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Norms are a pervasive yet mysterious feature of social life. In Explaining Norms, four philosophers and social scientists team up to grapple with some of the many mysteries, offering a comprehensive account of norms: what they are; how and why they emerge, persist and change; and how they work....

German Women's Art of the First World WarAn examination of German women's art produced during the First World War that places the artists' visual responses within the civilian war experience. Traces the thematic evolution of women's art from visual expressions of support for the national war effort to more nuanced and distraught...

Diachronic and Synchronic PerspectivesIn a series of pioneering explorations of the diachrony of morphomes, this book throws new light on the nature of the morphome and the boundary - seen from both diachronic and synchronic perspectives - between what is and is not genuinely autonomous in morphology. Its findings will be of central interest to...

The Oxford Handbook of Epidemiology for Clinicians is the essential reference for all clinicians and junior doctors who need to apply clinical evidence in everyday practice....

This collection brings together the latest new work within an emerging philosophical discipline: the metaphysics of science. A new definition of this line of philosophical enquiry is developed, and leading academics offer original essays on four key topics at the heart of the subject--laws, causation, natural kinds, and emergence....

Pitt&'s Reign of Alarm and the Lost Generation of the 1790sRobespierre&'s Reign of Terror spawned an evil little twin in William Pitt the Younger&'s Reign of Alarm, 1792-1798. Terror begat Alarm. Many lives and careers were ruined in Britain as a result of the alarmist regime Pitt set up to suppress domestic dissent while waging his disastrous wars...