Astrid M. Eckert, West Germany and the Iron Curtain. Environment, Economy, and Culture in the Borderlands, Oxford, New York, Oxford University Press 2019, XV, 422 S., $ 99.00 [ISBN 978‑0‑19‑069005‑2]

Fay Bound Alberti, This Mortal Coil: The Human Body in History and Culture (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016), pp. 304, £20.00, hardback and e-book, ISBN: 9780199599035.

Virginia Berridge, Public Health: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016) pp. 160, £7.99, paperback, ISBN: 9780199688463.

as an obligation of the state and a right of citizens, helping fuel a cross-class and -race alliance that pressured the colonial government to step up to the plate. The chapters cover a wide range of topics including the control of infectious diseases, city sanitation reform, the gender/race biases shaping health systems and health education. They also employ different methodological approaches...

Review of the Oxford handbook of philosophy of economics , edited by Harold Kincaid and Don Ross . New York : Oxford University

1 The Oxford handbook of philosophy of economics aims at bringing out what is new in the philosophy of economics—an aim that, I believe, has been successfully achieved. The introductory chapter by Don Ross and Harold Kincaid does a superb job of describing the current orientation of philosophy of economics, the result of developments in philosophy of science, in economics, and in the relationsh...

Synergy in Scientific Publishing: The ESA–Oxford University Press Partnership

You are viewing the results of a multiyear strategic process, which began with a simple question: How can we achieve the best future for ESA publications? ESA’s publishing efforts are vital to our success as a scientific society. Our journals serve as a critical element of the scientific process and the ecosystem of the discipline of entomology. Further, our publications support ESA’s core valu...

His intended biography, and why Nature’s Oracle: The Life and Work of W. D. Hamilton Ullica Segerstrasse (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2013) ISBN 978-0-198-60727-4

approaches it will be difficult to make progress,” comments Terrence Sejnowski from the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California. “There are enough good neuroscientists working on the Human Brain Project that biological progress can surely be made, and the same holds for the computer science part of the project.” The project may still have a whiff of science fiction and megalomania attached to it...