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Who Should We Be Online? examines how power and social inequality shape knowledge and fuel misinformation on the internet. Drawing on numerous case studies, Frost-Arnold proposes structural and individual changes to make the internet more conducive to knowledge production and sharing.

Elite philanthropy has produced countless essential features of modern life. Today, for-profit philanthropic innovations like donor-advised funds threaten its future. In For-Profit Philanthropy, Dana Brakman Reiser and Steven A. Dean reveal that philanthropy law has operated as strategic compromise, binding ordinary Americans and elites together in a common purpose. The authors start with an overview of the size and role of the philanthropic sector in the United States and then discuss changes in the regulatory environment that has facilitated new forms of philanthropic organizations. Private ordering, targeted regulation, or a new strategic bargain could strike a modern balance, preserving the benefits of the Grand Bargain's partnership between the modest and the mighty, and this book offers a detailed roadmap to show how it can be accomplished.

There is much more to being a college professor than just teaching and doing research. Most new faculty struggle because they have to figure out how to juggle a complex mix of activities that are dominated by the human and institutional structures they live within--from departments up to international professional communities. Your Future as a Faculty Member: How to Survive and Thrive in Academia discusses these human elements that are core to surviving and thriving as a faculty member. It guides readers through lessons in building successful and supportive relationships with communities of students, campus colleagues, professional peers, and university administrative and support staff.

This volume reflects the multiplicity of English poetry between 1100 and 1400. The chapters focus on the historical, linguistic, and poetic transitions of the period, including major innovations and developments in language, topics, poetic forms, and means of expression.

In The Oxford Handbook of Expertise and Democratic Politics, Gil Eyal and Thomas Medvetz have brought together a broad group of scholars who have engaged substantively and theoretically with debates regarding the nature of expertise and the social roles of experts to examines these areas within sociology and allied disciplines. The analyses take an historical and relational approach to the topic and are motivated by the sense that growing mistrust in experts represents a danger to democratic politics today. Bringing together investigations from social scientists, philosophers, and legal scholars into the political dimensions of expertise, this Handbook connects interdisciplinary work done in science and technology studies with the more classic concerns, topics, and concepts of sociologists of professions and intellectuals.

R. H. Charles: A Biography situates Charles's work in the history of biblical scholarship. Drawing on material stored in several archives and other sources it provides an account of his early life and education in Ireland, devotes a section to his Oxford years, and furnishes a biographical overview of his work as a canon of Westminster.

Of all the characters bequeathed to us by the Hebrew Bible, none is more compelling or complex than David. This study traces the language of 'innocent blood' and 'bloodguilt' through David's story in the books of Samuel and 1 Kings, to understand how this concept shapes the entirety of David's history.

How did charismatic renewal transform the churches in the twentieth century, moving from the periphery to the mainstream? In Age of the Spirit, John Maiden looks at the rise of charismatic Christianity before, during, and after the 'long 1960s' across the English-speaking world.

When, why, and how are people motivated? This is the essential question that motivation science has sought to address since the field's inception, and yet motivation scientists have offered many contrasting and even conflicting perspectives that have stalled some key conversations in the research. This volume captures the nature of these critical debates, while also moving the field towards greater coherence by bringing different perspectives together in one volume. Posing 10 fundamental questions to 57 prominent motivation researchers around the globe, Motivation Science: Controversies and Insights covers topics such as the nature of motivation, cultural differences in motivational processes, evidence-based strategies to enhance motivation, and predictions for the future of the field.

The Jurassic Coast in the United Kingdom is a World Heritage Site and one of the most important geological and geomorphological locations on earth. Geological Pioneers of the Jurassic Coast examines the lives and achievements of over forty pioneering researchers of the area. Progressing chronologically, the book tells the stories of fossil collectors, geological mappers, stratigraphers, and paleontologists from the seventeenth century to today.

