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Grant, Oliver H. A study of passive smoking and the expression of placental-like serum heat stable alkaline phosphatase (HSAP) activity. The Author], 1990.

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Mulholland, Stephanie. A study of passive smoking and the expression of placental-like heat stable alkaline phosphatase activity in serum. The Author], 1993.

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Grotenhuis, René. Nation-Building as Necessary Effort in Fragile States. Amsterdam University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789462982192.

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Policies intended to bring stability to fragile states tend to focus almost exclusively on building institutions and systems to get governance right. Simply building the state is often seen as sufficient for making it stable and legitimate. But policies like these, René Grotenhuis shows in this book, ignore the question of what makes people belong to a nation-state, arguing that issues of identity, culture, and religion are crucial to creating the sense of belonging and social cohesion that a stable nation-state requires.

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Shaner, Katherine A. Epilogue. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190275068.003.0006.

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Power struggles involving the ambiguous status of enslaved persons in leadership roles were endemic to first- and second-century religious practices within Ephesian groups, including early Christian groups. Indeed, these power struggles illustrate a fundamental problem in the study of slavery both ancient and contemporary: stable definitions of slavery are often declared in service to reifying kyriarchal leadership and power. Early Christian communities, like communities today, are not immune to this problem despite declarations of equality within them. Future scholarship as well as the contem

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Saha, Prasenjit, and Paul A. Taylor. Celestial Mechanics. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198816461.003.0002.

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Celestial mechanics abounds in interesting and counter-intuitive phenomena, such as descriptions of mass transfer between stars or optimal placements of satellites within the Solar System. Remarkably, many such features are already present in the restricted three-body problem, whose assumptions still allow for analytical understanding, and to which the second chapter is devoted. This ‘simplified’ system is discussed first in terms of forces (both gravitational and fictitious), and then using the Hamiltonian form. As well as traditional topics like stable and unstable Lagrange points and Roche

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Nolte, David D. The Measure of Life. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198805847.003.0011.

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This final topic of the book extends the ideas of dynamics in abstract spaces of high dimension to encompass the idea of a trajectory of life. Health and disease become dynamical systems defined by all the proteins and nucleic acids that comprise the physical self. Concepts from network theory, autonomous oscillators and synchronization contribute to this viewpoint. Healthy trajectories are like stable limit cycles in phase space, but disease can knock the system trajectory into dangerous regions of health space, as doctors turn to new developments in personalized medicine try to return the in

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Joshi, Mahesh K., and J. R. Klein. Australia—The Hidden Jewel. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198827481.003.0012.

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The twenty-first century is being touted as the Asian century. With its stable economy, good governance, education system, and above all the abundant natural resources, will Australia to take its place in the global economy by becoming more entrepreneurial and accelerating its rate of growth, or will it get infected with the so-called Dutch disease? It has been successful in managing trade ties with fast-developing economies like China and India as well as developed countries like the United States. It has participated in the growth of China by providing iron ore and coal. Because it is a low-

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McNamara, John M., and Olof Leimar. Game Theory in Biology. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198815778.001.0001.

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Game theory in biology seeks to predict social behaviour and other traits that influence how individuals interact. It does this by tentatively assuming that current traits are stable endpoints of evolution by natural selection. The theory is used to model aggressive behaviour, cooperation, negotiation, and signalling, as well as phenotypic attributes like an individual’s sex and mating type. This book covers the basic concepts and the traditional examples of biological game theory. It expands the frontiers of the field, emphasizing the importance of the co-evolution of traits and the implicati

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Gereziher, Hayelom Yrgaw, and Naser Yenus Nuru. Structural estimates of the South African sacrifice ratio. 12th ed. UNU-WIDER, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.35188/unu-wider/2021/946-4.

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This paper estimates the output cost of fighting inflation—the sacrifice ratio—for the South African economy using quarterly data spanning the period 1998Q1–2019Q3. To compute the sacrifice ratio, the structural vector autoregressive model developed by Cecchetti and Rich (2001) based on Cecchetti (1994) is employed. Our findings show us a small sacrifice ratio, which lies within the range 0.00002–0.231 per cent with an average of 0.031 per cent, indicating a low level of output to be sacrificed while fighting inflation. Hence, the reserve bank is recommended to sustain an inflation rate within

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Fratzscher, Marcel. Germany as Europe’s reluctant hegemon. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190676575.003.0012.

