Oxford University Press

Fully updated to include the Lisbon treaty, the EU fiscal crisis, and the state of the Euro currency, this accessible Very Short Introduction shows how and why the EU has developed, how its institutions works, and what it does - from the single market to the Euro, and from agriculture to peace-keeping and the environment....

Consumption, Higher Education, and Work OrganizationThe book views the contemporary economy as an economy of persuasion, where firms and institutions assign resources to rhetoric, image, and reputation rather than production of goods and services. It examines critically phenomena such as the knowledge society, consumption, higher education,...

A new prose translation of Ovid&'s poetical calendar of the Roman        year, with its various observances and festivals, recording a wealth of detail on        rites and customs recorded day by day. A lively introduction explains the background        to the poem, and the edition includes notes, a glossary, and an index of        names....

One of the most significant literary works of the twentieth century, and one of the most innovative. Young Irish Catholic, Stephen Dedalus, rejects religion and national ties to develop unfettered as an artist. Stronly autobiographical, the novel is one of the founding texts of Modernism and the precursor of Ulysses. Its originality shocked...

In this lively Very Short Introduction, Tim Bayne looks at the nature of thought. Exploring questions such as 'What are thoughts?' and 'How is thought realized in the brain?', he draws on research in philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, and anthropology to look at what we know - and don't know - about the capacity for...

An Analytical and Historical IntroductionThis new edition of Georges Dicker's commentary on Descartes's Meditations features a new chapter on the Fourth Meditation and numerous other improvements. It serves as an introduction to Descartes's philosophy for undergraduates and as a sophisticated companion to his Meditations for advanced...