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This textbook is designed to introduce the reader to important and emerging issues in contemporary environmental law, policy, and economics, and environmental science. It addresses both classical chemical pollutants and greenhouse gases, explains the major environmental law statutes.

This work is a critical edition and translation with commentary on one of the most important surviving Anglo-Saxon historical documents, The Peterborough Chronicle. 

This work is a critical edition and translation with commentary on one of the most important surviving Anglo-Saxon historical documents, The Peterborough Chronicle.

Jean Lescure’s General and Periodic Crises of Overproduction is a pioneering study of the causes and consequences of industrial crises in capitalist economies in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It was updated periodically through five editions and now appears in English for the first time.

This book illustrates and celebrates Professor Jonathan Steinberg’s – a celebrated historian of modern Europe, especially Germany, Italy, Austria and Switzerland – contributions to historical practice. Professor Steinberg embraced methodological pluralism and pioneered comparative history, exploring the past through a multi-valent lens that examined the interplay between personalities, nations, and traditions.

'US consular representation in Britain since 1790' is a history of US consular activities in the UK, which began in 1790 and continue to the present with consulates general in Edinburgh and Belfast. It also contains many previously unpublished illustrations.

The book provides a series of innovative studies of the treatment of major issues by philosophers ranging from classical antiquity to the present day.

A comprehensive study of war, population and statehood in Eastern Europe and Russia, 1918–1924.

Synthesizing the science of nutrition, immunity and evolutionary genetics with a controversial new history of indigenous North America, “Decolonizing the Diet” shows how populations fail to recover from epidemics when their ability to hunt, gather and farm nutritionally dense plants and animals is diminished by war, colonization and cultural destruction.

The Anthem Companion to Émile Durkheim intends to offer different practical attempts to build on Durkheim’s legacy and investigate the issues and controversies that characterise contemporary societies and thus contribute to develop further this path of critical enquiry into ‘classical sociology’.

The Seriality of the One investigates the metaphysical, ontological, and existential significance of the series in dialogue with a constellation of modern and premodern authors, giving special attention to the way seriality mediates and measures the relation between the individual and the universal, uniting by ellipsis the one and the One.

The book describes the domestic and external conditions that shaped the interaction between the United States and the Soviet Union during the 1950s.