Bøker utgitt av Oxford University Press Inc

This book presents a new theory of what happens at the very early stages of innovation. It describes how a new technology is transformed into an entrepreneurial opportunity and becomes the origin of economic growth. The surprising answer is cooperation. The origin of innovation begins in the commons.

Who displays yard signs? Why do they display them? In Politics on Display, we examine how neighborhoods become politicized during campaign seasons, exploring the causes and consequences of sign displaying and its implications for our understanding of political participation, attitudes about campaigns and elections, and social interaction in neighborhoods.

Democratic Practice explains why democracies diverge in their de facto commitment to political inclusion. The book extracts large lessons from the comparison of Spain and Portugal, showing how cultural legacies of national pathways to democracy have shaped assumptions about political conduct, which generate multiple consequences in economic, cultural and political life.

In Mobilizing the Marginalized, Amit Ahuja shows how social movements by marginalized ethnic groups - those who are stigmatized by others and disproportionately poor - undermine bloc voting to generate competition for marginalized citizens' votes across political parties.

Tethered Fates explores the challenge of safeguarding economic rights beyond the factory floor in global supply chains. Drawing on a 7,000-company database, it maps trends in company-community interaction through "stakeholder dialogue." It features grassroots perspectives from two manufacturing communities in the Dominican Republic, and assesses emerging policy alternatives globally.

Documentary Resistance: Social Change and Participatory Media offers a new approach to understanding the networked capacity of documentary media to create public commons areas. This book is distinctive in approach, understanding how struggles for social justice are reflected on the documentary screen but social change interventions begins before and beyond.

The Library Screen Scene shows how library film and media literacy education programs promote community and a sense of civic engagement.

Openness to Creative Destruction: Sustaining Innovative Dynamism shows how innovation occurs through the efforts of inventors and innovative entrepreneurs, how workers on balance benefit, and how good policies can encourage innovation.

Unequal Europe shows how European integration changes welfare states and income inequality in the European Union. To identify who wins and who loses from European integration, the book marshals original evidence from household income surveys, case studies of welfare states, and new measures of social policy and regional integration.

The Treatise on Giving Rise to Faith in the Great Vehicle is one of the most important foundational texts of East Asian Buddhism. This new annotated translation of the Treatise draws on the historical and intellectual contexts of the work's composition and pays close attention to its interpretation in early commentaries.

This book examines the impact that the new art of film had on another new form, science fiction, especially as it was embodied in the various pulp magazines where the genre first began to establish its identity and key themes. It argues that a film consciousness helped shape, even define 20th century science fiction.

Based on research with transnational families in Latin America, Eastern Europe, and North America, Writing for Love and Money tells the story of how families separated across borders write-and learn new ways of writing-in pursuit of love and money.

Economist James Rauch evaluates the socioeconomic trajectories of groups of Middle Eastern States in relation to each other and to countries with similar characteristics.

100 questions about eclipses-each answered succinctly to create a comprehensive description of the wonder of this natural phenomena.