Oxford University Press

A curious little crow starts to question why the older crows always look for danger below. Maybe if she looks above she'll find the courage to spread her wings?

This book focuses on what markets teach us about coping with ambiguities and unexpected happenings. Starting with why knowledge is fickle and 'stuff happens' the book explores what the Market tells us about the strengths and weaknesses of explanatory accounts for making sense and routines for ignoring such problems.

Solving mathematical problems is a favourite pastime of many people, from school students to professional research mathematicians. This book provides a wide variety of problems suitable for teenagers and students which will stimulate interest in mathematical ideas and methods outside the usual school syllabus.

Mark Jago offers a new metaphysical account of truth. He argues that to be true is to be made true by the existence of a suitable worldly entity. Truth arises as a relation between a proposition - the content of our sayings, thoughts, beliefs, and so on - and an entity (or entities) in the world.

What Twenty-First-Leadership Can Learn from Nineteenth-Century American Literature aims to narrow the gap between leadership theory and practice, offering an account of how leaders in organizations can improve their practice by drawing on the literary imagination.

What was Tragedy reconstructs the early modern poetics of tragedy with which practicing dramatists worked. In doing so, it not only illuminates recognized masterpieces but also encourages readers to explore a rich repertoire of tragic drama previously relegated to obscurity only because we lacked the language to interpret it.

An unexpected story of how Britain has and has not changed, how things might not be as bad as we routinely think they are and how we really do need to pause before saying sweeping things about neoliberalism.

This book discusses the impact of the difficult situation the European Union is currently experiencing on some structural elements of its legal order, looking for symptoms of decay, exploring examples of resistance, and assessing its overall state of health.