Books: 'King of Benin'

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Erediauwa. I remain, sir, your obedient servant. Ibadan: Spectrun Books, 2004.

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José Luiz Pereira da Costa. Benin. [Lisboa]: Chiado Editora, 2013.

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Leavitt, Amie Jane. Discovering the kingdom of Benin. New York: Rosen Publishing, 2014.

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Eweka, E. B. Evolution of Benin chieftaincy titles. Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria: Uniben Press, 1992.

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Afumata, Akeh-Osu Chris. The history of Great Edo No'ri Isi, Isi-Ile-Uku Kingdom, "Issele-Uku": Founded in 1230 A.D., founded by Ogie (King) Uwadiaie, created by Oba Eweka 1 of Benin Empire : and the emergence of the mighty Umu-Ezechimas. Onitsha [Nigeria]: Etukokwu, 1992.

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Akeh-Osu, Chris Afumata. The history of Great Edo No'ri Isi, Isi-Ile-Uku Kingdom, "Issele-Uku": Founded in 1230 A.D., founded by Ogie (King) Uwadiaie, created by Oba Eweka 1 of Benin Empire : and the emergence of the mighty Umu-Ezechimas. Onitsha [Nigeria]: Etukokwu, 1992.

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Mowat, Linda. Symbols of kings: Benin art at the Pitt Rivers Museum. (Oxford): Pitt Rivers Museum, 1991.

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L' histoire de Ṣàbẹ́ et de ses rois: République du Bénin. Paris: Maisonneuve et Larose, 1992.

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Kila, Syahrir. Keteguhan dalam menegakan siri': Kajian perjuangan I Benni Arung Data melawan Belanda. Edited by Poelinggomang, Edward L. (Edward Lamberthus), 1948- and Balai Pelestarian Nilai Budaya Makassar (Indonesia). [Makassar]: Balai Pelestarian Nilai Budaya Makassar, 2012.

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John, Ruskin. The king of the Golden River: A legend of Stiria. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press, 2000.

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Andò, Valeria. Euripide, Ifigenia in Aulide. Venice: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-513-1.

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This volume contains the first Italian critical edition with introduction, translation and commentary of Euripides’ Iphigenia in Aulis. The tragedy, exhibited posthumously in 405 BCE, stages the first mythical segment of the Trojan War, namely the sacrifice of Iphigenia, daughter of king Agamemnon, head of the Greek army, in order to propitiate the winds that should lead the navy to Troy. A tragedy of intrigue and unveiling, in which all the characters try to oppose the sacrifice, judged to be an impiety despite its sacred essence. It is therefore a tragedy without gods, in which characters of modest moral stature move, unstable, ready to sudden changes of mind, and among whom the protagonist stands out: the girl who, having overcome the dismay for the destiny awaiting her, voluntarily moves towards death on the altar, for a flimsy patriotic ideal and with the illusion of achieving immortal glory. Since the end of the eighteenth century, the text of this tragedy, handed over to us by the manuscript tradition, has been exposed more than others to a rigorous philological criticism that has broken its unity, through considerable expunctions of entire sections and sequences of verses. The volume traces the phases of this critical work, showing its methods – and sometimes its excesses – and choosing a balance line in the constitution of the text. The overall exegesis of the tragedy, which I propose in this study, consists in the belief that, despite the exodus being spurious, the finale, in view of which the entire dramaturgy was composed, still had to contemplate Iphigenia’s salvation. In fact, if the Panhellenic ideal of defence against the barbarians is now meaningless, and if a war of destruction, to begin with, needs the death of an innocent person, then this death must be transcended and the horror of human sacrifice must dissolve. It therefore seems that, once political current events become opaque, the poet’s research tends to create situations of great patheticism in an aesthetic setting of refined beauty.

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Ismailov, Nariman. Globalism and ecophilosophy of the future. ru: INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1212905.

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From the point of view of the new science of globalism, the problems of the ecological, socio-economic state of the world and countries are considered through the prism of the interaction of the human psyche and society and the inhabited world. The criteria of ecological civilization of countries and peoples are justified. Optimizing the consumption of natural bio-and energy resources is becoming a fundamental environmental factor for sustainable development. The "Law of the maximum for humanity" as the law of the biosphere can be the arbitration court, the neutral force that will explain the historical need for mutual understanding, taking into account the interests of ecology and economy for the survival of man as a biovid on Earth; a new reality will begin to form — the phenomenon of co-residence of the world society with the biosphere. The world's population, its energy and bio-consumption, as well as all living matter on the planet, must correspond to the biological capacity of the Earth and not go beyond its boundaries. The task of the society is to implement a worldview breakthrough at the current stage of development, its own cultural mutation, which in the future will create the basis for adaptive technological and socio-cultural development. The task is to classify the entire Earth as a "Green Book" and to solve systemic environmental problems of a global nature. An integral part of sustainable development should be the principle of "vital consumption" at both the personal and social level, instead of the dominant principle of"expanded production and consumption". The indicator of the" culture of consumption "of natural resources, both at the individual level and at the level of society, should be included as an integral part of the integral indicator in the "True Indicator of Progress" and the "Human Development Index". The book is interdisciplinary in nature; it is a kind of scientific and philosophical poetic essay intended for teachers and students of universities in the field of sociology, ecology, biology and related fields, as well as for everyone who cares about the future of society.

