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Countries solemnly intone their commitment to human rights, and they ratify endless international treaties and conventions designed to signal that commitment. At the same time, there has been no marked decrease in human rights violations, even as the language of human rights has become the dominant mode of international moral criticism. Well-known...

British Literary Culture and the Emergence of Postcolonial AestheticsPeter Kalliney's original archival work demonstrates that metropolitan and colonial intellectuals used modernist theories of aesthetic autonomy to facilitate collaborative ventures....

Perceiving Complexity to Avoid CatastrophesIn this fascinating book cognitive scientist Viki McCabe argues that the catastrophes we now face--economic recessions, ecological devastation, and political paralysis--originate in our ignoring the world we perceive and acting on the theories we conceive. Using cutting-edge research and compelling true...

Domestic, European and International PerspectivesThe topic of sovereignty is contentious, and one of enduring interest.  In a world of ever increasing economic globalisation, the rise of supranational regulation and the interconnected age of information and communication technology, among many other developments, have challenged the once...

Shakespeare and ReligionA Will to Believe is a revised version of Kastan's 2008 Oxford Wells Shakespeare Lectures, providing a provocative account of the ways in which religion animates Shakespeare's plays....

Case Histories in Acute Neurology and the Neurology of General MedicineThis book is a collection of over 50 case histories of patients with predominantly acute neurological illness, with particular emphasis on conditions that present to physicians in both acute general (internal) medicine and neurology, including headache, encephalopathy and...