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Tracy, Catherine (2021)

Epidicus, a light-hearted comedy by Plautus about the machinations of a trickster slave and the inadequacies of his bumbling masters, appears here in both its original Latin and a sparkling new translation by Catherine ...

Alliances, Nuclear Weapons and Escalation

Frühling, Stephan; O'Neil, Andrew (2021)

In an era of great power competition, the role of alliances in managing escalation of conflict has acquired renewed importance. Nuclear weapons remain the ultimate means for deterrence and controlling escalation, and are ...

Wampar–English Dictionary with an English–Wampar finder list

Beer, Bettina; Fischer, Hans (2021)

This ethnographic dictionary is the result of Hans Fischer's long-term fieldwork among the Wampar, who occupy the middle Markham Valley in Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea (PNG). Their language, Dzob Wampar, belongs to ...

Japan at War and Peace

Hattori, Ryuji (2021)

The question of how to maintain the continuity of diplomacy while developing democracy without military intervention is an old and new issue. The challenge can be described as a dilemma between democracy and diplomatic ...

Fighting Australia's Cold War

Dean, Peter; Moss, Tristan (2021)

In the first two decades of the Cold War, Australia fought in three conflicts and prepared to fight in a possible wider conflagration in Southeast Asia and the Pacific. In Korea, Malaya and Borneo, Australian forces ...

Rote-Meto Comparative Dictionary

Edwards, Owen (2021)

This comparative dictionary provides a bottom-up reconstruction of the Rote‑Meto languages of western Timor. Rote-Meto is one low-level Austronesian subgroup of eastern Indonesia/Timor-Leste. It contains 1,174 reconstructions ...

Grave Reminders

Turner, Daniel R. (2020)

From ca. 1600 – 1000 BC, builders across southern Greece crafted thousands of rock-cut chamber tombs similar to earlier and contemporary ‘beehive’ tholos tombs. Both tomb styles were designed with multiple uses in mind, ...

Ethical Issues in Covert, Security and Surveillance Research

Iphofen, Ron; O’Mathúna, Dónal (2022)

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. The EU-funded PRO-RES Project aimed to produce a guidance framework that helps to deliver Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI). ...

Vertragliche Rechtsfolge der «Verwendung missbräuchlicher Geschäftsbedingungen»

Pfeiffer, Reto (2021)

This dissertation seeks an answer to the question of what the "contractual legal consequence" - i.e., the effect on the contract - is when parties conclude a contract that contains general terms and conditions that are ...

Warez

Eve, Martin Paul (2021)

When most people think of piracy, they think of Bittorrent and The Pirate Bay. These public manifestations of piracy, though, conceal an elite worldwide, underground, organized network of pirate groups who specialize in ...

Improving Frontline Responses to Domestic Violence in Europe

Lobnikar, Branko; Vogt, Catharina; Kersten, Joachim (2021)

The monograph on improving the response of first responders to domestic violence in Europe aims to identify gaps in the cooperation of first-line responders and deliver recommendations, toolkits and collaborative training ...

Chapter Introduction

Łuszczyńska, Maria (2021)

With a focus on the case of Poland, where an aging population poses a crucial challenge for the state’s social, family, and gerontological policy, this book explores ageing as a personal and social phenomenon, considering ...

Ageing as a Social Challenge

Łuszczyńska, Maria (2021)

With a focus on the case of Poland, where an aging population poses a crucial challenge for the state’s social, family, and gerontological policy, this book explores ageing as a personal and social phenomenon, considering ...