Oxford University Press

Robert Dallek&'s masterful John F. Kennedy: An Unfinished Life was a number one national bestseller, and it remains the most widely read one-volume biography of the 35th President. Now, in this marvelous short biography of John F. Kennedy, Dallek achieves a miracle of compression, capturing in a small space the essence of his renowned full-length...

The myth of the peace-loving "e;noble savage"e; is persistent and pernicious. Indeed, for the last fifty years, most popular and scholarly works have agreed that prehistoric warfare was rare, harmless, unimportant, and, like smallpox, a disease of civilized societies alone. Prehistoric warfare, according to this view, was little more than a...

The science behind drugs in sportSportsmen and women achieve extraordinary feats through hard work and natural        talent. But some do use drugs to push the body further. How do the drugs work? Do        they work? Is it possible to test for them? Chris Cooper explains the biochemistry,        revealing how people cheat now, and how they might...

How the quest to understand quantum field theory led to extraordinary science,        high politics, and the world's most expensive experimentForty or so years ago, three physicists - Peter Higgs, Gerard 't Hooft, and James        Bjorken - made the spectacular breakthroughs that led to the world's largest        experiment, the CERN Large Hadron...

This book challenges much of the rhetoric about the role of knowledge in business. Although top managers hail knowledge and learning as the source of their competitive edge, the rich empirical studies presented in the book question this top-down perspective. It will make compelling reading for management academics and practitioners alike....

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