Covering the life and careers of over 600 key figures in naval history, from the 16th century to the present day, this A-Z guide features influential figures from the UK, US and around the world, from the great admirals such as Nelson, to minesweepers, designers and administrators.

Here highly qualified authors analyse the participation and experiences of disabled students in higher education over a two year period by comparing the responses of eight universities to the new anti-discriminatory practice with student case studies.

As wider access to higher education becomes a top priority for governments in the UK and around the world, this ground-breaking piece of work raises the challenging questions that policy-makers, vice-chancellors and government officials are reluctant to ask.

A highly qualified team of authors have closely analyzed rates of participation and the experiences of disabled students in higher education over a two year period. They compare the responses of eight different universities to the new anti-discriminatory practice, contrasting their social profiles, academic missions, support...

Chance and Temporal Asymmetry presents a collection of cutting-edge research papers in the metaphysics of science, tackling the perplexing philosophical problems raised by recent progress in the physics and metaphysics of chance and time. How do the probabilities found in fundamental physics and the probabilities of the special sciences relate to one another? Can a constraint on the initial conditions of the universe underwrite the second law of thermodynamics? How does contemporary quantum theory reframe debates over the nature of chance? What grounds do we have for believing in a...