Oxford University Press

This book is an accessible update to the widely-hailed collection by the current editors,   The Measurement of Productive Efficiency: Techniques and Applications (OUP, 1993). Over ten years of the most recent research in the changing field of efficiency and productivity analysis have been applied, and the result will guide readers from the basic...

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Winds of Change examines the global development of the wind energy industry from a political, social movements-based perspective. It shows the varying influence that the environmental movement has had on the growth of this industry in different countries and regions, and the different outcomes this varying influence has led to....

Professional football is, without question, the most popular sport in America, and by a substantial margin. Yet few scholars who look at the role of race and sports in America focus on the NFL. Historically, racial relations in other sports -- particularly baseball, boxing, and basketball -- have attracted more attention from writers and scholars,...

A First Encounter Interference, Entanglement, and RealityThe essential features of quantum physics, largely debated since its discovery, are presented in this book, through the description (without mathematics) of recent experiments. Putting the accent on physical phenomena, this book clarifies the historical issues (delocalisation, interferences)...

This book presents a theory of metrical conflict and applies it to the music of Schumann, thereby placing the composer's distinctive metrical style in full focus. It describes the various categories of metrical conflict that characterize Schumann's work, investigates how states of conflict are introduced and then manipulated and resolved in his...