Oxford University Press

This volume addresses the issue of biological invasions from both an ecological and economic perspective, providing an in-depth evaluation of the science and its implications for managing the causes and consequences of one of the most pressing environmental issues facing humans today....

This Very Short Introduction is a celebration of rivers in all their diversity.          Nick Middleton covers a wide and eclectic range of river-based themes, from physical        geography to mythology, to industrial history and literary criticism. Worshipped and        revered, respected and feared, rivers reflect both the natural and social...

Science, Technology, and SocietyIn order to meet the growing scientific requirements of an increasingly complex society, it is essential for us to have an appreciation of the power and breadth of science.   Science and the Written Word is a collection of interviews featuring some of the world&'s greatest scientists and Nobel Prize winners. The...

In this riveting narrative, Barron H. Lerner offers a superb medical and cultural history of our century-long battle with breast cancer. Revisiting the past, Lerner argues, can illuminate and clarify the dilemmas confronted by women with, and at risk from, the disease. In Lerner's hands, the fight against breast cancer opens a window on American...

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 policy responses....

The Fall and Rise of a Controversial IdeaHoly War in Judaism is the first book to consider how the concept of ''holy war''        disappeared from Jewish thought for almost 2000 years, only to reemerge with renewed        vigor in modern times....