Oxford University Press

A Very Short IntroductionStatistics has evolved into an exciting discipline which uses deep theory and powerful software to shed light on the world around us: from clinical trials in medicine, to economics, sociology, and countless other subjects vital to understanding modern life. This   Very Short Introduction explores and explains how statistics...

Volume 1: 1789-1933Vivid, succinct, and highly accessible, this first volume of Heinrich Winkler's magisterial history of modern Germany takes us from the final days of the Holy Roman Empire to the downfall of the Weimar Republic in 1933. Winkler brilliantly synthesizes complex events and illuminates them with fascinating new research, interweaving...

Hilary Kornblith rejects the method by which philosophers have traditionally investigated knowledge--conceptual analysis--in favour of a naturalistic approach. Knowledge, Kornblith argues, is a feature of the natural world, and so should be investigated using scientific methods. He offers an account of knowledge derived from the science of animal...

'I am a Christian' is the confession of the martyrs of early Christian texts and, no doubt, of many others; but what did this confession mean, and how was early Christian identity constructed? This book is a highly original exploration of how a sense of being 'a Christian', or of 'Christian identity', was shaped within the setting of the Jewish and...

Benjamin Franklin, the 18th-century American statesman and scientist, watched the calming effect of a drop of oil on the waves and ripples of a London pond, and began to investigate exactly what was happening to cause this strange phenomenon. Following Franklin's lead, a motley crowd of scientists over the next two centuries and more chose to...

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