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Forbes, Fredrick E. Dahomey and the Dahomans: Being the Journals of Two Missions to the King of Dahomey and Residence at His Capital in the Years 1849 And 1850. Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.

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Erediauwa, Omo N'Oba, and Erediauwa. I Remain, Sir, Your Obedient Servant. Spectrum Books, 2004.

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Barbara, Plankensteiner, Museum für Völkerkunde (Austria), Musée du quai Branly, Ethnologisches Museum Berlin, and Art Institute of Chicago, eds. Benin kings and rituals: Court arts from Nigeria. [Gent]: Snoeck, 2007.

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John, Ruskin. King of the Golden River. Franklin Watts, Incorporated, 2000.

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Let the Games Begin! (The Kingdom of Wrenly). Little Simon, 2015.

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John, Ruskin. The King of the Golden River. Simply Read Books, 2005.

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John, Ruskin. The King of the Golden River. Classic Books Library, 2007.

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John, Ruskin. The King of the Golden River. Waking Lion Press, 2006.

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John, Ruskin. King Of The Golden River: The Black Brothers. Chapman Billies, 2005.

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John, Ruskin. The King of the Golden River (Yesterday's Classics). Yesterday's Classics, 2007.

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Kvanvig, Jonathan L. Cognitive Versus Functional Accounts. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198809487.003.0002.

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Our beginning assumption is that faith is a virtue, an important element of a welllived life. If we begin from this point, we are beginning from an assumption that faith involves dispositions of some sort or other, for virtues are characteristics that fall within the broader category of dispositions. Moreover, on the standard view of faith—that it is a kind of belief—this starting point is embraced, for beliefs are one important kind of disposition toward behavior. The goal of the chapter is to contrast doxastic and cognitive accounts of faith with a more generic, dispositional account, arguing in favor of the latter.

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Brownstein, Michael. Implicit Attitudes and the Architecture of the Mind. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190633721.003.0003.

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This chapter argues that the co-activating FTBA components of spontaneous inclinations make up a unified and sui generis mental kind, namely, an implicit attitude. After making some clarifying remarks about terminology, I begin by ruling out more mundane possibilities. First, I argue that implicit attitudes are not basic stimulus-response reflexes. Nor are they mere mental associations that are explainable in terms of the laws of spatiotemporal contiguity. Neither are they best understood as beliefs or as traits. While they are closest to what Gendler calls “aliefs,” implicit attitudes are distinct from these as well. The chapter concludes with considerations that favor interpreting implicit attitudes as a unified mental kind.

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Rosenberg, Alex. If Economics Is a Science, What Kind of a Science Is It? Edited by Don Ross and Harold Kincaid. Oxford University Press, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195189254.003.0003.

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To begin with, economics has a paradigm, as plainly exhibited by the uniformity of its textbooks. It is a commonplace that unlike every other social and behavioral science, the introductory texts in economics are all pretty much the same. By and large you could permute the problems at the ends of chapters among the five largest selling textbooks in the field and still test students' understanding of the chapters they had actually read. Second, the language of the discipline is highly mathematized. Third, the discipline has identifiable proprietary laws, albeit inexact ones, and a set of proprietary kinds, which the discipline's “discipline” requires be applied to the solution of puzzles. And it rewards most generously those who find new puzzles to which to apply the laws and concepts. This progressive expansion of the domain of economics is often decried by some social scientists as economic imperialism.

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Kvanvig, Jonathan L. Depicting Deity. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192896452.001.0001.

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A theology aims to explicate what God is like, and a metatheology investigates more fundamental issues concerning how to structure such a project and where it should begin. Approaches that ignore this more fundamental investigation risk presupposing stances that do not withstand scrutiny and perhaps would never have been endorsed if considered directly. In addition, approaches that ignore the issue of fundamentality often switch from one set of assumptions to another without noticing the change in perspective that results, giving rise to a chance of incoherence and to an approach that is theoretically disorderly and thus failing to as systematic and elegant as we would like. This work begins with the more basic question of where to begin thinking about God, where it is best to start the project of theology, in a way that offers some hope of a defensible metatheory, from which a complete theology, displaying the kind of theoretical elegance and structure we find in our best scientific and philosophical theories, can be developed.

