Oxford University Press

The Story of NoiseAs humankind creates ever more noise, the battle to manage and control it intensifies. Mike Goldsmith considers the long history of that battle, explains the science and physiology, explores how new scientific approaches may affect the future of sound, and looks at how discord and dissonance are put to use in music, medicine, and...

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Kenneth Ludmerer describes the evolution of American medical education from 1910, when a controversial report on medical diploma mills spurred the reform and expansion of medical schools, to the current era of managed care, when commercial interests once more have come to the fore, compromising the training of the nation's future doctors. Ludmerer...

Hans Litten, a courageous German-Jewish lawyer who defended civil rights in the Weimar Republic, was one of the only people to ever cross-examine Hitler on the witness stand, and the only one to reduce him to helpless rage.  This book is a dramatic account of that trial, and the gripping and definitive story of a fascinating figure-forgotten...

Dyslexia and other learning difficulties offers a clear and sympathetic guide to        the difficulties that parents and teachers need to surmount when faced with a child        with learning difficulties. This encouraging approach and easy-to-read style will        appeal to parents as well as to professionals who work with such children....

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