Oxford University Press

In his widely acclaimed volume Our Undemocratic Constitution, Sanford Levinson        boldly argued that our Constitution should not be treated with "e;sanctimonious        reverence,"e; but as a badly flawed document deserving revision. Now Levinson takes us        deeper, asking what were the original assumptions underlying our...

The book provides a penetrating and comprehensive description of energy selected reactions from a theoretical as well as experimental point of view. It presents three major aspects of unimolecular reactions involving the preparation of the reactants in selected energy states, the rate of dissipation of the activated molecule, and the partitioning...

During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, thousands of American Jews were drawn to the teachings of Christian Science. Viewing such attraction with alarm, American Reform Rabbis sought to counter Christian Science's appeal by formulating a Jewish vision of happiness and health. Unlike Christian Science, it acknowledged the benefits...

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What happened to the chop suey restaurants of New York's Chinatown? Asking that simple question led author and food historian Andrew Coe on a research odyssey that resulted in this first authoritative history of the American experience of Chinese food. In his book, Coe investigates the complex ways we relate to alien cultures through the medium of...

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