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Raquel, Fernandez. Striking for a bargain between two completely informed agents. National Bureau of Economic Research, 1989.

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United States. Congress. House. Committee on Economic and Educational Opportunities. Nullifying an executive order that prohibits federal contracts with companies that hire permanent replacements for striking employees: Report together with minority and additional views (to accompany H.R. 1176) (including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office). U.S. G.P.O., 1995.

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United States. Congress. House. Committee on Economic and Educational Opportunities. Hearing on Executive Order 12954 and H.R. 1176, to nullify the Executive Order prohibiting federal contracts with companies that hire permanent replacements for striking workers: Hearing before the Committee on Economic and Educational Opportunities, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, first session, hearing held in Washington, DC, April 5, 1995. U.S. G.P.O., 1995.

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United States. Congress. House. Committee on Economic and Educational Opportunities. Hearing on Executive Order 12954 and H.R. 1176, to nullify the Executive Order prohibiting federal contracts with companies that hire permanent replacements for striking workers: Hearing before the Committee on Economic and Educational Opportunities, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, first session, hearing held in Washington, DC, April 5, 1995. U.S. G.P.O., 1995.

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S, H. The History of the Davenport Family: In Which Is Displayed a Striking Contrast Between Haughty Indolence and Healthful Activity, ... Interspersed with Moral Reflections. by H. S. Embellished with Cuts. Gale Ecco, Print Editions, 2018.

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Anderson, Wayne P. Exploring the Striking Contrasts of India. AKA:yoLa, 2015.

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Gathercole, Simon. Praeparatio Evangelica in Early Christian Gospels. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198814801.003.0002.

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The novelty of the Christian message was a crucial point of discussion in the early church, a discussion reflected in both canonical and non-canonical gospels. In contrast to texts which saw the gospel events as fulfilling scripture, the Gospel of Thomas in particular is striking in presenting a virtually unqualified rejection of any antecedent revelation. Approaches are by no means confined to this binary contrast. In the Gospel of Truth, a protological myth is contained within the same work as an account of the activity of Jesus, such that praeparatio evangelica and evangelium are juxtaposed

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Carvalho, Mário Jorge de, and Samuel Oliveira. Rediscovering the Alcibiades Major. Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.14195/978-989-26-2005-3.

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It is a well-known fact that Kant used the lament of the Trojan queen, Hecuba, from Ovid’s Metamorphoses to describe the fate of metaphysics. But these words could equally be used to describe the peculiar fate of the Alcibiades Major. There was a time when this small dialogue was held in high regard and enjoyed much authority.2 The Alcibiades Major was unreservedly attributed to Plato. It was much read, quoted and alluded to. And it is no exaggeration to say that it was one of the key works of the corpus platonicum. The contrast with the present could hardly be more striking.

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Brannigan, John. The Novel as History. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198749394.003.0016.

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This chapter discusses the historiographic nature of postmodern novels. The predominance of the historiographic in postmodern fiction is in marked contrast to modernism. Here, postmodernism is distinguished in fiction by its preoccupation with the past. The most striking feature of postmodern fiction is its reinvention of the historical novel. The postmodern historical novel prefers narratives of catastrophe and exhaustion to revolutionary progress or national awakening. Yet as much as it seemed to coincide with the currency of a facile notion of ‘the end of history’, the emergence of ‘histori

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[Mr. Lucas, M.P.P., on the budget]: [striking contrast of old and new administrations : clever disarmament of the Opposition's financial critic : what sagacious mining regulations might have netted the Province : Mr. Lucas on the three-fifth clause]. s.n., 1997.

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Poplack, Shana. The role of phonetics in borrowing and integration. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190256388.003.0010.

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This chapter revisits the question of whether speakers marshal phonetic integration as a strategy to distinguish code-switching, nonce borrowing, and established loanwords. Systematic comparison of the behavior of individuals, diagnostics, and language-mixing types reveals variability at every level of the phonetic adaptation process, providing strong confirmation that individuals do not phonetically integrate other-language words, whether nonce or dictionary-attested, into the recipient language in a systematic way. Nor do they share a phonetic strategy for handling any of their language-mixi

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Belser, Julia Watts. Conquered Bodies in the Roman Bedroom. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190600471.003.0003.

