Oxford University Press

With over one million copies sold, The Undercover Economist has been hailed        worldwide as a fantastic guide to the fundamental principles of economics. An        economist's version of The Way Things Work, this engaging volume is part Economics        101 and part expose of the economic principles lurking behind daily...

A Cultural Autopsy of the Burke and Hare MurdersVividly illustrated, The Doctor Dissected examines the the sensational serial killings--known as the Anatomy Murders--that roiled Scotland in the early nineteenth century and considers their checkered afterlife in novels, plays, and films....

Ourselves Unborn examines how, from the nineteenth century through the early twenty-first century, Americans with disparate experiences, beliefs, values, and interests have participated in arguments about the legal identity, physiological condition, social value, cultural significance, and political status of the human fetus....

Contributing to our understanding of Ovid, Milton, and more broadly the transmission and transformation of classical traditions, this book examines the ways in which Milton drew on Ovid's oeuvre, and argues that Ovid's revision of the past gave Renaissance writers a model for their own transformation of classical works....

This is the first graduate textbook on nonlinear finite element analysis. Containing many detailed formulations, computer implementation (i.e. pseudo codes), examples and exercises, it provides a clear understanding of nonlinear finite element analyses concepts and serves as a prelude to more advanced books on the subject....

This book brings together researchers in linguistics, computer science, psychology and cognitive science to investigate how motion is encoded in language. Part I considers the parameters of the field, while part II looks at the way in which spatial scale or granularity plays a role in the encoding of motion in language....