Samuel Johnson: The Arc of the Pendulum offers unique insight into the works of Samuel Johnson by re-considering William Hazlitt’s oft-cited comparison between Johnson’s prose and a pendulum. In 1819, William Hazlitt condemned Samuel Johnson’s prose style as ‘a species of rhyming’ in which ’the close of the period follows as mechanically as the oscillation of a pendulum, the sense is balanced with the sound’. Predictable, formulaic, and unresponsive, Hazlitt’s Johnson was ‘incapable of latitude and compromise, a mere automaton who rebounded from one position to its opposite extreme’. This collection of essays focuses on Johnson’s works, rather than perceptions of his personality, and argues that Johnson’s perceived erratic opinions reflect an understanding of the complexity, instability, and contradictions of the world in which he lived. The volume challenges Hazlitt’s influential reading of the Johnsonian pendulum, focusing on the uses and enjoyments of inconsistency, and the varieties of instability, irresolution, and active change which are revealed by and within Johnson. Chapters from a strong team of contributors present new perspectives on Johnson’s work, life, and reception. The chapters address questions of style, authority, language, lexicography, and biography across a range of Johnson’s writings from the early poetry to the late prose. Johnson emerges from these chapters not as a writer trapped within a set of oppositions, but as one who engages imaginatively and vigorously with flux, dynamism, and inconclusiveness. From the late eighteenth century onwards, to be ‘Johnsonian’ has typically been made synonymous with firm resolution and trenchant opinion, with polysyllabic excess and a style removed from the exigencies and accidents of ordinaryexistence. And yet, as this volume suggests, Johnson’s life and writings embody the critical and creative play of ideas, a form of interaction with the world which is shaped by instability, contradiction, and com …|Books|https://wordery.com/jackets/39015249/samuel-johnson-freya-johnston-9780199654345.jpg|9780199654345|Samuel Johnson : Hardback : Oxford University Press : 9780199654345 : 15 Nov 2012 : This book offers wide-ranging coverage of Samuel Johnson’s life, work, and reception across fifteen thematically cohesive chapters. Taking as its point of departure Wi …|new|1|1|5|64|0|GBP|Freya Johnston|Oxford University Press|15 Nov 2012|Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 9780199673667|Law and Language|149.99|https://wordery.com/law-and-language-michael-freeman-9780199673667|Current Legal Issues, like its sister volume Current Legal Problems (now available in journal format), is based upon an annual colloquium held at University College London. Each year leading scholars from around the world gather to discuss the relationship between law and another discipline of thought. Each colloquium examines how the external discipline is conceived in legal thought and argument, how the law is pictured in that discipline, and analyses points of controversy in the use, and abuse, of extra-legal arguments within legal theory and practice. Law and Language, the fifteenth volume in the Current Legal Issues series, offers an insight into the scholarship examining the relationship between language and the law. The issues examined in this book range from problems of interpretation and beyond this to the difficulties of legal translation, and further to non-verbal expression in a chapter tracing the use of sign language at the Old Bailey; it examines the role of language and the law in a variety of literary works, including Hamlet; and considers the interrelation between language and the law in a variety of contexts, including criminal law, contract law, family law, human rights law, and EU law.|Books|https://wordery.com/jackets/37f6a9bb/law-and-language-michael-freeman-9780199673667.jpg|9780199673667|Law and Language : Hardback : Oxford University Press : 9780199673667 : 21 Feb 2013 : Law and Language, the latest volume in the Current Legal Issues series, contains a broad range of essays by scholars interested in the interactions between law and l …|new|1|1|999|155|0|GBP|Michael Freeman|Oxford University Press|21 Feb 2013|Contract law 9780199671076|EU Regulation and Competition Law in the Transport Sector|197.50|https://wordery.com/eu-regulation-and-competition-law-in-the-transport-sector-luis-ortiz-blanco-9780199671076|EU Competition Law and Regulation’ provides an in-depth analysis of the EU regulation of the various transport modes, and of the EU competition rules in the