Oxford University Press

The Great Financial Crisis of 1914A week before the outbreak of the First World War, an acute financial crisis surged over London: the Stock Exchange closed; money markets worldwide were paralysed. Drawing on diaries, letters, memoirs, press reports, and official archives, this book tells the extraordinary, and largely unknown, story of the first...

The Complex Link Between Aging, Work Disengagement, and Substance Misuse and What To Do About ItEvidence from both local and national surveys suggests that substance misuse and abuse among older adults in the United States is a "e;hidden epidemic"e; that poses a major threat to the welfare and quality of life of older drinkers and their...

Religion and Multiculturalism from Israel to CanadaFor several decades, culture played a central role in challenging the liberal tradition. More recently however, religion has re-emerged as one of the central challenges facing Western liberal societies&' conception of multiculturalism. Mapping the Legal Boundaries of Belonging explores the complex...

When and How International Institutions HelpWhy do leaders of countries opt to sign on to international institutions that constrain their freedom to enact domestic policy? In this book, Leonardo Baccini and Johannes Urpelainen address this enduring question of international relations by looking at liberal economic reforms.  During the past two...

The pioneering work of Gus Archie moved log interpretation into log analysis with the introduction of the equation that bears his name. Subsequent developments have mixed empiricism, physics, mathematical algorithms, and geological or engineering models as methods applied to petrophysical measurements in boreholes all over the world. Principles of...

From Antiquity to Early IslamThis volume addresses the similarities and differences in the role played by law and religion in various societies across the Eastern Mediterranean. Approaching these subjects in an all-encompassing manner, it also looks at the notion of law and religion in this region as a whole, in both the geographical as well as the...