Books from Oxford University Press (UK)

  • Legitimacy and Criminal Justice: An International Exploration
    By Justice Tankebe

    This resulting volume aims to: advance conceptual understanding of legitimacy in the contexts of policing and criminal justice; to develop a betterunderstanding of the implications of analyses of legitimacy for the practical contexts of ...

  • Martyrdom and Terrorism: Pre-modern to Contemporary Perspectives
    Martyrdom and Terrorism: Pre-modern to Contemporary Perspectives
    By Dominic Janes, Alex Houen

    The essays of this volume illuminate this history--following, for example, Christian martyrdom from its origins in the Roman world, to the experience of the deaths of "terrorist" leaders of the French Revolution, to parallels in the ...

  • The Ethics of Belief: Individual and Social
    The Ethics of Belief: Individual and Social
    By Rico Vitz, Jonathan Matheson

    The first part of this book explores the ethics of belief from an individualistic framework, and the second part extends this traditional debate to issues concerning the social dimensions of belief formation.

  • The Virginia Tech Massacre: Strategies and Challenges for Improving Mental Health Policy on Campus and Beyond
    The Virginia Tech Massacre: Strategies and Challenges for Improving Mental Health Policy on Campus and Beyond
    By Robert Cohen, Aradhana Bela Sood

    The book provides concrete and pragmatic recommendations for how to begin overhauling the delivery for mental health services"--

  • The Language of Law
    The Language of Law
    By Andrei Marmor

    Employing recent advances in philosophy of language to elucidate key aspects of legal communication, this volume examines how the language of legal directives can determine the content of the law, thereby enabling a better understanding of ...

  • An Introduction to Medical Statistics
    An Introduction to Medical Statistics
    By Martin Bland

    This textbook is intended for everyone involved in the medical profession and all others concerned with medical data. The material covered includes all the statistical work that would be required for a course in medicine.

  • Constitutional Referendums: The Theory and Practice of Republican Deliberation
    Constitutional Referendums: The Theory and Practice of Republican Deliberation
    By Stephen Tierney

    This is the first book by a constitutional theorist to address the implications of this development for constitutional democracy in a globalizing age, when many of the older certainties surrounding sovereignty and constitutional authority ...

  • Contract Law: Text, Cases, and Materials
    Contract Law: Text, Cases, and Materials
    By Ewan McKendrick

    This is an account of the modern law of contract by a leading authority in the field.

  • Complete Public Law
    Complete Public Law
    By Lisa Webley, Harriet Samuels

    'Complete Public Law' combines extracts from key primary and secondary materials with jargon-free text to provide a resource for the student new to the study of constitutional and administrative law.

  • Cancer-related Breakthrough Pain
    Cancer-related Breakthrough Pain
    By Andrew Davies

    This new edition in the Oxford Pain Management Library includes an extensive evaluation of opioids, non-opioid drugs, and non-pharmacological interventions for cancer-related breakthrough pain.

  • The Oxford Handbook of the History of International Law
    The Oxford Handbook of the History of International Law
    By Anne Peters, Bardo Fassbender, Simone Peter

    This handbook provides an authoritative and original overview of the origins of public international law.

  • Latin Panegyric
    Latin Panegyric
    By Roger Rees

    Latin Panegyric represents modern readings on the collection of classical Latin oratory addressed to Roman emperors.

  • Telicity, Change, and State: A Cross-Categorial View of Event Structure
    Telicity, Change, and State: A Cross-Categorial View of Event Structure
    By Louise McNally, Violeta Demonte

    ... Inquiries. Dordrecht: Springer. Kennedy, Christopher. 1999. Projecting the Adjective: The Syntax and Semantics of Gradability and Comparison. New York: Garland. (1997 UCSC Ph.D. thesis). — 2001. Polar opposition and the ontology of ...

  • Blackstone's Statutes on Criminal Justice and Sentencing
    Blackstone's Statutes on Criminal Justice and Sentencing
    By Nicola Padfield

    ... order except as mentioned in paragraph (a) or (b) above. (5) The function of making a determination as to the provision of samples under provision included in the community order or suspended sentence order by virtue of subsection (1)(b ...

  • Welfare States and Immigrant Rights: The Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion
    Welfare States and Immigrant Rights: The Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion
    By Diane Sainsbury

    Welfare States and Immigrant Rights deals with the policies and politics of immigrants' inclusion and exclusion in six countries representing different types of welfare states: the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Sweden, ...