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U.S. Foreign Relations since 1776The Oxford History of the United States is the most respected multi-volume history of our nation in print. The series includes three Pulitzer Prize-winners, a New York Times bestseller, and winners of prestigious Bancroft and Parkman Prizes. From Colony to Superpower is the only thematic volume commissioned for the...

A Very Short IntroductionThe concept of law lies at the heart of our social and political life, shaping the character of our community and underlying issues from racism and abortion to human rights and international war. But what actually is law? Is it just a set of rules, or something much more than that? And what is its role in...

The 'Adaptive Landscape' has been a central concept in population genetics and        evolutionary biology since this powerful metaphor was first formulated in 1932. This        volume brings together historians of science, philosophers, ecologists, and        evolutionary biologists, to discuss the state of the art from several...

A Firsthand Account of One Teenager's Experience with Bipolar Disorder#N/A...

In this controversial new account of the history of medicine, David Wootton argues that, from the fifth century BC until the 1930s, doctors actually did more harm than good, and asks just how much harm they still do today....