Oxford University Press

Democracy and Public Space claims that the current fashion for online democracy risks undermining democracy's very foundations. Challenging the received academic wisdom, the author offers a compelling, new vision of democratic public space and assesses the success of eleven world cities in the light of it....

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Salzman and West have assembled a team of renowned scholars and writers to offer what has been absent in many recent heated debates on the state of black-Jewish relations: comprehension of the actual history of the relationship between black and Jews, and reasoned discussion of the issues that currently divide the two groups, including affirmative...

The book provides an overview of research, theory, and methodology on the realities of managerial work and presents a number of empirical studies on various kinds of managers within different sectors and at different levels of organizations. It uses the behaviour and activities of successful managers as primary data for a theory of good management....

An IntroductionThis book introduces the specific statistical methods and models involved in data mining, targeting students and professionals with a a basic knowledge of statistical reasoning....

Ecology and Conservation of a Tropical Cloud ForestThe Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve has captured the worldwide attention of biologists, conservationists, and ecologists and has been the setting for extensive investigation over the past 30 years. Roughly 40,000 ecotourists visit the Cloud Forest each year, and it is often considered the...