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The past two decades has witnessed unprecedented changes in the corporate governance landscape in Europe, the US and Asia... Read more
In common understanding, but also in scholarly discourse, ritual has been long viewed as an undisputed and indisputable part of (especially religious) tradition, performed over and over in the same ways: stable in form, meaningless, preconcieved, and with the aim of creating harmony and enabling a traditions survival... Read more
This book explains the ideas and techniques of statistical mechanics-the theory of condensed matter-in a simple and progressive way... Read more
The renowned Oxford Chemistry Primers series, which provides focused introductions to a range of important topics in chemistry, has been refreshed and updated to suit the needs of today's students, lecturers, and postgraduate researchers... Read more
The issue of medical ethics, from thorny moral questions such as euthanasia and the morality of killing to political questions such as the fair distribution of health care resources, is rarely out of today's media... Read more
The investigation of discrete symmetries is a fascinating subject which has been central to the agenda of physics research for 50 years, and has been the target of many experiments, ongoing and in preparation, all over the world... Read more
Religious warfare has been a recurrent feature of European history. In this intelligent and readable study, the distinguished Crusade historian Norman Housley describes and analyses the principal expressions of holy war in the period from the Hussite wars to the first generation of the Reformation... Read more
A new academic field, neuroeconomics, has emerged at the border of the social and natural sciences. In Foundations of Neuroeconomic Analysis, Paul Glimcher argues that a meaningful interdisciplinary synthesis of the study of human and animal choice is not only desirable, but also well underway, and so it is time to formally develop a foundational approach for the field... Read more
In a capitalist economy, taxes are the most important instrument by which the political system puts into practice a conception of economic and distributive justice... Read more
Development of planted forests in tropical and subtropical countries is accelerating to satisfy the ever-growing global demand for wood products... Read more
Online news sites play an ever-pervasive role in the daily gathering and flow of political information... Read more
Van dit artikel (9780194539739 / New headway upper-intermediate student's bk multipack A (+onl)) is nog geen omschrijving beschikbaar... Read more
Apart from an introductory chapter giving a brief summary of Newtonian and Lagrangian mechanics, this book consists entirely of questions and solutions on topics in classical mechanics that will be encountered in undergraduate and graduate courses... Read more
The Handbook of Religion and Health has become the seminal research text on religion, spirituality, and health, outlining a rational argument for the connection between religion and health... Read more
Biotechnologies already on the horizon will enable us to be smarter, have better memories, be stronger and quicker, have more stamina, live longer, be more resistant to diseases, and enjoy richer emotional lives... Read more
The most comprehensive and up-to-date collection of its kind, Case Studies in Biomedical Ethics: Decision-Making, Principles, and Cases addresses the most critical and timely ethical issues in healthcare... Read more
More than two millennia ago the famous Chinese general Sun Tzu wrote the classic work on military strategy, The Art of War... Read more
The Intermediate course that gets students talking, and that helps teachers and students more than any other. Read more
The Cold War contains a selection of official and unofficial documents which provide a truly multi-faceted account of the entire Cold War era... Read more
When Harold Fried, et al. published The Measurement of Productive Efficiency: Techniques and Applications with OUP in 1993, the book received a great deal of professional interest for its accessible treatment of the rapidly growing field of efficiency and productivity analysis... Read more