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This chapter examines tales of beautiful Jewish men and women taken captive by Rome. In these stories, beauty performs potent cultural work. Through sexualized narratives that portray the captive Jew as victim of Roman greed, Bavli Gittin makes use of a common Roman moral trope—concern for luxuria, an insatiable desire for luxury that is also expressed in lust and licentiousness—to critique elite Roman decadence and moral degradation. These stories also reveal a striking departure from the conventional beauty politics of rabbinic culture. Elsewhere, the Babylonian Talmud frequently portrays wo

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Boyle, Deborah. Vitalist Materialism and Infinite Nature. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190234805.003.0004.

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After repudiating atomism, Cavendish described a new theory of matter, vitalist materialism. According to Cavendish’s theory, there are three “degrees” of matter: two self-moving and one inanimate. The varying inherent motions of matter give rise to particular creatures and phenomena. This chapter explains Cavendish’s theory, giving particular attention to the metaphors she uses in describing it; for example, Cavendish appeals to a metaphor of dance, in striking contrast to the clock metaphor favored by mechanists of her day. This chapter also traces the development of Cavendish’s vitalist mat

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Platte, Nathan. Selznick beyond Hollywood. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199371112.003.0014.

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Selznick’s co-productions with elite European filmmakers contrast noticeably with his Hollywood work. The Third Man’s hyper-stylized cinematography and solo zither score by Anton Karas resemble no other Selznick film, partly because Selznick’s role was much reduced. But with subsequent European co-productions the producer sought to reinsert himself into the music. This chapter traces these battles as they unfolded on the soundtrack, with Selznick reasserting his creative voice through re-edited versions distributed only in the United States. Most striking is the case of Stazione Termini, which

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Löwisch, Ingeborg. Miriam ben Amram, or,. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198722618.003.0021.

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1 Chronicles 1–9 presents an archive of genealogies that performs memory and identities of Israel in a highly nuanced manner. Numerous references to women fulfil structural functions at the core of the genealogy performance, first and foremost in the genealogies of Judah. In contrast, the central genealogies of Levi only provide a single gendered fragment: they list Miriam as one of the ‘sons’ of Amram (5:29). Other Levite women, for example those listed in Exodus 6:16–25, are missing. Miriam herself is not formally linked to the many sisters that are mentioned in 1 Chronicles 1–9, nor are her

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Pennell, Sara. Material Culture in Seventeenth-Century ‘Britain’: The Matter of Domestic Consumption. Edited by Frank Trentmann. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199561216.013.0004.

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This article focuses on three issues: the historiographies which have made the period prior to that in which Neil McKendrick confidently told us a ‘consumer revolution’ occurred both a necessary staging post en route to revolution and a prelapsarian era in striking contrast to it; the relative absence of ‘mundane materiality’ within these accounts; and consumption as a matter of practice, rather than as an abstract phenomenon in the ‘long’ seventeenth century in Britain (c .1600–1720). In this, it follows Joan Thirsk in her important 1975 Oxford University Ford Lectures, in accepting Jacobean

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Simón-Yarza, Fernando. Between Desire and Reason. Rowman & Littlefield International Ltd, 2019. https://doi.org/10.5040/9798881809966.

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Respect for and promotion of human rights have come to be seen as the basis of legitimacy of modern Western civilization. There is nevertheless a striking contrast between our common view on the importance of rights and our profound disagreement on their meaning and content. This disagreement has become increasingly sharp in the last decades, due to the emergence of controversial “new rights”. This book offers an in-depth account of the most important moral debates, exploring the ethical and political foundations underlying the different understandings of rights. In the first part, the author

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Atkins, Richard Kenneth. Charles S. Peirce's Phenomenology. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190887179.001.0001.

