Oxford University Press

The British Army and the War against Germany 1919-1945This is the first serious analysis of the combat capability of the British army in        the Second World War. It sweeps away the myth that the army suffered from poor        morale, and that it only won its battles through the use of 'brute force' and by        reverting to the techniques of...

How do we measure happiness? This important book presents a unified approach to the analysis of subjective satisfaction and income evaluation. Drawing on empirical analyses from various countries, it develops new methodology to establish a model of happiness which includes satisfaction with life as a whole and with various domains of life....

Material objects persist through time and survive change. How do they manage to do        so? What are the underlying facts of persistence? Do objects persist by being        "e;wholly present"e; at all moments of time at which they exist? Or do they persist by        having distinct "e;temporal segments"e; confined to the...

Why are some performers exhilarated and energized about performing in public,        while others feel a crushing sense of fear and dread, and experience public        performance as an overwhelming challenge that must be endured? What are the factors        that produce such vastly different performance experiences? Why have...

The overnight appearance of mushrooms in a meadow or on a suburban lawn is a        marvelous sight. It is one of many awe-inspiring, magical processes that have        evolved among the fungi, yet this group remains the least studied and most poorly        understood kingdom of organisms. In Mushroom, Nicholas Money offers a...

Ritual has been long viewed as an undisputed and indisputable part of (especially religious) tradition, performed over and over in the same ways: stable in form, meaningless, preconcieved, and with the aim of creating harmony and enabling a tradition's survival. The authors represented in this collection argue, however, that this view can be...