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Why has Pakistan experienced an extended economic slowdown since 1990? Why has it suffered through volatile and inequitable growth over the last 25 years? In his new book, Governing the Ungovernable, Ishrat Husain, a distinguished Pakistani economist, Wilson Center global fellow, and former Wilson Center public policy fellow, argues that the answer lies in the decay of institutions of governance. In this book, he proposes a selective and incre...

Optimality Justifications argues for a renewal of foundation-theoretic epistemology based on optimality justifications, ways of showing that certain epistemic methods are optimal with regard to all accessible alternatives. Gerhard Schurz offers a range of new ideas for epistemology, philosophy of science, and cognitive science.

Based on the concept of charisma formulated by Max Weber and developed by recent writers, this second revised edition concentrates on 'personality-related' and 'situational' factors that led to the emergence of Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah as the charismatic leader of Muslim India and sustained and strengthened him in that role to help create the separate state of Pakistan.

The Oxford Handbook of Monsters in Classical Myth presents forty chapters about the unique and terrifying creatures from myths of the long-ago Near East and Mediterranean world, featuring authoritative contributions by many of the top international experts on ancient monsters and the monstrous.

Developed over six chapters, Pakistan's Nuclear Exclusion provides an account of how orientalism is a lived experience of post-colonial racism, injustice, and inequality amongst members of the nuclear community in Pakistan.

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This account of George Eliot's spiritual life reveals a writer who devoted the full span of her career to imagining a wide religious sensibility that could inform personal and social life. As we range among Eliot's many literary works, we encounter someone whose extraordinary art and intellect offers us company in the search for modern meaning.

The New Oxford Shakespeare edition of Romeo and Juliet provides a fresh and authoritative introduction to one of Shakespeare's most famous tragedies.

The New Oxford Shakespeare edition of The Tempest provides a friendly yet authoritative introduction to Shakespeare's famous play.

The New Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative editions of Shakespeare's works with introductory materials designed to encourage new interpretations of the plays and poems.

State responses to terrorism have shaped politics and society globally. But how far, and in what precise ways, has counter-terrorism actually succeeded? This book offers an historically-grounded, systematic, and expert interrogation of the effectiveness of state responses to terrorist violence from one of the world's leading experts on terrorism.

The New Oxford Shakespeare edition of The Merry Wives of Windsor provides a friendly yet authoritative introduction to Shakespeare's beloved comedy.

The story of the troubled accession of England's first Scottish king and the transition from the age of the Tudors to the age of the Stuarts at the dawn of the seventeenth century.

A new edition of one of Shakespeare's most complex and enigmatic plays.

The New Oxford Shakespeare edition of Henry IV Part I provides a friendly yet authoritative introduction to Shakespeare's famous history play.

The New Oxford Shakespeare edition of As You Like It provides a friendly yet authoritative introduction to Shakespeare's beloved comedy.

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This book studies a wide range of canonical authors from across the nineteenth century from the perspective of the medical humanities, focussing on the idealized doctor-patient relationship and the medical encounter.

This volume presents the first full-scale literary and linguistic analysis of the entire Punica 13. It includes the text and facing English translation, along with notes on syntax, textual criticism, style, interpretation, and narrative structure. C. M. van der Keur's General Introduction discusses the book against its Flavian background.

A detailed philological and interpretative reading of Ovid's most neglected poem, the Remedia Amoris. In her immersive, creatively interpretative guide to the poem, Victoria Rimell's commentary resets critical perspectives by reading the Remedia as distinctive and original, and as a pivotal text within Ovid's oeuvre.