Oxford University Press

This new introductory text offers a simple and coherent account of current thinking on epidemiologic study design, data analysis and interpretation. The book begins with an introduction to causal thinking and causal inference, leading into measures of disease occurence and measures of effect. With this foundation, the reader learns how design,...

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Exile After OvidTwo Thousand Years of Solitude: Exile After Ovid is an interdisciplinary study of        the impact of Ovid's banishment upon later Western literature and explores the        responses to Ovid's portrait of his life in exile. Two millennia after his        banishment, Ovid is still a potent symbol of the punished author, suffering...

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How and why do institutions change? Institutions, understood as rules of behaviour        constraining and facilitating social interaction, are subject to different forms and        processes of change. A change may be designed intentionally on a large scale and        then be followed by a period of only incremental adjustments to new conditions....

Essential reading for students and scholars of First Corinthians, this volume brings together sixteen influential journal articles on the Pauline epistle from a leading expert in the field. Professor O'Connor provides postscripts to each article, engaging with the continuing debates on issues raised....