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Why does Germany perceive itself as a victim, even though it has dominated and defined European politics so strongly? Why does Germany feel so uncomfortable in its role as a de facto hegemon? As the largest country and the one with the strongest and largest economy in Europe and a stable political system, Germany’s power and influence have grown. Yet hardly anyone in Germany feels comfortable in this role, for it brings with it more responsibility for Europe as a whole. Europe is standing at the crossroads. What will Europe’s future look like? And what role does Germany have to play in it? The

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Chhibber, Pradeep K., and Rahul Verma. State Formation and Ideological Conflict in Multiethnic Countries. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190623876.003.0002.

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The standard narrative of what defines an ideological conflict for electoral politics is not applicable to multiethnic countries like India. We develop two alternative ideological scales, the politics of statism and the politics of recognition, which we argue frame the Indian party system. Debates around class conflict, and about divisions between church and state, cities and rural areas, and the center and the periphery, were less central to the formation of the Indian state than were the state’s role in development and its efforts to accommodate marginalized groups. An ideological divide sho

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Martin, Jeffrey J. Personality. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190638054.003.0025.

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Personality is typically thought to be stable and possess consistency over time and across situations. Personality is also referred to as individual differences or distinctiveness. The study of personality has a long history in psychology, and after a lull in sport psychology research on personality, it has become more prevalent in research with able-bodied athletes and athletes with disabilities. This chapter discusses the history of personality research in sport psychology. The most common personality model, the Big Five factors, used in research today is explained and the five factors defin

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Schmid, Jean-Paul, and Hugo Saner. Ambulatory preventive care: outpatient clinics and primary care. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199656653.003.0023.

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Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) services aim to restore the physical, psychosocial, and vocational status of cardiac patients. The role of these services has evolved due to the progress of interventional cardiology with its prompt and effective treatment of acute coronary syndromes. The focus has moved from the restoration of a patient’s health following an acute event towards a more pronounced long-term targeted secondary prevention intervention. As a consequence, CR services have also expanded their indication in order to include not only patients after myocardial infarction or surgery but also

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Schmid, Jean-Paul, Hugo Saner, Paul Dendale, and Ines Frederix. Ambulatory preventive care: outpatient clinics and primary care. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199656653.003.0023_update_001.

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Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) services aim to restore the physical, psychosocial, and vocational status of cardiac patients. The role of these services has evolved due to the progress of interventional cardiology with its prompt and effective treatment of acute coronary syndromes. The focus has moved from the restoration of a patient’s health following an acute event towards a more pronounced long-term targeted secondary prevention intervention. As a consequence, CR services have also expanded their indication in order to include not only patients after myocardial infarction or surgery but also

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Tennant, Neil. Introduction and Overview. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198777892.003.0001.

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This is a foundational work, written not just for philosophers of logic, but for logicians and foundationalists generally. Like Frege we seek to deal with the formal first-order language of mathematics. We revisit Gentzen’s proof theory in order to build relevance into proofs, while leaving intact all the logical power one is entitled to expect of a deductive logic for mathematics and for scientific method generally. Proof systems are constituted by particular choices of rules of inference. We raise the issue of the reflexive stability of any argument for a particular choice of logic as the ‘r

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Muni, S. D. India’s Nepal Policy. Edited by David M. Malone, C. Raja Mohan, and Srinath Raghavan. Oxford University Press, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198743538.013.29.

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This chapter focuses on India’s relations with Nepal. India’s security interests and its Nepal policy have been shaped by historical legacy, geographical imperatives, and regional and global political dynamics. India tried to evolve mechanisms of mutual security arrangements and foreign policy coordination to underline its ‘special relationship’ with Nepal but did not succeed. It was also keen to keep strategically adversarial foreign influences out of Nepal but could not do so fully. India successfully helped Nepal in resolving the latter’s transformational political upheavals, but failed to

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Stanley, Barbara, and Tanya Singh. Diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199997510.003.0002.

