Oxford University Press

The two pre-WWI generations encompass the greatest innovative period in history. Technical inventions of 1867 - 1914 and their rapid improvement and commercialization created new prime movers, materials, infrastructures and information means that provided the lasting foundations of the modern world....

In this book, Michael Perry addresses several fundamental questions about the proper role of religion in the politics of a liberal democracy, which is a central, recurring issue in the politics of the United States. The controversy about religion in politics comprises both constitutional and moral questions....

Musical Creativity in Practice explores the social and and the cultural contexts        in which creativity in music occurs. It begins by considering what constitutes        creativity - taking a cross cultural view of music, while investigating creative        processes far beyond just the classical music genre - including electronic...

In 1905 Albert Einstein produced breakthrough work in three major areas of physics (atoms and Brownian motion, quanta, and the special theory of relativity), followed, in 1916, by the general theory of relativity. This book develops the detail of the papers, including the mathematics, to guide the reader in working through them....

This comprehensive monograph on paraneoplastic syndromes discusses the clinical symptomatology, the diagnosis, the associated autoantibodies and the treatment of individual paraneoplastic syndromes. It emphasizes both the clinical experience of the office and provides an extensive review of the literature....

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