Oxford University Press

This is a major comparative study of big business in the three leading European nations across the course of the 20th Century. Drawing on a carefully constructed sample of leading companies from the UK, France, and Germany, the author analyses the relationship between corporate and national economic performance; the impact of national difference on...

Technology: A World History offers a brilliant history of invention around the globe. Historian Daniel R. Headrick ranges from the Stone Age and the beginnings of agriculture to the Industrial Revolution and the electronic revolution of the recent past. In tracing the growing power of humans over nature through increasingly powerful innovations, he...

The quest for justice continues in the third thrilling part of this quartet. Kimi and Hana have been reunited with their mother and youngest brother, Moriyasu, but the family are still in hiding. When their treacherous uncle's men attack the peasants who are sheltering them, Kimi retaliates. It is a fight that ends in fire, and both Kimi and...

The Strange and Litigious Career of Ira B. ArnsteinThe long and tortured career of Ira B. Arnstein, "e;the unrivaled king of copyright infringement plaintiffs,"e; opens a curious window into the evolution of copyright law in the United States. As Gary A. Rosen shows in this frequently funny and always entertaining history, the litigious...

Reflections of a Recovering CriticWhen cultural critics with such wildly divergent views as Jacques Barzun, Christopher Hitchens, Joseph Epstein, Dana Gioia, and Morris Dickstein all agree about the merits of one contemporary essayist, shouldn&'t you find out why?  "e;I never think except when I sit down to write."e; -- Attributed to...

Many different varieties of capitalism have developed in the twentieth century. Despite the rhetoric of globalization, they are continuing to diverge because of significant differences in dominant institutions. Divergent Capitalisms highlights the major differences between business systems in Europe and Asia and explains why they developed and...