Oxford University Press

In   Justice Perverted, Charles Patrick Ewing draws on research from across the social and behavioral sciences, and weighs the evidence for the spectrum of sex offense laws. A rational look at an intensely emotional subject,    Justice Perverted is an essential book for anyone interested in the science behind public practice....

Deaf Cognition examines the cognitive underpinnings of deaf individuals' learning. Marschark and Hauser have brought together scientists from different disciplines to share their ideas and create this book....

Written by the former Permanent Secretary to HM Treasury, Sir Douglas Wass, Decline to Fall traces the unusual events of the 1976 IMF crisis which saw the UK government accept a massive loan from the IMF. Using a wealth of documentation, Sir Douglas questions the inevitability of the crisis and the measures taken to resolve it....

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What counts as an individual in the living world? What does it mean for a living thing to remain the same through time, while constantly changing? Immunology answers these questions with its theory of self and nonself which has dominated the field since the 1940s. Thomas Pradeu argues that this theory is inadequate, because immune responses to self...