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The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State is the authoritative and definitive guide to the contemporary welfare state....

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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...

An innovative history of archaeology during the nineteenth century, encompassing all its fields from the origins of humanity to the medieval period, and all areas of the world. The development of archaeology is placed within the framework of contemporary political events, with a particular focus upon the ideologies of nationalism and imperialism....

Endophytic fungi are common and diverse in plants, yet the nature of their interactions with host plants, and how these interactions cascade upward to communities and ecosystems are largely unknown. This book synthesizes existing studies of endophyte-grass symbioses within the context of modern ecological and evolutionary concepts....

The Site, Ground, and Scope of EqualityKok-Chor Tan addresses three key questions in political philosophy: Where does        distributive equality matter? Why does it matter? And among whom does it matter? He        argues for an institutional site for egalitarian justice, a luck-egalitarian ideal        of why equality matters, and a global scope...