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The diagnosis of borderline personality disorder (BPD) can be devastating. BPD is characterized by instability on several domains: affect regulation, impulse control, interpersonal relationships, and self-image, and it affects about 1–2% of the general population—up to 10% of psychiatric outpatients, and 20% of inpatients. In addition to meeting the criteria set forth in DSM-5, BPD, like all personality disorders, is characterized by a pervasive and persistent pattern of behavior that begins in early childhood and is stable across contexts. Affective dysregulation (inappropriate, intense anger

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Garin, Manuel, and Albert Elduque. Playing the Holes. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190254971.003.0012.

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Across his entire career, from the early nansensu films to the late family dramas, Ozu consistently used gags and humor to alleviate the tension of dramatic situations, further enriching their significance. This chapter explores how such Ozuesque gags combine irony and nostalgia in order to balance the overall tone of the narrative, relying on formal strategies such as modularity and repetition. By discussing Wayne C. Booth’s concept of stable irony and other critical sources, the chapter argues that Ozu’s aging (not just running) gags are capable of bringing characters and audiences together

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LeBuffe, Michael. Conclusion. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190845803.003.0006.

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Spinoza’s uses of reason are systematically connected. In metaphysics, reason is an explanation, and each thing is, like God, its own explanation. In human minds, ideas of reason are, in the first instance, ideas of what is common to all singular things. They are powerful ideas and a kind of knowledge. In morality, the commands of reason draw upon both these senses of reason. They derive their authority from the self-explanatory nature of God, and their strong motivational power is that of ideas of reason. Finally, in political philosophy, the peculiar motivating power of ideas of reason is a

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Wasdin, Katherine. Eros at Dusk. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190869090.001.0001.

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This book analyzes the relationship between wedding poetry and love poetry in the ancient world. By treating both Greek and Latin texts, it offers an innovative and wide-ranging discussion of the poetic representation of social occasions. The discourses associated with weddings and love affairs both foreground ideas of persuasion and praise even though they differ dramatically in their participants and their outcomes. Furthermore, these texts make it clear that the brief, idealized, and eroticized moment of the wedding stands in contrast to the long-lasting and harmonious agreement of the marr

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Barton, Anne. Basics of genetics. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199642489.003.0037.

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Genetic factors are important in predisposing to nearly all of the conditions managed by rheumatologists; indeed, musculoskeletal diseases, like other complex diseases, are thought to be caused by environmental triggers in genetically susceptible individuals. Studying genetic susceptibility factors is more straightforward than environmental factors because, first, genetic changes are stable and do not vary throughout life; second, genetic changes exist before disease onset and so could be causative rather than occurring as a result of disease; and, third, genetic variation is easy to measure r

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Mac Carthy, Ita. The Grace of the Italian Renaissance. Princeton University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691175485.001.0001.

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‘Grace’ emerges as a keyword in the culture and society of sixteenth-century Italy. This book explores how it conveys and connects the most pressing ethical, social and aesthetic concerns of an age concerned with the reactivation of ancient ideas in a changing world. The book reassesses artists such as Francesco del Cossa, Raphael, and Michelangelo and explores anew writers like Castiglione, Ariosto, Tullia d'Aragona, and Vittoria Colonna. It shows how these artists and writers put grace at the heart of their work. The book argues that grace came to be as contested as it was prized across a ra

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Brunelle, Sarah, Ipsit V. Vahia, and Dilip V. Jeste. Late-onset schizophrenia. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199644957.003.0046.

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Although schizophrenia with onset in middle or late-life is a relatively uncommon, a considerable proportion of patients do experience the first manifestations of the disease after the age of forty. The current nomenclature utilizes terminology based on age at onset: late-onset schizophrenia (LOS) for illness with onset between ages 40 and 60, and very-late-onset schizophrenia-like psychosis (VLOSLP) for onset after age 60. Recent evidence suggests more similarities than differences in epidemiology, etiology or risk factors and clinical presentation between these clinical entities, although a

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Lichtenstein, Nelson. Did 1968 Change History? University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252037856.003.0014.

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This chapter considers a defining moment of the year 1968, when a generation of radicals entertained what even at the time seemed to be utopian hopes and postures in the streets of Paris, Berlin, New York, and Mexico City. It was a New Left, which saw itself as distinct from both the Communists or Socialists, as well as being a left that stood against the mere social democratic reformism of many of the parties that had been in or near power in North America and Europe. It is argued that when it came to the economy, New Leftists of that era thought capitalism was entirely too stable, a claustro

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Campos, Liliane. ‘Wheels have been set in motion’: Geocentrism and Relativity in Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474427814.003.0012.

