Oxford University Press

Health foods and dietary supplements are widely used throughout the world - it is        estimated that more than seventy million people in Europe regularly buy these        products, and it is a billion dollar business in the USA. Health foods include        vitamins, minerals, cereals, nuts, herbal medicines, functional foods, and...

A major new biography of Sergei Witte, the most significant statesman of late Tsarist Russia, based on his two memoirs and combining the life story of Witte himself with the story of Russia at the end of the Tsarist age....

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In Bringing the Sacred Down to Earth, Corinne Dempsey offers a comparative study of Hindu and Christian, Indian and Euro/American earthbound religious expressions. She argues that official religious, political, and epistemological systems tend to deny sacred access and expression to the general populace, and are abstracted and disembodied in ways...

China's economy has been growing at ten per cent per annum for the last three        decades. This book considers one of the biggest questions facing contemporary        economists: why and how is the Chinese economy growing so fast?...