Oxford University Press

This book provides an entirely new model for organizations to structure themselves to deliver successful products or services to their customers. It eliminates the prevailing hierarchical organization of command and control and replaces it with a horizontal organization that manages the basic core processes that create and deliver products or...

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Sarah Pomeroy seeks to reconstruct the lives and the world of Sparta's women--including how their legal status changed over time and how they held on to their surprising autonomy. Written by one of the leading authorities on women in antiquity, this is the first full-length study of Spartan women....

This acute examination of the quality of women's life addresses a variety of particularly urgent questions. It develops a universal account of women's quality of life and in doing so confronts issues of cultural relativism. An account of gender justice and women's equality is proposed in various areas in which quality of life is measured. The...

The Case for an Environmental ConservatismRoger Scruton here makes a plea to rescue environmental politics from the activist        movements and to return them to the people. The book defends the legacy of        home-building and practical reasoning with which ordinary human beings solve their        environmental problems, and attacks the...

The Book of Revelation presents the reader with a frightening narrative world in which the people of God are tormented, threatened, and sometimes killed by various agents of Satan. Throughout the work, the Apocalyse points to Rome as the predominant demonic agent. Scholars have traditionally thought that Revelation was written in order to encourage...