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This book examines heterogeneity within informal work by applying a common conceptual framework and empirical methodology. It contains countries studies that use panel data to present a comparative perspective on worker transitions between formal and informal work across developing countries across the Global South.

Pratt-Hartmann considers for which fragments of first-order logic there is an effective method for determining satisfiability or finite satisfiability. Furthermore, he asks, if these problems are decidable for some fragment, what is their computational complexity?

This work traces the development of a philosophical theory about causality--the volitional theory of causation-- which supposes the underlying nature of causation as something revealed to us in the experience of our own will. It offers both a history of philosophy and a chance to think about the complex puzzles of both causation and human will.

Do humans have a right not to be trafficked? This book examines the legal nature of human trafficking and its relationship with human rights law. Drawing on the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights, it shows that human trafficking is indeed a human rights violation requiring legislative and institutional responses from states.

This book provides a detailed cross-linguistic study of pseudo-noun incorporation, a phenomenon whereby an argument forms a 'closer than usual' relation with the verb. Imke Driemel explores eleven noun types across five different languages to arrive at a unifying theory that accounts for all properties of pseudo-noun incorporation.

Genres of Emergency offers literary genre as a way to understand and negotiate the varied states of emergency and crisis that have become a fixture of our contemporary world, building on a critical study of the literature written during and about the State of Emergency declared by Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi (1975 - 1977).

Strazdins uses literature, inscriptions, and art to explore the relationship of elite Greeks of the Roman imperial period to time. She establishes that imperial Greek temporality was more complex than previously allowed by detailing how cultural output used the past to position itself within tradition but was crafted to speak to the future.

This edited volume explores the connection between the rule of law and substantive standards of treatment in international investment agreements. It also analyses to what extent these standards of treatment can be understood as positive expressions of the rule of law.

For thousands of years, reparations have been used to alleviate the devastating consequences of war. More recently, human rights law has established that victims have a right to reparations. Yet, in the face of conflicts that last for decades with millions of victims, how feasible it is to deliver reparations? And what are the obstacles?

Drawing on work across philosophy, the law, and social psychology, Jennifer Lackey shows how in the American criminal legal system testimony is extracted from individuals through processes that are coercive, manipulative, or deceptive. She urges the need to respect the epistemic agency of each participant in the system.

John Bishop and Ken Perszyk argue that it is reasonable to reject the standard conception of a personal 'omniGod'. They present an alternative view, 'euteleology': reality is inherently purposive, and the universe exists ultimately because its overall end, which is the supreme good, is made concretely real within it.

This contemporary guide is packed full of expert tips and suggestions which will provide the reader with the means and motivation to write better scientific papers that are more likely to be read and have impact.

This edition presents the complete works of Geoffrey Chaucer to a new generation of students and scholars. It provides all that undergraduates and graduate students will need to understand and appreciate Chaucer in his original Middle English, as well as an extensive scholarly apparatus.

Gastrointestinal surgery (GI) is performed for a range of benign and malignant diseases in both elective and emergency settings. This volume covers the surgery and management of the pancreas, including acute and chronic pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer.

This book challenges the assumption that authoritarianism is a phenomenon located at the level of the state, and that states as a whole are therefore either democratic or authoritarian. It offers a framework for recognizing and analysing contemporary manifestations of authoritarianism beyond the state, alongside a number of empirical case studies.

Gastrointestinal surgery (GI) is performed for a range of benign and malignant diseases in both elective and emergency settings. This volume covers the surgery and management of the duodenum and small bowel, including anatomy and physiology, paediatric and adult disease, benign, infectious and neoplastic disease, and surgical techniques.

A joint biography of the literary marriage between Scottish poet, novelist, and translator Edwin Muir (1887-1959) and Scottish novelist, essayist, and translator Willa Muir (1890-1970).

This book examines how ideas about crime and judicial procedure that had developed in a domestic context influenced the representation and understanding of war crimes trials, victims of war crimes, and war criminals in post-WW II Britain. The depiction of Belsen concentration camp and the subsequent British-run trial are a focal point.

This book investigates the phenomenon of actuality inferences, in which claims of ability are interpreted as descriptions of actual events, instead of as descriptions of potentiality or possibility. The findings contribute to a growing body of research in which computational models serve as an analytic tool for lexical and compositional semantics.

This book explores how schoolchildren and adolescents employ language in different communicative settings. The authors demonstrate how language development is affected by the language and culture in which it evolves, and use brain studies to provide a deeper explanation of developmental changes in language behavior.

This volume shows how late medieval dream-poetry explored problems arising from the reception of Aristotle's philosophical work concerning human knowledge. Marco Nievergelt explores how the work of three medieval poets in the genre of allegorical fiction addressed these problems in distinctive, non-academic terms.

Energy capacity mechanisms have become a key feature in member states' energy markets and thus a significant topic in European regulatory debate. This second edition provides a thorough and up-to-date explanation of how capacity mechanisms work, their market implications, and the possible consequences for the European internal electricity market.

Based around seven primary texts spanning 130 years, this volume explores the conceptual boundaries of structuralism, a scholarly movement and associated body of doctrines foundational to modern linguistics and many other humanities and social sciences.

This book tells the story of idealism in modern philosophy, from the seventeenth century to the turn of the twenty-first. Guyer and Horstmann discuss many philosophers who have played a role in the development of idealism, including Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Wittgenstein.

This monograph provides an introduction to field-theoretic simulations in classical soft matter and Bose quantum fluids. The method represents a new class of molecular computer simulation in which continuous fields, rather than particle coordinates, are sampled and evolved.

Life in Groups develops and applies Margaret Gilbert's influential perspective on topics to do with joint commitment: collective beliefs and intentions; rational choice and preference; group lies and corporate misbehavior; remorse and other emotions; rights, obligations, and freedom.

This book documents the interrogative system of Ikpana, an endangered indigenous Ghana-Togo Mountain language of eastern Ghana. It encompasses both syntactic and phonological aspects of question formation, and draws on original fieldwork and a combination of formal/theoretical and experimental methodologies.

Selfless Minds is a contribution to cross-cultural philosophy that studies the nature of selfless minds from a place at the crossroads of different traditions and disciplines: philosophy in the traditional Buddhist and contemporary Western traditions, and contemporary cognitive sciences.