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No reasonable person would deny that the sound of a falling pin is less intense than the feeling of a hot poker pressed against the skin, or that the recollection of something seen decades earlier is less vivid than beholding it in the present. Yet John Locke is quick to dismiss a blind man’s report that the color scarlet is like the sound of a trumpet, and Thomas Nagel similarly avers that such loose intermodal analogies are of little use in developing an objective phenomenology. Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914), by striking contrast, maintains that the blind man is correct. Peirce’s reason

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Doner, Richard F., Gregory W. Noble, and John Ravenhill. The Political Economy of Automotive Industrialization in East Asia. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197520253.001.0001.

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This book offers a political economy explanation for the striking cross-national differences in strategies and performance among East Asia’s automotive industries. Some countries—China, South Korea, and Taiwan—have successfully pursued “intensive” growth strategies by increasing local value added based on domestic inputs and technological competencies. Malaysia has attempted but failed to pursue this path. In contrast, Thailand has become a champion of “extensive” growth, relying on foreign assemblers and their suppliers to achieve an impressive expansion of production, assembly, and exports.

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Kitcher, Patricia, ed. The Self. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190087265.001.0001.

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This book is about the ways that the concept of an ‘I’ or a ‘self’ has been developed at different times in the history of western philosophy; it also offers a striking contrast case, the ‘interconnected’ self, who appears in some expressions of African philosophy. If ‘human being’ is a biological classification, ‘I’ is a mental one. What I’s do is think. The most common theme across western accounts of ‘I’s that think’ is that they are self-conscious. A second theme (in the west) is that selves have unity: There is one self who recalls past experiences and anticipates future actions. Despite

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San, Tay Pek. The Legal Landscape of Contract Formation: Towards a Distinct Malaysian Jurisprudence? Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198808114.003.0006.

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This chapter examines the formation of contract under Malaysian law. The Malaysian Contracts Act 1950 (‘MCA 1950’) is modelled on the Indian Contract Act 1872 (‘ICA 1872’). In common with the ICA 1872, the analytical structure for the formation of contract is strikingly similar to that of English law, with unique definitions introduced by the ICA 1872. A proposal, upon acceptance by the person to whom the proposal is directed, becomes a promise; reciprocal promises which constitute consideration for each other result in an agreement; upon the satisfaction of the other conditions for the format

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Eisenberg, Melvin A. Objective and Subjective Elements of Interpretation. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199731404.003.0029.

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Chapter 29 concerns objective and subjective elements of interpretation. A deep difference between classical and modern contract law is that the standards of classical contract law were almost entirely objective, whereas the standards of modern contract law include subjective elements. This difference is particularly striking in the area of interpretation. Classical contract law adopted a standard of interpretation that was almost purely objective. However just as the aim of contract law should be to effectuate the objectives of contracting parties, subject to applicable conditions and constra

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Kollnitz, Andrea. Becoming Leonor Fini. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2025. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350212626.

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Italian-Argentine artist Leonor Fini (1907-1996) can be seen as the original artist-celebrity; her self-mythologization was promulgated by some of the 20th century’s most prominent photographers, from Henri Cartier-Bresson to Dora Maar. Exploring her self-fashioning and dressing-up practices in light of recent theories of performativity, this book highlights how Fini’s extension of artistic creative practices, from painted artworks to her self-creation through costumes, masks and fashion, allowed her to become a living artwork to be created and recreated on daily basis. Applying a multisensory

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Faber, Dennis, Niels Vermunt, Jason Kilborn, and Kathleen van der Linde, eds. Treatment of Contracts in Insolvency. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199668366.001.0001.

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This is the second title in the new Oxford International and Comparative Insolvency Law Series. Virtually any insolvency needs to deal with the matter of contractual obligations and this book focuses on the extent to which insolvency law interferes with those obligations and relationships. As with the first volume in the series, the topic is addressed through national reports from nineteen of the main economically developed countries, all of which follow a uniform structure. This format enables easy comparison between the jurisdictions and substantially enhances the accessibility of material o

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Cruickshank, Joanna. Colonial Contexts and Global Dissent. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199683710.003.0013.

