Oxford University Press

Throughout the world, governments are restructuring social and welfare        provision.This book analyses the pressures on social citizenship from changes in        work and the family, political actors, an ageing population, and a general backdrop        of globalization. It goes on to provocatively critique government's main...

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A Very Short IntroductionThis Very Short Introduction traces the history and cultural impact of the elements on humankind, and examines why people have long sought to identify the substances around them. Looking beyond the Periodic Table, the author takes the reader on an engaging and entertaining tour: from the Greek philosophers who propounded a...

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Sommerville argues that a secular world view is propagated not just through American higher education, but public education, the media, and the courts depsite their professed commitment to neutrality. He examines the market forces that have created what he calls the 'post-secularist' university but may also have opened the door for theologians to...

This graduate textbook is a "e;primer"e; in macroeconomics. It starts with essential undergraduate macroeconomics and develops in a simple and rigorous manner the central topics of modern macroeconomic theory including rational expectations, growth, business cycles, money, unemployment, government policy, and the macroeconomics of...