Oxford University Press

This bold venture into democratic theory offers a new and reinvigorating thesis        for how democracy delivers on its promise of public control over public policy. In        theory, popular control could be achieved through a process entirely driven by        supply-side politics, with omniscient and strategic political parties converging...

This book highlights the lives of a group of soil microbes that make most of the antibiotics used in medicine today. Written by an insider, it describes how genetics tells us how these microscopic chemists compete in the soil and how their genes can be rearranged to make new antibiotics to fight re-emerging diseases....

More than any other English monarch before or since, Queen Elizabeth I used her        annual progresses to shape her royal persona and to bolster her popularity and        authority. During the spring and summer, accompanied by her court, Elizabeth toured        southern England, the Midlands, and parts of the West Country, staying with...

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