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Vigen Guroian illuminates the complex ways in which fairy tales and fantasies educate the moral imagination from earliest childhood. Examining a wide range of stories - from "e;Pinocchio"e; and "e;The Little Mermaid"e; to "e;Charlotte's Web"e;, "e;The Velveteen Rabbit"e;, "e;The Wind in the Willows"e;, and...

John Henry (later Cardinal) Newman is widely known to have been devoted to reading the Church Fathers. By exploring which Fathers interested Newman most and when, using both published and archive material, Benjamin J. King demonstrates the influence of the various Alexandrian theologians in different periods of Newman's life....

From Napoleon to the PresentBased on country specific case-studies, The Evolution of Operational Art describes        how the concepts that underpin operational art originated, how they received        practical expression in various campaigns, and how they developed over time. This        book is a project of the Oxford Leverhulme Programme on the...

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Antibiotics will no longer cure many illnesses due to escalating bacterial resistance. Still, physicians continue prescribing antibiotics for viral illnesses. This book examines parent-physician conversations, asking how small differences in phrasing affect prescribing decisions, and how physicians deal with the social dilemma pitting individuals...

The Oxford Handbook of Evidence-based Management shows how leaders and managers        can make effective use of best available evidence in the decisions they make -- and        what educators and researchers need to do to help them come to the right        solution....