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Until late in the nineteenth century, the otherwise fractious universe of Dissent united in affirming Scripture as the supreme religious authority and in exalting the individual conscience as the final interpreter of the Bible’s message. Because of this scriptural fixation, Dissenters contributed disproportionately to the manifestly biblical character of nineteenth-century Anglo-American civilization. It is for that very reason often hard to differentiate a specifically Dissenting history of the Bible from much shared with other Protestants. General cultural influences such as an emphasis on h

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Jefferson, Michael. 12. Trade unions: recognition, collective bargaining, and industrial action. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/he/9780198815167.003.0012.

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Each Concentrate revision guide is packed with essential information, key cases, revision tips, exam Q&As, and more. Concentrates show you what to expect in a law exam, what examiners are looking for, and how to achieve extra marks. The chapter discusses the law on trade unions. Topics covered include independence and recognition; the legal enforceability of collective agreements; disclosure of information for collective bargaining; protection for trade unionists; statutory immunity in tort for various types of industrial action. Strikes are always in breach of the contract of employment (

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Vossen, Bas van der. A Presumption Against Intervention. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190202903.003.0008.

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This introductory chapter offers an outline of the argument I develop in this part of the book. It identifies the morality of intervention as something that should strike a balance between two kinds of threats to people’s rights and safety: threats from within and threats from without a society. Striking this balance, I argue, means accepting a presumption against intervention. Finally, this presumption is contrasted with its main rival, the interventionist view defended by Tesón and others.

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Fróis, Luís, Daniel T. Reff, and Richard Danford. First European Description of Japan 1585: A Critical English-Language Edition of Striking Contrasts in the Customs of Europe and Japan by Luis Frois, S. J. Taylor & Francis Group, 2014.

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Frois, Luis. First European Description of Japan 1585: A Critical English-Language Edition of Striking Contrasts in the Customs of Europe and Japan by Luis Frois, S. J. Routledge, 2014.

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The First European Description of Japan, 1585: A Critical English-Language Edition of Striking Contrasts in the Customs of Europe and Japan by Luis Frois, S.J. Routledge, 2014.

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Fróis, Luís, Daniel T. Reff, and Richard Danford. First European Description of Japan 1585: A Critical English-Language Edition of Striking Contrasts in the Customs of Europe and Japan by Luis Frois, S. J. Taylor & Francis Group, 2015.

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Fróis, Luís, Daniel T. Reff, and Richard Danford. First European Description of Japan 1585: A Critical English-Language Edition of Striking Contrasts in the Customs of Europe and Japan by Luis Frois, S. J. Taylor & Francis Group, 2014.

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Fróis, Luís, Daniel T. Reff, and Richard Danford. First European Description of Japan 1585: A Critical English-Language Edition of Striking Contrasts in the Customs of Europe and Japan by Luis Frois, S. J. Taylor & Francis Group, 2014.

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Fróis, Luís, Daniel T. Reff, and Richard Danford. First European Description of Japan 1585: A Critical English-Language Edition of Striking Contrasts in the Customs of Europe and Japan by Luis Frois, S. J. Taylor & Francis Group, 2014.

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Smith, Jolene. “Freedom Just Might be Possible”. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252037900.003.0007.

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This chapter focuses on Suraj Kali's story of liberation. Unlike in the past, there are now social movements of sufficient strength in at least some parts of the world that are making more and more liberation stories possible, encouraging more and more leaders of resistance like Suraj Kali to demand freedom for themselves and others, despite great risk. Thus, in stark contrast with Margaret Garner's, Suraj Kali's story best illustrates how similar acts of personal struggle can have strikingly different consequences, depending on whether they happen within the context of a wider movement that i

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Phillips, Michael J. The Lochner Court, Myth and Reality. Praeger, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400680427.

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Conventional wisdom holds that theLochnerCourt illegitimately used the Constitution's due process clauses to strike down Progressive legislation designed to protect the poor and powerless against big business. This book systematically examines all of the U.S. Supreme Court's substantive due process cases from 1897 through 1937 and finds that they do not support long-held beliefs about theLochnerCourt. The Court was more Progressive than commonly imagined, striking down far fewer laws on substantive due process grounds than is generally believed. The laws it overturned were not invariably socia

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Wijdicks, Eelco F. M. International Criteria of Brain Death. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190662493.003.0003.

