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A Critical Assessment of Oxford's Development of the Study of Politics and International Relations in Comparative PerspectiveForging a Discipline analyses the growth of the academic discipline of politics and international relations at Oxford University over the last hundred years. This century marked the maturation and professionalization of...

How Government Should Spend Our MoneyWe Are Better Than This fundamentally reframes budget debates in the United States. Author Edward D. Kleinbard explains how the public&'s preoccupation with tax policy alone has obscured any understanding of government&'s ability to complement the private sector through investment and insurance programs that...

Consumer Credit and the American Economy examines the economics, behavioral science, sociology, history, institutions, law, and regulation of consumer credit in the United States.  After discussing the origins and various kinds of consumer credit available in today&'s marketplace, this book reviews at some length the long run growth of consumer...

From Transcendentalism to New Age ReligionBy the early twenty-first century, a phenomenon that once was inconceivable had become nearly commonplace in American society: the public spiritual teacher who neither belongs to, nor is authorized by a major religious tradition. From the Oprah Winfrey-endorsed Eckhart Tolle to figures like Gangaji and...

A Modern PerspectiveThe book describes phasing techniques in modern crystallography. The main text is dedicated to their simple description, and further mathematical details are contained in the appendices. Practical aspects are described for each specific method, making it a useful tool for the daily work of practising crystallographers....

Written by biomedical scientists and clinicians to disseminate the fundamental scientific principles that underpin clinical medicine, this new edition of the Oxford Handbook of Medical Sciences provides a clear, easily digestible account of basic cell physiology and biochemistry, and an investigation of the traditional pillars of medicine (anatomy,...