Oxford University Press

This book uses data from a multitude of countries to explain how and why hedge fund markets differ around the world. The authors consider international differences in hedge fund regulation which include, but are not limited to, minimum capitalization requirements, restrictions on the location of key service providers, and different permissible...

Electron Microscopy and Electron DiffractionIn the modern world of ever smaller devices and nanotechnology, electron crystallography emerges as the most important method capable of determining the structure of minute objects down to the size of individual atoms. Crystals of only a few millionths of a millimetre are studied. This is the first...

Nepotism and Papal Authority in Counter-Reformation RomeReconstructs the events surrounding the prosecution of Pope Paul IV's nephews by his successor Pius IV and the impact this had on Counter-Reformation Rome. Offers a substantial reappraisal of how contemporaries viewed the ideas of nepotism and papal authority and demonstrates Pius'...

How Illicit Trade Made AmericaSmuggler Nation is the first book that retells the story of America and its foreign relations as a series of intense battles over illicit trade, from molasses and gunpowder in colonial times to drug trafficking and migrant smuggling today. As Andreas argues in this fascinating and provocative account, clandestine...

Muslims in the Balkans between Nationalism and TransnationalismThis book discusses the role of Islam in the political and social developments in the Balkans after the fall of communism. It explores comparatively the transformations of Muslim identities under the influence of various national and transnational, domestic and global factors....

The book discusses fundamental aspects of Quantum Field Theory and of Gauge theories, with attention to mathematical consistency. Basic issues of the standard model of elementary particles (Higgs mechanism and chiral symmetry breaking in quantum Chromodynamics) are treated without relying on the perturbative expansion and on instanton calculus....