Oxford University Press

Death, Disaster, and Public HealthWorst Case Bioethics uses contemporary disputes involving death and disaster to explore the radical changes currently underway in human rights practice, public health practice, and constitutional law applied to medicine. Though inherently destructive, worst-case scenarios can be tamed in ways that promote human...

This book presents new data and analyses of the inflectional system and syntax of Kayardild, a typologically striking language of Australia. By virtue of the technical format employed, the book makes Kayardild accessible to mainstream formal linguistic theory, and so will appeal to a broad new audience as well as to those who know Kayardild well....

This is the most comprehensive history of the Greek prepositional system ever published. It is set within a broad typological context and examines interrelated syntactic, morphological, and semantic change over three millennia....

This book describes mixed classical and quantum theories of dynamical processes with a particular emphasis on molecular Collisions. Purely quantum or purely classical approaches are inadequate for many systems....

By showing how Langland transformed Conscience as he composed the A, B and C texts        of Piers Plowman, Sarah Wood offers a new approach to reading the serial versions of        the poem. While the three versions have customarily been read in parallel-text        formats, she demonstrates that Langland's revisions are newly comprehensible if...

Executives today recognize that their firms face a wave of retirements over the        next decade as the baby boomers hit retirement age. At the other end of the talent        pipeline, the younger workforce is developing a different set of values and        expectations, which creates new recruiting and employee retention issues....