Oxford University Press

Antibiotics will no longer cure many illnesses due to escalating bacterial resistance. Still, physicians continue prescribing antibiotics for viral illnesses. This book examines parent-physician conversations, asking how small differences in phrasing affect prescribing decisions, and how physicians deal with the social dilemma pitting individuals...

The Oxford Handbook of Evidence-based Management shows how leaders and managers        can make effective use of best available evidence in the decisions they make -- and        what educators and researchers need to do to help them come to the right        solution....

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This book addresses the dialog issues that must be resolved in building effective spoken natural language dialog systems, systems where both the human and computer interact via spoken natural language. The authors present a theoretical and practical architecture for this system as well as experimental results to support the system....

The  Vita Edwardi Secundi is the best and most readable of the chronicles for the dramatic reign of Edward II. Its author was close to the political centre and provides extensive, and sometimes abrasive, comment on the king, his favourites, his opponents, and the church. He also records the disastrous English defeat at the battle of Bannockburn....