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The course and consequences of major events of modern international diplomacy have        shaped and changed the global world in which we live. Joseph M. Siracusa introduces        the subject of diplomacy from a historical perspective, providing examples from        significant historical phases and episodes to illustrate the art of diplomacy...

Crime and Public Policy accessibly presents the latest scientific information on the causes of crime and evidence about what does and does not work to control it. With contributions from trusted, leading scholars, on topics such as changing crime rates, sex offenders, sentencing, gangs, and more, James Q. Wilson and Joan Petersilia continue to...

Fifteen-year-old Laurence Roach just wants a normal life, but it's not easy when your mum is a depressed alcoholic, and your six-year-old brother thinks he's a dog. When Mum fails to come home one night, Laurence tells nobody, terrified he and his brother will be taken into care if anyone finds out. Instead, he attempts to keep up the...

The Oxford Bible Commentary is a Bible study and reference work for 21st century        students and readers that can be read with any modern translation of the Bible. It        offers verse-by-verse explanation of every book of the Bible by the world's leading        biblical scholars. From its inception, OBC has been designed as a...

How can we talk meaningfully about the past if it does not exist to be talked about? What gives time its direction? Is time travel possible? This defence of presentism - the view that only the present exists - makes an original contribution to a fast growing and exciting debate....

A Critical ExaminationUsing the tools of contemporary analytic philosophy, Georges Dicker here examines        both the destructive and the constructive sides of Berkeley's thought, against the        background of the mainstream views that he rejected....