The Ohio State Constitution is the long-awaited, thoroughly updated edition of the most comprehensive volume on the history and development of the Constitution of the State of Ohio. From 2004 to 2021, it covers 16 constitutional amendments, over 100 Ohio Supreme Court decisions interpreting the Ohio constitution, and discusses key updates to the constitution by the Ohio Constitutional Modernization Commission that operated between 2013 and 2017.

This is the first comparative edition of Religio Medici ever to appear. It includes the 1643 authorized print version as well as the first manuscript witness and a representative of several middle-stage witnesses, to offer an authoritative overview of the evolution of this remarkable and influential work.

This book brings together fourteen essays by Christopher Janaway on the philosophy of Schopenhauer and Nietzsche. They illuminate central philosophical issues in the work of these thinkers - the death of God, the meaning of existence, suffering, compassion, the will, Christian values, the affirmation or negation of life.

The Oxford Handbook of Portuguese Politics brings together the best scholars in the field offering an unrivalled coverage of the politics of the country over the past 50 years. The eight sections examine historical background, institutions, policymaking, European integration, and defence, amongst others.

The Insanity Defence provides an essential comparative perspective on the theory and practice of the insanity defence in both common law and civil law jurisdictions. It is a companion volume to Fitness to Plead (OUP 2018) by the same editors and is written and edited by a team of leading experts in the field.

A. A. Long presents fourteen essays on the themes of selfhood and rationality in ancient Greek philosophy, ranging over seven centuries of innovative thought. He shows how the notion of a rational self was bound up with questions about divinity and happiness, and draws out the relevance of the book's themes for modern discussions of the self.

Explores the notion of the bystander in the Nuclear Age by focusing on the Italian situation as a paradigmatic case. It re-frames Italy's mix of implication and powerlessness not only as a geopolitical question, but as a way to re-think the role of the side-lined intellectual in the face of mass extinction.

Sentencing and Human Rights develops a systematic account of the importance of human rights principles at sentencing stage. It examines how principles of legality, proportionality, equality, and judicial responsibility may be expected to limit sentencing practices and suggests that the concept of state punishment needs to be reconsidered.

Aesthetic judgements that are formed on the basis of testimony are commonly held to be defective, illegitimate, or otherwise problematic. But Jon Robson argues that aesthetic testimony is in no way inferior as a source of judgement when compared to either first-hand aesthetic judgement or testimony concerning non-aesthetic matters.

This third edition of the leading work on the Law of Rescission has been updated to consider the impact of new technology, such as machine generated contracts, as well as new legislation and case law.

This book provides a systematic account of the role of distributive justice in the normative legitimation of liberal constitutions. The requirements of distributive justice are highly contested, and constitutions are susceptible to influencing those they govern. Rosenfeld suggests that liberal constitutions must incorporate "justice essentials".

This Handbook presents and analyses contemporary South Korean politics, bringing together domestic political, economic, social cultural, and demographic developments and putting them in the context of trends in fellow developed countries.

Policing and punishment, once regarded as central to the state's power and its monopoly on violence, are increasingly outsourced to private providers. This collection of essays explores the growing use of the private sector and private actors in border control, and its implications for our understanding of state sovereignty and citizenship.

This book examines the response of financial regulators to the problem of banks being 'too big to fail'. David Howarth and Scott James explore the politics of bank structural reform across six key jurisdictions, and propose a novel framework for analysing the influence of financial industry influence.

In the period 1575-1625, civic peace in England, Scotland, and Ireland was persistently threatened by various kinds of religiously inspired violence, involving conspiracies, rebellions, and foreign invasions. This study seeks to understand how this was addressed in local communities, between the three nations, and more broadly, across Europe.

Judging the Law of the Sea focusses on the development of law by examining how Judges interpret and apply the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea. The book analyses the decisions to date, assessing their influence on the law of the sea. It also considers what role Judges play in reaching decisions to resolve international disputes.

Discusses how modernist techniques for depicting characters' thoughts, feelings, and desires have been reinvented by some of the most influential and innovative writers of the postwar period, including Vladimir Nabokov, Samuel Beckett, Toni Morrison, John Banville, J. M. Coetzee, and Eimear McBride.