Oxford University Press

On January 16, 1938 Benny Goodman brought his swing orchestra to America&'s venerated home of European classical music, Carnegie Hall. The resulting concert - widely considered one of the most significant events in American music history - helped to usher jazz and swing music into the American cultural mainstream. This reputation has been...

A Very Short IntroductionIn a world of growing political tension and unease, this    Very Short Introduction covers essential topics ranging from foreign policy, democracy, and terrorism, to the environment and globalization. Showing how many disciplines come together in the study of international relations, it explains the underlying theories and...

The volume brings together some of the leading scholars around the world working on social capital to study how individuals and groups access and use their social relations and social connections to do better in society in order to achieve their goals....

This book brings together a distinguished interdisciplinary group of European and American scholars to analyze the core theoretical features of the EU's new experimentalist governance architecture and explore its empirical development across a series of key policy domains....

Parole and Prisoner ReentryDrawing on dozens of interviews with inmates, former prisoners, and prison        officials, Joan Petersilia convincingly shows us how the current system is failing        to help the enornmous numbers of jailed Americans reenter society. Unwilling merely        to sound the alarm, Petersilia explores the harsh realities...

This stimulating    Very Short Introduction throws open the doors on a remarkably diverse musical genre, with a world-wide reach that goes far beyond America's shores to discuss folk music of every possible kind and in every corner of the globe....