Oxford University Press

Taking another look at what is meant by "e;policing,"e; Jean-Paul Brodeur offers a comprehensive and novel theory on what policing is, how it has developed, and the various forms it takes....

As World War II came to a close and the Cold War set in, the United States had precious little knowledge about its new enemy and was poorly equipped to comprehend the new global threat. How did America learn about the Soviet Union?  In this book, David Engerman, an award-winning historian of American foreign policy, Russian history, and...

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The Lion's Pride is the first book to tell the full story of Theodore Roosevelt and his family in World War I. It is both a poignant group biography and an insightful study of the Rooseveltian notion of    noblesse oblige....

The Fate of Civilians in America's WarsAmericans are greatly concerned about the number of our troops killed in battle--100,000 dead in World War I; 300,000 in World War II; 33,000 in the Korean War; 58,000 in Vietnam; 4,500 in Iraq; over 1,000 in Afghanistan--and rightly so. But why are we so indifferent, often oblivious, to the far greater number...

This book provides a reference source for authors and investigators in the plant sciences, especially in plant physiology. The chapters give a thorough discussion of the International System of Units, plant names, statistics, plant biophysics, plant biochemistry and molecular biology, and plant growth and development. Numerous terms are defined....