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By decentring our reading of Hamlet, Stoppard’s tragicomedy questions the legitimacy of centres and of stable frames of reference. So Liliane Campos examines how Stoppard plays with the physical and cosmological models he finds in Hamlet, particularly those of the wheel and the compass, and gives a new scientific depth to the fear that time is ‘out of joint’. In both his play and his own film adaptation, Stoppard’s rewriting gives a 20th-century twist to these metaphors, through references to relativity, indeterminacy, and the role of the observer. When they refer to the uncontrollable wheels

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Livermore, Michael A., and Richard L. Revesz. Reviving Rationality. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197539446.001.0001.

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Reviving Rationality: Saving Cost-Benefit Analysis for the Sake of the Environment and Our Health explains how Donald Trump destabilized the decades-long bipartisan consensus that federal agencies must base their decisions on evidence, expertise, and analysis. Administrative agencies are charged by law with protecting values like stable financial markets and clean air. Their decisions often have profound consequences, affecting everything from the safety of workplaces to access to the dream of home ownership. Under the Trump administration, agencies have been hampered in their ability to advan

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Jeffares, Ben, and Kim Sterelny. Evolutionary Psychology. Edited by Eric Margolis, Richard Samuels, and Stephen P. Stich. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195309799.013.0020.

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The article presents several models of evolutionary psychology. Nativist evolutionary psychology is built around a most important insight that ordinary human decision-making has a high cognitive load. Evolutionary nativists defend a modular solution to the problem of information load on human decision-making. Human minds comprises of special purpose cognitive devices or modules. One of the modules is a language module, a module for interpreting the thoughts and intentions of others, another is a ‘naive physics’ module for causal reasoning about sticks, stones, and similar inanimate objects, a

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De Vries, Catherine E., and Sara B. Hobolt. Political Entrepreneurs. Princeton University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691194752.001.0001.

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Challenger parties are on the rise in Europe, exemplified by the likes of Podemos in Spain, the National Rally in France, the Alternative for Germany, or the Brexit Party in Great Britain. Like disruptive entrepreneurs, these parties offer new policies and defy the dominance of established party brands. In the face of these challenges and a more volatile electorate, mainstream parties are losing their grip on power. This book explores why some challenger parties are so successful and what mainstream parties can do to confront these political entrepreneurs. Drawing analogies with how firms comp

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Lawrence, David Todd, and Elaine J. Lawless. When They Blew the Levee. University Press of Mississippi, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496817730.001.0001.

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In this ethnography of a destroyed town in southern Missouri’s Bootheel region, authors David Todd Lawrence and Elaine J. Lawless examine two conflicting narratives about the flood of 2011—one promoted by the Corps of Engineers that boasts the success of the levee breach and the flood diversion, and the other gleaned from oral narratives collected from the displaced Pinhook residents, stories that reveal a lack of concern on the part of the government for the destruction of their town. Receiving inadequate warning and no evacuation assistance during the breach, residents lost everything. Many

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Archibald, Robert B., and David H. Feldman. The Road Ahead for America's Colleges and Universities. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190251918.001.0001.

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This book evaluates the threats—real and perceived—that American colleges and universities must confront over the next thirty years. Those threats include rising costs endemic to personal services like higher education, growing income inequality in the United States that affects how much families can pay, demographic changes that will affect demand, and labor market changes that could affect the value of a degree. The book also evaluates changing patterns of state and federal support for higher education, and new digital technologies rippling through the entire economy. Although there will be

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Pack, Sasha D. The Deepest Border. Stanford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.11126/stanford/9781503606678.001.0001.

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This book presents the history of southern Iberia and the western Maghrib, and the Strait of Gibraltar between them, as a single bicontinental borderland, from roughly 1850 to 1970. Drawing on primary and secondary sources from several countries, it posits a long historical arc of transformation from a remote and hostile religious frontier into a multilaterally managed regional order. By the nineteenth century, the Strait of Gibraltar was becoming a dynamic focus of imperial positioning, migration, brigandage, and exchange. As a consequence, coastal outposts like Tangier, Gibraltar, and Melill

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Clinton, David. Diplomacy and International Law. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190846626.013.152.

