Oxford University Press

The Origins of Public Diplomacy and the Transformation of U. S. Foreign PolicyEmpire of Ideas examines the origins of the U. S. government's programs in public diplomacy and how the nation's image in the world became an essential component of U. S. foreign policy....

A Brief History of the Philosophy of Time is a concise and accessible survey of the history of philosophical and scientific developments in understanding time and our experience of time. It discusses prominent ideas about the nature of time, plus many subsidiary puzzles about time, from the classical period through the present....

Race, Immigration, and the Pursuit of the American DreamIn an age where racial and ethnic identity intersect, intertwine, and interact in increasingly complex ways, Black Ethnics: Race, Immigration, and the Pursuit of the American Dream offers a superb and rigorous analysis of black politics and coalitions in the post-Civil Rights era. Using an...

What Everyone Needs to KnowNobel Laureate Peter Doherty offers a level-headed guide to all aspects of pandemics-what they are, how they spread, and what we can do to prevent them Pandemics. The word conjures up images of horrific diseases sweeping the globe and killing everyone in their path. But such highly lethal illnesses almost never create...

This pocket guide introduces readers to linear regression analysis, analysis of variance and covariance, and path analysis with an emphasis on the basic statistics. It prepares entry-level doctoral students and early career social work researchers with limited statistics exposure in the use of multivariate methods by providing an easy-to-understand...

The search for the origin of HIV/AIDsVirus Hunt is a tale of scientific endeavour. Tracing the fascinating twenty year quest to find the origin of the virus that causes AIDS, Dorothy H. Crawford takes us on a journey around the world, to recount the vital research that eventually unravelled how, when, and where the virus first infected humans....