Oxford University Press

In Knowledge and Coordination, Daniel Klein reexamines the elements of economic liberalism. He interprets Hayek's notion of spontaneous order from the aestheticized perspective of a Smithian spectator and addresses issues economists have had surrounding the notion of coordination by distinguishing the ideas of Hayek, Ronald Coase, and Michael...

Interpreting Motion shows how language structures constrain concepts of motion, analyzing the semantics of motion expressions in a range of contexts from route navigation to textual description. It is written for a broad audience including linguists, cognitive and computer scientists, and those working in GIS and artificial intelligence....

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A thorough and pedagogical introduction to phase transitions and exactly solved models in statistical physics and quantum field theory....

Something to Live For investigates and analyses the entire oeuvre of Billy Strayhorn,m who, for over 30 years, was the musical collaborator of Duke Ellington. Nearlly seventy music examples, drawn directly from his original autograph scores, provide insight into the development of Strayhorn's own musical language and style. The author has found...

In her study of Oberammergau, the Bavarian village famous for its decennial passion play, Helena Waddy argues against the traditional image of the village as a Nazi stronghold. She uses Oberammergau's unique history to explain why and how genuinely some villagers chose to become Nazis, while others rejected Party membership and defended their...