transport sectior. The text gives details of different substantive rules regarding, on the one hand, liberalization and regulation of transport markets and operations; and, on the other, restrictive agreements, dominant positions, and mergers, which apply to shipping, to aviation, and to inland transport. In addition to illustrating the procedures which govern enforcement of EU competition rules, and indicating how these differ from the usual procedures applied by the European Commission, this new edition addresses the recent emergence of a regulatory framework for different transport modes. The editors and authors have all been closely involved in the development of the Commission’s practice in this area and have provided a detailed contemporary discussion of all relevant issues –Source other than Library of Congress.|Books|https://wordery.com/jackets/12ef33ab/eu-regulation-and-competition-law-in-the-transport-sector-luis-ortiz-blanco-9780199671076.jpg|9780199671076|EU Regulation and Competition Law in the Transport Sector : Hardback : Oxford University Press : 9780199671076 : 23 Feb 2017 : In addition to illustrating the enforcement of EU competition rules, this new edition addresses the emergence of a regulator …|new|1|1|13|202.5|0|GBP|Luis Ortiz Blanco|Oxford University Press|23 Feb 2017|Competition law / Antitrust law 9780199671106|Sovereign Debt Management|297.50|https://wordery.com/sovereign-debt-management-rosa-lastra-9780199671106|Sovereign debt is a complex and highly topical area of law and this work represents a new main reference book on the subject bringing together contributions from world leading practitioners, scholars and regulators. Divided into five parts the book opens with a part on restructuring which analyses contractual provisions and the role of institutions such as the International Monetary Fund. The second part, on enforcement, considers the position of a sovereign as a defendant analyzing the availability of special immunities and matters of defense and arbitration pertinent to sovereign debt. Part three of the book is concerned with complicating factors such as economic, political or banking crises and how these relate and complicate the task of addressing an unsustainable sovereign debt stock. In this section the particular and topical issues concerned with restructuring in a monetary union are explained. The fourth part provides economists’ explanations of why and how sovereigns borrow and the causes of a sovereign debt, which enriches understanding by providing context to the purely legal aspects of the work. The book closes with a section which covers proposed reform to sovereign debt systems. Dedicated to the leading expert Lee Buchheit, this work contains comprehensive and rigorous analysis on sovereign debt management which no specialist should be without.|Books|https://wordery.com/jackets/9bdefd53/sovereign-debt-management-rosa-lastra-9780199671106.jpg|9780199671106|Sovereign Debt Management : Hardback : Oxford University Press : 9780199671106 : 16 Jan 2014 : The most authoritative and comprehensive book available on sovereign debt management written by practitioners and scholars of world renown.|new|1|1|999|302.5|0|GBP|Rosa Lastra|Oxford University Press|16 Jan 2014|Public finance 9780199673780|The Harvest of a Century|41.49|https://wordery.com/the-harvest-of-a-century-siegmund-brandt-9780199673780|Physics was the leading science of the twentieth century and the book retraces important discoveries, made between 1895 and 2001, in 100 self-contained episodes. Each is a short story of the scientists involved, their time, and their work. Together they form a mosaic of modern physics: formulating relativity and quantum mechanics, finding the constituents of matter and unravelling the forces between them, understanding the working of conductors and semiconductors, discovering and explaining macroscopic quantum effects (superconductivity, superfluidity, quantum Hall effect), developing novel experimental techniques like the Geiger counter and particle accelerators, building revolutionary applications like the transistor and the laser, and observing astonishing features of our cosmos (expanding universe, cosmic background radiation). The text is intended for easy reading. Occasionally, a more thorough discussion of experimental set-ups and theoretical concepts is presented in special boxes for readers interested in more detail. Episodes contain extensive references to biographies and original scientific literature. The book is richly illustrated by about 600 portraits, photographs, and figures.