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Within the international society, law and diplomacy have always been complementary and interdependent. However, lawyers and diplomats deal with international issues differently, making them rivals to be the primary mode of international interaction. Diplomacy is the art and practice of conducting negotiations between representatives of states; it usually refers to international diplomacy, the conduct of international relations through the mediation of professional diplomats with regard to a full range of topical issues. Nations sometimes resort to international arbitration when faced with a sp

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Webster, Cheryl Marie, and Anthony N. Doob. Penal Optimism. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190203542.003.0004.

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Until the early 1970s, the United States and Canada both had relatively stable imprisonment rates. This paper uses Canada’s continued stability in its rate of incarceration since this period to develop two intertwined explanations for the growth in US imprisonment between 1973 and 2010. First, using data on the relative size of the growth in imprisonment of the individual states, it presents findings that suggest that increased imprisonment was intimately linked to underlying social values. For instance, those states with the largest increases in incarceration were, in terms of the values of t

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Denver, David, and Mark Garnett. British General Elections Since 1964. 2nd ed. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198844952.001.0001.

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This book provides a concise account of general elections during more than five tumultuous decades in British politics. Beginning in 1964, when partisan allegiances in the UK were relatively stable, it ends in 2019 when the volatility of voters was illustrated by the success of Conservative Party candidates in constituencies which had previously been ‘safe’ for Labour. The book describes the changing influences on voting behaviour—from the early 1960s, when allegiances were largely based on social class, to the 2020s when factors such as impressions of party leaders and new media outlets such

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Mills, Gus, and Margaret Mills. Kalahari Cheetahs. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198712145.001.0001.

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This book demonstrates how cheetahs are adapted to arid savannahs like the southern Kalahari, and makes comparisons with other areas, especially the Serengeti. Topics dealt with are: demography and genetic status; feeding ecology, i.e. methods used for studying diet, diets of different demographic groups, individual diet specializations of females, prey selection, the impact of cheetah predation on prey populations, activity regimes and distances travelled per day, hunting behaviour, foraging success and energetics; interspecific competition; spatial ecology; reproductive success and the matin

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Idler, Annette. Borderland Battles. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190849146.001.0001.

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Borderlands are like a magnifying glass on some of the world’s most entrenched security challenges. In unstable regions, border areas attract violent non-state groups, ranging from rebels and paramilitaries to criminal organizations, who exploit central government neglect. These groups compete for territorial control, cooperate in illicit cross-border activities, and provide a substitute for the governance functions usually associated with the state. Drawing on extensive fieldwork with more than six hundred interviews in and on the shared borderlands of Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela—where c

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Sterelny, Kim. The Pleistocene Social Contract. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197531389.001.0001.

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No human now gathers for himself or herself the essential resources for life: food, shelter, clothing and the like. Humans are obligate co-operators, and this has been true for tens of thousands of years; probably much longer. In this regard, humans are very unusual. In the living world more generally, cooperation outside the family is rare. Though it can be very profitable, it is also very risky, as cooperation makes an agent vulnerable to incompetence and cheating. This book presents a new picture of the emergence of cooperation in our lineage, developing through four fairly distinct phases.

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Meijers, Tim. Justice Between Generations. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.013.233.

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A wide range of issues in moral, political, and legal philosophy fall under the heading of “intergenerational justice,” such as questions of justice between the young and the old, obligations to more-or-less distant past and future generations, generational sovereignty, and the boundaries of democratic decision-making.These issues deserve our attention first because they are of great social importance. Solving the challenges raised by aging, stable pension funding, and increasing healthcare costs, for example, requires a view on what justice between age groups demands. Climate change, resource

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Wani, Aijaz Ashraf. What Happened to Governance in Kashmir? Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199487608.001.0001.

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What Happened to governance in Kashmir? studies the state of Jammu and Kashmir from the perspective of an ‘exceptional state’ rather than a ‘normal state’, a periphery on the margins of the centre, and thus shifts the focus from the central grid to the local arena. It contains a mass of information on what successive governments did to manage the conflicted state of Jammu and Kashmir. It identifies the various issues and problems the state has been confronted with since the transfer of power to ‘popular’ government in 1948 to 1989. The book makes a critical study of the engagement of Indian st

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