This chapter explores the relationship between homelessness and two prominent conceptions of liberty: positive liberty as self-actualization and negative liberty as non-interference. It sets out how scholars have approached the relationship between homelessness, property, and both forms of liberty. It demonstrates how unhoused persons tend to lack positive and negative liberty.

We first define the notion of Kaluza–Klein (KK) compactification, the three types of KK metrics one can define, and then we consider fields with (Lorentz) spin in the KK theory. The original KK theory, for compactification on S1 from five dimensions to four dimensions, is described, and we end with general properties of KK reductions.

We provide 37 clinical scenarios with model answers, vetted by specialty doctors. We build your clinical knowledge and delivery through a spiral curriculum, designed to help you and a practice partner cover a level of depth to allow you to excel at interview. We walk you through the investigation and management of a wealth of clinical scenarios, and provide numerous follow-up questions after each case to expand your knowledge on key topics.

The framing of the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) in relation to the postwar Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region grafted a political geography onto a broad range of ecological areas. Planners, drawing on climate models, classified the region in agro-ecological terms devised in reference to the tropics. Functionally, their logic shored up a focus on rainfed, or unirrigated, agriculture in semi-arid and arid lands. But their rendering of dry areas masked the geopolitical framing of international agricultural research in the postwar period. Born of the Cold War, ICARDA emerged from exercises of European imperialism, Great Power rivalries, and the improvisation of modern nation-states in Western Asia and North Africa. The chapter charts the imperial origins of international agricultural research in Syria, the Cold War on hunger, and CGIAR’s classification of arid regions, towards an account of (1) the geopolitical logic of international agricultural research and (2) dryland agricultural science as the ground for technological and political intervention in decolonized lands.

It would be impossible to do justice to recent theological conversation about creation and creativity without giving serious attention to the offerings of process theology. Characterised by a privileging of creativity within both the world and the godhead, and offering an attractive connection between human and divine creativity, process theology provides what seems to be a promising avenue for the theological work required. Catherine Keller’s Face of the Deep represents the most compelling and influential recent articulation of a process theology of creation and creativity. Its careful, daring, and imaginative engagement with scripture, and the literary and philosophical traditions presents the best of the process theological tradition. By a close examination of Keller’s Face of the Deep, however, I demonstrate how, despite its manifest attractions to a theology of mythopoiesis, Keller’s process theology is unable to account for the novum of human making while preserving the witness of the creedal tradition of Christian faith or falling into a dangerous nihilism.

The proliferation of digital technologies is changing the face of markets and society. This on-going market digitalization represents an opportunity for Market Studies – a field that has long considered the role of technologies in markets. Careful inquiry into market digitalization allows for continued agnostic and descriptive research, but also prompts us to consider the human outcomes of market arrangements. This chapter explores how the digitalization of markets affects human relationships and experiences. Basing our argument on a review of contemporary scholarship on market digitalization, we suggest that digitalization reconfigures both visibility and participation in markets. This typology actualizes how everyday human market interaction is changing, exemplified through the figures of the consumer, the influencer, and the activist. We find that Market Studies is in a strong position to address technologies as it already considers several roles in markets: as market devices, objects of exchange, as well as market infrastructures. We propose that Market Studies should continue to explore differences in market arrangements, as well as the significant variability among the people interacting in digitalizing markets.

Like religious leaders in any period, the prophets functioned within a religious world that was broader and more diverse than a surface reading might suggest. In “The Book of Isaiah in the History of Israelite Religion,” Christopher B. Hays analyzes various religiohistorical aspects of the book, such as the role of writing and symbolic action; the supernatural images of the divine throne room; the book’s role in developing ideas about death and afterlife; its central role in the formulation of biblical monotheism, including its polemics against idols; and its relationship to the Jerusalem Temple and its priests.

This chapter explains what has been meant by energy security in different periods and research contexts. It elaborates on the history of energy security research and creates a typology of internal and external dimensions of energy security. Subsequently, the chapter describes the research on the geopolitics of energy, focusing on the geopolitics of renewable energy and the different implications envisaged to unfold from the energy transition. The chapter ends with a brief summary of the EU’s approach to energy security. The chapter, thereby, creates a research context for the empirical analyses conducted in this book.