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    • Advanced Mechanics: From Euler's Determinism to Arnold's Chaos 

      Rajeev, S.G. (Oxford University Press, 2013)
      Classical Mechanics is the oldest and best understood part of physics. This does not mean that it is cast in marble yet, a museum piece to be admired from a distance. Instead, mechanics continues to be an active area of ...

    • Social Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect 

      Lieberman, Matthew D. (Oxford University Press, 2013)
      In Social, renowned psychologist Matthew Lieberman explores groundbreaking research in social neuroscience revealing that our need to connect with other people is even more fundamental, more basic, than our need for food ...

    • Overheated: The Human Cost of Climate Change 

      Guzman, Andrew T. (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. ...

    • What is English?: And Why Should We Care? 

      Machan, Tim William (Oxford University Press, 2013)
      What is English? Can we be as certain as we usually are when we say something is not English? To find some answers Tim Machan explores the language's present and past, and looks ahead to its futures among the one and a ...

    • Motion Encoding in Language and Space 

      Vulchanova, Mila; Zee, Emile van der (Oxford University Press, 2013)
      This book brings together researchers in linguistics, computer science, psychology and cognitive science to investigate how motion is encoded in language. The book is divided into two parts. Part I considers the parameters ...

    • A Brief History of the Philosophy of Time 

      Bardon, Adrian (Oxford University Press, 2013)
      Adrian Bardon's A Brief History of the Philosophy of Time is a short introduction to the history, philosophy, and science of the study of time-from the pre-Socratic philosophers through Einstein and beyond. A Brief History ...

    • The Triumph of Emptiness: Consumption, Higher Education, and Work Organization 

      Alvesson, Mats (Oxford University Press, 2013)
      In this book, Mats Alvesson aims to demystify some popular and upbeat claims about a range of phenomena, including the knowledge society, consumption, branding, higher education, organizational change, professionalization, ...

    • Multiple Stable States in Natural Ecosystems 

      Petraitis, Peter (Oxford University Press, 2013)
      One of the most interesting and vexing problems in ecology is how distinctly different communities of plants and animals can occur in the same ecosystem. The theory of these systems, known as multiple stable states, is ...

    • Innovation Studies: Evolution and Future Challenges 

      Fagerberg, Jan; Martin, Ben R.; Andersen, Esben Sloth (Oxford University Press, 2013)
      Innovation is increasingly recognized as a vitally important social and economic phenomenon worthy of serious research study. Firms are concerned about their innovation ability, particularly relative to their competitors. ...

    • How to Build a Brain: A Neural Architecture for Biological Cognition 

      Eliasmith, Chris (Oxford University Press, 2013)
      One goal of researchers in neuroscience, psychology, and artificial intelligence is to build theoretical models that are able to explain the flexibility and adaptiveness of biological systems. How to build a brain provides ...

    • Soft Matter Physics 

      Doi, Masao (Oxford University Press, 2013)
      Soft matter (polymers, colloids, surfactants and liquid crystals) are an important class of materials in modern technology. They also form the basis of many future technologies, for example in medical and environmental ...

    • Financial Asset Pricing Theory 

      Munk, Claus (Oxford University Press, 2013)
      Financial Asset Pricing Theory offers a comprehensive overview of the classic and the current research in theoretical asset pricing. Asset pricing is developed around the concept of a state-price deflator which relates the ...

    • Quantum processes in semiconductors 

      Ridley, B.K. (Oxford University Press, 2013)
      This book sets out the fundamental quantum processes that are important in the physics and technology of semiconductors in a relatively informal style that graduate students will find very attractive. The fifth edition ...

    • The Evolutionary Emergence of Language: Evidence and Inference 

      Botha, Rudolf; Everaert, Martin (Oxford University Press, 2013)
      The book presents new and stimulating approaches to the study of language evolution and considers their implications for future research. Leading scholars from linguistics, primatology, anthroplogy, and cognitive science ...

    • Relationship Thinking: Agency, Enchrony, and Human Sociality 

      Enfield, N. J. (Oxford University Press, 2013)
      In Relationship Thinking, N. J. Enfield outlines a framework for analyzing social interaction and its linguistic, cultural, and cognitive underpinnings by focusing on human relationships. This is a naturalistic approach ...

    • Ensuring a Sustainable Future: Making Progress on Environment and Equity 

      Heymann, Jody; Barrera, Magda (Oxford University Press, 2013)
      There is very little argument that the world is facing severe environmental challenges. Ongoing air and water pollution, increasing energy consumption, and the depletion of natural resources have all placed considerable ...

    • Market Liquidity: Theory, Evidence, and Policy 

      Foucault, Thierry; Pagano, Marco; Röell, Ailsa (Oxford University Press, 2013)
      The way in which securities are traded is very different from the idealized picture of a frictionless and self-equilibrating market offered by the typical finance textbook. Market Liquidity offers a more accurate and ...

    • Data-Driven Modeling and Scientific Computation: Methods for Complex Systems and Big Data 

      Kutz, J. Nathan (Oxford University Press, 2013)
      The burgeoning field of data analysis is expanding at an incredible pace due to the proliferation of data collection in almost every area of science. The enormous data sets now routinely encountered in the sciences provide ...

    • Systemic Risk: The Dynamics of Modern Financial Systems 

      Gai, Prasanna (Oxford University Press, 2013)
      This book opens new ground in the study of financial crises. It treats the financial system as a complex adaptive system and shows how lessons from network disciplines - such as ecology, epidemiology, and statistical ...

    • Economic Growth and the Environment: An Introduction to the Theory 

      Eriksson, Clas (Oxford University Press, 2013)
      Economic Growth and the Environment explores the debate on how to reconcile economic growth with protection of the natural environment, and the closely related discussion on whether an increasing scarcity of natural resources ...