Oxford University Press

Business and American Politics since World War IIThis book provides a sweeping interpretation of how business mobilized to        influence public policy and elections since World War II....

A LifeThe late Abraham Pais wrote the definitive biography of Albert Einstein, "e;Subtle is the Lord,"e; which won an American Book Award. As a distinguished physicist and Einstein&'s colleague, Pais combined a sophisticated understanding of physics with first-hand knowledge of this notoriously private individual, offering rare insights...

Shakespeare's drama originally circulated in the form of the individual actor's part, containing only a single character's speeches and cues. This collaboration of theatre history with literary criticism captures Shakespeare's development as a writer, showing how scripting and acting work together to produce characters of unprecedented immediacy....

In   Gotham, Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace have written an epic as vast and varied as the city it chronicles, Drawing on the work of hundreds of scholars who have re-examined New York's past, the authors weave together diverse histories - of sex and sewer systems, finance and architecture, immigration and politics, poetry and crime - into a...

A Very Short IntroductionThis concise volume fills a long-standing need for a sophisticated, brief primer on American national politics. A major theme of the book is the interplay between constitutional and extra-constitutional institutions and political processes. It provides engaging and exceptionally instructive treatments of the nuts-and-bolts...

Delusion, Self-Deception, and Human FrailtyThe themes are scientific mistakes and foibles. Gratzer describes for a general        readership a number of episodes in science and medicine where an erroneous research        finding was adhered to and given credence by its originators and others, far beyond        the point where it had been...