Oxford University Press

A posteriori error estimation techniques are fundamental to the efficient numerical solution of PDEs arising in physical and technical applications. This book gives a unified approach to these techniques and guides graduate students, researchers, and practitioners towards understanding, applying and developing self-adaptive discretization methods....

A Literary LifeHawthorne's Habitations draws on letters, manuscripts, and the author's little studied French and Italian notebooks, to present a portrait of four fascinating locations in the middle of the nineteenth century and offer a convincing portrait of the way place informed Hawthorne's melancholy psychology and dark style....

The Adult Musical in 1970s New York CityThis book tells the story of the adult musical in 1970s New York City. Featuring strong sexual content, frequent nudity, and simulated sexual activity, adult musicals were cheap to produce, and even the ones that got the most scathing reviews usually made money. Author Elizabeth Wollman illustrates how they...

The Scale Freedom of the UniverseThis book argues that there is causation at every scale of measurement -- countering the philosophical position that causation, or "e;activity,"e; occurs only at the minutest scales of measurement (the scale of microphysics). Thalos&'s scale-free model, as she shows, is much more hospitable to the models of...

Economic Growth and the Prospects for Democratization in ChinaWhat kind of role can the middle class play in potential democratization in such an undemocratic, late developing country as China? To answer this profound political as well as theoretical question, Jie Chen explores attitudinal and behavioral orientation of China&'s new middle class to...

The Moral Psychology of ContemptBell argues that contempt has an important role to play in confronting and addressing immorality, and in that respect is essential to moral relations. Her book is not just a defense of contempt, but an account of the virtues and vices of it, providing a model for thinking more generally about the negative emotions as...