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Jessica Blackstone watches a basketball game in Toronto. She then flies to the Arctic Circle, then Trinidad and then Machu Pichu. Old Yellow Bones tries to unmake her and then she jumps from body to body as magic is brought back to the world.

This book is valuable for those interested in tackling the complex legal issue of environmental protection in deep seabed mining by employing knowledge in fields of the law of the sea, international environmental law, international institutional law, and the law of State responsibility and international liability.

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Perspective taking is a critical component of approaches to literature and narrative, but there is no coherent, broadly applicable, and process-based account of what it is and how it occurs. This book provides a multidisciplinary coverage of the topic, weaving together key insights from different disciplines into a comprehensive theory of perspective taking in literature and in life. The essential insight is that taking a perspective requires ...

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Since World War II, there has been a trend towards fewer wars, the Russian invasion of the Ukraine standing as a major 'aberration'. With decades of experience as an international lawyer, diplomat and head of UN Iraq inspections, Hans Blix examines conflicts and other developments after World War II. He finds that new restraints on uses of force have emerged from fears about nuclear war, economic interdependence and UN Charter rules. With less...

Since World War II, there has been a trend towards fewer wars, the Russian invasion of the Ukraine standing as a major 'aberration'. With decades of experience as an international lawyer, diplomat and head of UN Iraq inspections, Hans Blix examines conflicts and other developments after World War II. He finds that new restraints on uses of force have emerged from fears about nuclear war, economic interdependence and UN Charter rules. With less...

`I was gripped¿ Louise Jensen, author of The Fall

From the 1880s to the 1920s, hunger artists - professional fasters - lived on the fringes of public spectacle and academic experiment. Agustí Nieto-Galan presents the history of this phenomenon as popular urban spectacle and subject of scientific study, showing how hunger artists acted as mediators between the human and the social body. Doctors, journalists, impresarios , artists, and others used them to reinforce their different philosophical...

From the 1880s to the 1920s, public performances of extreme fasting by caged hunger artists became a very popular source of entertainment. Agusti Nieto-Galan presents the history of this phenomenon as both urban spectacle and subject of scientific study and experiment.

The electoral college is the extraordinarily complex mechanism by which Americans choose their president. Is there any justification for such a system, which may elect the candidate who does not receive the most votes? Today, with two of the last five presidential elections having gone to the popular vote loser and the debacle following the 2020 election, the electoral college's flaws are more apparent than ever. In this fourth edition of the ...

Employing rigorous analysis and systematic data, this volume shows how the electoral college violates democratic principles and does not provide the benefits its advocates claim. With a new chapter addressing the 2020 election, this remains the definitive book on the unique American election system- and why that system should change"--

This volume offers a thorough account of the economic, social and political development of Benin with a detailed analysis of its critical institution- and development-sensitive areas. It also points to the need for several institutional reforms, whose political economy is carefully examined in the Benin context"--

Focusing on 'the science of the cultural mind', this book provides a systematic review of the sociocultural theory of learning, its contemporary elaborations, and its practical implementation in education. It includes numerous examples of intervention practices that are ideal for students, researchers, and practitioners.

Drawing attention to the pivotal ideas associated with 'the science of the cultural mind', this book centres on the idea that the human mind should be considered a sociocultural, rather than a natural or biological, phenomenon. Far from being purely theoretical, the science of the cultural mind has direct, practical implications for areas such as child development, the assessment of learning processes, and future-oriented education. The chapte...

Bringing together history, headlines, and research with accessible visuals and examples, this book explains 8 myths about 'correct writing' and presents a new approach for writing in our diverse and digital world. It is essential reading for anyone who cares about English or writing. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

Bringing together history, headlines, and research with accessible visuals and examples, this book explains 8 myths about 'correct writing' and presents a new approach for writing in our diverse and digital world. It is essential reading for anyone who cares about English or writing. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

Written in an informal and easy-going style suitable for a wide range of readers, this textbook uses real-world examples to teach the institutional details of healthcare and health insurance and explain the economics that underpin the behaviour of key players in these markets. A complete one-stop-shop for learning about the economics of healthcare.

Written in an informal and easy-going style suitable for a wide range of readers, this textbook uses real-world examples to teach the institutional details of healthcare and health insurance and explain the economics that underpin the behaviour of key players in these markets. A complete one-stop-shop for learning about the economics of healthcare.