Oxford University Press

A Diagnostic Manual's Conquest of American PsychiatryThe Making of DSM-IIIRG chronicles how American psychiatry went from its psychoanalytic heyday in the 1940s and '50s, through the virulent anti-psychiatry of the 1960s and '70s, into the late 20th-century descriptive, criteria-grounded model of mental disorders. Decker's...

An IntroductionA simple introduction to several important fields of modern mathematics. The exposition is based on an interplay between hyperbolic geometry, stochastic calculus, special relativity and chaotic dynamics. It is suitable for anyone with some solid background in linear algebra, calculus, and probability theory....

The State of the 9/11 Exception from Bush to ObamaThe US response to 9/11 was exceptional. The &'war on terror&' challenged certain international norms as articulated in international law. This book focuses on four specific areas: US policy on the targeting, prosecution, detention, and interrogation of suspected terrorists....

Greek Culture in Roman EcphrasisThe first book-length treatment of artistic ecphrasis in Roman literature, The Captor's Image challenges pervasive views to argue for it as a site of subtle, ongoing competition between Greek and Roman cultures....

Complexity theory provides a promising framework for conducting social work research and evaluation. Readers will gain an understanding of the background, current applications, and agent-based modeling as a new approach for creating simulations. To advance this line of inquiry a complexity research agenda for social work is developed....

Women and the Trials of RealismCurious Subjects makes the striking and original argument that what we find at the intersection between women subjects (who choose and enter into contracts) and women objects (owned and defined by fathers, husbands, and the law) is curiosity....