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Whitmarsh, Tim. Persian Love Stories? Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199742653.003.0008.

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It is hard to tell how much authentically Persian literature made its way into Greek, but it is not impossible that some did. The Persian and Phoenician abduction stories that begin Herodotus’s Histories may be the kind of stories told by Hellenised non-Greeks. Herodotus clearly did have access to stories from multiple traditions. Another allegedly Persian story about cultural hybridisation is Zariadres and Odatis, told by Chares of Mitylene, a version of which turns up in the mediaeval Shahnameh, and which is possibly connected to a late-antique Sanskrit romance by Subandhu.

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Speaks, Jeff. Impure Perfect Being Theology. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198826811.003.0005.

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Some perfect being theologians claim to derive the attributes from the principle that God is the greatest possible being, but in fact tacitly assume some stronger principle. Two versions of this strategy begin with the claim that God has the greatest possible array of intrinsic goods and the claim that God is, for some kind K, the greatest-for-a-K being that one can be. Both approaches are initially promising. However, on closer examination both approaches are found either to be uninformative or collapse into one of the versions of pure perfect being theology already criticized in chapters 2–3.

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Caspar, Helmut, and Dieter Hildebrandt. Die Beine der Hohenzollern, interpretiert an Standbildern der Siegesallee in Primaneraufsätzen aus dem Jahre 1901, versehen mit Randbemerkungen Seiner Majestät Kaiser Wilhelm II. Berlin Edition, 2001.

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Helmut, Caspar, and Hildebrandt Dieter 1932-, eds. Die Beine der Hohenzollern: Interpretiert an Standbildern der Siegesallee in Primaneraufsätzen aus dem Jahre 1901, versehen mit Randbemerkungen Seiner Majestät Kaiser Wilhelm II. Berlin: Berlin Edition, 2001.

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Hertz, Rosanna, and Margaret K. Nelson. Choice in Donor Sibling Networks. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190888275.003.0012.

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The conclusion of the book explains how relationships within networks of donor siblings begin with the idea of genes. Initially, both parents and children talk about a connection that highlights shared genes. In turn, these shared genes provide both the excitement and the elasticity in donor sibling networks. Ultimately, however, the conclusion argues that what becomes important within these networks is the idea of choice. The parents value connections with others they have come to like; the same is true among the children within a given donor sibling network. The conclusion offers no simple answer to the question of whether connections among genetic relatives can create meaningful bonds that could result in a new kind of voluntary family.

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Tennant, Neil. Transmission of Truthmakers. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198777892.003.0009.

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We begin by introducing the formal genus ‘conditional M-relative construct’, of which M-relative truthmakers and falsitymakers, and core proofs, are species. Fortunately they can stand in symbiotic relations, even though they cannot hybridize. We aim to generalize the earlier method we used in order to prove Cut-Elimination, so that the inputs P for the binary operation [P,P′] can be truthmakers (whereas P′ remains a core proof); and so that the reduct itself, when it is finally determined by recursive application of all the transformations called for, is a truthmaker for the conclusion of P′. This result can be understood as revealing that formal semantics can be carried out in a kind of infinitary proof-theory. Core proof transmits truth courtesy of normalization.

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Millar, Jason. Ethics Settings for Autonomous Vehicles. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190652951.003.0002.

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This chapter explores the underlying arguments for and against designing ethics settings into autonomous vehicles. I begin by offering a definition of “ethics setting” and by discussing how designers and engineers embed ethics settings in technology. I then provide an overview of some of the ethics settings that are currently embedded in vehicles and some that are proposed or foreseeable in emerging autonomous vehicle technology. I also discuss the various ethical considerations that have been raised in response to each kind of ethics setting. After describing the landscape of ethics settings and related ethical issues that accompany them, I raise three questions that must be answered by those designing ethics settings into autonomous vehicles. I conclude by providing some considerations that can help engineers, designers, and policymakers answer them in practice.

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Rosato, Sebastian. Intentions in Great Power Politics. Yale University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300253023.001.0001.

