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A major reassessment of the British government's communication of the goals of the Second World War and how its propaganda undermined the people's faith in the reliability of war news and the credibility of political leaders. While waging war against enemies...
What do all these have in common: beer, bread, cheese, yogurt, cured meats, pickled fish, vinegar, cider, wine, distilled beverages, tea, coffee, cocoa, and chocolate? Answer: they are all products of fermentation: the use of microorganisms to convert a raw material...
The Oxford Handbook of Mexican History offers an authoritative guide to the last five centuries of Mexico's past and its enduring historical legacies. Thirty-one essays divided into five thematic sections delineate the elements of this history.The handbook's opening...
The Families and Schools Together Program outlines a social work prevention initiative, tracing how it evolved, was adapted and studied, and was ultimately disseminated worldwide.The founder Lynn McDonald explains that the title ‘Families and Schools Together’ (FAST)...
This book presents Encounter Theory; an approach grounded in engagement with difference and the principle of nonviolent conflict transformation. It offers scholars, peacebuilders, and students a comprehensive way to understand and practice violence transformation by...
In the early 20th century, paleoanthropologists interpreted the oft-profound differences between specimens of an expanding human fossil record as reflecting taxonomic and evolutionary diversity. Why, then, in the 1940s, did geneticist Theodosius Dobzhansky reconfigure...
Lectures on Neoclassical Production Economics is an advanced undergraduate treatment of the fundamental economic model of producer behaviour. It shows how producers, confronted with existing technical possibilities and markets, decide how and what to produce. The book...
This richly illustrated family history describes for the first time the world of the Mendelssohns over five generations from the eighteenth century to 1938. Author Thomas Lackmann knowledgeably tells the fate of this large German family caught between tradition and...
Present to the Mind offers a rigorous philosophical defense of acquaintance-a form of direct experiential awareness we have of things like sounds, tastes, pains, and perhaps also qualities such as beauty or goodness. Matt Duncan posits three central claims: (i)...
This book focuses on the prophetic accomplishments of Huldah, one of only five female prophets identified as a naviah in the Hebrew Bible. She briefly appears in a narrative in 2 Kings 22 (as well as its re-telling in 2 Chronicles 34) where Huldah bears the singular...
This is an open access title. It is available to read and download as a free PDF version on Oxford Academic and is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International licence. Seeing a red spot, feeling back pain,...
A practical, empathetic guide to help parents of picky eaters expand their child's eating flexibility. Severe picky eating and avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID) can turn every meal into a stressful battlefield and negatively impact a child's growth and...
Beauty surrounds us—in art that captivates, in landscapes that move us, and in countless aspects of life. Yet beauty remains philosophically puzzling. How can something so deeply tied to feeling also demand rational responsiveness? How can aesthetic value be at once...
How should we understand a body's place in the physical universe? Must it be explained in terms of its relation to a region of space? Or can it be accounted for in some other way? Such questions are of primary import within contemporary metaphysics and the philosophy of...
Law and management is an emerging approach that refers to research that seeks to explain how companies can use law to their benefit and turn it into a competitive advantage. Unlike economic analyses of law, which aim to evaluate the performance of norms, law and...
Social Ladders offers a new understanding of a core ideal in political, public, and academic discourses on low-income neighbourhoods: that of promoting upward mobility. It explores the contradictions between the lofty promises of social mobility in marginalised areas,...
For more than a century, America's sports stadiums have evolved from modest, private ballparks into billion-dollar play-palaces for the rich-built increasingly on the backs of taxpayers. Government commitments to major-league venues are approaching $50 billion, and a...
What if we listened to each other and the world around us with the same care and attention we bring to music?What if this listening practice is key to human flourishing? Julian Johnson draws on a remarkable convergence of research from multiple disciplines to argue that...
A Concise History of American Law traces the development of the US legal order from the colonial era to the twenty-first century. Emphasizing the essential role of the common law--derived from judicial precedent, rather than legislation--eminent legal historian William...
In the new media age, the Black press has undergone significant changes in content, ownership, and audience. Some digital Black news outlets are foregrounding entertainment over hard news stories, others are not Black owned, many are attracting non-Black audiences, and...
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