Sociology: Recent submissions

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    • What's New, Cupcake?: Ingeniously Simple Designs for Every Occasion 

      Tack, Karen; Richardson, Alan (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010)
      What's New, Cupcake?: Ingeniously Simple Designs for Every Occasion. April fool' s play. You say it's your birthday ? I thought you ordered chocolate moose. Let's party, cupcake! The house that Boo built. Hooray for Holly ...

    • The Informed Writer: Using Sources in the Disciplines (5th edition) 

      Bazerman, Charles (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010)
      Bazerman's The Informed Writer teaches students to formulate original arguments through fourteen different kinds of writing activities, ranging from brief summaries to full-scale research papers. Students are encouraged ...

    • The Edge of Physics: A Journey to Earth's Extremes to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe 

      Ananthaswamy, Anil (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010)
      It was the day after Christmas in 2004, a bright winter's day in Berkeley, California. I was outside a cafe at the corner of Shattuck and Cedar, waiting for Saul Perlmutter, an astrophysicist at the Uni-versity of California. ...

    • Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth 

      Hertsgaard, Mark (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011)
      A fresh take on climate change by a renowned journalist driven to protect his daughter, your kids, and the next generation who’ll inherit the problem For twenty years, Mark Hertsgaard has investigated global warming for ...

    • Ending Government Bailouts as We Know Them (HOOVER INST PRESS PUBLICATION) 

      Scott, Kenneth E.; Shultz, George P.; Taylor, John B. (Hoover Institution Press, 2010)
      The conference which led to this book was the third policy conference sponsored by the Working Group on Economic Policy at the Hoover Institution. The first was held in July 2008 and the second in March 2009. We gratefully ...

    • Quantum physics : what everyone needs to know 

      Raymer, Michael G. (Oxford University Press, 2017)
      Around 1900, physicists started to discover particles like electrons, protons, and neutrons, and with these discoveries believed they could predict the internal behavior of the atom. However, once their predictions were ...

    • Profits and sustainability : a history of green entrepreneurship 

      Jones, Geoffrey (Oxford University Press, 2017)
      Are profits and sustainability compatible? This book brings unique perspectives to this key debate by exploring the history of green entrepreneurship since the nineteenth century, and its spread globally in industries ...

    • Prosperity for all : how to prevent financial crises 

      Farmer, Roger E.A. (Oxford University Press, 2017)
      In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, economists around the world have advanced theories to explain the persistence of high unemployment and low growth rates. According to Roger E. A. Farmer, these theories can ...

    • Privacy : what everyone needs to know 

      Francis, Leslie P.; Francis, John G. (Oxford University Press, 2017)
      We live more and more of our lives online, we rely on the internet as we work, correspond with friends and loved ones, and go through a multitude of mundane activities like paying bills, streaming videos, reading the news, ...

    • Post-traumatic stress 

      Joseph, Stephen; Regel, Stephen (Oxford University Press, 2017)
      Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is an anxiety disorder that can develop after exposure to one or more traumatic events. It is a severe and ongoing emotional reaction to extreme psychological trauma, such as threat ...

    • Oxford textbook of sleep disorders 

      Chokroverty, Sudhansu; Ferini-Strambi, Luigi (Oxford University Press, 2017)
      There has been a rapid global increase in the number of individuals making sleep medicine their career, resulting in an explosive growth in the number of sleep centres and programmes, as well as an increasing number of ...

    • Outside In : the transnational circuitry of US history 

      Preston, Andrew; Rossinow, Douglas Charles (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 ...

    • New directions in law and literature 

      Anker, Elizabeth Susan; Meyler, Bernadette (Oxford University Press, 2017)
      536p.After its heyday in the 1970s and 1980s, many wondered whether the law and literature movement would retain vitality. This collection of essays, featuring twenty-two prominent scholars from literature departments as ...

    • Speculation: A History of the Fine Line between Gambling and Investing 

      Banner, Stuart (Oxford University Press, 2017)
      What is the difference between gambling and speculation? This difficult question has posed a legal problem throughout American history. Many have argued that periodic failures by regulators to differentiate between the two ...

    • Solution-focused brief therapy in schools : a 360-degree view of the research and practice principles 

      Franklin, Cynthia; Kelly, Michael Stokely; Kim, Johnny S (Oxford University Press, 2017)
      Since the publication of the First Edition, there have been several advances on the research on Solution-focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) in schools. This Second Edition contains updates on how to apply SFBT to specific problem ...

    • Small and medium-sized enterprises in international economic law 

      Rensmann, Thilo (Oxford University Press, 2017)
      International economic law, with its traditional focus on large multinational enterprises, is only slowly waking up to the new reality of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). In the wake of the digital revolution, ...

    • ReNEUAL Model Rules on EU Administrative Procedure 

      Craig, Paul; Hofmann, Herwig; Schneider, Jens-Peter (Oxford University Press, 2017)
      The Research Network on EU Administrative Law (ReNEUAL) was established in 2009 and now comprises well over one hundred scholars and practitioners active in the field of EU and comparative public law. The aim of the network ...

    • Ontology and Phenomenology of Speech: An Existential Theory of Speech 

      Konurbaev, Marklen E. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
      This book applies phenomenological methodology to examine the transformations of messages as they pass from the mind to the linear world of human speech, and then back again. Rapid development of linguistic science in the ...

    • Reclaiming information and communication technologies for development 

      Unwin, Tim (Oxford University Press, 2017)
      The development of new Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) has transformed the world over the last two decades. These technologies are often seen as being inherently 'good', with the ability to make the world ...

    • Real-Estate Derivatives : From Econometrics to Financial Engineering 

      Tunaru, Radu S. (Oxford University Press, 2017)
      This book brings together the latest concepts and models in real-estate derivatives, the new frontier in financial markets. The importance of real-estate derivatives in managing property price risk that has destabilized ...