Oxford University Press

All too often scholars of science and religion have focused their attention almost exclusively on the Christian experience. At a time when religious ignorance and misunderstanding have lethal consequences, such provincialism must be avoided. This book expands our knowledge of science and religion beyond its largely Christian base to include the...

During the 1970s, monetarism and the new classical macroeconomics ushered in an era of neoliberal economic policymaking. Keynesian economics was pushed aside. It was almost forgotten that when Keynesian thinking had dominated economic policymaking in the middle decades of the twentieth century, it had coincided with postwar economic reconstruction...

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The Quick Writing ProcessMost writing is done under pressure. An executive has to produce a three-page position paper by tomorrow at nine. A department head suddenly has to write a one-page action memo by noon. A graduate student has a twenty-page research paper due in a week. Yet, while most students and professionals write under pressure--with...

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A Very Short IntroductionThe book gives a non-technical account of how drugs work in the body. During the twentieth century the introduction of new medicines for the treatment of infections, heart disease, cancer, and mental illnesses and the oral contraceptive have altered all of our lives. Both legal (alcohol, nicotine, and caffeine) and illegal...