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Verlag: Oxford University Press Okt 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 0192749803ISBN 13: 9780192749802
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A baby donkey is a wonderful Christmas surprise for Lucy and her friends and family. But will it also bring the good fortune they need to save the harvest mice and bring them back to the nearby fields A heartwarming story which is perfect for Christmas. 160 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Oxford University Press Okt 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 0192749250ISBN 13: 9780192749253
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - When the whole community is divided over the fate of the hen harriers that nest up there in the heather, Joe finds himself stuck right in the middle, with a choice to make, and a huge secret to keep.Joe can't do what's right for everyone. But can he find the strength to fight for what he really believes in 272 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Oxford University Press Okt 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 0192744275ISBN 13: 9780192744272
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Beautifully illustrated by debut artist, Fiona Woodcock, this is a poignant and moving festive story that helps to teach children about nature, and the importance of humans co-existing with animals in their natural environment, together with empathy, kindness and courage. Ages: 0-5yrs 32 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Oxford University Press Okt 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 0198794185ISBN 13: 9780198794189
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Environmental law is the law concerned with environmental problems. It is a vast area of law that operates from the local to the global, involving a range of different legal and regulatory techniques. In theory, environmental protection is a no brainer. Few people would actively argue for pollution or environmental destruction. Ensuring a clean environment is ethically desirable, and also sensible from a purely self-interested perspective. Yet, in practice, environmental law is a messy and complex business fraught with conflict. Whilst environmental law is often characterized in overly simplistic terms, with a law being seen as be a magic wand that solves an environmental problem, the reality is that creating and maintaining a body of laws to address and avoid problems is not easy, and involves legislators, courts, regulators and communities. This Very Short Introduction provides an overview of the main features of environmental law, and discusses how environmental law deals with multiple interests, socio-political conflicts, and the limits of knowledge about the environment. Showing how interdependent societies across the world have developed robust and legitimate bodies of law to address environmental problems, Elizabeth Fisher discusses some of the major issues involved in environmental law's: nation statehood, power, the reframing role of law, the need to ensure real environmental improvements, and environmental justice. As Fisher explains, environmental law is, and will always be, necessary but inherently controversial.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. 176 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Oxford University Press Okt 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 0192743775ISBN 13: 9780192743770
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'When it snows, ain't it thrilling!' A joyous celebration of the most wonderful time of the year, based on the classic song Winter Wonderland. The book features stunning wintery artwork from award-winning illustrator Tim Hopgood and comes with an accompanying CD which includes a much-loved recording of the song by Peggy Lee. 32 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Oxford University Press Okt 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 0198791003ISBN 13: 9780198791003
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Perception is one of the oldest and most deeply investigated topics in the field of psychology, and it is also raises some profound philosophical questions. It is concerned with how we use the information reaching our senses to guide and control our behaviour as well as to create our particular, subjective experiences of the surrounding world.In this Very Short Introduction, Brian J. Rogers discusses the philosophical question of what it means to perceive, as well as describing how we are able to perceive the particular characteristics of objects and scenes such as their lightness, colour, form, depth, and motion. What we perceive, however, does not always correspond to what exists in the world and, as Rogers shows, the study of illusions can be useful in telling us something about the nature and limitations of our perceptual processes. Rogers also explores perception from an evolutionary perspective, explaining how evolutionary pressures have shaped the perceptual systems of humans and other animals. He shows that perception is not necessarily a separate and independent process but rather part of a 'perceptual system', involving both the extraction of perceptual information and the control of action. Rogers goes on to cover the significant progress made recently in the understanding of perception through the use of precise and controlled psychophysical methods, single cell recordings, and imaging techniques. There have also been many insights from attempts to model perceptual processes in artificial systems. As Rogers shows, these attempts have revealed how difficult it is to programme machines to perform even the most simple of perceptual tasks that we take for granted.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. 192 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Oxford University Press Okt 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 0198727666ISBN 13: 9780198727668
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - What is a project How are projects organized to deal with a complex, rapidly changing, and uncertain world Why are projects the organization of the future A project is a temporary organization and one-time process established to achieve a desired outcome. Projects range in size from small teams to large international joint-ventures and temporary coalitions of public and private organizations. What distinguishes projects from all other organizational activities - such as mass produced products and services - is that a project is finite in duration, lasting from hours, days, or weeks to years, and in some cases decades. Each project is disposable. It brings together people and resources to accomplish a goal and when the goal is accomplished, the organization disappears. When projects are complex, unpredictable, and changing, their plans have to be flexible and able to adjust to situations that cannot foreseen at the outset. In this Very Short Introduction Andrew Davies looks at how projects have developed since the industrial revolution to create the human-built world in which we live, work, and play. Considering some of our greatest endeavours such as the Erie Canal, Apollo Moon landing, Japanese product development, and Chinese ecocity projects, Davies identifies how projects are organized and managed to design and produce large and complex systems, cope with fast changing conditions, and deal with the immense uncertainties required to create breakthrough innovations in products and services. He concludes by considering how projects could be organized to address the challenges facing the post-industrial society of the 21st century. 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. 176 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Oxford University Press Okt 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 0198811705ISBN 13: 9780198811701
