Oxford University Press

Essays in PhilosophyMind, Meaning, and Reality presents fifteen philosophical papers in which D. H. Mellor explores some of the most intriguing questions in philosophy. These include: what determines what we think, and what we use language to mean; how that depends on what there is in the world and why there is only one universe; and the nature of...

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Extraordinary Clinicians at WorkHealing is often discussed but infrequently studied. Schenck and Churchill provide a systematic approach to the elements that make clinician-patient interactions themselves a source of healing, based on comprehensive interviews with 50 physicians and alternative practitioners. The authors present a compelling picture...

Unravelling the fierce debate in Spain about national identity, this book locates the source of Spain's division in the partial nationalization of Spaniards, the legacy of Franco, and the peculiar architecture of the state. The book also looks at scenarios for change, concluding that whatever their outcome, Spain will continue to reinvent itself....

This is an edited volume of chapters on the telecommunications of Africa. Each contributor addresses the complicated economic and policy issues of their country's telecommunications. Special attention is paid to telecommunications as a link in the chain of the regional development process....

Integration Interrupted focuses on the consequences, particularly for black students, of the practice of curriculum tracking in the post-Brown era, and on the relationship between racialized tracking and the emergence of academic excellence as a "e;white thing,"e; or acting white....