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In Wuhan: How the COVID-19 Outbreak in China Spiraled Out of Control Dali L. Yang provides a definitive account of China's response to the Covid-19 outbreak in Wuhan. Examining the first six months of the outbreak, Yang details the government's handling of information about the epidemic and the decisions that shaped the scale and scope of the outbreak. Not just an unprecedented portrait of China's initial response to what quickly turned into a global pandemic, Yang provides a genuinely unique window into how the Chinese communist regime governs.

There is no more important issue at present than artificial intelligence. AI has begun to penetrate almost every sphere of human activity. It will disrupt our lives entirely. David Edmonds brings together a team of leading philosophers to explore some of the urgent moral concerns we should have about this revolution.

Selfish Genes to Social Beings is a new history of life told from a different perspective: cooperation. Beginning with the heroic story of rescuers in the post-earthquake rubble of Mexico City, Jonathan Slivertown reveals the universal rules of cooperation that apply throughout the history of life.

This is the third and final volume of a new verse translation of the complete plays of Aristophanes by Stephen Halliwell. The translations combine accuracy with an attempt to capture the rich dramatic and literary qualities of Aristophanic comedy.

This translation of twenty tales shows Maupassant at his bitter, bawdy, chilling best. It features some of his grimmest and most famous stories such as A Vendetta and The Grove of Olives, and it also reflects both his moods and his mastery of the short story.

This book shows why it is that Dostoevsky became the writer best known for his treatment of the big questions of ethics, religion, and philosophy through an incisive analysis of Dostoevsky's stories within the context of their time.

The New Oxford Shakespeare edition of Romeo and Juliet provides a fresh and authoritative introduction to one of Shakespeare's most famous tragedies.

The New Oxford Shakespeare edition of The Tempest provides a friendly yet authoritative introduction to Shakespeare's famous play.

A new edition of one of Shakespeare's most complex and enigmatic plays.

The New Oxford Shakespeare edition of Henry IV Part I provides a friendly yet authoritative introduction to Shakespeare's famous history play.

The New Oxford Shakespeare edition of As You Like It provides a friendly yet authoritative introduction to Shakespeare's beloved comedy.

The New Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative editions of Shakespeare's works with introductory materials designed to encourage new interpretations of the plays and poems.

A uniquely prismatic representation of total solar eclipses, this volume invites us to imagine a liberated mode of discovery, perception, creativity, and knowledge-production across the traditional academic divisions.

State responses to terrorism have shaped politics and society globally. But how far, and in what precise ways, has counter-terrorism actually succeeded? This book offers an historically-grounded, systematic, and expert interrogation of the effectiveness of state responses to terrorist violence from one of the world's leading experts on terrorism.

This account of George Eliot's spiritual life reveals a writer who devoted the full span of her career to imagining a wide religious sensibility that could inform personal and social life. As we range among Eliot's many literary works, we encounter someone whose extraordinary art and intellect offers us company in the search for modern meaning.

When a meteor crashes into a woodland, some of the residents find that they have gained strange new superpowers. Some will use it for evil, but others, like Sonny the Squirrel, will always use his super size and strength for good. A graphic novel series full of supersized heart, adventure, and laughs!

By telling the whole story of how a disease develops, how it is diagnosed, and how it is treated, Biology of Disease provides students with the integrated understanding of both the molecular and clinical aspects of diseases that they will need to succeed as practising biomedical scientists.

Forbidden Desire is a pioneering study of the history of male-male sex in the whole of Early Modern Europe, including the European colonies and the Ottoman world.

The first comparative and pan-European study of the Big Three's involvement in Resistance movements across wartime Europe. From Yugoslavia to Poland and from Greece to France and Italy, the book vividly depicts and sharply analyses how this proxy war shaped the history of the post-war settlement.

Introduction to Management is a uniquely accesible and engaging companion to managing in the real world. Placing issues of digital, environmental, and social disruption at centre-stage, it guides students through the varied and complex reality of management with ease, encouraging them to develop their own critical view of this dynamic area.

This volume provides an accessible, English prose translation of Wace's Roman de Brut, in which Arthur appears for the first time as king of the Britons.

Comprising fifteen essays by leading authorities in the history of mathematics, this volume aims to exemplify the richness, diversity, and breadth of mathematical practice from the seventeenth century through to the middle of the nineteenth century.

When Emerald finds a precious teddy lying in a clump of seaweed, she's tempted to keep it for herself, but the tag says it belongs to a human called Jack. Emerald asks her land-loving friend, Isadora Moon, and Isadora's cousin, Mirabelle, to help her return it and together they embark on an exciting adventure across the land and sea!

Rudy and Femi have been invited to Edie's birthday party! But ghost parties are a little different to what they're used to, and there are spooky pranks, ghastly games, and a hunt for a missing poltergeist to deal with. Will they conquer their fears and give Edie the best birthday ever? Prepare for a hauntingly good time with Rudy and his friends.

When Isadora's mum gets fairy flu, Isadora is determined to be the best nurse possible. But Isadora's attempts to help go a bit wrong, and she accidentally makes baby sister Honeyblossom magically grow to giant proportions! Can she find a cure before the situation gets even bigger?

Join Evie and her best friend Dr Dino on an incredible adventure, and learn all about space along the way.

Come on a llama chase with two friends around the city! There are wild and wacky animals to discover around every corner. But are any of them llamas? And can you follow the clues to where they might really be?A hilarious caper all about animal recognition with a fun fact file at the end of the book.