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Verlag: Oxford University Press Nov 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 0192746103ISBN 13: 9780192746108
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Dax Jones and his friends have amazing supernatural powers. And when you and your mates are able to shapeshift, or move things with your mind, or even talk to the dead, it means life can get a little bit tricky sometimes . . . 288 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Oxford University Press Nov 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 0199655545ISBN 13: 9780199655540
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Charles the king, our emperor great,Has been a full seven years in Spain.As far as the sea he conquered this haughty land.Not a single castle remains standing in his pathCharlemagne (768-814) was crowned Holy Roman Emperor in 800 and presided over a huge empire. He frequently appears in literature as a great warlord and pious crusading figure. In 778, the rearguard of Charlemagne's retreating army was ambushed and defeated at the battle of Roncevaux. This became the inspiration for songs and poems celebrating deeds of valour in the face of overwhelming odds, through the character of Charlemagne's nephew (the imaginary) Roland. The Song of Roland is themost stirring and moving epic poem of the European Middle Ages, offering a particularly heady mixture of history, legend, and poetry.Presented here in a lively and idiomatic new translation, the Song of Roland offers fascinating insights into medieval ideas about heroism, manhood, religion, race, and nationhood which were foundational for modern European culture. The Song of Roland is accompanied here by two other medieval French epics about Charlemagne, both of which show him to be a far more equivocal figure than that portrayed by the Roland: the Occitan Daurel and Beton, in which he is a corrupt andavaricious monarch; and the Journey of Charlemagne to Jerusalem and Constantinople, which gives the heroes of the Roland a comic makeover. 288 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Oxford University Press Nov 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 0198725329ISBN 13: 9780198725329
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Ageing is an activity we are familiar with from an early age. In our younger years upcoming birthdays are anticipated with an excitement that somewhat diminishes as the years progress. As we grow older we are bombarded with advice on ways to overcome, thwart, resist, and, on the rare occasion, embrace, one's ageing. Have all human beings from the various historical epochs and cultures viewed aging with this same ambivalence In this Very Short Introduction Nancy A. Pachana discusses the lifelong dynamic changes in biological, psychological, and social functioning involved in ageing. Increased lifespans in the developed and the developing world have created an urgent need to find ways to enhance our functioning and well-being in the later decades of life, and this need is reflected in policies and action plans addressing our ageing populations from the World Health Organization and the United Nations. Looking to the future, Pachana considers advancements in the provision for our ageing populations, including revolutionary models of nursing home care such as Green House nursing homes in the USA and Small Group Living homes in the Netherlands. She shows that understanding the process of ageing is not only important for individuals, but also for societies and nations, if the full potential of those entering later life is to be realised.ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable. 160 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Oxford University Press Nov 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 0198767471ISBN 13: 9780198767473
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Romans first set military foot on Greek soil in 229 BCE; only sixty or so years later it was all over, and shortly thereafter Greece became one of the first provinces of the emerging Roman Empire. It was an incredible journey - a swift, brutal, and determined conquest of the land to whose art, philosophy, and culture the Romans owed so much.Rome found the eastern Mediterranean divided, in an unstable balance of power, between three great kingdoms - the three Hellenistic kingdoms that had survived and flourished after the wars of Alexander the Great's Successors: Macedon, Egypt, and Syria. Internal troubles took Egypt more or less out of the picture, but the other two were reduced by Rome. Having established itself, by its defeat of Carthage, as the sole superpower in the western Mediterranean, Rome then systematically went aboutdoing the same in the east, until the entire Mediterranean was under her control.Apart from the thrilling military action, the story of the Roman conquest of Greece is central to the story of Rome itself and the empire it created. As Robin Waterfield shows, the Romans developed a highly sophisticated method of dominance by remote control over the Greeks of the eastern Mediterranean - the cheap option of using authority and diplomacy to keep order rather than standing armies. And it is a story that raises a number of fascinating questions about Rome, her empire, and hercivilization. For instance, to what extent was the Roman conquest a planned and deliberate policy What was it about Roman culture that gave it such a will for conquest And what was the effect on Roman intellectual and artistic culture, on their very identity, of their entanglement with an older Greekcivilization, which the Romans themselves recognized as supreme 312 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Oxford University Press Nov 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 0198718748ISBN 13: 9780198718741
