problems."Marginalia: writing in the margins, around the edges of pages. Students produce a lot of it. It's often critiques or interpretations of the main text; sometimes, it can even form a dialogue between readers as they comment on each other's comments. But here, we'd like to invite you to the main page, the centre stage, in this newest incarnation of the acclaimed Sydney University Student Writing Anthology."I have trapped my character within this page, within these margins, within these words, but you, dear reader, are bringing external forces into these words and margins."And really, margins are just lines - lines on a page, lines we draw between ourselves and another person, or invisible lines on a map. Just lines, but we still find meaning in them. These lines on a page represent the thoughts, lives and imaginations of Sydney University students.The marginalia is up to you.

Monitoring American Federalism examines some of the nation's most significant controversies in which state legislatures have attempted to be active partners in the process of constitutional decision-making. Christian G. Fritz looks at interposition, which is the practice of states opposing federal government decisions that were deemed unconstitutional. Interposition became a much-used constitutional tool to monitor the federal government and organize resistance, beginning with the Constitution's ratification and continuing through the present affecting issues including gun control, immigration and health care. Though the use of interposition was largely abandoned because of its association with nullification and the Civil War, recent interest reminds us that the federal government cannot run roughshod over states, and that states lack any legitimate power to nullify federal laws. Insightful and comprehensive, this appraisal of interposition breaks new ground in American political and constitutional history, and can help us preserve our constitutional system and democracy.

Unconditional Care in Context reclaims problems of ecological adversity --poverty, racism, housing instability, community disadvantage, food insecurity, and social disconnection -- as central to understanding and working with system-involved children and families. Without attention to these issues, intervention is limited to reactive strategies that require children and families to fail before they can receive support. This book is a call for the field of human service to reconnect with the concrete realities of families' real circumstances and enlarge its focus to include practices that are truly ecologically-informed.

In Money and Medicine, Thomas E. Getzen provides a unified narrative of medical spending from ancient Egypt and Babylonia to the present day. Drawing on a historical reports, documents, and data, spanning millennia Getzen concentrates on a single indicator-the share of income devoted to medical care-to illustrate the growth of expenditures over time and across countries. In doing so, he explains inertial responses to the 2008 financial crisis and 2020 Covid recession while providing a forecasting model for trends over the next fifty years.

This book provides the first detailed history of the Constitution's treaty supremacy rule. The traditional supremacy rule precluded state governments from violating U.S. treaty obligations. After a 1950 California court decision implied that the United States had effectively abrogated Jim Crow laws by ratifying the UN Charter, conservatives achieved a de facto constitutional change. This created a novel exception that permits state governments to violate some treaties. The death of treaty supremacy has significant implications for U.S. foreign policy and for U.S. compliance with its treaty obligations.