Oxford University Press

...

A History and Analysis of Con Artists and VictimsTamar Frankel's new book provides an exploration of Ponzi schemers' fascinating        power of persuasion and deception, the reasons for their success and longevity, and        the character of their victims....

Webster, Clay, and CalhounEnormously powerful, intensely ambitious, the very personifications of their respective regions--Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, and John C. Calhoun represented the foremost statemen of their age. In the decades preceding the Civil War, they dominated American congressional politics as no other figures have.  Now Merrill D....

...

Theory and MethodsThe Practice of Organizational Diagnosis: Theory & Methods presents a new paradigm for examining the intergroup dynamics of organizations by combining the procedures of organizational diagnosis with the theory of embedded intergroup relations. In this volume, Alderfer explains the relevance of the paradigm concept for the present...

This is the first book on the death penalty in Asia, where over 90% of all current state killings occur and every type of death penalty policy exists. Johnson and Zimring review the prospects for its abolishment throughout the region in a series of authoritative case studies and investigate the continuities and limits between European abolition and...