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Logic is often perceived as having little to do with the rest of philosophy, and even less to do with real life. In this lively and accessible introduction, Graham Priest shows how wrong this conception is. He explores the philosophical roots of the subject, explaining how modern formal logic deals with issues ranging from the existence of God and the reality of time to paradoxes of probability and decision theory. Along the way, the basics of formal logic are explained in simple, non-technical terms, showing that logic is a powerful and exciting part of modern philosophy. In this new edition Graham Priest expands his discussion to cover the subjects of algorithms and axioms, and proofs in mathematics.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. 156 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Oxford University Press Okt 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 0198794738ISBN 13: 9780198794738
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Consciousness, 'the last great mystery for science', remains a hot topic. How can a physical brain create our experience of the world What creates our identity Do we really have free will Could consciousness itself be an illusion Exciting new developments in brain science are continuing the debates on these issues, and the field has now expanded to include biologists, neuroscientists, psychologists, and philosophers. This controversial book clarifies the potentially confusing arguments, and the major theories, whilst also outlining the amazing pace of discoveries in neuroscience. Covering areas such as the construction of self in the brain, mechanisms of attention, the neural correlates of consciousness, and the physiology of altered states of consciousness, Susan Blackmore highlights our latest findings.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. 146 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Oxford University Press Okt 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 0192747916ISBN 13: 9780192747914
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - It's Christmas Eve and Winnie and Wilbur are super excited. They've posted their letters to the North Pole and made everything festive. But then disaster strikes. Santa gets stuck in their chimney! He desperately needs help with his deliveries otherwise Christmas just won't happen. It's a festive Winnie and Wilbur adventure with accompanying CD. 32 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Oxford University Press Okt 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 0198728646ISBN 13: 9780198728641
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A fascinating study in sexual psychology and sexual politics, the novel focuses on Hélène Grandjean, a widow, and her shifting emotional states. This is the eighth novel in Zola's Rougon-Macquart series, and the first modern translation for more than fifty years. 304 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Oxford University Press Okt 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 0190692677ISBN 13: 9780190692674
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Critical theory emerged in the 1920s from the work of the Frankfurt School, the circle of German-Jewish academics who sought to diagnose -- and, if at all possible, cure -- the ills of society, particularly fascism and capitalism. In this book, Stephen Eric Bronner provides sketches of leading representatives of the critical tradition (such as George Lukács and Ernst Bloch, Theodor Adorno and Walter Benjamin, Herbert Marcuse and Jurgen Habermas) as well as many of its seminal texts and empirical investigations. This Very Short Introduction sheds light on the cluster of concepts and themes that set critical theory apart from its more traditional philosophical competitors. Bronner explains and discusses concepts such as method and agency, alienation and reification, the culture industry and repressive tolerance, non-identity and utopia. He argues for the introduction of new categories and perspectives for illuminating the obstacles to progressive change and focusing upon hidden transformative possibilities. In this newly updated second edition, Bronner targets new academic interests, broadens his argument, and adapts it to a global society amid the resurgence of right-wing politics and neo-fascist movements.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. 140 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Oxford University Press Okt 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 019462479XISBN 13: 9780194624794
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Classics, modern fiction, non-fiction and more. Written for secondary and adult students the Oxford Bookworms Library has seven reading levels from A1-C1 of the CEFR. 64 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Oxford University Press Okt 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 0194022943ISBN 13: 9780194022941
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware 64 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Oxford University Press Okt 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 0198736789ISBN 13: 9780198736783
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) was one of the most admired astronomers who ever lived and a key figure in the scientific revolution. A defender of Copernicus s sun-centred universe, he famously discovered that planets move in ellipses, and defined the three laws of planetary motion. Perhaps less well known is that in 1615, when Kepler was at the height of his career, his widowed mother Katharina was accused of witchcraft. The proceedings led to a criminal trial that lasted six years, with Kepler conducting his mother's defence. In The Astronomer and the Witch, Ulinka Rublack pieces together the tale of this extraordinary episode in Kepler's life, one which takes us to the heart of his changing world. First and foremost an intense family drama, the story brings to life the world of a small Lutheran community in the centre of Europe at a time of deep religious and political turmoil - a century after the Reformation, and on the threshold of the Thirty Years' War.Kepler's defence of his mother also offers us a fascinating glimpse into the great astronomer's world view, on the cusp between Reformation and scientific revolution. While advancing rational explanations for the phenomena which his mother's accusers attributed to witchcraft, Kepler nevertheless did not call into question the existence of magic and witches. On the contrary, he clearly believed in them. And, as the story unfolds, it appears that there were moments when even Katharina's children wondered whether their mother really did have nothing to hide.
