Sociology: Recent submissions
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Beyond Reason and Tolerance: The Purpose and Practice of Higher Education
(Oxford University Press, 2014)The major challenges facing higher education are often framed in terms of preparing students for life-long learning. Society's 21st century needs require civic-minded individuals who have the intellectual and personal ... -
The Oxford Handbook of the History of Physics
(Oxford University Press, 2014)The Oxford Handbook of the History of Physics brings together cutting-edge writing by more than twenty leading authorities on the history of physics from the seventeenth century to the present day. By presenting a wide ... -
Tainted : how philosophy of science can expose bad science
(Oxford University Press, 2014)Three-fourths of scientific research in the United States is funded by special interests. Many of these groups have specific practical goals, such as developing pharmaceuticals or establishing that a pollutant causes only ... -
The origin of ideas : blending, creativity, and the human spark
(Oxford University Press, 2014)What makes human beings so innovative, so adept at rapid, creative thinking? Where do new ideas come from, and once we have them, how can we carry them mentally into new situations? What allows our thinking to range easily ... -
Superintelligence : paths, dangers, strategies
(Oxford University Press, 2014)The human brain has some capabilities that the brains of other animals lack. It is to these distinctive capabilities that our species owes its dominant position. Other animals have stronger muscles or sharper claws, but ... -
Plants and the human brain
(Oxford University Press, 2014)We're all familiar with the idea that plant-derived chemicals can have an impact on the functioning of the human brain. Most of us reach for a cup of coffee or tea in the morning, many of us occasionally eat some chocolate, ... -
Morality, Competition, and the Firm: The Market Failures Approach to Business Ethics
(Oxford University Press, 2014)In this collection of provocative essays, Joseph Heath provides a compelling new framework for thinking about the moral obligations that private actors in a market economy have toward each other and to society. In a sharp ... -
Managing Risk and Opportunity: The Governance of Strategic Risk-Taking
(Oxford University Press, 2014)This book promotes good risk governance and risk management practices to corporate managers, executives, and directors wherever they operate around the world. The major corporate scandals have their roots in governance ... -
Asset Management: A Systematic Approach to Factor Investing
(Oxford University Press, 2014)In Asset Management: A Systematic Approach to Factor Investing, Professor Andrew Ang presents a comprehensive, new approach to the age-old problem of where to put your money. Years of experience as a finance professor and ... -
Parochial Global Europe: 21st Century Trade Politics
(Oxford University Press, 2014)Europe's trade policies matter in global politics. Despite the recent focus on Brazil, India, and particularly China, the European Union remains the world's largest market and trader. Despite its recent economic troubles, ... -
Private Real Estate Markets and Investments
(Oxford University Press, 2014)This book provides an overview of private real estate markets and investments. The 14 chapters are divided into three sections for conventional and alternative real estate investments and regulatory issues. Conventional ... -
Event Cognition
(Oxford University Press, 2014)Much of our behavior is guided by our understanding of events. We perceive events when we observe the world unfolding around us, participate in events when we act on the world, simulate events that we hear or read about, ... -
American Higher Education in Crisis?: What Everyone Needs to Know
(Oxford University Press, 2014)American higher education is at a crossroads. Technological innovations and disruptive market forces are buffeting colleges and universities at the very time their financial structure grows increasingly fragile. Disinvestment ... -
10 Steps to Mastering Stress: A Lifestyle Approach, Updated Edition
(Oxford University Press, 2014)We know that stress is bad for us. We see evidence of this in the news, we hear it from our doctors, and we feel it at the end of a hectic week. Health professionals have learned that stress interferes with our lives-it ... -
Great Minds: Reflections of 111 Top Scientists
(Oxford University Press, 2014)Throughout the 1990s and the 2000s, Istvan, Balazs, and Magdolna Hargittai conducted hundreds of interviews with leading scientists in physics, chemistry, materials, and biomedical research. These interviews appeared in a ... -
EU Environmental Law and the Internal Market
(Oxford University Press, 2014)For some, a protectionist policy underlies most environmental measures. Lawyers working in the area of fundamental freedoms are very accustomed to discussing all issues within a free market framework and therefore often ... -
The Oxford Handbook of the Macroeconomics of Global Warming
(Oxford University Press, 2014)The first World Climate Conference, which was sponsored by the World Meteorological Organization in Genève in 1979, triggered an international dialogue on global warming. From the 1997 United Nations-sponsored conference-during ... -
Society and the Internet: How Networks of Information and Communication are Changing Our Lives
(Oxford University Press, 2014)How is society being shaped by the diffusion and increasing centrality of the Internet in everyday life and work? By bringing together leading research that addresses some of the most significant cultural, economic, and ... -
Brilliant Persuasion: Everyday techniques to boost your powers of persuasion
(Pearson Education , 2017)You’re already aware of how unlikely you are to progress at work, or “make a name for yourself” in life, if you struggle to get your ideas accepted by your prospects, your clients, your team, your boss, or your peers. Have ... -
Biological Science, Global Edition
(Pearson Education , 2017)Compelling and relatable stories engage students in learning biology Colleen Belk and Virginia Borden Maier have helped students understand biology for more than twenty years in the classroom and over ten years with their ...
