Sociology: Recent submissions
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Processes in human evolution : the journey from early hominins to Neanderthals and modern humans
(Oxford University Press, 2017)The discoveries of the last decade have brought about a completely revised understanding of human evolution due to the recent advances in genetics, palaeontology, ecology, archaeology, geography, and climate science. Written ... -
Was revolution inevitable? : turning points of the Russian Revolution
(Oxford University Press, 2017)Communism's rise and eventual fall in Eastern Europe is one of the great stories of the 20th century. Within this context, the Russian Revolution's role and legacy overshadows all else. In Was Revolution Inevitable?, former ... -
Tracing the Roles of Soft Law in Human Rights
(Oxford University Press, 2017)Soft law increasingly shapes and impacts the content of international law in multiple ways, from being a first step in a norm-making process to providing detailed rules and technical standards required for the interpretation ... -
Human Rights and Personal Self-Defense in International Law
(Oxford University Press, 2017)While an abundance of literature covers the right of states to defend themselves against external aggression, this is the first book dedicated to the right to personal self-defense in international law. Drawing on his ... -
Vagueness in the Law: Philosophical and Legal Perspectives
(Oxford University Press, 2017)Vague expressions are omnipresent in natural language. As such, their use in legal texts is virtually inevitable. If a law contains vague terms, the question whether it applies to a particular case often lacks a clear ... -
Semantics, Metasemantics, Aboutness
(Oxford University Press, 2017)Semantics aims to describe the significance (or meaning) of linguistic expressions in a systematic way. Metasemantics, or foundational semantics, asks how expressions gain their significance in the first place - what makes ... -
Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Volume 51
(Oxford University Press, 2017)Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is a volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy. The articles may be of substantial length, and include critical notices of major books. OSAP is now published twice ... -
Human behavior and the social environment, macro level : groups, communities, and organizations
(Oxford University Press, 2017)Unique to Human Behavior and the Social Environment, Macro Level is the focus on the natural as well as physical environment in the study of human behavior and use of a trauma-informed model in the study of social service ... -
Handbook of musical identities
(Oxford University Press, 2017)Music is a tremendously powerful channel through which people develop their personal and social identities. Music is used to communicate emotions, thoughts, political statements, social relationships, and physical expressions. ... -
Handbook of community-based participatory research
(Oxford University Press, 2017)Community-based participatory research (CBPR) emerged in response to the longstanding tradition of "top-down" research-studies in which social scientists observe social phenomena and community problems as outsiders, separate ... -
General principles of law and international due process : principles and norms applicable in transnational disputes
(Oxford University Press, 2017)Article 38 of the Statute of the International Court of Justice defines "international law" to include not only "custom" and "convention" between States but also "the general principles of law recognized by civilized ... -
Germany and the Second World War. Volume VIII, The Eastern Front 1943-1944 : the war in the East and on the neighbouring fronts
(Oxford University Press, 2017)The latest volume in the magisterial Germany and the Second World War series, volume VIII deals with one of the most eventful phases of the Second World War: the battles on the eastern front in 1943 and 1944. In no other ... -
Founder of Modern Economics: Paul A. Samuelson: Volume 1: Becoming Samuelson, 1915-1948
(Oxford University Press, 2017)Paul Samuelson was at the heart of a revolution in economics. He was "the foremost academic economist of the 20th century," according to the New York Times, and the first American to win the Nobel Prize in Economics. His ... -
Finance for normal people : how investors and markets behave
(Oxford University Press, 2017)Finance for Normal People teaches behavioral finance to people like you and me - normal people, neither rational nor irrational. We are consumers, savers, investors, and managers - corporate managers, money managers, ... -
Family engagement with schools : strategies for school social workers and educators
(Oxford University Press, 2017)Using forty years of evidence-based research as its core, Family Engagement with Schools: Strategies for School Social Workers and Educators is the only book written specifically for social workers and social work students ... -
Environmental protection : what everyone needs to know
(Oxford University Press, 2017)Environmental Protection: What Everyone Needs to Know helps readers to access and navigate the robust system of environmental laws that have emerged to check the deleterious impact of human activity on the natural environment. ... -
Econophysics and financial economics : an emerging dialogue
(Oxford University Press, 2017)This book moves beyond the disciplinary frontiers in order to initiate the development of a common theoretical framework that makes sense for both traditionally trained financial economists and econophysicists. Unlike other ... -
International Law Theories: An Inquiry into Different Ways of Thinking
(Oxford University Press, 2017)Two fish are swimming in a pond. 'Do you know what?' the fish asks his friend. 'No, tell me.' 'I was talking to a frog the other day. And he told me that we are surrounded by water!' His friend looks at him with great ... -
Economies of favour after socialism
(Oxford University Press, 2017)A volume on the economics of favours and how they function as socially efficacious actions in post-socialist regions including central, eastern, and south eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, Mongolia, and post-Maoist China. -
Domestic law in international investment arbitration
(Oxford University Press, 2017)Although domestic law plays an important role in investment treaty arbitration, this issue is little discussed or analysed. When should investment treaty tribunals engage with domestic law? How should investment treaty ...
