Using India as a case study, Joseph McQuade traces the genealogy of the political and legal category of terrorism. He demonstrates how the modern concept of terrorism was shaped by colonial emergency laws dating back into the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Based on authentic English-language material, and backed by the latest statistical methods, this book explores the impact of gender on linguistic choices in English-speaking... Læs mere
This book provides a quick yet detailed introduction to set theory and forcing, building the reader's intuition about it as well as rigorousness. Part II discusses contemporary issues in the theory of forcing, including previously unpublished results and open questions.
Suitable for beginning graduate students, this book discusses the theory of Markov chains, drawing on the works of... Læs mere
This is the first book in English investigating the medieval debate about free will, one of the central themes in medieval philosophy. It sheds new... Læs mere
This volume of rewritten torts opinions exposes how courts often distort conventional legal doctrine when deciding cases involving gender-related harms. It will... Læs mere
Immigrants and immigration are increasingly represented as a threat to welfare, traditions, and culture, despite an understanding that... Læs mere
Ruiz-Tagle provides a comparative reconstruction of the ideological and institutional history of Chile's constitutional... Læs mere
Now in its fourth edition, this textbook gives a clear and concise account of the government and politics of democratic states,... Læs mere
Based on first-person interviews with Brotherhood rank-and-file members, this is a history of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt from the late 1960s to 2018 providing a unique insight into the... Læs mere
How might evidence of language use – writing and speech – be used as a way of studying language? This book explores a number of key issues that are... Læs mere
Discover a straightforward and holistic look at energy conversion and conservation processes using the exergy concept. With more than one hundred diverse... Læs mere