Oxford University Press

Storying Later Life demonstrates that the biographical side of human aging is every bit as critical to fathom as the biological side, and that aging is about meaning and growth as well as decline. This volume provides an overview of current thinking and new directions, including examples f narrative care as core care....

Takashi Yagisawa argues for a new version of modal realism, the view that non-actual possible worlds and individuals are as real as the actual ones. The notion of reality is primitive; existence is a relation between a thing and a domain; worlds are modal indices for truth; ordinary objects are extended in spatial, temporal, and modal dimensions....

Migration and Inequality in Germany 1870-1913 is a rigorous analysis of migration in Germany within the demographic and socio-economic contexts of the period studied. Focusing particularly on the rural labour market and the factors affecting it, it also examines the 'pull' factor to cities, and offers more nuanced interpretations of German...

Wayne Davis presents a highly original approach to the foundations of semantics, showing how the so-called 'expression' theory of meaning can handle names and other problematic cases of nondescriptive meaning. The fact that thoughts have parts ('ideas' or 'concepts') is fundamental: Davis argues that like other unstructured words, names mean what...

Open Remedies in Human Rights AdjudicationProviding the first empirical analysis of declarations of incompatibility under the UK Human Rights Act and their aftermath in the legislative process, this book details these 'open remedies' and draws comparisons with similar human rights mechanisms in the US, Canada, South Africa, and Australia....

A detailed study of the    Chronicle of Morea, an important and controversial historical narrative written in the late Middle Ages, telling the story of the founding and government of a Crusader State following the conquest by western invaders of the capital - Constantinople - and the provinces of the Byzantine Empire....