Oxford University Press

Inconstant and forbidding, the arctic has lured misguided voyagers into the cold        for centuries--pushing them beyond the limits of their knowledge, technology, and        endurance. A Fabulous Kingdom charts these quests and the eventual race for the        North Pole, chronicling the lives and adventures that would eventually throw...

Fletcher Henderson (1897 - 1952) is a major figure in the history of jazz. He led the premier black jazz band of the 1920s and the early 1930s, and wrote the swing arrangements that helped make Benny Goodman the 'King of Swing'.    The Uncrowned King of Swing is the first interpretive study of his music and career, using the full range of sources...

This book brings together a distinguished set of contributors from a variety of disciplines to examine current theories of institutional change. The chapters highlight the limitations of these theories, finding them lacking in the analytic tools necessary to identify the changes occurring at a national level, and therefore tend to explain many...

The Foundations of Human and Animal EmotionsThis comprehensive text on the fundamental brain sources of human and animal        feelings summarizes up-to-date information about the subcortical operating systems        that organize the fundamental emotional tendencies of all mammals. Complex material        is presented in a comprehensive but...

This new book describes the basic physics of solar and infrared radiation in the atmosphere. Radiation theory is related to the development of climate prediction models, and to measurement techniques for monitoring the Earth's energy budget and making remote sensing observations from satellites....

Rastafari has grown into an international socio-religious movement, with adherents of Rastafari found in most of the major population centres and outposts of the world. This Very Short Introduction provides a brief account of this widespread but often poorly understood movement, looking at its history, central principles, and practices....