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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.In The Rules of Rescue, Theron Pummer argues that we are often morally required to engage in effective altruism, directing altruistic efforts in ways that help the most. Even when the personal sacrifice involved makes it morally permissible not to help at all, he contends, it often remains wrong to provide less help rather than more. He argues that the ubiquity of opportunities to help distant strangers threatens to make morality extremely demanding, and that it is only thanks to adequate permissions grounded in considerations of cost and autonomy that we may pursue our own plans and projects. He concludes that many of us are required to provide no less help over our lives than we would have done if we were effective altruists.

Healing Hearts and Minds offers hope for people living with Congenital Heart Disease (CHD) by providing comprehensive information, self-care guides, coping skills and strategies to thrive as well as giving support for loved ones and health care providers. Thanks to remarkable medical advancements in the past 50 years, babies born today with CHD have a good chance of surviving, but many may face surgeries, invasive treatments, lifelong monitoring, medical check-ups, and significant limitations on physical activity throughout their entire lives. While much attention has rightly been focused on the medical needs of these children, very little has been given to the psychosocial impacts of living with a chronic medical condition - until now.

Claims about the activities of fifth columns are experiencing an upsurge in our era of democratic erosion and geopolitical uncertainty. This pathbreaking multidisciplinary volume brings together leading scholars to break new ground in the study of fifth columns and the politics that surround them. It uses an original theoretical framework within the tradition of qualitative social science and analyzes cases from three continents. Enemies Within offers a unique perspective to better understand contemporary challenges including the rise of populism and authoritarianism, the return of chauvinistic nationalism, the weakening of democratic norms, and the persecution of ethnic or religious minorities and political dissidents.

Serving Herself is a comprehensive biography of Althea Gibson, one of the most important figures in African American women's sports history and one of the preeminent athletes of the twentieth century. Offering a portrait of the life and career of a complicated and unconventional figure, this book shows how Gibson reaped rewards as well as remonstrances for her extraordinary sports achievements and life-long defiance of social norms.

The first comprehensive environmental synthesis of the Caribbean region, written by eminent scholars of the topic.

In his lively, accessible Some Versions of Cary Grant, author James Naremore argues for the outsized importance of Cary Grant to the history of film and of Hollywood.

Household Gods is a 300-year story of religious exploration and discovery, as told by early America's first family, the Adamses of Massachusetts, as they navigated faith and doubt in the growing nation--and beyond.

A Practical Guide to Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Neurophysiology and Treatment Studies presents an overview of the use of TMS as both an investigational tool and as treatment for neurological and psychiatric disorders. Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is a widely used non-invasive brain stimulation technique. This up-to-date volume provides a compendious review of the use of TMS and rTMS that will help guide the utility of this methodology inboth clinical and research settings.

In Moderate Conservatism: Reclaiming the Center John Kekes offers a way forward for those who are alarmed by the current state of politics in America. Kekes makes a reasoned case for moderation, the defense of the United States' constitutional democracy, and a criticism of all forms of political extremism. The U.S. political system has endured because the Constitution has guided the balance of the often-conflicting claims of justice, liberty, equality,prosperity, and security on which the well-being of all American citizens depend.

The state is often associated with the use of force. In Capacity beyond Coercion, Susan L. Ostermann explains variation in compliance with conservation, education, and child labor regulations across the open India-Nepal border. In so doing, she demonstrates that coercively weak states can significantly increase compliance by behaving pragmatically and designing legal implementation strategies around known barriers to compliance, such as imperfect legalknowledge. Given that many states have weak enforcement capacity, the findings in this book point a way forward for more effective and responsive governance throughout the developing world.

The idea of facing a court in a foreign country would typically cause serious doubt about whether the foreign legal process and its outcome would be fair. Intolerant Justice examines the political implications of those doubts regarding foreign justice and how they might hinder international cooperation among national legal systems. Should we allow our troops to stand trial in foreign courts? Should we extradite offenders to countries with a poor human rightsrecord? Should we enforce rulings issued by foreign judges? This book examines the domestic political controversies over these sensitive legal questions.

In The Dead Hand's Grip, Adam R. Brown examines constitutional specificity-or length-within American state constitutions as a new way to evaluate how different polities confront how to both control citizens and regulate themselves. He argues argues that constitutional specificity restricts state discretion, with three major results. First, it compels states to rely more frequently on burdensome amendment procedures, increasing constitutional amendmentrates. Second, it increases judicial invalidation rates as state supreme courts enforce narrower limits on state action. Third and most importantly, it results in severely reduced economic performance, with lower incomes, higher unemployment, greater inequality, and reduced policy innovativeness generally. Inshort, long constitutions hurt states.

What's the use of philosophy? Many a philosopher has been asked this question - in either a skeptical or curious tone of voice. Philip Kitcher here aims to grapple with this perhaps most important philosophical question: what the point of philosophy is, and what it should and can be. This short manifesto by an eminent figure should attract wide attention in its urgent and sweeping call for reform.

In Deploying Feminism, Stéfanie von Hlatky tells the story of how the military has been delegated authority to advance gender equality as part of their activities, while simultaneously tackling increasingly complex threats. Drawing upon fieldwork and interviews, von Hlatky argues that there is a distortion of Women, Peace and Security norms, as gender equality concerns fade into the background. Looking at NATO's ongoing operations in Iraq, Kosovo, andthe Baltics, she details the process by which Women, Peace and Security norms are militarized and put at the service of operational effectiveness. Further, it shows why an adjustment is necessary for gender equality to become a true planning priority.

Religion's Power investigates the power dynamics in religious rituals, discourse, institutions, identities, and politics, paying special attention to gender, sexuality, and race.