|Books|https://wordery.com/jackets/df3017b1/the-harvest-of-a-century-siegmund-brandt-9780199673780.jpg|9780199673780|The Harvest of a Century : Paperback : Oxford University Press : 9780199673780 : 06 Jun 2013 : Physics was the leading science of the twentieth century and the book retraces important discoveries, made between 1895 and 2001, in 100 self-contained epis …|new|1|1|999|46.49|0|GBP|Siegmund Brandt|Oxford University Press|06 Jun 2013|Condensed matter physics (liquid state & solid … 9780199671182|Statistical Models in Epidemiology|45.99|https://wordery.com/statistical-models-in-epidemiology-david-clayton-9780199671182|This self-contained account of the statistical basis of epidemiology has been written specifically for those with a basic training in biology, therefore no previous knowledge is assumed and the mathematics is deliberately kept at a manageable level. The authors show how all statistical analysis of data is based on probability models, and once one understands the model, analysis follows easily. In showing how to use models in epidemiology the authors have chosen to emphasize the role of likelihood, an approach to statistics which is both simple and intuitively satisfying. More complex problems can then be tackled by natural extensions of the simple methods. Based on a highly successful course, this book explains the essential statistics for all epidemiologists.|Books|https://wordery.com/jackets/a9eb22f4/statistical-models-in-epidemiology-david-clayton-9780199671182.jpg|9780199671182|Statistical Models in Epidemiology : Paperback : Oxford University Press : 9780199671182 : 17 Jan 2013 : This self-contained account of the statistical basis of epidemiology has been written for those with a basic training in biology. No previous know …|new|1|1|999|51|0|GBP|David Clayton|Oxford University Press|17 Jan 2013|Epidemiology & medical statistics 9780199671144|The Hidden Histories of War Crimes Trials|139.00|https://wordery.com/the-hidden-histories-of-war-crimes-trials-kevin-heller-9780199671144|This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Several instances of war crimes trials are familiar to all scholars, but in order to advance understanding of the development of international criminal law, it is important to provide a full range of evidence from less-familiar trials. This book therefore provides an essential resource for a more comprehensive overview, uncovering and exploring some of the lesser-known war crimes trials that have taken place in a variety of contexts: international and domestic, northern and southern, historic and contemporary. It analyses these trials with a view to recognising institutional innovations, clarifying doctrinal debates, and identifying their general relevance to contemporary international criminal law. At the same time, the book recognises international criminal law’s history of suppression or sublimation: What stories has the discipline refused to tell? What stories have been displaced by the ones it has told? Has international criminal law’s framing or telling of these stories excluded other possibilities? And - perhaps most important of all - how can recovering the lost stories and imagining new narrative forms reconfigure the discipline? Many of the trials examined in this book have hardly ever before been discussed; others have been examined only in the most cursory manner. Indeed, until now, no volume has been dedicated to telling the story of these trials, that have yet to find a place in the international criminal law canon. Providing a detailed analysis of these trials, which took place in Europe, Africa, South America, and Australasia, in both historical and contemporary contexts, this book is essential reading for anyone concerned with the development of international criminal law.|Books|https://wordery.com/jackets/b3dfca6f/the-hidden-histories-of-war-crimes-trials-kevin-heller-9780199671144.jpg|9780199671144|The Hidden Histories of War Crimes Trials : Hardback : Oxford University Press : 9780199671144 : 31 Oct 2013 : Several war crimes trials are well-known to scholars, but others have received far less attention. This book assesses a number of these litt …|new|1|1|23|120|0|GBP|Kevin Heller|Oxford University Press|31 Oct 2013|International criminal law 9780199672424|The Oxford Handbook of the Atlantic World|34.40|https://wordery.com/the-oxford-handbook-of-the-atlantic-world-nicholas-canny-9780199672424|The essays in this volume provide a comprehensive overview of Atlantic history from c.1450 to c.1850, offering a wide-ranging and authoritative account of the movement of people, plants, pathogens, products, and cultural practices–to mention some of the key agents–around and within the Atlantic basin. As a result of these movements, new peoples, economies, societies, polities, and cultures arose in the lands and islands touched by the Atlantic Ocean, while others were destroyed.