Oxford University Press

In this landmark book, historians Erika Lee and Judy Yung (both descendants of immigrants detained on the island) provide the first comprehensive history of the Angel Island Immigration Station....

Ordinary people - mathematicians among them - grasp when they take something to follow (deductively) from something else. This is the backbone of our self-ascribed ability to reason. This book investigates the connection between that ordinary notion of consequence and the formal analogues developed by logicians....

'Globalization' has become one of the defining buzzwords of our time - a term that        describes a variety of accelerating economic, political, cultural, ideological, and        environmental processes that are rapidly altering our experience of the world. It is        by its nature a dynamic topic - and this Very Short Introduction has been...

The History of a DocumentHow the passport developed as a document speaks to migration studies, diplomatic and legal history, and, more generally, to those interested in the history and development of surveillance technologies. Craig Robertson explains how Americans learned to document an identity, who can establish such an identity, and to what...

Swarm Creativity introduces a powerful new concept-Collaborative Innovation Networks. COINs are the most productive engines of innovation ever. Using real-life examples, this book shows how to leverage COINs to develop successful products in R & D, grow better customer relationships, establish better project management, and build higher-performing...

The essays presented here, all of them previously unpublished, provide an overview of Emily Dickinson studies at the start of the twenty-first century. Written in an engaging and accessable style, this collection represents the best of contemporary scholarship and points the way toward exciting new directions for the future. While locating the...