Oxford University Press

Cultural critics say that 'science is politics by other means,' arguing that the results of scientific inquiry are profoundly shaped by the ideological agendas of powerful elites. Physicist Alan Sokal recently poked fun at these claims, touching off a still-unabated torrent of heated discussion. This hard-hitting collection picks up where Sokal...

Jacksonian Democracy, States' Rights and the Nullification CrisisThe Nullification Crisis of 1832-1833, when the state of South Carolina challenged        the doctrine of states' rights by refusing to pay national tariffs, was the major        crisis of Andrew Jackson's presidency and a central event in antebellum American        history. In this...

The Loss of Sadness argues that the increased prevalence of major depressive disorder is due not to a genuine rise in mental disease, but to the way that normal human sadness has been 'pathologised' since 1980. That year saw the publication of the landmark third edition of   The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-III), which...

Scientists and engineers around the world are striving to develop new sources of energy that have virtually unlimited potential. This book explores one of these energy alternatives, ocean thermal energy conversion. William H. Avery, the leading researcher in this field, describes the workings of an OTEC power plant and addresses how such a power...

Listening through the Noise considers how the experience of listening to electronic music constitutes a departure from the expectations that have long governed music listening in the West....

A new translation with critical commentary of sixty Zen Koans - the first book to place the koan in its tradition of supernatural narratives....