Oxford University Press

What is the return to investing in the stock market? Can we predict future stock        market returns? How have equities performed over the last two centuries? The authors        in this volume are among the leading researchers in the study of these questions.          This book draws upon their research on the stock market over the past two...

Why have strategies to combat hunger in India failed so badly? How did a nation that prides itself on booming economic growth come to have half of its preschool population undernourished? This book takes up these questions and probes the issues surrounding the World Bank, development assistance, hunger, and aid and power....

Eight rising historians assess and expand the field of scholarship on Reconstruction....

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Corporate e-learning has become increasingly important in the contemporary universal-access business world, and can provide strategic and competitive advantages to corporations as a way to accelerate training and reduce the high costs of face-to-face learning programs. However, most of the books that are written about e-learning do not describe in...

A collection of essays exploring the extensive use of Latin and Greek literary texts in a range of recent poetry written in English. It contains both contributions from poets, including Tony Harrison, Seamus Heaney, and Michael Longley, and essays from academic experts on the same topics....