Oxford University Press

This book offers a new approach to the representation of meaning of temporally-located utterances and discourses. Temporality, the author suggests, should be taken to mean degrees of certainty, understood in turn as degrees of acceptability concerning the eventuality referred to in the speaker's utterance....

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Why We Want What We WantA married person falls deeply in love with someone else. A man of average income feels he cannot be truly happy unless he owns an expensive luxury car. A dieter has an irresistible craving for ice cream. Desires often come to us unbidden and unwanted, and they can have a dramatic impact, sometimes changing the course of our...

The Psychology of the Supreme Court by Lawrence S. Wrightsman is the first book to thoroughly examine the psychology of Supreme Court decision-making. Dr. Wrightsman's book seeks to help us understand all aspects of the Supreme Court's functioning from a psychological perspective. This timely and comprehensive work addresses many factors of...

A Surgeon's Guide to Neck and Back Pain and How to Choose Your TreatmentThis new edition of Do You Really Need Back Surgery? provides a wide range of information for back and neck pain sufferers--ranging from Pilates to Pedicle Screws. It is written by a world famous neurosurgical spine expert, who is also a widely published author, and contains...