Author: John Ferling
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: moments, american, history, pivotal, election, jefferson, tumultuous, adams
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2004-09-03
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 0195167716
ISBN-13: 9780195167719

It was a contest of titans: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, two heroes of the Revolutionary era, once intimate friends, now icy antagonists locked in a fierce battle for the future of the United States. The election of 1800 was a thunderous clash of a campaign that climaxed in a deadlock in the Electoral College and led to a crisis in which the young republic teetered on the edge of collapse. Adams vs. Jefferson is a gripping account of a true turning point in American history, a dramatic struggle between two parties with profoundly different visions of how the nation should be governed. Ada

Authors:Frederick K. Goodwin, Kay Redfield Jamiso,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: recurrent, depression, disorders, bipolar, depressive, illness, manic
Number of Pages: 1262
Published: 2007-03-22
List price: $115.00
ISBN-10: 0195135792
ISBN-13: 9780195135794

The revolution in psychiatry that began in earnest in the 1960s led to dramatic advances in the understanding and treatment of manic-depressive illness. Hailed as the most outstanding book in the biomedical sciences when it was originally published in 1990, Manic-Depressive Illness was the first to survey this massive body of evidence comprehensively and to assess its meaning for both clinician and scientist. It also vividly portrayed the experience of manic-depressive illness from the perspective of patients, their doctors, and researchers. Encompassing an understanding about the illness as K

Author: Donald Hislo
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: introduction, critical, organizations, management, knowledge
Number of Pages: 284
Published: 2005-01-27
List price: $80.00
ISBN-10: 0199262063
ISBN-13: 9780199262069

This textbook provides a critical review and analysis of the key themes that underpin the subject of knowledge management in organizations. Adopting a thematic approach, Hislop presents the key debates and a wide range of perspectives in knowledge management. The book begins by presenting the epistemologies of knowledge, asking what do we mean by knowledge? How is knowledge processed within the organization, and how is this linked to human motivation. Part 2 discusses the social and cultural issues that surround the managing and sharing of knowledge. The dynamics of knowledge sharing and knowl

Author: E. Nesbit
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: opie, library, children’s, literature, peter, iona, retellings, classic, plays, shakespeare
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 1999-05-13
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0195132130
ISBN-13: 9780195132137

At the heart of any great work of literature is a story. William Shakespeare’s plays are no exception. They tell the stories of kings and queens, of ghosts and witches, of romance and passion. But to get to the stories at the heart of the Bard’s plays, the reader must first work through Shakespeare’s language, a task often too demanding for younger readers (and for many adults). This new paperback edition brings ten of Shakespeare’s greatest plays to life. E. Nesbit, the classic British children’s author, shakes off the burdensome complexity of Shakespeare&rsquo

Author: Amar V. Bhide
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: businesses, new, evolution, origin
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2003-10-16
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0195170318
ISBN-13: 9780195170313

What is this mysterious activity we call entrepreneurship? Does success require special traits and skills or just luck? Can large companies follow their example? What role does venture capital play? In a field dominated by anecdote and folklore, this landmark study integrates more than ten years of intensive research and modern theories of business and economics. The result is a comprehensive framework for understanding entrepreneurship that provides new and penetrating insights. Examining hundreds of successful ventures, the author finds that the typical business has humble, improvised origi

Author: Manuel Castell
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: power, communication
Number of Pages: 608
Published: 2009-08-31
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0199567042
ISBN-13: 9780199567041

We live in the midst of a revolution in communication technologies that affects the way in which people feel, think, and behave. The mass media (including web-based media), Manuel Castells argues, has become the space where political and business power strategies are played out; power now lies in the hands of those who understand or control communication. Over the last thirty years, Castells has emerged as one of the world’s leading communications theorists. In this, his most far-reaching book for a decade, he explores the nature of power itself, in the new communications environment. H

Author: Jonathan Wolff
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: marx, read
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2003-10-30
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0192805053
ISBN-13: 9780192805058

The fall of the Berlin Wall had enormous symbolic resonance, marking the collapse of Marxist politics and economics. Indeed, Marxist regimes have failed miserably, and with them, it seems, all reason to take the writings of Karl Marx seriously. Jonathan Wolff argues that if we detach Marx the critic of current society from Marx the prophet of some never-to-be-realized worker’s paradise, he remains the most impressive critic we have of liberal, capitalist, bourgeois society. The author shows how Marx’s main ideas still shed light on wider concerns about culture and society and he gu