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A History of Development Economics Thought: Challenges and Counter-challenges
(Routledge, 2014)
This book explores the history of economic development thought, with an emphasis on alternative approaches in macro development economics. Given that the pioneers of development economics in the 1940s and 1950s drew ...
Fictional Characters, Real Problems: The Search for Ethical Content in Literature
(Oxford University Press, 2016)
Literature is a complex and multifaceted expression of our humanity of a kind that is instructively resistant to simplification, reduction to a single element that would constitute literature's defining essence would be ...
Until There Is Justice: The Life of Anna Arnold Hedgeman
(Oxford University Press, 2016)
A demanding feminist, devout Christian, and savvy grassroots civil rights organizer, Anna Arnold Hedgeman played a key role in over half a century of social justice initiatives. Like many of her colleagues, including A. ...
A Brief History of Mathematical Thought
(Oxford University Press, 2017)
In A Brief History of Mathematical Thought, Luke Heaton provides a compulsively readable history that situates mathematics within the human experience and, in the process, makes it more accessible. Mastering math begins ...
Russia in World Histor
(Oxford University Press, 2015)
This volume offers a lively introduction to Russia's dramatic history and the striking changes that characterize its story. Distinguished authors Barbara Alpern Engel and Janet Martin show how Russia's peoples met the ...
Napoleon: A Concise Biography
(Oxford University Press, 2015)
This book provides a concise, accurate, and lively portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte's character and career, situating him firmly in historical context. David Bell emphasizes the astonishing sense of human possibility--for ...
Private Governance: Creating Order in Economic and Social Life
(Oxford University Press, 2015)
From the first stock markets of Amsterdam,London, and New York to the billions of electronic commerce transactions today, privately produced and enforced economic regulations are more common, more effective, and more ...
Eyes on the sky: a spectrum of telescopes
(Oxford University Press, 2016)
Astronomy is experiencing a golden age, with a new generation of innovative telescopes yielding a flood of information on the Universe. This book traces the development of telescopes from Galileo to the present day, and ...
A Concise History of Bulgaria
(Cambridge University Press, 2006)
Richard Crampton presents a general introduction to Bulgaria at the cross-roads of Christendom and Islam. This concise history traces the country's growth from pre-history, through its days as the center of a powerful ...
A Concise History of Modern India
(Cambridge University Press, 2006)
In a second edition of their successful Concise History of Modern India, Barbara Metcalf and Thomas Metcalf explore India's modern history afresh and update the events of the last decade. These include the takeover of ...