Oxford University Press

Why the U.S. Has No National Health InsuranceOne Nation, Uninsured offers a vividly written history of America's failed efforts        to address the health care needs of its citizens. Covering the entire twentieth        century, Jill Quadagno shows how each attempt to enact national health insurance was        met with fierce attacks by powerful...

An international children's classic, The Wind in the Willows grew from the author's letters to his young son, yet it is concerned almost exclusively with adult themes. This new edition explores a profoundly English book with a world following; a book for adults adopted by children; a timeless masterpiece and a vital portrait of an age....

After the Madisonian RepublicEver since Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. used "e;imperial presidency"e; as a book title, the term has become central to the debate about the balance of power in the U.S. government. Since the presidency of George W. Bush, when advocates of executive power such as Dick Cheney gained ascendancy, the argument has...

A definitive review of the island literature, explaining how islands have been used as natural laboratories in developing and testing ecological and evolutionary theories....

Edward FitzGerald's version of the Rub'aiy'at of the medieval Persian poet and philosopher Omar Khayy'am contains some of the most frequently quoted - and beautiful - lines in English poetry. Daniel Karlin's richly annotated edition does justice to the scope and complexity of FitzGerald's lyrical meditation on 'human death and fate'....

Robert Matthews provides a critique of widely held beliefs, desires, and other 'propositional attitudes', according to which they are representations that play a causal role in the production of thought and behaviour. He develops an alternative measurement-theoretic account of propositional attitudes and the sentences by which we attribute them....