Oxford University Press

A collection of chapters from carefully chosen experts covering the theory behind the complex mathematical, statistical, and bioinformatics tools needed to extract, handle, and process data and their application to real data....

A practical reference providing detailed information and expert commentary on implementation of mediation law across 27 EU Member States, organized by country, with trends and differences analysed. Considers key Mediation Directive legislation following its entry into force and implementation....

This book focuses on middle-class urban women as participants in new forms of consumer culture. Within the special world of the department store, women found themselves challenged to resist the enticements of comsumption. Many succumbed, buying both what they needed and what they desired, but also stealing what seemed so readily available. Pitted...

Haliczer's timely work uses a wealth of actual cases to document the eroticizing of the confessional between 1530 and 1819. Trial evidence left by the Spanish Inquisition vividly describes the sexual misconduct of priests and the reactions of the Church. What Haliczer shows is that the Counter-Reformation Church, eager to re-assert its morality and...

Is prevention better than cure, or treatment more important because people need rescue? In our health care spending, is prevention underfunded while treatment receives overall priority? In this volume the prevention-treatment relationship is examined factually by economists and scholars of health policy and evidence-based medicine, and morally,...

The Psychology of Victorian Poetry 1830-1870The Poet's Mind is a comprehensive study of the ways in which Victorian poets thought and wrote about the human mind. It argues that these poets used their writing both to express psychological processes of thought and feeling and to subject those processes to scrutiny and analysis....