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How did elites gain and retain power and resources in the medieval Latin West, Byzantium and the Islamic world? This set of parallel studies offers readers an invaluable framework for understanding and comparing the political cultures and societies surrounding the medieval Mediterranean.

This is the first global and comparative study of litigation in which refugees seek protection from a place of ostensible 'refuge'. The book analyses jurisprudence from Africa, Europe, North America and Oceania from multi-disciplinary perspectives. Drawing on feminist theory, the book examines the role gender plays in these contentious judgments.

This book will be a key resource for readers interested in one of the most acclaimed and influential writers of the twentieth century, Samuel Beckett. In clear and accessible prose, the book reassesses and elucidates the Buddhist thinking coursing through Beckett's fiction and theatre for over half a century.

"When World War II ended, Yukikaze was the only elite Imperial Japanese Navy destroyer still afloat. Tracing her journey through the treacherous ocean battlefields of the Pacific War, this unique story is told through the eyes of the crew, who saw deep-running currents of Japanese history unfold before their eyes"--

This book explains how international law structures global environmental harm and injustice while claiming to protect the environment. It outlines the possibility for a more sustainable and equitable world by drawing inspiration from diverse disciplines and marginalised sociocultural traditions to move towards a genuinely international law.

For decades, scholars have examined the Gospel of John from historical, literary, and theological angles. Mark Blumhofer offers an interpretation of the Gospel that draws together these various strands in ways that will advance the understanding of John among scholars, pastors, and other readers of the Gospel.

Romantic Cartographies is the first collection to fully explore the reach and significance of cartographic practice in Romantic-period culture. Revealing the diverse ways in which the period mapped itself, the volume also considers our contemporary engagements with Romanticism from the perspective of our own spatialised culture.

Decarbonisation is the reduction of carbon dioxide emissions using low carbon power sources, lowering output of greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere. This is essential to meet global temperature standards set by international climate agreements. To limit global warming to 1.5°C, hence avoiding the worst-case scenarios predicted by climate science, the world economy must rapidly reduce its emissions and reach climate neutrality within the next three decades. This will not be an easy journey. Shifting away from carbon-intensive production will require a historic transformation of the structure of our economies. Written by a team of academics linked to the European think tank Bruegel, The Macroeconomics of Decarbonisation provides a guide to the macroeconomic fundamentals of decarbonisation. It identifies the major economic transformations, both over the long- and short-run, and the roadblocks requiring policy intervention. It proposes a macroeconomic policy agenda for decarbonisation to achieve the climate goals of the international community.

Collective self-defence involves the use of military force to aid a state that is the innocent victim of aggression. However, it has often been abusively invoked as a pretext and risks escalating conflicts. Green analyses fundamental questions about the conceptual nature of collective self-defence and its legal requirements.

"Robert Bud explores the rise and fall of 'applied science' as a class of scientific thought and practice. UK focussed, the study has international implications. Over two centuries, lay actors and scientists interacted through politics, stories and institutions to shape a category that would eventually fade in favour of 'technology'"--

This book is intended for students and practitioners of robotics working with noisy sensor data to estimate state variables. New edition highlights include a new chapter on variational inference and new sections on adaptive covariance estimation and on inertial navigation as well as a primer on matrix calculus.

Corporate wrongdoing is ubiquitous today. Yet, we know little about when victims have access to remedy. Seeking Justice explores variation in victims' access to remedy mechanisms for corporate human rights abuse in Latin America using the newly created Corporations and Human Rights Database.

This book addresses the need for evidence-based models of prevention and health promotion programs for psychologists. It contains numerous practical and culturally informed suggestions, tools, and case examples from across the lifespan. Intended for mental health practitioners, researchers, educators, and policymakers.

This Element seeks to characterize the scribal culture in ancient Egypt through its textual acts, which were of prime importance in this culture: writing, list-making, drawing, and copying.

Shakespeare's visionary women, usually confined to the periphery, claim centre stage to voice their sleeping and waking dreams. These women recount their visions through acts of rhetoric, designed to persuade and, crucially, to directly intervene in political action. The visions discussed in this Element are therefore not simply moments of inspiration but of political intercession. The vision performed or recounted on stage offers a proleptic moment of female speech that forces audiences to confront questions of narrative truth and women's testimony. This Element interrogates the scepticism that Shakespeare's visionary women face and considers the ways in which they perform the truth of their experiences to a hostile onstage audience. It concludes that prophecy gives women a brief moment of access to political conversations in which they are not welcome as they wrest narrative control from male speakers and speak their truth aloud.

This Element provides an analysis of social protection from an economic perspective. It describes the design of social protection programs, assesses the efficiency and performance of social protection programs, analyzes the relative merits of social and private insurance, and focuses on the implications of asymmetric information.

This book asks how competition and its protection through competition law are linked with democracy. It finds that the supposed symbiosis between competition (law) and democracy rests on a republican understanding of liberty as the absence of domination, which originates in ancient Roman thought.

Religion helped launch new journals and generate wide readerships that periodicals demanded. This book investigates the birth of the periodicals of the psychoanalytic movement before the First World War, after which psychoanalysis emerged in new languages, cultures, and media but never returned to its pre-war publishing systems.

The book premises that despite the long history of violence and discrimination against Dalits, their lives have transformed with the political and economic shifts in the country over the last three decades. It addresses these changes and interrogates the major aspects of Dalit experience associated with them.

Part intellectual history and part nuanced argument for change, this book explores how and why the question of what defines Christianity has become so vexing over the past century, and how believers could think differently about it in the future.

"Bringing together Middle East studies, histories of empire, and the medical humanities, Mandatory Madness offers an innovative and deeply researched new social and cultural history of Palestine before 1948, and a rethinking of the history and archives of psychiatry from a non-Western context under British colonial rule"--