Oxford University Press

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What Everyone Needs to KnowThe politics of food is changing fast. In rich countries, obesity is now a more serious problem than hunger. Consumers once satisfied with cheap and convenient food now want food that is also safe, nutritious, fresh, and grown by local farmers using fewer chemicals. Heavily subsidized and underregulated commercial farmers...

The First Modern ManDuncan Wu's fascinating portrait of William Hazlitt - the first fully-researched        biography, and the first to cover Hazlitt's entire life - reveals one of the        greatest journalists in the language, and the principal spokesman of the Romantic        age, interacting with every major writer and many other movers and...

Enchanted Europe offers the first comprehensive account of Europe's long, complex relationship with its own folklore and popular religion. From debates over the efficacy of charms and spells, to belief in fairies and demons, Euan Cameron constructs a compelling narrative of the rise and fall of 'superstition' in the European mind....

Stochastic volatility is the main concept used in the fields of financial economics and mathematical finance to deal with time-varying volatility in financial markets. This book brings together some of the main papers that have influenced this exciting new field, and shows that the development of this subject has been highly multidisciplinary, and...

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