Addressing Tipping Points for a Precarious Future
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at British Academy Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Tipping poi...
The Cambridge Companion to the French Novel
This volume offers a unique and valuable insight into the novel in French over the past two centuries. In a series of essays, acknowledged experts discuss a variety of topics including nineteenth-century realism, women and fiction, popular fiction...
Mathematics
The aim of this book is to explain, carefully but not technically, the differences between advanced, research-level mathematics, and the sort of mathematics we learn at school. The most fundamental differences are philosophical, and readers of thi...
Plants
Plants form a fundamental element of the biosphere, and the evolution of plants has directly affected the evolution of animal life and the evolution of the Earth's climate. Plants have also become essential to humans not only in the form of cereal...
Knowledge and its Limits
Knowledge and its Limits presents a systematic new conception of knowledge as a fundamental kind of mental state sensitive to the knower's environment. It makes a major contribution to the debate between externalist and internalist philosophies of...
Doing Philosophy
What are philosophers trying to achieve? How can they succeed? Does philosophy make progress? Is it in competition with science, or doing something completely different, or neither? Timothy Williamson tackles some of the key questions surrounding ...
Philosophical Method
What are philosophers trying to achieve? How can they succeed? Does philosophy make progress? Is it in competition with science, or doing something completely different, or neither? Timothy Williamson tackles some of the key questions surrounding ...
Heir to the Empire: Star Wars Legends (The Thrawn Trilogy)
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * In this essential Star Wars Legends novel-the first ever to take place after the events of the original trilogy-Grand Admiral Thrawn makes his debut on the galactic stage. Five years ago, the Rebel Allia...
Harley-Davidson Twin Cam
This book from Wolfgang Publications shows the how and why of performance engine building with over 500 color photos. Not a what-to-buy-book - it's a how-to-build book. Each chapter covers a specific subassembly of the Twin-Cam motor. The reader can pick and choose what chapters they need at the time, be it porting a set of heads, installing cams, or assembling a flywheel assembly. For anyone planning to build or rebuild a Twin Cam that combines power with durability, this book walks the reader through two complete assemblies. The crew at R&R Cycles shows how they do a big-bore top-end job in the chassis; as well as build a complete bad ass 124 engine assembled on the bench. Take advantage of the skill and knowledge shared by the crew at R&R Cycles - builders of everything from hot street engines, to full competition motors that set records at Bonneville and the strip. If you're a rider who takes pride in doing most your own work, this is a book you need. From a simple rebuild to a
How to Build a Chopper
Choppers are hot again. All you need to decide is what style you want and this book will guide you through the building sequences. It shows how to build a genuine old chopper or a chopper that looks old and has the conveniences of today, such as electric start and functioning brakes.
Practical Embedded Security
The great strides made over the past decade in the complexity and network functionality of embedded systems have significantly enhanced their attractiveness for use in critical applications such as medical devices and military communications. Howe...
Principled Agents?
What is good government? Why do some governments fail ? How do you implement political accountability in practice? What incentives do you need to put in place to ensure that politicians and public servants act in the public interest and not their ...
Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology
The most wide-ranging, comprehensive, and up-to-date dictionary of archaeology available. Over 4,000 entries cover the terms encountered in academic and popular archaeological literature, in lectures, and on television. Topics covered include arte...
Ethnomusicology
Ethnomusicologists believe that all humans, not just those we call musicians, are musical, and that musicality is one of the essential touchstones of the human experience. This insight raises big questions about the nature of music and the nature ...
Dark Force Rising: Star Wars Legends (The Thrawn Trilogy)
In this essential Star Wars Legends novel, the sequel to Heir to the Empire , Grand Admiral Thrawn's sinister plan threatens to spell doom for the fledgling New Republic and its most iconic heroes. The dying Empire's most cunning and ...
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is one of the most widely studied works of English literature, and Frankenstein's creature is a key figure in the popular imagination. This sourcebook examines Mary Shelley's novel within its literary and cultural conte...
The Cambridge Companion to Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was an extraordinary poet, playwright and essayist, revolutionary both in his ideas and in his artistic theory and practice. This 2006 collection of original essays by an international group of specialists is a com...
Christianity and Genocide in Rwanda
Although Rwanda is among the most Christian countries in Africa, in the 1994 genocide, church buildings became the primary killing grounds. To explain why so many Christians participated in the violence, this book looks at the history of Christian...
Memory and Justice in Post-Genocide Rwanda
Following times of great conflict and tragedy, many countries implement programs and policies of transitional justice, none more extensive than in post-genocide Rwanda. Placing Rwanda's transitional justice initiatives in their historical and poli...
Christianity and Genocide in Rwanda
Although Rwanda is among the most Christian countries in Africa, in the 1994 genocide, church buildings became the primary killing grounds. To explain why so many Christians participated in the violence, this book looks at the history of Christian...
Prehistoric Britain
Britain has been inhabited by humans for over half a million years, during which time there were a great many changes in lifestyles and in the surrounding landscape. This book, now in its second edition, examines the development of human societies...
Becoming a Revolutionary
Winner of the Leo Gershoy Prize from the American Historical Association, 1998, for the best book in Early Modern European History. Timothy Tackett's Becoming a Revolutionary revisits one of the most controversial moments in history: the beginning...
Everyday Globalization
Everyday Globalization is a micro-sociological study of immigrant neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Paris. Global flows of people bring together cultural practices from distant places and urban dwellers in global cities interpret the signs of collecti...
The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and the Environment
The degrading environment of the planet is something that touches everyone. This 2011 book offers an introductory overview of literary and cultural criticism that concerns environmental crisis in some form. Both as a way of reading texts and as a ...
How to Develop and Implement a Security Master Plan
Engage Stakeholders with a Long-Term Solution The goal: Convince executive management to "buy in" to your security program, support it, and provide the largest possible amount of funding. The solution: Develop a meticulously detailed lon...