Oxford University Press

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...

How Psychology Transformed StudentsMost contemporary North Americans, as well as many other Westerners, take for granted their conceptions of themselves as individuals with uniquely valuable and complex inner lives -- lives filled with beliefs, imaginings, understandings, and motives that determine their actions and accomplishments. Yet, such...

The Passion of Christ in Theology and the Arts-The Baroque EraThe Baroque period was in some senses the beginning of modern Western scientific and intellectual culture-the early budding of the Enlightenment. In the light of a new scientific and historical consciousness, it saw the rise of deism and the critique of traditional forms of Christianity....

Bioinformatics encompasses a broad and ever-changing range of activities involved with the management and analysis of data from molecular biology experiments. Despite the diversity of activities and applications, the basic methodology and core tools needed to tackle bioinformatics problems is common to many projects. This unique book provides an...

International law dictates that states have sovereignty over their own monetary and fiscal affairs. In practice, however, globalization and the powers of organizations like the IMF and EU are thought to have significantly eroded this idea. This book offers a legal analysis of the development of monetary sovereignty and its meaning in today's...

Real estate is typically classified as an alternative to more traditional investments such as stocks and bonds. Real estate investing involves the purchase, ownership, management, rental, or sale of real estate for profit. Real estate investments can be both income producing and non-income producing. Although real estate can produce income like a...