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The changes that followed the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 were particularly dramatic for East Germans. With the German Democratic Republic effectively taken over by West Germany in the reunification process, nothing in their lives was immune from change and upheaval: from the way they voted, the newspapers they read, to the brand of butter they bought.But what was it really like to go from living under communism one minute, to capitalism the next What did the East Germans make of capitalism And how do they remember the GDR today Are their memories dominated by fear and loathing of the Stasi state, or do they look back with a measure of fondness and regret on a world of guaranteed employment and a relatively low cost of living This is the story of eight citizens of the former German Democratic Republic, and how these dramatic changes affected them. All of the people in the book were born in East Germany after the Berlin Wall was put up in August 1961, so they knew nothing other than living in a socialist system when the GDR fell apart. Their stories provide a fascinating insight not only into everyday life in East Germany, but about how this now-vanished state is remembered today, a quarter of a century after thefall of the Wall.
Verlag: Oxford University Press Nov 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 0199669104ISBN 13: 9780199669103
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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Tell me, Muse, of the man of many turns, who was driven far and wide after he had sacked the sacred city of Troy'Twenty years after setting out to fight in the Trojan War, Odysseus is yet to return home to Ithaca. His household is in disarray: a horde of over 100 disorderly and arrogant suitors are vying to claim Odysseus' wife Penelope, and his young son Telemachus is powerless to stop them. Meanwhile, Odysseus is driven beyond the limits of the known world, encountering countless divine and earthly challenges. But Odysseus is 'of many wiles' and his cunning and bravery eventually lead him home, to reclaim both his family and his kingdom. The Odyssey rivals the Iliad as the greatest poem of Western culture and is perhaps the most influential text of classical literature. This elegant and compelling new translation is accompanied by a full introduction and notes that guide the reader in understanding the poem and the many different contexts in which it was performed and read.
Verlag: Oxford University Press Nov 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 019401973XISBN 13: 9780194019736
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Kombiprodukt. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Watch your students grow up with Rosie and Ben as they enjoy reading at the right level. The language is carefully graded so the Readers are easy to use alongside any coursebook or for reading alone.
Verlag: Oxford University Press Nov 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 0194019764ISBN 13: 9780194019767
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Kombiprodukt. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Watch your students grow up with Rosie and Ben as they enjoy reading at the right level. The language is carefully graded so the Readers are easy to use alongside any coursebook or for reading alone.
Verlag: Oxford University Press Nov 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 0198367252ISBN 13: 9780198367253
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Build assessment confidence with the step-by-step, practical approach of the Complete Computer Science Revision Guide.
Verlag: Oxford University Press Nov 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 0194505308ISBN 13: 9780194505307
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The English/Arabic dictionary is the core component of the Oxford Picture Dictionary Third Edition program, building students' vocabulary, reading and critical thinking skills for success in their daily lives. It features all of the new content from the monolingual dictionary.
Verlag: Oxford University Press Nov 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 0194505324ISBN 13: 9780194505321
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The English/Vietnamese dictionary is the core component of the Oxford Picture Dictionary Third Edition program, building students' vocabulary, reading, and critical thinking skills for success in their daily lives. It features all of the new content from the monolingual dictionary.
Verlag: Oxford University Press Nov 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 0194505332ISBN 13: 9780194505338
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The English/French dictionary is the core component of the Oxford Picture Dictionary Third Edition program, building students' vocabulary, reading, and critical thinking skills for success in their daily lives. It features all of the new content from the monolingual dictionary.
Verlag: Oxford University Press Nov 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 0194511243ISBN 13: 9780194511247
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Reinforce everything your low-beginner students are learning with activities that follow the Oxford Picture Dictionary Third Edition page-by-page.
