Oxford University Press

This book provides a concise and readable summary of the ecology and behaviour of bumblebees, with a particular focus on practical issues such as conservation strategies, management of bumblebees for crop pollination, and the possible impacts of bumblebees as non-native invasive species....

The extent to which international human rights law continues to apply in situations of armed conflict or national emergency is often unclear. This book sets out how human rights law applies in situations of violence or upheaval, systematically covering the whole range of rights and concentrating on relevant case law and international instruments....

In this, the first of two ground-breaking volumes on the nature of language in the        light of the way it evolved, James Hurford looks at how the world first came to have        a meaning in the minds of animals and how in humans this meaning eventually came to        be expressed as language. He reviews a mass of evidence to show how close...

The Handbook of Style for Writers and EditorsNew Hart's Rules is the definitive guide to style for everyone who works with words. Following in the footsteps of the inimitable Hart's Rules (first printed in 1893, and published in thirty-nine editions), New Hart's Rules is a brand-new text giving authoritative and expert advice on all editorial...

(America)Young immigrant Karl Rossmann has a series of adventures in a vision of an ultra-modern America that is both fantasy and social satire. Full of incident, and blackly humorous, Kafka's first novel is newly translated by Ritchie Robertson in an edition that includes a full introduction and notes....

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