Oxford University Press

An anecdotal autobiography of Bill Crow's career in jazz from his arrival in New York City in the 1950s through his professional life as a jazz bassist playing with the likes of Benny Goodman, Gerry Mulligan, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, and Marian McPartland....

Aghion and Banerjee build a model of an aggregate economy that takes the interactions between volatility and growth seriously, while still being open to the possibility of market failures. The authors show that by looking at the economy through the lens of private entrepreneurs who invest under credit constraints, one can go along way towards...

This book presents a history of microbial evolutionary biology from the 19th century to the present. It follows the research of molecular evolutionists who explore the origins of the genetic system and the primary life forms: three domains and multiple kingdoms, created by mechanisms very unlike those considered by Darwin and his followers....

This volume provides comprehensive, up to date coverage of inequality and poverty issues in China. Going beyond standard data sources and using state-of-art research techniques, this volume substantiates a number of findings and conclusions and ensures policy recommendations are reliable and robust....

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While many interpreters hold that Hegel avoided the traditional problem of free will, Yeomans argues both that the problem is unavoidable, and that the two versions of the Logic fruitfully engage the tensions between explicability and both the control and alternate possibilities constitutive of free agency....