Oxford University Press

There are many stories we can tell about the past, and we are not, perhaps, as        free as we might imagine in our choice of which stories to tell, or where those        stories end. John Arnold's Very Short Introduction is a stimulating essay about how        we study and understand history. The book begins by inviting us to think...

A Very Short IntroductionEnvironmental economics can be controversial, but it is also central to some key policy issues facing governments and society today, including industrial pollution, global warming, and waste/recycling. Stephen Smith looks at how economic activity affects the environment in which we live, and how environmental policies can...

This book examines the rise and diffusion of free-market thinking, from the early        20th Century through to the age of Obama. It tracks the ascendency of neoliberalism,        its key players and decisive moments of reconstruction, including the Chicago School        of economics, New York City's bankruptcy, Hurricane Katrina, and the Wall...

Reopening a Murder Investigation from the Plantation SouthIn May of 1857, the body of Duncan Skinner was found in a strip of woods along the edge of the plantation near Natchez, Mississippi, where he worked as an overseer. Although a coroner&'s jury initially ruled his death to be accidental, an investigation organized by planters from the...

Science, Philosophy, and their HistoriesThis unconventional book by a distinguished historian of philosophy tells the        story of how humans became rational beings....

In   The Mark of Shame, Stephen P. Hinshaw addresses the psychological, social, historical, and evolutionary roots of the stigma of mental illness as well as the long history of such stigmatization....