Oxford University Press

Robert Cummins presents a series of essays motivated by the following question: Is        the mind a collection of beliefs and desires that respond to and condition our        feeling and perceptual experiences, or is this just a natural way to talk about it?        What sort of conceptual framework do we need to understand what is really going...

What do anaesthetists do? How does anaesthesia work? What are the risks? And how        does the anaesthetist know if you are really asleep?Anaesthesia is a mysterious and        sometimes threatening process. In this Very Short Introduction, Aidan O'Donnell        takes the reader on a tour through the whole of the modern anaesthetic practice....

This is the most comprehensive survey ever published of the auxiliary verb construction. Drawing on a database of over 800 languages the author examines their morphosyntactic forms and semantic roles, and investigates the historical changes leading to the cross-linguistic diversity of inflectional patterns....

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Whistlings of an IdlerEugenio Cambaceres was the first to introduce the naturalist manner of Emile Zola to Argentinean literature in the late nineteenth century. The work of Cambaceres, a precursor to the contemporary Argentinean novel, is crucial for an understanding of the period of consolidation of Argentina, the formation of a national...

This book develops Martin Loughlin's distinctive and provocative theory of public law, first outlined in The Idea of Public Law. Tracing the historical evolution of the concept of public law, the book rethinks the foundational concepts of state, constitution, and government, arguing that public power is created, not controlled, by law....