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Is the future what it used to be?

By Dr Jörg Friedrichs | 24 Sep 13

A new book by Dr Jörg Friedrichs, from the Oxford Department of International Development, argues that the future is not what it used to be because we can no longer rely on the comforting assumption that it will resemble the past.
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'No time for children'?

Co-edited by Ann Buchanan and Anna Rotkirch | 16 May 13

A new book explores the far reaching implications of the dramatic decline in fertility rates across the world. It includes the latest research from leading international academics who all seem to agree that the world population is likely to decline by 2050.
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Scotland's Choices

By Iain McLean, Jim Gallagher and Guy Lodge | 19 Apr 13

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'Big Data'

By Viktor Mayer-Schonberger and Kenneth Cukier | 12 Mar 13

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'University Intellectual Property'

Edited by Graham Richards | 18 Jul 12

Universities are increasingly looking to exploit the intellectual property created by their researchers both to meet the expectations of governments and to search for new sources of income. In this new book Professor Graham Richards, who retired from Oxford University in 2008 where he was Head of Chemistry, and has worked with spin-out companies since 1988, investigates the key issues surrounding intellectual property in a higher education setting.
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'China’s Remarkable Economic Growth'

By John Knight and Sai Ding | 16 Apr 12

The book is a culmination of a major research project funded by the Leverhulme Trust to explore China's economic success. No other major country has grown so fast - by some ten per cent a year - for no less than three decades. The Oxford University researchers explore the consequences of this remarkable economic phenomenon and its social transformation in China.
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'Mafias on the Move'

By Federico Varese | 28 Mar 11

Organised crime is spreading like a global virus as mobs take advantage of open borders to establish local franchises at will. That at least is the fear, inspired by stories of Russian mobsters in New York, Chinese triads in London, and Italian mafias rooted in places as diverse as Germany, Canada and Australia.
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'Montaigne and the Art of Free-Thinking'

by Richard Scholar | 10 Mar 11

This new book aims to alert a wider audience to the work of the 16th century writer, Michel de Montaigne, as well as to offer an original thesis about his place in the wider history of 'free-thinking' in early modern Europe. Books on Montaigne intended for experts alone are in plentiful supply, and there is a new wave of popular writing on the author, but very little writing on Montaigne attempts to bridge the gap between the experts and the general reader. Dr Scholar's book aims to fill that void and has caught a new tide of interest in Montaigne.
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'Carbon Markets: An International Business Guide'

By Arnaud Brohé, Dr Nick Eyre and Nicholas Howarth | 10 Feb 11

Can the sale of carbon through new and expanding carbon markets help cut global greenhouse gas emissions and if it can, how much can it contribute to slowing climate change? An award-winning book by three Oxford academics asserts that carbon markets have huge potential to bring about emissions cuts. It examines the role of governments in establishing strong market mechanisms and the regulation they will need to introduce to achieve this objective. The book also looks at related economic factors. Its findings are deliberately summarised in a manner easily accessible to undergraduates.
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'Oxford medicine: A walk through nine centuries'

by Eric Sidebottom | 10 Dec 10

A new book celebrates Oxford’s contribution to the development of medicine, highlighting more than 45 city sites of historic medical interest. Based on a two-hour guided walk, Oxford Medicine: A Walk Through Nine Centuries by Dr Eric Sidebottom of the Dunn School of Pathology takes visitors to 11 Oxford colleges in addition to several departments, libraries and city museums.
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