|Books|https://wordery.com/jackets/b49d9b3f/the-oxford-handbook-of-the-atlantic-world-nicholas-canny-9780199672424.jpg|9780199672424|The Oxford Handbook of the Atlantic World : Paperback : Oxford University Press : 9780199672424 : 14 Mar 2013 : Thirty-seven essays providing a comprehensive overview, covering the most essential aspects of Atlantic history from c.1450 to c.1850, offe …|new|1|1|999|31.99|0|GBP|Nicholas Canny|Oxford University Press|14 Mar 2013|General & world history 9780199671199|The Concept of the Rule of Law and the European Court of Human Rights|114.99|https://wordery.com/the-concept-of-the-rule-of-law-and-the-european-court-of-human-rights-geranne-lautenbach-9780199671199|This book analyses the concept of the rule of law in the context of international law, through the case law of the European Court of Human Rights. It investigates how the court has defined and interpreted the notion of the rule of law in its jurisprudence. It places this analysis against a background of more theoretical accounts of the idea of the rule of law, drawing in ideas of political philosophy. It also provides a comparative assessment, demonstrating how the idea of the rule of law has evolved in the UK, France, and Germany. The book argues that at the core of the concept of the rule of law are the notions of legality and judicial safeguards. It states that the Court has developed the requirements of legality, which the work analyses in detail, based on that concept. It assesses the independence of the judiciary as an aspect of the rule of law in the context of the European Convention on Human Rights, and the relationship between the rule of law and the substantive contents of law. The book posits that the rule of law as seen at the Court is not mainly utilised with regard to ‘freedom’ rights, but is more concerned with procedural rights. It discusses the relationship between the rule of law and the view of the Convention as a constitutional instrument of the European public order, and shows that the rule of law and democracy are inextricably linked in the case law of the Court. Ultimately, the book demonstrates in its analysis of the Court’s jurisprudence that the notion of the rule of law is a crucial part of the international legal order.|Books|https://wordery.com/jackets/8298bfec/the-concept-of-the-rule-of-law-and-the-european-court-of-human-rights-geranne-lautenbach-9780199671199.jpg|9780199671199|The Concept of the Rule of Law and the European Court of Human Rights : Hardback : Oxford University Press : 9780199671199 : 28 Nov 2013 : The idea of the rule of law is a central, yet sometimes unclear, notion within the international legal system. T …|new|1|1|999|120|0|GBP|Geranne Lautenbach|Oxford University Press|28 Nov 2013|International human rights law 9780199671168|Streetlife|16.64|https://wordery.com/streetlife-leif-jerram-9780199671168|The twentieth century in Europe was an urban century: it was shaped by life in, and the view from, the street. Women were not liberated in legislatures, but liberated themselves in factories, homes, nightclubs, and shops. Lenin, Hitler, and Mussolini made themselves powerful by making cities ungovernable with riots rampaging through streets, bars occupied one-by-one. New forms of privacy and isolation were not simply a by-product of prosperity, but because people planned new ways of living, new forms of housing in suburbs and estates across the continent. Our proudest cultural achievements lie not in our galleries or state theatres, but in our suburban TV sets, the dance halls, pop music played in garages, and hip hop sung on our estates. In Streetlife, Leif Jerram presents a totally new history of the twentieth century, with the city at its heart, showing how everything distinctive about the century, from revolution and dictatorship to sexual liberation, was fundamentally shaped by the great urban centres which defined it.