Oxford University Press

Adapting to a Changing Environment provides tools and a theoretical framework for governments and managers to understand and confront the consequences of climate change. Focusing on coral reefs and the societies that depend on them--the eastern coastline of Africa and the islands of the western Indian Ocean--the authors examine potential problems...

This book is a comprehensive sourcebook, distilled from hundreds of recently published papers, about the Casimir effect: the small forces originating from the quantum vacuum and acting between closely spaced bodies. It brings together developments in experiment and theory, fundamental and applied aspects of the Casimir force....

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Naturalism, Consciousness, and the First-Person StanceJonardon Ganeri presents a ground-breaking study of selfhood, drawing on Indian        theories of consciousness and mind. He explores the notion of embodiment and the        centrality of the emotions to the self, and shows how to harmonize the idea of the        first-person perspective with a...

The State of Working BritainThis book provides an overview of the key issues concerning the performance of the        labour market and policy in the UK, with focus on the 2008 financial crisis, the        ensuing recession, and its aftermath....