Oxford University Press

Hall and Soskice's   Varieties of Capitalism (VoC) has become a seminal text across the social sciences in the debate about political-economic models. Here, Bob Hancke presents the key readings on VoC, including the original Hall and Soskice introduction, showing how these ideas have changed the way we look at comparative political economy....

Essays on Larkin, Amis, Gunn, Davie and Their ContemporariesThe Movement was the preeminent poetical grouping of post-war Britain. This        collection of original essays by distinguished poets, critics, and scholars from        Britain and America provides new accounts not only of the best-known of Movement        writers - Philip Larkin,...

In The Bay of Pigs, Howard Jones provides a concise, incisive, and dramatic account of the disastrous attempt to overthrow Castro in April 1961. Drawing on recently declassified CIA documents, Jones deftly examines the train of missteps and self-deceptions that led to the invasion of U.S.-trained exiles at the Bay of Pigs. Ignoring warnings from...

Agent-based modeling and simulation (ABMS), a way to simulate a large number of        choices by individual actors, is one of the most exciting practical developments in        business modeling since the invention of relational databases. It represents a new        way to understand data and generate information that has never been...

In The Politics of the New Welfare State the main reforms in work and welfare are summarized and analyzed to provide up-dated evidence of policy change and its main determinants to policymakers, researchers, and stakeholders interested in the field....

From Homer to HerodotusThe Invention of Greek Ethnography offers a fresh approach to the origins and development of ethnographic thought, Greek identity, and narrative history....