Oxford University Press

This is one of the first books to provide a textbook exposition of the literature on how to measure accurately the 'effects' of a 'treatment', such as a drug, educational programme, or tax regime, on a response variable like an illness, GPA, or income. The book focuses on non-experimental, microeconometric estimation....

From Ancient Times to the Present DayFor thirty years the director of the Wiener Library in London--the leading institute for the study of anti-Semitism--Walter Laqueur here offers both a comprehensive history of anti-Semitism as well as an illuminating look at the newest wave of this phenomenon.     Laqueur begins with an invaluable historical...

A Very Short IntroductionThis VSI provides a brief history of the blues genre's main movements and most influential artists and gives a sense of the breadth of the blues field. Beginning with the music's roots in African and African-American styles, European folk music, and popular forms such as minstrelsy and ragtime, it traces how blues evolved...

This is the first comprehensive presentation of Functional Discourse Grammar. The authors set out its nature and origins and show how it relates to contemporary linguistic theory. They demonstrate and test its explanatory power and descriptive utility against linguistic facts from over 150 languages across a full range of linguistic families....

The Albigensian Crusade and the Battle for ChristendomIn A Most Holy War, historian Mark Pegg has produced a swift-moving, gripping        narrative of this horrific crusade, drawing in part on thousands of testimonies        collected by inquisitors in the years 1235 to 1245. He shows how a millennial fervor        about "e;cleansing"e;...

In Praise of VaguenessOur lives are full of inexactitude. We say a person is tall or an action is just        without the precision of measurement on a dial. In this engaging account, Kees van        Deemter explores vagueness, cutting across areas such as language, mathematical        logic, and computing. He considers why vagueness is inherent,...