• Adolescence is the period between the onset of puberty and the point at which adult roles are assumed and involves rapid physical, psychological and social change.

• In adolescence, learning takes place as the brain establishes neural networks. These networks are constantly modified by new experiences.

• The adolescent brain develops in stages. One of the last areas to develop are the frontal lobes, the part of the brain responsible for decision-making and assessing risk.

• Just when the adolescent brain is at this delicate developmental phase, it is also most impulsive and drug use is most likely.

• Drug use in adolescence disrupts brain development, which can lead to long-term damage to brain function and increase the risk of further drug use.

• Many adolescents are surprisingly poorly informed about drugs, their effects and the harms they can cause.

• Adolescents tend to seek information about drugs from the internet or friends.

• Accurate information is available and should be highlighted to adolescents.

This chapter (again) illustrates how difficult the relation between hunters and police is, and how hunters often have great distrust of police.

Chapter 2 addresses one of the primary impediments to the study of 3rd–1st century Italic architectural terracottas: questions regarding their chronology and the problematic ways in which they have traditionally been bound up in assumptions regarding so-called “Romanization.” Terracottas from Cosa and Rome are discussed in particular, in order to argue that there is no evidence for a “Roman” point of origin for most terracotta types and that the field must shed the lingering baggage derived from “Romanization” theory.

Before meeting the jhupri labourers, I had heard of Kawran Bazaar's reputation through old colleagues and friends. On the few occasions I had visited over the years, I had seen that by day it was a chaotic bazaar. By night, I was warned, it was one of the most dangerous places in Dhaka. I was unclear where this reputation came from and had heard only vague descriptions of badmash (criminals), mastan (gangster, thugs) or that ‘there's lots of politics there’. I was thus surprised after getting to know the jhupri labourers to see little sign of violence other than the scuffles between labourers trying to reach trucks, and was told there were plain-clothes police stationed nearby, keeping a watchful eye over the market. I hence began to formulate questions about some of the terms my colleagues had used or that I had seen opaque references to in academic literature. Are there mastan here? What do mastan do? These questions largely fell flat. Some pointed my attention to the young thieves who stole mobile phones from passengers at the nearby Tejgaon railway station, some of whom I knew.

It was when I began to ask what the bazaar used to be like that replies became animated. Over subsequent years of research, labourers and political leaders here have conveyed consistent and evocative descriptions of the 1980s to 2000s: this ‘was a time of chaos’, an ‘underworld’ (aparadh jagat), an era ‘of terror’, a time when ‘the whole bazaar was held hostage by gangsters’ and ‘guns were like toys’. A Jubo League activist well established in the area put it like this:

In the Pounds parable, a nobleman, disliked among his people, goes abroad, and returns to prove himself a good administrator, though one with harsh standards, as is Jesus in the parable in regard to his enemies. In Genesis, Joseph, disliked by his brothers, had gone abroad to Egypt and proved there to be a good administrator in the time of the famine, but one who, for a time, treated his brothers harshly.

According to its “technology neutrality” principle, MiCA applies to all cryptoassets unless they qualify under other EU financial law, except for e-money tokens (EMTs) for which both MiCA and the E-money Directive (EMD) apply. Thus, Section 4.1 starts with the definition of ‘cryptoassets’, and Section 4.2 covers the exemptions from MiCA’s scope: exempted entities, the exemption for non-fungible tokens (NFTs), exemptions for assets covered by other EU financial law, and the exemption for fully decentralised services. Section 4.3 discusses MiCA’s geographical scope, and Section 4.4 provides an in-depth analysis of the difficult interface towards other EU financial law. Section 4.5 explains MiCA’s approach to addressing this difficult scope issue, and Section 4.6 concludes.

This chapter centers on the counterculture’s attitude toward “greatness,” primarily through the odd coupling of the Beatles and Muhammad Ali. The chapter addresses racism, the Vietnam War, and the rebellion against the idyllic forms of greatness furnished by the so-described establishment of the 1950s. The Beatles and Ali (and their supporters) had to come to terms with new expectations and measures of American greatness.

The Lost Sheep parable’s straying sheep are comparable to Joseph when he wandered in the wilderness in search of his brothers, who treated him badly. Although Joseph later acted on his own vengeful feelings against the brothers, joyful reconciliation ensued, the positive moment being reflected in the parable. The Lost Coin parable puzzlingly associates a woman’s joy at finding a lost coin in her home with a call for repentance for sin. Evoked are developments in the Judah and Tamar story that include questionable behavior on both their parts and resulted in the birth of Perez, ancestor of Jesus.

Subsidies are among the most prevalent government measures to support the domestic economy. This chapter argues that the WTO Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures (ASCM), while regulating trade distortions caused by subsidies, is largely agnostic of how subsidies can also help address important twenty-first century challenges. These include policy goals like the green transition, economic recovery, and research and development support. First, we outline existing trends in countries’ resort to subsidies against the backdrop of WTO rules. Second, we explain why and how PTAs are a powerful instrument to address the ‘focal point shift’ from the alleviation of trade distortions to the promotion of public goods in subsidies regulation, also considering global value chains (GVCs) dynamics. Our approach balances regulation of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ subsidies, placing emphasis on the former, while being wary of new forms of distortive industrial subsidies. Third, we examine subsidy-related norms currently escaping multilateral rules and make a case for their inclusion into PTAs. We conclude that PTAs’ flexibilities make them best-suited for future-proof subsidies regulation and innovation in WTO agenda.

The immorality of the ancient Romans is a commonplace in modern representations of Roman antiquity. In nineteenth-century history painting, twentieth-century sword and sandal movies and twenty-first-century TV shows alike, inebriated Roman voluptuaries lounge on their couches surrounded by gleaming marble, while they savour exotic foods and grope scantily dressed women and boys.Romans behaving badly certainly have box-office appeal but the details of their excesses in the modern imaginary are deeply rooted in the preoccupations of cultural commentators in Roman antiquity. The speeches of Cicero, the histories of Sallust, Livy and Tacitus, the philosophical works of Seneca, the Elder Pliny’s observations about the natural world – all these texts (and more) return obsessively to the vices of their authors’ fellow Romans, charting their sexual misbehaviour, their insatiable desire for luxury, their inability to subordinate their own pleasure to the public good.

The subject of elliptic curves is one of the jewels of nineteenth-century mathematics, originated by Abel, Gauss, Jacobi, and Legendre. This book, reissued with a new Foreword, presents an introductory account of the subject in the style of the original discoverers, with references to and comments about more modern developments. It combines three of the fundamental themes of mathematics: complex function theory, geometry, and arithmetic.

After an informal preparatory chapter, the book follows an historical path, beginning with the work of Abel and Gauss on elliptic integrals and elliptic functions. This is followed by chapters on theta functions, modular groups and modular functions, the quintic, the imaginary quadratic field, and on elliptic curves.

Requiring only a first acquaintance with complex function theory, this book is an ideal introduction to the subject for graduate students and researchers in mathematics and physics, with many exercises with hints scattered throughout the text.