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March of the Armoured BeastsWelcome to the Cretaceous! It's a pretty cool place, in a prehistoric hot and humid kind of way! Jamie and Tom have followed the fossilized footprints and discovered a secret dinosaur world. There's so much to see and do in the Cretaceous, and with their little dinosaur friend, Wanna, the boys set off to...

When Harold Fried, et al. published The Measurement of Productive Efficiency:        Techniques and Applications with OUP in 1993, the book received a great deal of        professional interest for its accessible treatment of the rapidly growing field of        efficiency and productivity analysis. The first several chapters, providing...

In Nature's New Deal, Neil M. Maher examines the history of one of Franklin D. Roosevelt's boldest and most successful experiments, the Civilian Conservation Corps, describing it as a turning point both in national politics and in the emergence of modern environmentalism....

How Racism Undermined the War on PovertyThirty years after Lyndon Johnson declared a War on Poverty, the United States still lags behind most Western democracies in national welfare systems, lacking such basic programs as national health insurance and child care support. Some critics have explained the failure of social programs by citing our...

It's not the greatest start to a summer holiday. The car breaks down, miles from anywhere, and suddenly Joy and her family are stuck in the first bed-and-breakfast they can find. And it's no ordinary place. Forever X, says the sign on the house. That's strange enough, but inside everything is even weirder - from the girl in an elf...

Fourteen centuries of Islamic thought have produced a legacy of interpretive        readings of the Qu'ran written almost entirely by men. Now, with Qu'ran and Woman,        Amina Wadud provides a first interpretive reading by a woman, a reading which        validates the female voice in the Qu'ran and brings it out of the shadows....