Verlag: Oxford University Press Nov 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 0198725124ISBN 13: 9780198725121
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Two fish are swimming in a pond. 'Do you know what ' the fish asks his friend. 'No, tell me.' 'I was talking to a frog the other day. And he told me that we are surrounded by water!' His friend looks at him with great scepticism: 'Water Whats that Show me some water!'International lawyers often find themselves focused on the practice of the law rather than the underlying theories. This book is an attempt to stir up 'the water' that international lawyers swim in. It analyses a range of theoretical approaches to international law and invites readers to engage with different ways of legal thinking in order to familiarize themselves with the water all around us, of which we hardly have any perception.The main aim of this book is to provide interested scholars, practitioners, and students of international law and other disciplines with an introduction to various international legal theories, their genealogies, and possible critiques. By providing an analytical approach to international legal theory, the book encourages readers to enhance their sensitivity to these different approaches and to consider how the presuppositions behind each theory affect analysis, research, and practice ininternational law. International Law Theories is intended to assist students, scholars, and practitioners in reflecting more generally about how knowledge is formed in the field.
Verlag: Oxford University Press Nov 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 0199674442ISBN 13: 9780199674442
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Biomedical scientists are the foundation of modern healthcare, from cancer screening to diagnosing HIV, from blood transfusion for surgery to food poisoning and infection control. Without biomedical scientists, the diagnosis of disease, the evaluation of the effectiveness of treatment, and research into the causes and cures of disease would not be possible. The Fundamentals of Biomedical Science series has been written to reflect the challenges of practicing biomedical science today. It draws together essential basic science with insights into laboratory practice to show how an understanding of the biology of disease is coupled to the analytical approaches that lead to diagnosis. Assuming only a minimum of prior knowledge, the series reviews the full range of disciplines to which a Biomedical Scientist may be exposed - from microbiology to cytopathology to transfusion science.Clinical Biochemistry provides a clear and comprehensive introduction to the biochemical basis of disease processes, and how these diseases can be investigated in the biomedical laboratory. New clinical case studies have been added to the second edition, to further emphasize the link between theory and practice and help engage students with the subject.
Verlag: Oxford University Press Nov 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 0198727879ISBN 13: 9780198727873
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The ideal course companion, Elements of Physical Chemistry is written specifically with the needs of undergraduate students in mind, and provides extensive mathematical and pedagogical support while remaining concise and accessible. For the seventh edition of this much-loved text, the material has been reorganized into short Topics, which are grouped into thematic Focus sections to make the text more digestible for students, and more flexible for lecturers to teach from. At the beginning of each topic, three questions are posed, emphasizing why it is important, what the key idea is, and what the student should already know. Throughout the text, equations are clearly labeled and annotated, and detailed 'justification' boxes are provided to help students understand the crucial mathematics which underpins physical chemistry. Furthermore, Chemist's Toolkits provide succinct reminders of key mathematical techniques exactly where they are needed in the text. Frequent worked examples, in addition to self-test questions and end-of-focus exercises, help students to gain confidence and experience in solving problems. This diverse suite of pedagogical features, alongside an appealing design and layout, make Elements of Physical Chemistry the ideal course text for those studying this core branch of chemistry for the first time.Online Resource Centre:For registered adopters of the book: Figures and tables of data from the book, ready to download. A test bank of additional multiple-choice questions, linked to relevant sections of the book For students: Multiple choice questions to support self-directed learning.
