Oxford University Press

The book is a pocket sized guide providing detailed and comprehensive coverage of        clinical psychiatry. Useful to medical trainees in psychiatry and preparing for        exams. Its detail and clinical coverage mean it can continue to be used by junior        psychiatric trainees and those entering individual psychiatric sub-specialties...

Magnetism is a strange force, mysteriously attracting one object to another        apparently through empty space. It has been claimed as a great healer, with magnetic        therapies being proposed over the centuries and still popular today. Why are its        mysterious important to solve?In this Very Short Introduction, Stephen J....

For many centuries, the world of Islam was in the forefront of human        achievement--the foremost military and economic power in the world, the leader in        the arts and sciences of civilization. Christian Europe, a remote land beyond its        northwestern frontier, was seen as an outer darkness of barbarism and unbelief from        which...

Why does society allow, or even encourage, private appropriation of inventions? When do patents encourage competition, when do they hamper it? These questions and many more are addressed by two eminent scholars in this groundbreaking analysis of the economic foundations of the European patent system....

A Very Short IntroductionMaking good decisions under conditions of uncertainty requires an appreciation of the way random chance works. In this Very Short Introduction, John Haigh provides a brief account of probability theory; explaining the philosophical approaches, discussing probability distributions, and looking its applications in science and...

This volume of contributed, previously unpublished essays focuses on general theoretical, meta-ethical, and aesthetic issues in philosophy and the ways in which they manifest themselves in film....