Oxford University Press

A Tale of Three CitiesThe first comprehensive evaluation of Chicago's community policing initiative, examining its impact on crime, neighborhood residents, and the police. By looking at the varying effects community policing had on each of these groups, Skogan provides a valuable analysis of what works and why....

The Evolution of Social Wasps resolves one of evolution's most intriguing problems - the origin of insect sociality. It also challenges conceptual approaches that have dominated three decades of social behaviour research....

Aaron Copland during the Depression and WarMusic for the Common Man examines Copland's most celebrated music in the context of progressive politics during the 1930s and 1940s, arguing that such works as El Salon Mexico, Billy the Kid, and Appalachian Spring represent the aesthetic expression of leftwing cultural currents....

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Technologically important metals and alloys have been strengthened throughout history by a variety of empirical means. The scientific bases of the central mechanisms of such forms of strengthening, developed over the past several decades are presented here in a comprehensive form through mechanistic models and associated experimental results....

Gregory Currie offers a reflection on the nature and significance of narrative in human communication. He shows that narratives are devices for manifesting the intentions of their makers in stories, argues that human tendencies to imitation and to joint attention underlie the pleasure of narrative, and discusses authorship, character, and irony....