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The Moral Nexus develops and defends a new interpretation of morality—namely, as a set of requirements that connect agents normatively to other persons in a nexus of moral relations. According to this

How creditors came to wield unprecedented power over heavily indebted countries—and the dangers this poses to democracyThe European debt crisis has rekindled long-standing debates about the power of f

For seven days in April 1968, students occupied five buildings on the campus of Columbia University to protest a planned gymnasium in a nearby Harlem park, links between the university and the Vietnam

In response to unprecedented environmental degradation, activists and popular movements have risen up to fight the crisis of climate change and the ongoing devastation of the earth. The environmental

The Arab Spring began and ended with Tunisia. In a region beset by brutal repression, humanitarian disasters, and civil war, Tunisia's Jasmine Revolution alone gave way to a peaceful transition to a f

Information technology (IT) affects every aspect of modern society from daily communication to business models and politics. Developments in IT are especially important to business organizations. They

In the 19th century, Paris underwent profound transformations above and below ground, from the city centre to its outskirts. Georges Eugene Haussmann, Prefect of the Seine from 1853 to 1870, embodies

Since 2010, The Stone—the immensely popular, award-winning philosophy column in the New York Times—has revived and reinterpreted age-old inquiries to speak to our contemporary condition. Now, doing fo

In the mid-twentieth century, scientists’ anxieties about survival and salvation led them to stockpile and freeze materials from communities that seemed to embody potentially valuable biological resou

The McGraw-Hill Handbook of English Grammar and Usage?shows you how to fix these everyday English language mistakes. With commonsense, easy-to-remember usage tips throughout, this handbook features in

The 500 practice questions are similar to course exam questions so you will know what to expect on test day. Each question includes a fully detailed answer that puts the subject in context. This addit

Practice your way to French fluencyPractice Makes Perfect: French Verb Tenses goes beyond other verb books to coach you in when and why verb tenses are used. You will find clear and concise explanatio

Written for people who want to live a full and complete life—and who want a commonsensical approach to being the CEO of their own lives—in mind, this book shares a simple formula for success in life t

Find Success in the Silver LiningStep away from the negative shadows cast by the world's clouds and discover a positive reality'wide open with new solutions and opportunities. Unleash your power to Wo

Accounting information and tips you can take to the bank!You may not know the first thing about debits, credits, and cash ratios now—but when you’re done with this book, you’ll be able to juggle profi

Torture is an open secret in Chicago. Nobody in power wants to acknowledge this grim reality, but everyone knows it happens--and that the torturers are the police. Three to five new claims are submitt

The ruins of war have long held the power to stupefy and appall. Can such ruins ever be persuasively depicted and comprehended? Can images of them force us to identify with the suffering of the enemy

Known by the Greeks as `Megalonisos', the `Great Island', Crete has been of paramount strategic importance for thousands of years thanks to its location close to the junction of three continents and t

Poisonous Skies explores how scientists and policymakers came to grasp the danger fossil fuels posed to the global environment by looking at the first air pollution problem identified as having damagi

American Sentencing surveys what is known about the hottest topic in American criminal law reform. Massive efforts are underway to make sentencing more just and sentences more effective, and to reduce

How have we come to depend so greatly on the words terror and terrorism to describe broad categories of violence? David Simpson offers here a philology of terror, tracking the concept’s long, co

We’re all familiar with the image of a fierce and scowling Beethoven, struggling doggedly to overcome his rapidly progressing deafness. That Beethoven continued to play and compose for more than

Forced to contend with unprecedented levels of psychological trauma during World War II, the United States military began sponsoring a series of nontheatrical films designed to educate and even rehabi

The stars and constellations are among the few remaining objects that appear to us just as they appeared to our distant ancestors. From anywhere on Earth, a person may view the celestial panorama simp

Horses and Foals tells you everything you want to know about horses, from growing up to learning about different breeds, what jobs they do, how we care for them and so much more. Horses and Foals is p

In 1930s and 1940s Vienna, child psychiatrist Hans Asperger sought to define autism as a diagnostic category, aiming to treat those children, usually boys, he deemed capable of participating fully in

Should schools attempt to cultivate patriotism? If so, why? And what conception of patriotism should drive those efforts? Is patriotism essential to preserving national unity, sustaining vigorous comm

They sought to transform the world, and ended up transforming twentieth-century AmericaBetween the 1890s and the Vietnam era, tens of thousands of American Protestant missionaries were stationed throu

In Ripple, Martin is a floundering painter desperately attempting to pursue his fine-art inclinations rather than toil in the world of commercial art. He hires a model, Tina, to pose for a series of p

The description for this book, The Art of Philosophy: Visual Thinking in Europe from the Late Renaissance to the Early Enlightenment, will be forthcoming.

It is perhaps our noblest cause, and certainly one of our oldest: to end suffering. Think of the Buddha, Chuang Tzu, or Marcus Aurelius: stoically composed figures impervious to the torments of the wi

The description for this book, At Home in the World: Women Writers and Public Life, from Austen to the Present, will be forthcoming.

In 2011 Niki Alsford was commissioned by the Shung Ye Museum of Formosan Aborigines to compile a collection of archives pertaining to Taiwan indigenous peoples held by SOAS’s Archives & Special Co

This unique take on consulting how-to books teaches readers to embrace their expertise and turn it into a lucrative coaching business. Author, Rich Mintzer, reveals the tricks of the trade and teaches

The Cameo Bible is one of the classic Cambridge editions of the King James Bible, dating from the 1920s. The Bible text was set in an attractive historic typeface, Petit Medieval Clarendon, and is printed large enough to be clear and easy to read while small enough to result in a compact Bible. The Bible has pronunciation marks for difficult words and phrases, full cross-references, a concordance and maps. Unavailable for a while, the Cameo Reference Edition was recently re-issued in response to continued consumer interest, in a new range of binding styles. The Bible comes with a concordance and 15 color maps. The text has pronunciation marks for names and the words of Christ on earth are printed in red. This edition includes the Apocrypha. It is one of the very few current editions of the King James Version so to do. It is printed on India paper art-gilt edges and is bound in black calfskin leather.

This new setting of the Bible is published to coincide with the 400th anniversary of the King James Version but intended to become a staple of the Cambridge list. It is the first new Cambridge KJV reference Bible for over half a century and has been designed to meet today's increasing demand for a more accessible format and comfortable reading size. It is typeset in Lexicon No.1, a digital font designed for easy reading and with many similarities to traditional hot-metal Bible typefaces. The print is black-letter throughout and the text is presented in paragraphs in a single-column format. The notes and cross-references have been moved to the outer margin, leaving the text free. The Bible includes 15 colour maps and a Reader's Companion, a combination of a dictionary and concordance. This Bible is printed on India paper with gold edges and is bound with two ribbons in black calf split leather.

Kristen Richardson, from a family of debutantes, chose not to debut but her curiosity drove her to research this enduring custom. The story begins in England six hundred years ago when wealthy fath

Medieval beliefs about the body were drastically different from ours today: Hair was thought to be a condensation of fumes emitted from the pores, ideas were supposedly committed to memory by being di

Modern notions of empathy often celebrate its ability to bridge divides, to unite humankind. Yet how do we square this with the popular view that we can never truly comprehend the experience of being

Any sailor or powerboater laying a course for Nantucket is going to love this cruising guide. With full-color chart details and photos (both aerial and on-the-water), illustrated endsheets, and chapte