Oxford University Press

The Surprising History of an Iconic SongThe song &'God Bless America&' has come to inhabit our collective consciousness. This book tells the fascinating story behind the song, from its composition in 1918 by Irving Berlin, to its first performance by Kate Smith in 1938, to its post 9/11 popularity. It tells the story of how the song has come to...

Schadenfreude and the Dark Side of Human NatureFew people confess easily to taking pleasure in the misfortunes of others. Maybe this is why there is no word for the feeling in English. And so schadenfreude, that beguiling German word, is borrowed to label the experience. This book, written by one of the world&'s foremost scholars of envy and shame,...

Practical Strategies for Individual and Group SettingsThis is the most comprehensive book ever written on how counselors and psychotherapists can work with clients around values, decision-making and action-planning. It shows how to use value-clarifying questions, value-clarifying interviews, and over 40 values clarification strategies with 1,000 or...

This unconventional cultural history explores the lifecycle of the radical historical Jesus, a construct created by the freethinkers, feminists, socialists and anarchists who used the findings of biblical criticism to mount a serious challenge to the authority of elite liberal divines during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era....

A Nonasymptotic Theory of IndependenceAn accessible account of the rich theory surrounding concentration inequalities in probability theory, with applications from machine learning and statistics to high-dimensional geometry. This book introduces key ideas and presents a detailed summary of the state-of-the-art in the area, making it ideal for...

Diffusional Change in the English System of ComplementationExamines the emergence and spread of three types of complements from the Middle English period to the present day...