Oxford University Press

Technological change is central in explaining industrial leadership, but the relationships and interactions between scientific research, industrial innovation, and competitiveness are neither clear nor straightforward. This book analyses the role of technological change in the competitiveness of firms and national economies....

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This book explores the challenges that Asian immigrants face when their religion - and consequently culture - is 'remade in the USA'. Peppered with stories of individual people and how they actually live their religion, this informative book gives an overview of each religion's beliefs, a short history of immigration - and discrimination - for each...

A Political History of the NovelIn this strikingly original treatment of the rise of the novel, Nancy Armstrong        argues that the novels and nonfiction written by and for women in eighteenth and        nineteenth-century England paved the way for the rise of the modern English middle        class. Examining the works of such novelists as...

This book explores the empirical and theoretical aspects of constituent structure in natural language syntax, critically examining the strengths and limitations of different approaches. It is an ideal introduction for graduate students and advanced undergraduates and a valuable reference for theoretical linguists of all persuasions....

How many languages are there? What differentiates one language from another? Are        new languages still being discovered? Why are so many languages disappearing?The        diversity of languages today is varied, but it is steadily declining. In this Very        Short Introduction, Stephen Anderson answers the above questions by looking at...