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Can great powers be confident that their peers have benign intentions? States that trust each other can live at peace; those that mistrust each other are doomed to compete for arms and allies and may even go to war. This book offers a theory—intentions pessimism—that says great powers can rarely if ever be confident that their peers have benign intentions, because it is extraordinarily difficult for them to obtain the kind of information that would allow them to reach such a conclusion. Any optimistic assertions to the contrary—and there are many—are wrong. Indeed, even in cases that supposedly involved mutual trust—Germany and Russia in the Bismarck era (1871-90); Britain and the United States during the great rapprochement (1895-1906); France and Germany, and Japan and the United States in the early interwar period (1919-30); and the Soviet Union and the United States at the end of the Cold War (1985-90)—the protagonists were acutely uncertain about each other’s intentions. As a result, they competed for security. The ramifications for the future of U.S.-China relations are profound. Uncertain about the other side’s intentions, but aware of its formidable capabilities, Washington and Beijing will go to great lengths to strengthen their military and diplomatic positions, triggering a competitive action-reaction spiral with the potential for war.

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Brown, Derek H. Infusing Perception with Imagination. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198717881.003.0007.

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This chapter explores the broad thesis that most if not all perceptual experiences are infused or soaked with imaginings. To begin, the author articulates a sense of imagination useful for this discussion, avoids some pitfalls, and incorporates the result into a schematic guidance principle. The thought behind the principle is that imaginative contributions to perceptual experiences are self-generated ingredients to perception that have a reasonably direct, ampliative impact on the relevant perceptual experiences. This framework is then applied to three sets of case studies: object-kind and object-sameness experiences (Strawson 1970); colour (Macpherson 2012); and amodal completion (Nanay 2010) and perceptual constancy. Although the case studies have interesting differences, they all conform to the guidance principle. Since each has the potential to independently justify the thesis that perceptual experiences are infused with imaginings, they collectively provide sound motive to provisionally endorse it.

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Southwood, Nicholas. Constructivism About Reasons. Edited by Daniel Star. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199657889.013.16.

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Given constructivism’s enduring popularity and appeal, it is perhaps something of a surprise that there remains considerable uncertainty among many philosophers about what constructivism is even supposed to be. My aim in this chapter is to make some progress on the question of how constructivism should be understood. I begin by saying something about what kind of theory constructivism is supposed to be. Next, I consider and reject both the standard proceduralist characterization of constructivism and Sharon Street’s ingenious standpoint characterization. I then suggest an alternative characterization according to which what is central is the role played by certain standards of correct reasoning. I conclude by considering the implications of this account for evaluating the success of constructivism. I suggest that certain challenges raised against constructivist theories are based on dubious understandings of constructivism, whereas other challenges only properly come into focus once a proper understanding is achieved.

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Smith, Nicholas D. Summoning Knowledge in Plato's Republic. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198842835.001.0001.

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This book argues for four main theses: (1) The Republic is not just a work that has a lot to say about education; it is a book that depicts Socrates as attempting to engage his interlocutors in such a way as to help to educate them and also engages us, the readers, in a way that helps to educate us. (2) Plato does not suppose that education, properly understood, should have as its primary aim putting knowledge into souls that do not already have it. Instead, the education that Plato discusses, represents occurring between Socrates and his interlocutors, and hopes to achieve in his readers is one that aims to arouse the power of knowledge in us and then to begin to train that power always to engage with what is more real, rather than what is less real. (3) Plato’s conception of knowledge is not the one typically presented in contemporary epistemology. It is, rather, the power of conceptualization via exemplar representation. (4) Plato engages this power of knowledge in the Republic in a way he represents as only a kind of second-best way to engage knowledge—and not as the best way, which would be dialectic. Instead, Plato uses images that summon the power of knowledge to begin the process by which the power may become fully realized. The full realization of the power of knowledge, however, is not provided in the work, and could not be achieved by anything like reading a work of this sort.

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Ratcliffe, Matthew. Delusional atmosphere and the sense of unreality. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199609253.003.0015.

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In this chapter, I begin by outlining Jaspers’ account of ‘delusional atmosphere’ or ‘delusional mood’, focusing upon the ‘sense of unreality’ that is central to it. Then I critically discuss his well-known claim that certain ‘primary delusions’ or ‘delusions proper’ cannot be understood phenomenologically. I reject that view and instead sketch how we might build upon Jaspers’ insights by developing a clearer, more detailed phenomenological analysis of delusional atmosphere, thus further illuminating how certain delusional beliefs arise. However, I concede that this task poses a particular challenge for empathy, and suggest that a distinctive kind of empathy is required in order to overcome it. I call this ‘radical empathy’. I conclude by considering how we might relate a phenomenological approach along these lines to non-phenomenological research on delusions, and tentatively suggest that recent neurobiological work on ‘predictive coding’ might offer a complementary way of explaining them. I do not claim (or seek) to naturalise the phenomenology through neurobiology, but I at least maintain that there is potential for fruitful commerce between the two.

