Books from Oxford University Press, USA
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The Maze of Banking: History, Theory, Crisis
By Gary B. GortonSee, for example, Claessens, Kose, and Terrones (2011), Schularick and Taylor (2012), Reinhart and Rogoff (2009), Borio and Drehmann (2009), Mendoza and Terrones (2008), and Collyns and Senhadji (2002). Jorda, Schularick, and Taylor ...
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Oxford Figures: 800 Years of the Mathematical Sciences
By Gresham Professor of Geometry Raymond FloodThis is the story of the intellectual and social life of a community, and of its interactions with the wider world.
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The Betrayal: The 1919 World Series and the Birth of Modern Baseball
By Charles FountainWith one out in the third, Pat Duncan hit a high bounder right back at the mound. ... Meanwhile, Jimmy Ring, a twenty-four-year-old right-hander who'd gone 10–9 during the regular season, continued the string of brilliant Cincinnati ...
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The Origins of Value: The Financial Innovations that Created Modern Capital Markets
By William N. Goetzmann, K. Geert RouwenhorstRichard Bonney, "The Eighteenth Century, II: The Struggle for Great Power Status and the End of the Old Fiscal Regime," in Economic Systems and State Finance, ed. Richard Bonney (Oxford, 1995), 365. 16. James J.Sheehan, German History, ...
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Labour Law
By Stephen Hardy, Robert Upex, R. V. UpexIts clear layout makes this an accessible text for undergraduates who are learning the subject from the beginning. The self-test questions further support students preparing for exams and bulleted lists are helpful for revision.
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Folk City: New York and the American Folk Music Revival
By Stephen Petrus, Ronald D. Cohenabove top: Lucy Kaplansky, Rod MacDonald, Gerry Devine, Martha P. Hogan, David Massengill, Tom Intondi, Jack Hardy, and Bill Bachmann in front of Gerde's Folk City, early 1980s. The late 1970s and 1980s witnessed a resurgence of ...
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Cases and Materials on the Law of Restitution
By Andrew S. Burrows, Ewan McKendrick, James EdelmanMcHugh. JA. to. the. facts. of. Williams. v. Roffey. Brothers. (above,. 413). •. P. Birks,. 'The. Travails. of. Duress'. [1990]. LMCLQ. 342. Suppose, for example, that great importance were attached to encouraging responsibility in ...
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A Long Time in Making: The History of Smiths
By James Nyefriend, Lord Nuffield, had ceded control to Leonard Lord of Austin's, who took a firm stand against the National Union of Vehicle Builders at the beginning of 1953 when John McHugh, secretary of the joint shops stewards' committee, ...
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Clinical Trials: Design, Conduct, and Analysis
By Curtis L. Meinert, Susan TonasciaMather HG , Pearson NG , Read KLQ , Steed GR , Thorne MG , Jones S , Guerrier CJ , Eraut 2 CD , McHugh PM , Chowdhury NR , Jafary MH , Wallace TJ : Acute myocardial infarction : Home and hospital treatment .
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Handbook to Life in Medieval and Early Modern Japan
By William E. DealHandbook to Life in Medieval and Early Modern Japan spans the beginning of the Kamakura period in 1185 through the end of the Edo (Tokugawa) period in 1868.
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Southern Crucible: The Making of the American South
By William A. LinkInformed by the most current scholarship in the field, the book offers a balanced look at the region's social, political, cultural, and economic history over four centuries, from pre-contact to the present.
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Optic Antics: The Cinema of Ken Jacobs
By David E. James, Michele Pierson, Paul Arthur... power.53 The earliest were in experimental shorts: Edwin S. Porter's dramatization of Windsor McCay's comic strip, ... its physical beauty frames love songs to New York.54 But subsequently its link with the popular affection of the ...
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Aha!: The Moments of Insight That Shape Our World
By William Braxton IrvineIf possible, he preferred that the ink had been freshly made by an ink boy.16 Novelist William Styron liked to write longhand on yellow pads with a Venus Velvet No. 2 pencil.17 Vladimir Nabokov wrote his posthumously published novel, ...
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The Age of Titans: The Rise and Fall of the Great Hellenistic Navies
By William M. MurrayWhile we know a great deal about naval strategies in the classical Greek and later Roman periods, our understanding of the period in between--the Hellenistic Age--has never been as complete.
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Garner's Dictionary of Legal Usage
By Bryan A. Garner... xiv, xv Rogers, James, 165 Rogers, James Steven, 696 Rogers, John M., 38–39 Rohter, Larry, 267 Rolcik, Karen Ann, 660 Romerdahl, Elena, 712 Roney, Paul Hitch, 768 Roper, R.S. Donnison, 155 Rose, Amanda M., 455 Rose, David, 793 Rose, ...
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A Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage
By Bryan A. GarnerThe word derives from the Latin understood in a derogatory sense ; those who do verb inchoare “ to hitch with ; to begin . ” Yet , betend to use a phrase such as ethical wall . cause it was misunderstood as being a negative In conflict ...
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American National Biography
The Chill ( 1964 ) and The Far Side of the Dollar tective novelist , was born Kenneth Millar in Los Gat- ( 1965 ) received awards from the British Crime Writers os , California , the son of John Macdonald Millar , a Association ...
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Oxford American Handbook of Clinical Dentistry
By Boston John D. Da Silva Director of Advanced Graduate Education Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Boston David A. Mitchell Director of Advanced Graduate Education Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Boston Laura Mitchell Director of Advanced Graduate Education Harvard School of Dental MedicineThe modified Widman flap1 This is a technique that enables open debridement of the root surface, with a minimal amount of trauma. There is no attempt to excise the pocket, although a superficial collar of tissue is removed.
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Oxford Handbook of Clinical Dentistry
By Laura Mitchell, David A. Mitchell, Lorna McCaulThe modified Widman flap20 (See Fig. 5.3.) This is a technique which enables open debridement of the root surface, with a minimal amount of trauma. There is no attempt to excise the pocket, although a superficial collar of tissue is ...
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The Industrial Revolution: A History in Documents
By Laura Levine FraderUses contemporary documents to explore the Industrial Revolution.