|Books|https://wordery.com/jackets/cd16e585/streetlife-leif-jerram-9780199671168.jpg|9780199671168|Streetlife : Paperback : Oxford University Press : 9780199671168 : 18 Apr 2013 : A completely new look at the history of Europe over the last one hundred years, showing how the fabric of everyday life and the major political upheavals of the twentieth …|new|1|1|999|15.99|0|GBP|Leif Jerram|Oxford University Press|18 Apr 2013|Social & cultural history 9780199672974|Between Two Worlds|12.99|https://wordery.com/between-two-worlds-malcolm-gaskill-9780199672974|Between Two Worlds is a story teeming with people on the move, making decisions, indulging or resisting their desires and dreams. In the seventeenth century a quarter of a million men, women, and children left England’s shores for America. Some were explorers and merchants, others soldiers and missionaries; many were fugitives from poverty and persecution. All, in their own way, were adventurers, risking their lives and fortunes to make something of themselves overseas. They irrevocably changed the land and indigenous peoples they encountered - and their new world changed them. But that was only half the story. The plantations established from Maine to the Caribbean needed support at home, especially royal endorsement and money, which made adventurers of English monarchs and investors too. Attitudes to America were crucial, and evolved as the colonies grew in size, prosperity, and self-confidence. Meanwhile, for those who had crossed the ocean, America forced people to rethink the country in which they had been raised, and to which they remained attached after emigration. In tandem with new ideas about the New World, migrants pondered their English mother country’s traditions and achievements, its problems and its uncertain future in an age of war and revolution. Using hundreds of letters, journals, reports, pamphlets and contemporary books, Between Two Worlds recreates this fascinating transatlantic history - one which has often been neglected or misunderstood on both sides of the Atlantic in the centuries since.|Books|https://wordery.com/jackets/6fcb614b/between-two-worlds-malcolm-gaskill-9780199672974.jpg|9780199672974|Between Two Worlds : Paperback : Oxford University Press : 9780199672974 : 22 Oct 2020 : The transatlantic story of how the English settlers of seventeenth century North America became Americans - from the near-calamitous first settlement at Jamestown …|new|1|1|52|14.99|0|GBP|Malcolm Gaskill|Oxford University Press|22 Oct 2020|History of the Americas 9780199671397|Molecular Biology of RNA|49.99|https://wordery.com/molecular-biology-of-rna-david-elliott-9780199671397|RNA plays a central, and until recently, somewhat underestimated role in the genetics underlying all forms of life on earth. This versatile molecule not only plays a crucial part in the synthesis of proteins from a DNA template, but is also intrinsically involved in the regulation of gene expression, and can even act as a catalyst in the form of a ribozyme. This latter property has led to the hypothesis that RNA - rather than DNA - could have played an essential part in the origin of life itself. This landmark text provides a systematic overview of the exciting and rapidly moving field of RNA biology. Key pioneering experiments, which provided the underlying evidence for what we now know, are described throughout, while the relevance of the subject to human disease is highlighted via frequent boxes. For the second edition of Molecular Biology of RNA, more introductory material has been incorporated at the beginning of the text, to aid students studying the subject for the first time. Throughout the text, new material has been included - particularly in relation to RNA binding domains, non-coding RNAs, and the connection between RNA biology and epigenetics. Finally, a new closing chapter discusses how exciting new technologies are being used to explore current topical areas of research.|Books|https://wordery.com/jackets/74ef9db6/molecular-biology-of-rna-david-elliott-9780199671397.jpg|9780199671397|Molecular Biology of RNA : Paperback : Oxford University Press : 9780199671397 : 12 Nov 2015 : The versatile RNA molecule, along with its many forms and functions, is elegantly captured in this succinct undergraduate text. Molecular Biology of RNA des …|new|1|1|33|54.99|0|GBP|David Elliott|Oxford University Press|12 Nov 2015|Genetics (non-medical) 9780199671229|In All Likelihood|45.99|https://wordery.com/in-all-likelihood-yudi-pawitan-9780199671229|Based on a course in the theory of statistics this text concentrates on what can be achieved using the likelihood/Fisherian method of taking account of uncertainty when studying a statistical problem. It takes the concept ot the likelihood as providing the best methods for unifying the demands of statistical modelling and the theory of inference. Every likelihood concept is illustrated by realistic