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Some of the most fascinating disorders in neuropsychology concern the failure to recognise common objects from one semantic category, such as living things, when there is no such difficulty from another, such as non-living things. Over the past 20 years, numerous cases of these 'category-specific' recognition and naming problems have been documented and several competing theories have been developed to account for the patients' disorders."Cate...

This volume deals with first and second order complex equations of hyperbolic and mixed types. Various general boundary value problems for linear and quasilinear complex equations are investigated in detail. To obtain results for complex equations of mixed types, some discontinuous boundary value problems for elliptic complex equations are discussed. Mixed complex equations are included in the quasilinear case, and the text considers both boun...

Explores Collingwood's work in epistemology and metaphysics, uncovering his importance beyond his better known work in philosophy of history and aesthetics.

This socio-historical approach to the early developments in the fight against cancer describes how scientific, therapeutic, philanthropic, ethical, social, economics and political interest combined to transform medicine.

Consisting of a selection of Keohane's most recent essays, this absorbing book address such core issues as interdependence, institutions, the development of international law, globalization and global governance.

This is a well illustrated and fully-referenced introduction to the main contemporary agricultural pollution issues in the UK. It provides a concise, yet comprehensive overview of the environmental pollution caused by agriculture.

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Consisting of twenty focus texts, The Pupil's Books, contains activities which draw attention to specific writing features, develop confidence in independent writing and develop legibility and punctuation.

This three-level reading comprehension skills series gives practice and development of reading skills for teenagers and young adults. The wide range of text types includes informative, narrative, explanatory and persuasive styles of writing.

Featuring a notable list of international contributors, this book presents a systematic and stimulating discussion on regionalism, covering topical issues such as recent financial crises, enlargement within EU and the post-Lome regionalism of Africa.

A Companion to the City" provides the reader with an indispensable and authoritative overview of the key debates, controversies, and questions concerning the city from a variety of theoretical vantage points with an international perspective. Indispensable companion for students of the City. Multidisciplinary approach of interest across several fields. Includes contributions from major scholars in the field.

This book investigates the importance of waging jihad for legitimacy in pre-colonial Morocco. It counters colonial interpretations of the pre-colonial Moroccan sultanate as hopelessly divided into territories of 'obedience' and 'dissidence' by suggesting that state-society warfare was one aspect of a constant process of political negotiation. Detailed analysis of state and society interpretations of jihad during the critical period of the Fren...

This book gives a clear chronological account of the campaigns on the Western and Eastern Fronts and then moves on to investigate areas that many studies ignore - the war poets, the diplomacy of war-aims and peace moves, logistics, and 'the experience of the war'.

In this book Professor Silk presents a radically new critical study of Aristophanes. Through an exploration of Aristophanes' comic poetry, informed by a wide range of theory from Kierkegaard to Adorno, a particular consideration of Aristophanes' own understanding of his medium, and challenging comparisons with modern literature, this book adds a new chapter to the long-standing debate about the nature and potentialities of comedy.

Leading scholars in the field examine the highly topical issue of the future the welfare state in Europe. They argue that welfare states need to adjust and examine which kind of welfare architecture will further Europe's stated goal of maximum social inclusion and justice. This volume concentrates on four principle social domains, the aged and transition to retirement, the welfare issues related to profound changes in working life, the risks a...

Benjamin Britten's relationships with Boosey & Hawkes, Decca, Covent Garden, the Aldeburgh Festival, the English Opera Group, and the Arts Council, had a huge influence on the music he wrote. This book explores the effect of these commercial and national institutions on the music of one of the foremost British composers of the twentieth century.

In an age of information glut, knowledge can be hard to come by. Education must equip us to transform information for our own individual requirements. Full citizenship of the world requires that we learn to reason and communicate. So how do we do it? This book shares new insights into how people process information, and how we use that information to reason, make decisions, and develop theories about the world in which we live.

In the first ever theoretical treatment of the environmental justice movement, David Schlosberg demonstrates the development of a new form of 'critical' pluralism, in both theory and practice. Taking into account the evolution of environmentalism and pluralism over the course of thecentury, the author argues that the environmental justice movement and new pluralist theories now represent a considerable challenge to both conventional pluralist ...

Across the globe, the domain of the litigator and the judge has radically expanded, making it increasingly difficult for those who study comparative and international politics, public policy and regulation, or the evolution of new modes of governance to avoid encountering a great deal of law and courts. In On Law, Politics, and Judicialization, two of the world's leading political scientists present the best of their research, focusing on how ...

A volume in the Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology series.This book reviews the recent advances in our understanding of the molecular and cellular mechanisms that control the assembly, transport, targeting and anchoring of the protein complexes making up the most important ion channels and receptor families, fundamental to synaptic function. Improvedunderstanding of these processes is expected to reveal novel therapeutic targets relevant to a...