Oxford University Press

Easter Island, an isolated speck in the Pacific Ocean, produced one of the most fascinating and yet least understood of ancient cultures. Who were the inhabitants of this unimaginably remote volcanic island? Where did they come from? What, and equally intriguing, how did they erect the giant stone statues found all over the island? And what became...

Katalin Farkas comes to the defence of a Cartesian view of the mind. She argues that Descartes's influence is more beneficial, and his conception of the mind more deeply rooted in our understanding of ourselves, than most philosophers allow. She sheds light on a range of current issues, including personhood and the internalism/externalism debate....

Criminal Careers, Justice Policy, and PreventionWhat makes a juvenile delinquent develop into an adult criminal? Edited by two        leading authorities in the fields of psychology and criminology, Transitions from        Juvenile Delinquency to Adult Crime examines why the period of transition to        adulthood is important and how it can be...

A handbook and reference for academic econometricians and advanced graduate students. The book provides a coherent account of recent contributions to limit theory, with particular emphasis on the issues of date dependence and heterogeneity. It also provides a grounding in the requisite mathematics and probability theory, which will allow readers...

Stirring the StormThe action comes to a climax in this gripping final part of the brilliant Shapeshifter series by Blue Peter Award-winner, Ali Sparkes....

The Organization of Learning in the ATLAS Experiment at the LHCThe Large Hadron Collider at CERN is the world's largest scientific experiment        involving 3,000 scientists from 38 countries. Here a team of organization theorists        collaborate with leading figures at CERN to understand how this project has been        organized and what...