Oxford University Press

In this highly provocative volume, Mickey Edwards argues that conservatives today have abandoned their principles and have become champions of that which they once most feared. The conservative movement was based on a distinctly American kind of conservatism which drew its inspiration directly from the United States Constitution-in particular, an...

Few people have proved more influential in the field of differential and algebraic geometry than Nigel Hitchin. The chapters in this fascinating volume, written by some of the greats in their fields (including four Fields Medalists), show how Hitchin's ideas have impacted on a wide variety of subjects....

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The Representative Claim is set to transform our core assumptions about what representation is and can be. At a time when political representation is widely believed to be in crisis, the book provides a timely and critical corrective to conventional wisdom on the present and potential future of representative democracy....

This is a book on the history of drug discovery that highlights the intellectual splendor of discoverers as well as the human frailty associated with them....

The islands north of Australia are home to a set of remarkably diverse human populations. The authors have used a sampling strategy to reveal the complex structure of the variation of populations in this region. Their findings reveal early human migrations out of Africa and an abundance of genetic variation within Island Melanesia....