examples, which are not compromised by computational problems. Examples range from a simile comparison of two accident rates, to complex studies that require generalised linear or semiparametric modelling. The emphasis is that the likelihood is not simply a device to produce an estimate, but an important tool for modelling. The book generally takes an informal approach, where most important results are established using heuristic arguments and motivated with realistic examples. With the currently available computing power, examples are not contrived to allow a closed analytical solution, and the book can concentrate on the statistical aspects of the data modelling. In addition to classical likelihood theory, the book covers many modern topics such as generalized linear models and mixed models, non parametric smoothing, robustness, the EM algorithm and empirical likelihood.|Books|https://wordery.com/jackets/a3f34997/in-all-likelihood-yudi-pawitan-9780199671229.jpg|9780199671229|In All Likelihood : Paperback : Oxford University Press : 9780199671229 : 17 Jan 2013 : This book introduces likelihood as a unifying concept in statistical modelling and inference. The complete range of concepts and applications are covered, from ver …|new|1|1|59|51|0|GBP|Yudi Pawitan|Oxford University Press|17 Jan 2013|Probability & statistics 9780199672653|The Oxford Handbook of European Union Law|34.99|https://wordery.com/the-oxford-handbook-of-european-union-law-anthony-arnull-9780199672653|Since its formation, the European Union has expanded beyond all expectations; this seems set to continue as more countries seek accession and the scope of EU law expands, touching more and more aspects of its citizens’ lives. The EU has never been stronger and yet it now appears to be reaching a crisis point, beset on all sides by conflict and challenges to its legitimacy. Nationalist sentiment is on the rise and the Eurozone crisis has had a deep and lasting impact. The European Union has the complexity and depth of a mature legal system, albeit one which is constantly in flux and whose content and foundations are constantly contested. Its law has developed beyond the single market and institutional matters into many other fields including environmental, fiscal, labour, immigration and criminal law. It is studied at undergraduate and postgraduate level throughout the Member States and beyond; an understanding of it is essential to those who study the EU from other disciplinary perspectives as well as to legal practitioners and policy-makers. The Oxford Handbook of European Union Law comprises eight sections examining how we are to conceptualise EU law; the architecture of EU law; making and administering EU law; the economic constitution and the citizen; regulation of the market place; economic, monetary and fiscal union; the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice; and what lies beyond the regulatory state. Each chapter summarises, analyses and reflects on the state of play in a given area, and suggests how it is likely to develop in the foreseeable future. The resulting collection provides a vivid and provocative tapestry which will be widely used both inside and outside academia by those who are interested in the law underpinning the EU and its policies.|Books|https://wordery.com/jackets/b8d9b622/the-oxford-handbook-of-european-union-law-anthony-arnull-9780199672653.jpg|9780199672653|The Oxford Handbook of European Union Law : Paperback : Oxford University Press : 9780199672653 : 25 May 2017 : Beset by disagreement and challenges to its legitimacy and effectiveness, the European Union could be said to be at a crisis point. The deb …|new|1|1|35|39.95|0|GBP|Anthony Arnull|Oxford University Press|25 May 2017|Laws of Specific jurisdictions books 9780199671489|Defending the Axioms|25.99|https://wordery.com/defending-the-axioms-penelope-maddy-9780199671489|Mathematics depends on proofs, and proofs must begin somewhere, from some fundamental assumptions. For nearly a century, the axioms of set theory have played this role, so the question of how these axioms are properly judged takes on a central importance. Approaching the question from a broadly naturalistic or second-philosophical point of view, Defending the Axioms isolates the appropriate methods for such evaluations and investigates the ontological and epistemological backdrop that makes them appropriate. In the end, a new account of the objectivity of mathematics emerges, one refreshingly free of metaphysical commitments.