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Brain death criteria have mostly developed when there are organ donation policies in place. The variability in criteria and practices around the world is striking but also inherently problematic, with no consensus in sight. This chapter surveys the criteria across the continents, including in Canada, Europe, South America, Africa, Asian and the Middle East, and Australia and New Zealand. There is a specific focus on the brain death criteria in the United Kingdom and alleged contrasts with U.S. guidelines. A discussion of how best to achieve uniform criteria, despite obstacles, is described. To

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Stein, Gabriele. John Palsgrave as a sixteenth-century contrastive linguist. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198807377.003.0006.

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John Palsgrave is the first English lexicographer known by name. As a teacher of French to Henry VIII’s sister Mary, he set himself the task to ‘reduce the French language to rule’. His Lesclarcissement de la langue francoyse (1530) is an outstanding linguistic achievement which describes French pronunciation, explains the rules of French grammar, and includes an English–French dictionary of some eight hundred pages. Himself a dedicated teacher, Palsgrave helped his English countrymen to understand the foreign language by explicit comparisons between the differences of expression, explaining t

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Hill, Marylu. Wilde’s New Republic. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198789260.003.0014.

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As a result of his classical training in the Honours School of Literæ Humaniores at Oxford, Oscar Wilde drew frequently on the works of Plato for inspiration, especially the Republic. The idea of a New Republic and its philosophy resonated profoundly with Wilde—so much so that the philosophical questions raised in Plato’s Republic become the central problems of The Picture of Dorian Gray. This chapter maps the parallels between the Republic and Dorian Gray, with specific focus on several of Plato’s most striking images from the Republic. In particular, the depiction of Lord Henry suggests not

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Fleming, Ruven, and Joshua P. Fershee. The ‘Hydrogen Economy’ in the United States and the European Union. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198822080.003.0008.

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The chapter provides a wide-ranging look at prospects for ‘the hydrogen economy’ regarding fuel. In the European Union, hydrogen may be a means to address the intermittency of supply in the renewables sector. The US emphasis on hydrogen to operate motor vehicles contrasts with the EU’s broader climate change driven move to explore alternatives to fossil fuel. Regarding drivers of energy innovation, it is striking that the US introduction of hydrogen is specifically aimed at the transport sector and was driven by security of supply reasons rather than climate change. Further technological innov

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Katz, Richard S., and Peter Mair. The Cartel Party and Populist Opposition. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199586011.003.0007.

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Cartelization has given rise to opposition in the form of anti-party-system or populist parties. While this possibility was clear as early as the 1990s, in the last decade the growth of these parties has led to alarm in some quarters about the continued viability of liberal democratic party government. In contrast to accounts that attribute this rise to the recent policy failures of the political mainstream, this chapter suggests that its roots lie in internal contradictions in the expectations that the parties have raised in the process of cartelization. Rather than being solutions to these p

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Rosenberg, Michael. Doubts and Faith. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190845896.003.0005.

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Three very different first-century Jewish authors hint at a possible deviation from the regime of anatomical testing of virginity as established by Deuteronomy 22. Both Josephus and Philo, in their paraphrases of the bloody-sheets pericope, strikingly leave out any mention of any physical remainder of the sexual act, thus deviating from the explicit model of Deuteronomy. In the end, however, Josephus, seems unlikely to be a true variant, likely avoiding rather than replacing the Deuteronomic standard. Philo, however, may well express a concern for spiritual, rather than (or in addition to) phy

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Parker, Grant. Environmental Perspectives on Ancient Communication. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195386844.003.0002.

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Chapter 1 underscores the importance of the physical environment, both water and land, while also issuing a timely reminder that the Mediterranean Sea has been a topic unjustifiably neglected by modern scholarship. Parker explores the remarkable contrasts in the region’s landscape, climate, and ecology, not to mention the varied means by which connectedness was achieved across such a vast region and beyond. He singles out Delos, Delphi, Ostia, and Palmyra as instructive examples of how places may be connected; the last of the four—a desert oasis—most strikingly by the creative integration of l

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Phillips, Ian. No More than Meets the Eye. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198722304.003.0009.

