Oxford University Press

Government, Markets and Social Policy in the Twenty-First CenturyIn Shared Responsibility, Shared Risk, Jacob Hacker and Ann O'Leary have gathered a distinguished group of scholars on American social policy to address the fundamental problems facing the American social welfare system. Collectively, they analyze how the "e;privatization of...

This  Very Short Introduction examines the phenomenon of international human migration - both legal and illegal. Taking a global look at politics, economics, and globalization, the author presents the human side of topics such as asylum and refugees, human trafficking, migrant smuggling, development, and the international labour force....

English Literature: A Very Short Introduction discusses why literature matters,        how narrative works, and what is distinctly English about English literature.          Jonathan Bate considers how we determine the content of the field, and looks at the        three major kinds of imaginative literature - English poetry, English drama and...

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Online and mobile technologies are profoundly influencing how we read and write, speak and listen, but not in the ways you might suppose. Always On draws upon a decade of research to reveal how instant messaging, cell phones, multitasking, Facebook, blogs, and internet search functions are reshaping social interaction and written culture....

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