Oxford University Press

This book provides a comprehensive and detailed analysis and sustained critique of Jurgen Habermas' "e;Critical Theory"e;. It will be essential reading for scholars and students alike....

This fascinating account of Chinatown leaders shows how politics helped establish North America's first major group of illegal immigrants. New Chinese language evidence reveals how ethnic leaders' role as transnational actors and intermediaries both transformed Canadian politics and changed understandings of immigrant communities in a turbulent...

In Knowledge and Coordination, Daniel Klein reexamines the elements of economic liberalism. He interprets Hayek's notion of spontaneous order from the aestheticized perspective of a Smithian spectator and addresses issues economists have had surrounding the notion of coordination by distinguishing the ideas of Hayek, Ronald Coase, and Michael...

Interpreting Motion shows how language structures constrain concepts of motion, analyzing the semantics of motion expressions in a range of contexts from route navigation to textual description. It is written for a broad audience including linguists, cognitive and computer scientists, and those working in GIS and artificial intelligence....

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A thorough and pedagogical introduction to phase transitions and exactly solved models in statistical physics and quantum field theory....