Oxford University Press

The Plain Sense of ThingsBy examining a full range of Stevens's writing in the context of American political and intellectual history, Longenbach reveals him as a poet who was not only aware of current events but whose work was often inspired by those events....

For many years Acoustic Microscopy has been the definitive book on the subject. A key development since it was first published has been the development of ultrasonic force microscopy. The 2nd edition has a major new chapter on this technique and its applications....

Critical Management Studies (CMS) has emerged as a movement that questions the authority and relevance of much mainstream thinking and practice. Critical of established practices and institutional arrangements, it challenges many orthodoxies in management and organization studies. This Handbook maps the terrain of CMS today....

The Economist's Oath seeks to initiate a serious conversation among economists about the ethical content of their work, by raising fundamental questions on the nature of what economists do and how ethics can and should be involved in this....

The Structure of Human CivilizationIn this book, the highly influential philosopher John Searle asks a fundamental        question about human beings: how is it that in a universe of physical objects,        facts, and laws, we can also have "e;facts"e; like lawsuits, summer vacations, and        presidents? Those facts exist, but not in...

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