|Books|https://wordery.com/jackets/da4482c3/defending-the-axioms-penelope-maddy-9780199671489.jpg|9780199671489|Defending the Axioms : Paperback : Oxford University Press : 9780199671489 : 07 Mar 2013 : Mathematics depends on proofs, and proofs must begin somewhere, from some fundamental assumptions. The axioms of set theory have long played this role, so the q …|new|1|1|999|30.99|0|GBP|Penelope Maddy|Oxford University Press|07 Mar 2013|Philosophy of mathematics 9780199671298|Equality, Freedom, and Religion|22.49|https://wordery.com/equality-freedom-and-religion-roger-trigg-9780199671298|Is religious freedom being curtailed in pursuit of equality, and the outlawing of discrimination? Is enough effort made to accommodate those motivated by a religious conscience? All rights matter but at times the right to put religious beliefs into practice increasingly takes second place in the law of different countries to the pursuit of other social priorities. The right to freedom of belief and to manifest belief is written into all human rights charters. In the United States religious freedom is sometimes seen as ’the first freedom’. Yet increasingly in many jurisdictions in Europe and North America, religious freedom can all too easily be ’trumped’ by other rights. Roger Trigg looks at the assumptions that lie behind the subordination of religious liberty to other social concerns, especially the pursuit of equality. He gives examples from different Western countries of a steady erosion of freedom of religion. The protection of freedom of worship is often seen as sufficient, and religious practices are separated from the beliefs which inspire them. So far from religion in general, and Christianity in particular, providing a foundation for our beliefs in human dignity and human rights, religion is all too often seen as threat and a source of conflict, to be controlled at all costs. The challenge is whether any freedom can preserved for long, if the basic human right to freedom of religious belief and practice is dismissed as of little account, with no attempt to provide any reasonable accommodation. Given the central role of religion in human life, unnecessary limitations on its expression are attacks on human freedom itself.|Books|https://wordery.com/jackets/368bb85d/equality-freedom-and-religion-roger-trigg-9780199671298.jpg|9780199671298|Equality, Freedom, and Religion : Paperback : Oxford University Press : 9780199671298 : 10 Jan 2013 : How far should religious practices be curtailed in pursuit of other social goals, such as equality and the removal of discrimination? This book reaso …|new|1|1|999|27.49|0|GBP|Roger Trigg|Oxford University Press|10 Jan 2013|Religion & politics 9780199672370|The Microstructure of Organizations|25.99|https://wordery.com/the-microstructure-of-organizations-phanish-puranam-9780199672370|This book synthesizes a decade of research by the author into fundamental issues in organization design. The result is a novel micro-structural perspective on organizations, which aims to both expand and narrow current thinking. The new perspective takes an expansive view on the kinds of phenomena that can be studied in terms of organization design- such as cross-functional teams, strategic partnerships, buyer-supplier relations, alliance networks, mega-projects, post-merger integration, business groups, open source communities, and crowdsourcing, besides traditional concerns with bureaucratic organizations. At the same time, this approach narrows focus by abstracting away from the variety and complexity of organizations to a few fundamental and universal problems of organizing (that relate to how they aggregate their members’ efforts), as well as a few reusable building blocks - microstructures (which capture common patterns of interaction between members of an organization). The microstructural approach to organizations will be of interest to researchers and PhD students in management, organization science, and strategy.