Oxford University Press

New York&'s Most Notorious Rare Book Ring and the Man Who Stopped ItIn Thieves of Book Row, Travis McDade tells the gripping tale of the worst book-theft ring in American history, and the intrepid detective who brought it down. Both a fast-paced, true-life thriller, Thieves of Book Row provides a fascinating look at the history of crime and...

Pacific Worlds from Captain Cook to the Gold RushA groundbreaking and lyrically written work that explores the world of the Pacific Ocean....

Medieval Heresy and Criminal ProcedureThomas A. Fudge offers an in-depth examination of the the indictment, relevant canon law, and questions of procedural legality concerning Jan Hus and the Holy See....

Goldsmith Banks and England's Financial Revolution after 1700Using new archival data from Goldsmith Banks, Temin and Voth document how government regulation and wartime financing stifled the growth of private credit markets during the Industrial Revolution. They show how, after a turbulent start, banks adapted and found a way to grow, but how...

Why Schrodinger's Cat is Either Dead or AliveA semi-popular account of quantum physics based primarily on optical experiments performed over the past three decades. The book discusses how and where one can draw the border between the quantum and classical worlds, or indeed whether a border needs to be drawn at all....

New Perspectives on a Growing ProblemConsistent with an ecological systems perspective, this book utilizes a whole school approach as a framework for developing and implementing comprehensive evidence-based interventions to combat bullying in schools....