Verlag: Oxford University Press Nov 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 0198715536ISBN 13: 9780198715535
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This is the first definitive introduction to behavioral economics aimed at advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students. Authoritative, cutting edge, yet accessible, it guides the reader through theory and evidence, providing engaging and relevant applications throughout. It is divided into nine parts and 24 chapters: Part I is on behavioral economics of risk, uncertainty, and ambiguity. The evidence against expected utility theory is examined, and the behavioral response is outlined; the best empirically supported theory is prospect theory. Part II considers other-regarding preferences. The evidence from experimental games on human sociality is given, followed by models and applications of inequity aversion, intentions based reciprocity, conditional cooperation, human virtues, and social identity. Part III is on time discounting. It considers the evidence against the exponential discounted utility model and describes several behavioral models such as hyperbolic discounting, attribute based models and the reference time theory. Part IV describes the evidence on classical game theory and considers several models of behavioral game theory, including level-k and cognitive hierarchy models, quantal response equilibrium, and psychological game theory. Part V considers behavioral models of learning that include evolutionary game theory, classical models of learning, experience weighted attraction model, learning direction theory, and stochastic social dynamics. Part VI studies the role of emotions; among other topics it considers projection bias, temptation preferences, happiness economics, and interaction between emotions and cognition. Part VII considers bounded rationality. The three main topics considered are judgment heuristics and biases, mental accounting, and behavioral finance. Part VIII considers behavioral welfare economics; the main topics are soft paternalism, and choice-based measures of welfare. Finally, Part IX gives an abbreviated taster course in neuroeconomics.
Verlag: Oxford University Press Nov 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 019878323XISBN 13: 9780198783237
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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Oxford Centre for Criminology, this edited collection of essays seeks to explore the changing contours of criminal justice over the past half century and to consider possible shifts over the next few decades.The question of how social science disciplines develop and change does not invite any easy answer, with the task made all the more difficult given the highly politicised nature of some subjects and the volatile, evolving status of its institutions and practices. A case in point is criminal justice: at once fairly parochial, much criminal justice scholarship is now global in its reach and subject areas that are now accepted as central to its study - victims, restorative justice, security,privatization, terrorism, citizenship and migration (to name just a few) - were topics unknown to the discipline half a century ago. Indeed, most criminologists would have once stoutly denied that they had anything to do with it. Likewise, some central topics of past criminological attention, likeprobation, have largely receded from academic attention and some central criminal justice institutions, like Borstal and corporal punishment, have, at least in Europe, been abolished. Although the rapidity and radical nature of this change make it quite impossible to predict what criminal justice will look like in fifty years' time, reflection on such developments may assist in understanding how it arrived at its current form and hint at what the future holds.The contributors to this volume have been invited to reflect on the impact Oxford criminology has had on the discipline, providing a unique and critical discussion about the current state of criminal justice around the world and the origins and future implications of contemporary practice. All are leading internationally-renowned criminologists whose work has defined and often re-defined our understanding of criminal justice policy and literature.
Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc Nov 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 0190602392ISBN 13: 9780190602390
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Over the coming decades, Artificial Intelligence will profoundly impact the way we live, work, wage war, play, seek a mate, educate our young, and care for our elderly. It is likely to greatly increase our aggregate wealth, but it will also upend our labor markets, reshuffle our social order, and strain our private and public institutions. Eventually it may alter how we see our place in the universe, as machines pursue goals independent of their creators andoutperform us in domains previously believed to be the sole dominion of humans. Whether we regard them as conscious or unwitting, revere them as a new form of life or dismiss them as mere clever appliances, is beside the point. They are likely to play an increasingly critical and intimate role in manyaspects of our lives.The emergence of systems capable of independent reasoning and action raises serious questions about just whose interests they are permitted to serve, and what limits our society should place on their creation and use. Deep ethical questions that have bedeviled philosophers for ages will suddenly arrive on the steps of our courthouses. Can a machine be held accountable for its actions Should intelligent systems enjoy independent rights and responsibilities, or are they simple property Whoshould be held responsible when a self-driving car kills a pedestrian Can your personal robot hold your place in line, or be compelled to testify against you If it turns out to be possible to upload your mind into a machine, is that still you The answers may surprise you. 192 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Nov 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 019872814XISBN 13: 9780198728146