Verlag: Oxford University Press Okt 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 0198806434ISBN 13: 9780198806431
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A lively and readable literary biography of a remarkable personality who was a central member of the Inklings, this book rediscovers the dramatic and contradictory life of a brilliant writer and publisher from a poor London background who became a ground-breaking theologian, fantasy novelist and poet.
Verlag: Oxford University Press Okt 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 0194024105ISBN 13: 9780194024105
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Kombiprodukt. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Classics, modern fiction, non-fiction and more. Written for secondary and adult students the Oxford Bookworms Library has seven reading levels from A1-C1 of the CEFR.
Verlag: Oxford University Press Okt 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 0194022935ISBN 13: 9780194022934
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Kombiprodukt. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.
Verlag: Oxford University Press Okt 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 0194634744ISBN 13: 9780194634748
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Kombiprodukt. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.
Verlag: Oxford University Press Okt 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 0198798512ISBN 13: 9780198798514
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Gargantuan geological forces created the spectacular mountain ranges of the Himalaya and Karakoram. Mike Searle, one of the world's most experienced field geologists, tells the scientific story, illustrating it with his own photographs, and accounts of his mountaineering and research in the region.
Verlag: Oxford University Press Okt 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 0198798652ISBN 13: 9780198798651
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Solutions Manual to Accompany Elements of Physical Chemistry 7th edition contains full worked solutions to all end-of-chapter discussion questions and exercises featured in the book.
Verlag: Oxford University Press Okt 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 0198713606ISBN 13: 9780198713609
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A concise but comprehensive introduction to the biology of standing waters (lakes and ponds). As with other books in the Biology of Habitats Series, the emphasis in this book is on the organisms that dominate freshwater environments. Management and conservation aspects are also considered. The first edition of the book published in 1998 with a second, revised edition in 2005. There has been significant development in the field since the last revision appeared,particularly in the ecology of lakes and ponds in subtropical and tropical areas, and a new revision of this now classic text is timely.
Verlag: Oxford University Press Okt 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 0198785569ISBN 13: 9780198785569
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Essential Fish Biology provides an introductory overview of the functional biology of fish and how this may be affected by the widely contrasting habitat conditions within the aquatic environment. It describes the recent advances in comparative animal physiology which have greatly influenced our understanding of fish function as well as generating questions that have yet to be resolved.Fish taxa represent the largest number of vertebrates, with over 25,000 extant species. However, much of our knowledge, apart from taxonomy and habitat descriptions, has been based on relatively few of them , usually those which live in fresh water and/or are of commercial interest. Unfortunately there has also been a tendency to base our interpretation of fish physiology on that of mammalian systems, as well as to rely on a few type species of fish. This accessible textbook will redress thebalance by using examples of fish from a wide range of species and habitats, emphasizing diversity as well as recognizing shared attributes with other vertebrates.
