Oxford University Press Usa imprint: 199 books

Contrary to the standard joke about how to get to Carnegie Hall "making it" in music is not simply about practice practice practice. Today over 200000 people in the United States work as musicians. With competition for traditional employment opportunities for musicians becoming ever more heated today's...

One cubic mile of oil (CMO) corresponds very closely to the world's current total annual consumption of crude oil. The world's total annual energy consumption - from all energy sources- is currently 3.0 CMO. By the middle of this century the world will need between 6 and 9 CMO of energy per...

Conventional wisdom holds that China's burgeoning economic power has reduced the United States to little more than a customer and borrower of Beijing. The rise of China, many feel, necessarily means the decline of the West--the United States in particular. Not so, writes Edward Steinfeld. If anything,...

What is happiness? How is it related to morality and virtue? Does living with illusion promote or diminish happiness? Is it better to pursue happiness with a partner than alone? Philosopher Mike W. Martin addresses these and other questions as he connects the meaning of happiness with the philosophical...

Here is the first biography of Mario Savio, the brilliant leader of Berkeley's Free Speech Movement, the largest and most disruptive student rebellion in American history. Savio risked his life to register black voters in Mississippi in the Freedom Summer of 1964 and did more than anyone to bring...

Is the Internet erasing national borders? Will the future of the Net be set by Internet engineers rogue programmers the United Nations or powerful countries? Who's really in control of what's happening on the Net? In this provocative new book Jack Goldsmith and Tim Wu tell the fascinating story of...

Providing a vital economic incentive for much of society's music art and literature copyright is widely considered "the engine of free expression"--but it is also used to stifle news reporting political commentary historical scholarship and even artistic expression. In Copyright's Paradox...

Two past presidents of the American Public Health Association have edited this book on the ways in which social injustice causes and contributes to public health problems. Their previous books War and Public Health and errorism and Public Health both dealt with specific issues of social injustice as...

It hurts to be beautiful" has been a cliche for centuries. What has been far less appreciated is how much it hurts not to be beautiful. The Beauty Bias explores our cultural preoccupation with attractiveness, the costs it imposes, and the responses it demands. Beauty may be only skin deep, but the damages...

Often the finest artists do not make the best teachers. Many frustrated college students of art know this all too well as they suffer through unstructured classes with inexperienced teachers or graduate student instructors. In these situations it is easy to blame the teachers. But the problem is largely...

Approximately 2.5 million people in the United States--one percent of the population--have an intellectual disability (previously referred to as mental retardation). These conditions range from genetic disorders such as Down syndrome to disabilities caused by infectious diseases and brain injury. Intellectual...

As the first international anthology to cover the entire scope of fantastic narrative Fantastic Worlds presents over fifty tales myths and stories ranging from Genesis to Ovid Hans Christian Andersen to J.R.R. Tolkien Edgar Allan Poe to James Thurber and Franz Kafka to Italo Calvino. Including tales...

This marvelous collection brings together the great myths and legends of the United States--from the creation stories of the first inhabitants to the tall tales of the Western frontier to the legendary outlaws of the 1920s and beyond. This thoroughly engaging anthology is sweeping in its scope embracing...