Oxford University Press

Avian Flight covers all the main aspects of aerial locomotion by birds including        sections on the history of thinking about bird flight, aerodynamics, functional        morphology, evolution, kinematics, physiology, energetics and the cost of flight.          The subject is complex and still not yet fully understood, and the author argues...

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Deliberative democracy puts communication and talk at the centre of democracy.          Foundations and Frontiers of Deliberative Governance takes a fresh look at the        foundations of the field, and develops new applications in areas ranging from        citizen participation to the democratization of authoritarian states to the...

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This book examines issues that have excited and divided Americans for years,        including desegregation, school funding, testing, vouchers, bilingual education,        multicultural education, and ability grouping. The authors show that these devisive        issues stem from an apparent conflict, rooted in the American dream,...

Dallek has added an Afterword to his classic, Bancroft Prize-winning study of Franklin Roosevelt's diplomacy. He effectively answers recent critics who have attacked Roosevelt for producing Pearl Harbor, for `giving away' Eastern Europe to Stalin at Yalta, and for abandoning European Jews during the Holocaust. Dallek reaffirms the strength and...