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Christoff, Kalina, and Kieran C. R. Fox, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Spontaneous Thought. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190464745.001.0001.

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Where do spontaneous thoughts come from? It may be surprising that the seemingly straightforward answers, “from the mind” or “from the brain,” are in fact an incredibly recent, modern understanding of the origins of spontaneous thought. For nearly all of human history, our thoughts—especially the most sudden, insightful, and important—were almost universally ascribed to divine or other external sources. Scientific understanding of spontaneous thought has progressed by leaps and bounds in recent years, but big questions still loom: What, exactly, is spontaneous thought? How does the human brain generate, elaborate, and evaluate its own spontaneous creations? And why do spontaneous thoughts feature so prominently in mental life? This volume brings together views from neuroscience, psychology, philosophy, history, education, contemplative traditions, and clinical practice in order to begin to address the ubiquitous, yet still mysterious, spontaneous workings of the mind. The Oxford Handbook of Spontaneous Thought is the first book of its kind to bring such highly diverse perspectives to bear on answering the what, why, and how of spontaneous mental phenomena.

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Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Ingrid, ed. English Usage Guides. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198808206.001.0001.

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Usage guides, or language advice manuals, are being published in large numbers, both in Britain and the US. The first titles that usually spring to mind are Fowler’s Modern English Usage (1926) or Sir Ernest Gowers’s Complete Plain Words (1954). Yet as a phenomenon, they are much older than that: the first English usage guide was published in 1770, and the first American one in 1847. Today, new titles come out almost every year, while old works are revised and reissued. At the same time, usage advice can be readily found on the internet: Grammar Girl, for instance, is a good example of what is in effect an online usage guide, and there are many others about. Remarkably, however, the kind of usage problems that have been treated over the years are very much the same, and attitudes towards them, by usage guide writers and the general public alike, are slow to change. Remarkably also, usage guides continue to be published despite easy online access to usage advice: there is clearly a market for them, and especially the more controversial ones sell well. How are usage guides compiled and revised? Who writes them? How do they do they differ from, say, grammars and dictionaries? How do attitudes to usage problems change? Why does the BBC need its own style guide, and why are usage guides published to begin with? These are central topics in the book.

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Boyle, Michael J. The Drone Age. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190635862.001.0001.

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This book explores how the unique features of drone technology alter the strategic choices of governments and non-state actors alike by transforming their risk calculations and expanding their goals on and off the battlefield. It considers how drone technology will impact the patterns of war and peace in the next century: Will drones produce a more peaceful world because they reduce risk to pilots, or will the prospect of clean, remote warfare lead governments to engage in more conflicts? Will drones begin to replace humans on the battlefield or will they empower soldiers and peacekeepers to act more precisely and humanely in crisis zones? How will terrorist organizations turn this technology back on the governments that fight them? How will drones change surveillance at war—and at home? As drones come into the hands of new actors—foreign governments, law enforcement, terrorist organizations, humanitarian organizations, and even UN peacekeepers—it is even more important to understand what kind of world they might produce. By changing what these actors are both willing and able to do, drones are quietly altering the dynamics of wars, humanitarian crises, and peacekeeping missions, while generating new risks to security and privacy. An essential guide to a potentially disruptive force in modern world politics, The Drone Age argues that the mastery of drone technology will become central to the ways that governments and non-state actors seek power and influence in the coming decades.

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Kitchin, Rob. Data Lives. Policy Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781529215144.001.0001.

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How can we begin to grasp the scope and scale of our new data-rich world, and can we truly comprehend what is at stake? This book explores the intricacies of data creation and charts how data-driven technologies have become essential to how society, government and the economy work. Creatively blending scholarly analysis, biography and fiction, the book demonstrates how data are shaped by social and political forces, and the extent to which they influence our daily lives. The book begins with an overview of the sociality of data. Data-driven endeavours are as much a result of human values, desires, and social relations as they are scientific principles and technologies. The data revolution has been transforming work and the economy, the nature of consumption, the management and governance of society, how we communicate and interact with media and each other, and forms of play and leisure. Indeed, our lives are saturated with digital devices and services that generate, process, and share vast quantities of data. The book reveals the many, complex, contested ways in which data are produced and circulated, as well as the consequences of living in a data-driven world. The book concludes with an exploration as to what kind of data future we want to create and strategies for realizing our visions. It highlights the need to enact 'a digital ethics of care', and to claim and assert 'data sovereignty'. Ultimately, the book reveals our data world to be one of potential danger, but also of hope.

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