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Origins: The Scientific Story of Creation
(Oxford University Press, 2015)What is the nature of the material world? How does it work? What is the universe and how was it formed? What is life? Where do we come from and how did we evolve? How and why do we think? What does it mean to be human? How ... -
Orwell, Politics, and Power
(Continuum International Publishing Group, 2010)This is a book about George Orwell’s political thought it is not another book about George Orwell. I take the distinctive political writings within Orwell’s literary corpus as a source of inspiration for theorizing about ... -
Other people's money : the real business of finance
(PublicAffairs, 2015)The finance sector of Western economies is too large and attracts too many of the smartest college graduates. Financialization over the past three decades has created a structure that lacks resilience and supports absurd ... -
The other shore: essays on writers and writing
(University of California Press, 2013)In this book, ethnographer and poet Michael Jackson addresses the interplay between modes of writing, modes of understanding, and modes of being in the world. Drawing on literary, anthropological and autobiographical ... -
Our Dying Planet: An Ecologist's View of the Crisis We Face
(University of California Press, 2011)Coral reefs are on track to become the first ecosystem actually eliminated from the planet. So says leading ecologist Peter F. Sale in this crash course on the state of the planet. Sale draws from his own extensive work ... -
Out of the Woods But Not Over the Hill
(Hodder & Stoughton, 2011)The right of Gervase be identified as the Author of the Work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be ... -
The Outer Limits of Reason: What Science, Mathematics, and Logic Cannot Tell Us
(MIT Press, 2013)Many books explain what is known about the universe. This book investigates what cannot be known. Rather than exploring the amazing facts that science, mathematics, and reason have revealed to us, this work studies what ... -
Outlaw Rhetoric: Figuring Vernacular Eloquence in Shakespeare’s England
(Cornell University Press, 2012)A central feature of English Renaissance humanism was its reverence for classical Latin as the one true form of eloquent expression. Yet sixteenth-century writers increasingly came to believe that England needed an equally ... -
Outside In : the transnational circuitry of US history
(Oxford University Press, 2017)Outside In presents the newest scholarship that narrates and explains the history of the United States as part of a networked transnational past. This work tells the stories of Americans who inhabited the border-crossing ... -
Over the Horizon: Time, Uncertainty, and the Rise of Great Powers
(Cornell University Press, 2017)How do established powers react to growing competitors? The United States currently faces a dilemma with regard to China and others over whether to embrace competition and thus substantial present-day costs or collaborate ... -
Overheated: The Human Cost of Climate Change
(Oxford University Press, 2013)Deniers of climate change sometimes quip that claims about global warming are more about political science than climate science. They are wrong on the science, but may be right with respect to its political implications. ... -
Oxford English for Careers: Tourism 1: Student's Book
(Oxford University Press, 2010)A new, up- to-date course where you learn what you need to know lor career in tourism. -
Oxford English for Careers: Tourism 1: Teacher's Resource Book
(Oxford University Press, 2010)A new, up- to-date course where you learn what you need to know lor career in tourism. -
Oxford English for Careers: Tourism 2: Student's Book
A new, up- to-date course where you learn what you need to know lor career in tourism. -
The Oxford Guide to Library Research
(Oxford University Press, 2015)The information world has undergone drastic changes since the publication of the 3rd edition of The Oxford Guide to Library Research in 2005, and Thomas Mann, a veteran reference librarian at the Library of Congress, has ... -
The Oxford Handbook of Applied Nonparametric and Semiparametric Econometrics and Statistics
(Oxford University Press, 2014)This volume, edited by Jeffrey Racine, Liangjun Su, and Aman Ullah, contains the latest research on nonparametric and semiparametric econometrics and statistics. These data-driven models seek to replace the classical ... -
The Oxford Handbook of Behavioral Economics and the Law
(Oxford University Press, 2014)The past twenty years have witnessed a surge in behavioral studies of law and law-related issues. These studies have challenged the application of the rational-choice model to legal analysis and introduced a more accurate ... -
The Oxford Handbook of Carl Schmitt
(Oxford University Press, 2017)The Oxford Handbook of Carl Schmitt collects thirty original chapters on the diverse oeuvre of one of the most controversial thinkers of the twentieth century. Carl Schmitt (1888-1985) was a German theorist whose anti-liberalism ... -
The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Linguistics
(Oxford University Press, 2015)The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Linguistics offers a broad and comprehensive coverage of the entire field from a multi-disciplinary perspective. All chapters are contributed by leading scholars in their respective areas. ... -
Oxford handbook of clinical medicine
(Oxford University Press, 2017)Now in its ninth edition, the Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine continues to be the definitive pocket-friendly guide to medicine. The culmination over 25 years of experience at the bedside and in the community, this ...