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - William and Dorothy Wordsworth is the first literary biography of the Wordsworths' creative collaboration. Using poems, letters, journals, memoirs, and biographies, it plots the intertwined lives of the Wordsworth siblings and their writing.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Nov 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 0190468882ISBN 13: 9780190468880
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Addressing a marginalized era of Greek and Roman history, Taken at the Flood offers a compelling narrative of Rome's conquest of Greece.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Nov 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 0198739680ISBN 13: 9780198739685
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Describes and illustrates epidemiology and its applications to policy making, health service planning, and health promotion. The book emphasises interactive learning, with each chapter including learning objectives, theoretical and numerical exercises, questions and answers, and a summary.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Nov 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 0199639604ISBN 13: 9780199639601
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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book guides the reader in the analysis of big-data by providing theoretical and practical instruments to tame the complexity of such systems. Together with support provided by the companion website, it constitutes a simple and useful handbook for data analysts.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Nov 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 0190281065ISBN 13: 9780190281069
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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - How do 'minds' work In Exploring Robotic Minds: Actions, Symbols, and Consciousness as Self-Organizing Dynamic Phenomena, Jun Tani answers this fundamental question by reviewing his own pioneering neurorobotics research project.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, OUP Oxford Nov 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 0198712642ISBN 13: 9780198712640
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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Subjective accounts of well-being and reasons for action have a remarkable pedigree. The idea that normativity flows from what an agent cares about-that something is valuable because it is valued-has appealed to a wide range of great thinkers. But at the same time this idea has seemed to many of the best minds in ethics to be outrageous or worse, not least because it seems to threaten the status of morality. Mutual incomprehension looms over the discussion. FromValuing to Value, written by an influential former critic of subjectivism, owns up to the problematic features to which critics have pointed while arguing that such criticisms can be blunted and the overall view rendered defensible. In this collection of his essays David Sobel does not shrink fromacknowledging the real tension between subjective views of reasons and morality, yet argues that such a tension does not undermine subjectivism. In this volume the fundamental commitments of subjectivism are clarified and revealed to be rather plausible and well-motivated, while the most influential criticisms of subjectivism are straightforwardly addressed and found wanting.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, OUP USA Nov 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 0841231222ISBN 13: 9780841231221
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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - High volume hydraulic fracturing of deep shale deposits has transformed the oil and gas industry, catapulting the United States (U.S.) into the biggest oil and natural gas producer in the world, surpassing Russia as of June 2015. Hydraulic fracturing has been a game changer providing an important measure of energy independence for the U.S. As one expert put it, 'Shale deposits are a gift from God.' Hydraulic fracturing operations in North Dakota, in the Marcellusformation in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Ohio, and in multiple other states are the subject of increased media, public, and regulatory attention. New potential shale plays across the U.S. are also being examined, including the Monterey shale formation in California where hydraulic fracturing is atimely and significant environmental issue.Concurrent with the increased development of unconventional hydrocarbon resources are concerns over perceived risks to the environment that have been raised at hydraulic fracturing locations throughout the U.S. These biogeochemical changes occurring in the millions of gallons of hydraulic fracturing wastewater creates a unique dilemma for the disposal and potential reuse of these waters. Traditional disposal options are now less available due to public concern over safety risks, so water reuseis becoming the go-to solution, often requiring new treatment technologies to make the water suitable for reuse in the hydraulic fracturing process. This book focuses on these issues fracking poses as well as the solutions to make it viable.
Verlag: Sinauer Associates Is An Imprint Of Oxford University Press Nov 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 0199394016ISBN 13: 9780199394012
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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A House in the Sun describes a number of experiments in solar house heating in the 1940s and 1950s. It shows how resource limitations were seen as an opportunity for design to attain new relevance for social and cultural transformations.
Verlag: Sinauer Associates Is An Imprint Of Oxford University Press Nov 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 0190269480ISBN 13: 9780190269487
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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Not all scientific explanations work by describing causal connections between events or the world's overall causal structure. In addition, mathematicians regard some proofs as explaining why the theorems being proved do in fact hold. This book proposes new philosophical accounts of many kinds of non-causal explanations in science and mathematics.