Verlag: Oxford University Press Okt 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 0198728522ISBN 13: 9780198728528
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The bonobo, along with the chimpanzee, is one of our two closest living relatives. Their relatively narrow geographic range (south of the Congo River in the Democratic Republic of Congo) combined with the history of political instability in the region, has made their scientific study extremely difficult. In contrast, there are dozens of wild and captive sites where research has been conducted for decades with chimpanzees. Because data sets on bonobos have been so hard to obtain and so few large-scale studies have been published, the majority of researchers have treated chimpanzee data as being representative of both species. However, this misconception is now rapidly changing.With relative stability in the DRC for over a decade and a growing community of bonobos living in zoos and sanctuaries internationally, there has been an explosion of scientific interest in the bonobo with dozens of high impact publications focusing on this fascinating species. This research has revealed exactly how unique bonobos are in their brains and behavior, and reminds us why it is so important that we redouble our efforts to protect the few remaining wild populations of this iconic and highly endangered great ape species.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Okt 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 125013613XISBN 13: 9781250136138
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Scarlet Gospels, an instant New York Times bestseller--Pinhead returns to screens in Fall 2022 in an all new Hellraiser streaming series!--takes readers back to the early days of two of Clive Barker's most iconic characters in a battle of good and evil as old as time. The long-beleaguered detective Harry D'Amour, investigator of all supernatural, magical, and malevolent crimes, is back-and about to face off against his formidable and intensely evil rival, Pinhead, the priest of hell. Bloody, terrifying, and brilliantly complex, fans and newcomers alike will not be disappointed by Barker's horror, which will make your worst nightmares seem like bedtime stories. The Gospels are coming. Are you ready 480 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Okt 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 0199682011ISBN 13: 9780199682010
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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Martin Luther's posting of the 95 Theses to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg on 31 October 1517 is one of the most famous events of Western history. It inaugurated the Protestant Reformation, and has for centuries been a powerful and enduring symbol of religious freedom of conscience, and of righteous protest against the abuse of power.But did it actually really happen In this engagingly-written, wide-ranging and insightful work of cultural history, leading Reformation historian Peter Marshall reviews the available evidence, and concludes that, very probably, it did not. The theses-posting is a myth. And yet, Marshall argues, this fact makes the incident all the more historically significant. In tracing how - and why - a 'non-event' ended up becoming a defining episode of the modern historical imagination. Marshall compellingly explores the multiple ways in which the figure of Martin Luther, and the nature of the Reformation itself, have been remembered and used for their own purposes by subsequent generations of Protestants and others - in Germany, Britain, the United States and elsewhere.As people in Europe, and across the world, prepare to remember, and celebrate, the 500th anniversary of Luther's posting of the theses, this book offers a timely contribution and corrective. The intention is not to 'debunk', or to belittle Luther's achievement, but rather to invite renewed reflection on how the past speaks to the present - and on how, all too often, the present creates the past in its own image and likeness.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Okt 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 0198796188ISBN 13: 9780198796183
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The chief means to limit and calculate the costs of war are the philosophical and legal concepts of proportionality and necessity. Both categories are meant to restrain the most horrific potential of war. The volume explores the moral and legal issues in the modern law of war in three major categories. In so doing, the contributions will look for new and innovative approaches to understanding the process of weighing lives implicit in all theories of jus inbello: who counts in war, understanding proportionality, and weighing lives in asymmetric conflicts. These questions arise on multiple levels and require interdisciplinary consideration of both philosophical and legal themes.
Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc Okt 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 0190276312ISBN 13: 9780190276317
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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In this book, Walter Judd and Grant Judd give detailed species accounts of every plant found in Tolkien's universe, complete with the etymology of the plant's name, a discussion of its significance within Tolkien's work, a description of the plant's distribution and ecology, and an original hand-drawn illustration in the style of a woodcut print.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Okt 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 0198790279ISBN 13: 9780198790273
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - European welfare states are undergoing profound change, driven by globalization, technical changes, and population ageing. More immediately, the aftermath of the Great Recession and unprecedented levels of immigration have imposed additional pressures. This book examines welfare state transformations across a representative range of European countries and at the EU level, and considers likely new directions in social policy. It reviews the dominant neo-liberalausterity response and discusses social investment, fightback, welfare chauvinism, and protectionism.It argues that the class solidarities and cleavages that shaped the development of welfare states are no longer powerful. Tensions surrounding divisions between old and young, women and men, immigrants and denizens, and between the winners in a new, more competitive, world and those who feel left behind are becoming steadily more important. European countries have entered a period of political instability and this is reflected in policy directions. Austerity predominates nearly everywhere, butpatterns of social investment, protectionism, neo-Keynesian intervention, and fightback vary between countries. The volume identify areas of convergence and difference in European welfare state futures in this up-to-date study - essential reading to grasp the pace and directions ofchange.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Okt 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 0198717822ISBN 13: 9780198717829
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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Theorists working on metaethics and the nature of normativity typically study goodness, rightness, what ought to be done, and so on. In their investigations they employ and consider our actual normative concepts. But the actual concepts of goodness, rightness, and what ought to be done are only some of the possible normative concepts there are. There are other possible concepts, ascribing different properties. Matti Eklund explores the consequences of this thought,for example for the debate over normative realism, and for the debate over what it is for concepts and properties to be normative. Conceptual engineering - the project of considering how our concepts can be replaced by better ones - has become a central topic in philosophy. Eklund applies thismethodology to central normative concepts and discusses the special complications that arise in this case. For example, since talk of improvement is itself normative, how should we, in the context, understand talk of a concept being better.