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    • MacAskill, Michael; Bykvist, Krister; Ord, Toby (2020)
      Very often, we’re uncertain about what we ought, morally, to do. We don’t know how to weigh the interests of animals against humans, or how strong our duties are to improve the lives of distant strangers, or how to think ...
    • Malamidis, Haris (2020)
      Social Movements and Solidarity Structures in Crisis-Ridden Greece explores the rich grassroots experience of social movements in Greece between 2008 and 2016. The harsh conditions of austerity triggered the rise of vibrant ...
    • McDonagh, Philip; Manocha, Kishan; Neary, John; Vazquez Mendoza, Lucia (2021)
      "What could it mean, in terms of strengthening multilateral diplomacy, if the UN, the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the European Union, and other regional diplomatic frameworks engaged more ...
    • Steffen, Megan (2019)
      What exactly is a crowd? How do crowds differ from other large gatherings of people? And how do they transform emotions, politics, or faith? In Crowds, contributors draw on their experiences and expertise to reflect on ...
    • Kopp, Ekkehard (2020)
      "Making up Numbers: A History of Invention in Mathematics offers a detailed but accessible account of a wide range of mathematical ideas. Starting with elementary concepts, it leads the reader towards aspects of current ...
    • Robertson, Stephen (2020)
      "The idea that the digital age has revolutionized our day-to-day experience of the world is nothing new, and has been amply recognized by cultural historians. In contrast, Stephen Robertson’s BC: Before Computers is a work ...
    • Sturdy, Steve (2020)
      Numerous studies describe the genetic make-up of populations living outside Europe and North America. Many of these tackle human genetic variation with the explicit aim of identifying gene variants of medical significance ...
    • Lahusen, Christian (2021)
      This book unveils the significant impact of the European integration process on the political thinking of European citizens. With close attention to the interrelation between social and political divisions, it shows that ...
    • Gaudillière, Jean-Paul; Beaudevin, Claire; Gradmann, Christoph; Lovell, Anne; Pordié, Laurent (2020)
      What does global health stem from, when is it born, how does it relate to the contemporary world order? This book explores the origins of global health, a new regime of health intervention in countries of the global South, ...
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      This chapter presents an overview of the period of transition in British India which led to the Indianisation of the Civil Services and saw the emergence of Indian administrators who represented India in International ...
    • Das Gupta, Amit (2021)
      Nehruvian Diplomacy, Indian diplomacy, Cold War politics, decolonisation, British India, World War II, Gandhi
    • Basu, Soumita; Kirby, Paul C.; Shepherd, Laura C. (2020)
      Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. The Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda is rooted in international law – notably international humanitarian law, human rights and international criminal law. UNSCR 1325 ...
    • Carroll, Timothy; Walford, Antonia; Walton, Shireen (2021)
      This volume comprises a curated conversation between members of the Material Culture Section of University College London Anthropology. In laying out the state of play in the field, it challenges how the anthropology of ...
    • Basu, Soumita; Kirby, Paul C.; Shepherd, Laura C. (2020)
      "Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. The Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda, associated with the United Nations Security Council resolutions of a similar name, is widely recognized as the most significant ...
    • Maliepaard, Emiel; Baumgartner, Renate (2021)
      "Bisexuality in Europe offers an accessible and diverse overview of research on bisexuality and bi+ people in Europe, providing a foundation for theorising and empirical work on plurisexual orientations and identities, and ...
    • Slaton, Amy (2020)
      This edited volume gathers eight cases of industrial materials development, broadly conceived, from North America, Europe and Asia over the last 200 years. Whether given utility as building parts, fabrics, pharmaceuticals, ...
    • Baines, Donna; Cunningham, Ian (2020)
      Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. How to do more with less? This is, essentially, austerity’s onerous question. Its default answer, in turn, has been to defer, download and outsource the burden of being ...
    • Losano, Mario G.; Duve, Thomas; Vogenauer, Stefan (2020)
      The three defeated Axis powers – Japan, Italy and Germany – incorporated a prohibition on wars of aggression into their democratic constitutions. This book covers the years of the Nuremberg and Tokyo Trials and the constituent ...
    • Duve, Thomas; Vogenauer, Stefan (2020)
      Ecclesiastical institutions and actors were essential for the for-mation of normative orders in early modern Ibero-America. In a series of seminars, organised by the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History in Mexico ...
    • Braun, Johanna (2020)
      "We seem to be living in hysterical times. A simple Google search reveals the sheer bottomless well of “hysterical” discussions on diverse topics such as the #metoo movement, Trumpianism, border wars, Brexit, transgender ...