Oxford University Press

Rubber elasticity is an important sub-field of polymer science. This book is a sequel to the authors' previous, more introductory book, Rubberlike Elasticity: A Molecular Primer (Wiley-Interscience, 1988), and will in some respects replace the now classic book by L.R.G. Reloar,    The Physics of Rubber Elasticity (Oxford, 1975). The present book...

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This wide-ranging volume looks at the reception history of the Bible's many texts; Part I surveys the outline, form, and content of twelve key biblical books that have been influential in the history of interpretation. Part II offers a series of in-depth case studies of the interpretation of particular biblical passages or books....

Published in a pocket sized format, this book provides an indispensable, complete, and practical guide for the busy court advocate. It offers extensive coverage of offences, sentencing, procedure, and evidential issues....

Linguists and anthropologists explore the intriguing variety of possessive phrases denoting ownership of property, whole-part relations (such as body and plant parts), and blood and affinal kinship relations across a wide range of languages. Like others in the series this pioneering book will equally valued in linguistics and anthropology....

In   Growing Gaps, Paul Attewell and Katherine S. Newman bring together an impressive group of scholars to closely examine the relationship between inequality and education. Covering almost every continent,   Growing Gaps provides an overarching and essential examination of who is actually able to benefit from economic growth and who, because of...