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This chapter develops a view of shadows as pure visibilia: objects constitutively and exhaustively connected in nature, existence and qualities to our experience of them. It takes as its stalking horse Sorensen’s very different view, arguing that, contrary to his intended purpose, the hypothesis that shadows are pure visibilia provides a more satisfying account of his striking cases of shadow movement. The claim that shadows are pure visibilia is further motivated by drawing on considerations from aesthetics and vision science. The chapter ends with a puzzle: if shadows do not strictly represe

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Harriet, Schelhaas. Ch.7 Non-performance, s.1: Non-performance in general, Art.7.1.6. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/law/9780198702627.003.0133.

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This commentary analyses Article 7.1.6 of the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts (PICC) concerning exemption clauses. According to Art 7.1.6, a clause which limits or excludes one party's liability for non-performance, or which permits one party to render performance substantially different from what the other party reasonably expected, may not be invoked if it would be grossly unfair to do so. The possibility of striking down exemption clauses by virtue of Art 7.1.6 is an exceptional control mechanism. Art 7.1.6 acts as a specific safeguard against unfair exemption clau

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Guyer, Paul. Reason and Experience in Mendelssohn and Kant. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198850335.001.0001.

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This work examines the lifelong intellectual relationship between Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) and Moses Mendelssohn (1729–86). Both engaged in a common project of striking the right balance between rationalism and empiricism, they sometimes borrowed from one another, often disagreed with one another, and can usefully be compared even when they did not directly interact. Their arguments and conclusions on metaphysical issues such as proofs of the existence of God, immortality, and idealism are examined; their works in aesthetics are compared; and the path-breaking work of both on the “religion of

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Yeomans, Christopher. Hegel’s Philosophy of Action. Edited by Dean Moyar. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199355228.013.22.

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Though Hegel has a strikingly pluralistic philosophy of action, he intends that philosophy to make good on a range of traditional commitments running from the necessity of alternate possibilities through the value of desire satisfaction to the centrality of goal-directedness. It is of course true that many of those possibilities, desires, and goals are essentially social and even collective, and that determining their nature is a public and often retrospective interpretive act. But that determination must also take its cue from the interpretive direction proposed with the act by the agent hers

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Trevor C, Hartley. Part III Recognition and Enforcement, 19 Brussels and Lugano: Authentic Instruments and Court Settlements. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/law/9780198729006.003.0019.

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This chapter deals with the enforcement of two special kinds of legal instruments: authentic instruments and court settlements. Both are contracts and derive their validity from the consent of the parties. They normally acknowledge the indebtedness of one party to the other. Court settlements are usually concluded to put an end to a dispute. The special feature of both instruments is the way in which they are concluded, and it is this which gives them a special status in the country of origin, often equivalent to <i>res judicata</i>. What is striking about the provisions on these i

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Belser, Julia Watts. The Sexual Politics of Destruction. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190600471.003.0001.

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This chapter examines the nexus of gender, sex, and sin in early Jewish narrative, arguing that Bavli Gittin’s account of catastrophe reveals a strikingly different portrayal of sexual sin. Biblical narrative frequently uses pornographic portrayals of the female body to convey God’s punishment of Israel, figuring women’s “whoredom” as justification for divine violence and abandonment. The Palestinian midrash collection Lamentations Rabbah amplifies and intensifies such dynamics in key narratives of Jerusalem’s fall. Bavli Gittin, by contrast, studiously avoids associating destruction with wome

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Pilný, Ondřej. Irish Theatre in Europe. Edited by Nicholas Grene and Chris Morash. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198706137.013.40.

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While Irish drama has achieved a distinctive reputation within the Anglophone world, the situation in continental Europe has been much more complex. Wilde and Shaw continue to be widely revived but are rarely identified as Irish. Even more strikingly, contemporary Irish playwrights such as Martin McDonagh and Enda Walsh, both extremely popular in Europe, are assimilated within a general category of British theatre, while Brian Friel’s work is much less well known. There have been established theatrical traditions of playing some Irish dramatists in individual countries, as in the case of Synge

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