Oxford University Press

Written by a prominent contributor to recent debates on the welfare state, this is an in-depth comparison of two large European welfare states - UK and Germany. Spanning a 25-year period, this analysis provides a systematic comparison of policy change across each country in 3 core areas: unemployment support, pensions, and family policy....

A Very Short IntroductionIn its heyday in the late 1990s, neoliberalism emerged as the world's dominant economic paradigm. But the global financial crisis of 2008-9 fundamentally shocked a globalized economy built on neoliberal assumptions. This VSI examines the origins, core claims, and considerable variations of neoliberalism with examples from...

A Life in CirculationSet in the heart of late Renaissance London, William Harvey is the fascinating biography of the author of the revolutionary "e;circulation"e; theory of the movement of the blood, which would alter the history of science and general culture in a manner akin to Darwin's theory of evolution and Newton's theory of gravity....

The history of tuberculosisThe story of tuberculosis is a rich and fascinating one. It is a complex and ancient disease that, after many years of virtual disappearance in the developed world, is now making something of a comeback. Helen Bynum tracks the historical development of the disease, and considers the challenges it presents to the modern...

A Continuing American DilemmaHow can it be, in a nation that elected Barack Obama, that one third of African American males born in 2001 will spend time in a state or federal prison, and that black men are seven times likelier than white men to be in prison? Blacks are much more likely than whites to be stopped by the police, arrested, prosecuted,...

A journey into Earth's deep historyIn this narrative of the Earth's long and dramatic history, Jan Zalasiewicz shows        how many events in the Earth's ancient past can be deciphered from a single pebble.          He explores how geologists reach deep into the past by forensic analysis of even the        tiniest amounts of mineral matter,...