|Books|https://wordery.com/jackets/d1f1b34b/the-microstructure-of-organizations-phanish-puranam-9780199672370.jpg|9780199672370|The Microstructure of Organizations : Paperback : Oxford University Press : 9780199672370 : 04 Jul 2018 : Research on organization design is central to the field of management, and closely allied to the sub-field of strategic management. This book syn …|new|1|1|28|30.99|0|GBP|Phanish Puranam|Oxford University Press|04 Jul 2018|Organizational theory & behaviour 9780199671502|Modality|29.49|https://wordery.com/modality-bob-hale-9780199671502|The philosophy of modality investigates necessity and possibility, and related notions–are they objective features of mind-independent reality? If so, are they irreducible, or can modal facts be explained in other terms? This volume presents new work on modality by established leaders in the field and by up-and-coming philosophers. Between them, the papers address fundamental questions concerning realism and anti-realism about modality, the nature and basis of facts about what is possible and what is necessary, the nature of modal knowledge, modal logic and its relations to necessary existence and to counterfactual reasoning. The general introduction locates the individual contributions in the wider context of the contemporary discussion of the metaphysics and epistemology of modality.|Books|https://wordery.com/jackets/a78d7775/modality-bob-hale-9780199671502.jpg|9780199671502|Modality : Paperback : Oxford University Press : 9780199671502 : 10 Jan 2013 : The philosophy of modality investigates necessity and possibility, and related notions-are they objective features of mind-independent reality? If so, are they irreducible, …|new|1|1|999|34.49|0|GBP|Bob Hale|Oxford University Press|10 Jan 2013|Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge 9780199671410|Authorities|129.00|https://wordery.com/authorities-nicole-roughan-9780199671410|Interactions between state, international, transnational and intra-state law involve overlapping, and sometimes conflicting, claims to legitimate authority. These have led scholars to new theoretical explanations of sovereignty, constitutionalism, and legality, but there has been no close attention to authority itself. This book asks whether, and under what conditions, there can be multiple legitimate authorities with overlapping or conflicting domains. Can legitimate authority be shared between state, supra-state and non-state actors, and if so, how should they relate to one another? Roughan argues that understanding authority in contemporary pluralist circumstances requires a new conception of relative authority, and a new theory of its legitimacy. The theory of relative authority treats the interdependence of authorities, and the relationships in which they are engaged, as critical to any assessment of their legitimacy. It offers a tool for evaluating inter-authority relationships prevalent in international, transnational, state, and non-state constitutional practice, while suggesting significant revisions to the idea that law, in general or even by necessity, claims to have legitimate authority.|Books|https://wordery.com/jackets/6626c7ed/authorities-nicole-roughan-9780199671410.jpg|9780199671410|Authorities : Hardback : Oxford University Press : 9780199671410 : 03 Oct 2013 : How can legal authority be explained beyond the sovereign state? Roughan argues that instances of transnational and international law, along with overlapping constitutio …|new|1|1|2|105|0|GBP|Nicole Roughan|Oxford University Press|03 Oct 2013|Jurisprudence & philosophy of law 9780199673858|Analytical Mechanics|46.99|https://wordery.com/analytical-mechanics-antonio-fasano-9780199673858|Analytical Mechanics is the investigation of motion with the rigorous tools of mathematics, with remarkable applications to many branches of physics (Astronomy, Statistical and Quantum Mechanics, etc.). Rooted in the works of Lagrange, Euler, and Poincare, it is a classical subject with fascinating developments and still rich with open problems. It addresses such fundamental questions as: Is the solar system stable? Is there a unifying economy" principle in mechanics? How can a point mass be described as a “wave”? This book was written to fill a gap between elementary expositions and more advanced (and clearly more stimulating) material. It takes the challenge to explain the most relevant ideas and to show the most important applications using plain language and “simple” mathematics, often through an original approach. Basic calculus is enough for the reader to proceed through the book and when more is required, the new mathematical concepts are illustrated, again in plain language. The book is conceived in such a way that some difficult chapters can be bypassed, whilst still grasping the main ideas. However, anybody wishing to go deeper in some directions will find at least the flavour of recent developments and many bibliographical references. Theory is always accompanied by examples. Many problems are suggested and some are completely worked out at the end of each chapter. The book may effectively be used (and it is in several Italian Universities) for undergraduate as well as for PhD courses in Physics and Mathematics at various levels.
