Oxford University Press

This handbook presents the latest research on social work with older people, providing specialist knowledge and resources to equip social workers to care for an aging population....

Florence and the Plot against the Medici#N/A...

The Bush Administration has notoriously argued that detainees at Guantanamo do not enjoy constitutional rights because they are held outside American borders. But where do rules about territorial legal limits such as this one come from? Why does geography make a difference for what legal rules apply? Most people intuitively understand that location...

Thinking Like an Engineer is both a work in engineering ethics and an attempt to understand engineering as a profession. Featuring in-depth studies of central questions of engineering ethics, it also includes a brief reconstruction of the history of engineering and an extensive review and criticism of relevant work in the social sciences....

How America's Original Roots Music Hero Changed the Pop Sounds of a CenturyHere is the first book to explore the legacy of Jimmie Rodgers, offering a lively look at Rodgers' career, tracing his rise from working-class obscurity to the pinnacle of renown. As Mazor shows, Rodgers brought emotional clarity and a unique sense of narrative drama to...

Archimedes to Hawking takes the reader on a journey across the centuries as it        explores the eponymous physical laws--from Archimedes' Law of Buoyancy and Kepler's        Laws of Planetary Motion to Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle and Hubble's Law of        Cosmic Expansion--whose ramifications have profoundly altered our everyday lives...