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• Advances and challenges in innovation studies

  - 2005-03-01

  The study of innovation is a relatively young and fast-growing branch of social science. Mainly inspired by the work of Joseph Schumpeter and by other research traditions outside the economics mainstream, it has developed as an interdisciplinary field studying the relationships among economic, technological, organizational, and institutional changes. In his...

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• Richard J. Carwardine, Oxford University, was awarded the Lincoln Prize for his analytical biography Lincoln (Pearson Education Ltd.).(Awards)(Brief Article)

  - 2004-09-01

  Richard J. Carwardine, Oxford University, was awarded the Lincoln Prize for his analytical biography Lincoln (Pearson Education Ltd.). Carwardine, the first British scholar to win the award, will receive $30,000 and a bronze replica of Augustus Saint-Gaudens's life-size bust Lincoln the Man. The Lincoln Prize is...

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• Mandela, Rhodes - what do they have in common?

  - 2003-08-01

  SOUTH AFRICA/ZIMBABWE The seventh Will of Cecil John Rhodes, the British arch colonialist left, created an educational grant known as the 'Rhodes Scholarship' in 1902, But in recent weeks, hairs have been torn over the addition of the Mandela name to the Rhodes Foundation. Shingai Rukwata Ndoro reports....

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• By the Hand of Mormon: the American Scripture that Launched a New World Religion.(Book Review) (book review)

  - 2003-04-01

  By TERRYL L. GIVENS. Oxford University Press. 320 pp. $30. A carefully documented and sympathetic account of the origins, teachings, and current interpretations of the Book of Mormon. The author engages most of the conventional criticisms by non-Mormon scholars in a manner that is...

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• Unholy War: Terror in the Name of Islam.(Book Review)

  - 2002-12-01

  By JOHN L. ESPOSITO. Oxford University Press. 196pp. $25. Esposito directs the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University and, like most Middle East scholars, has over the years presented a roseate picture of an Islam sorely misunderstood by the West. After September 11,...

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• Royal Historical Society bibliography. (Frontline).

  - 2002-08-01

  A MAJOR NEW BIBLIOGRAPHICAL RESOURCE for those interested in the history of Britain and Ireland and the British overseas is now available. By permission of Oxford University Press the Royal Historical Society is making an electronic version of its bibliographies freely available over the internet. The...

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• Nixon's Civil Rights: Politics, Principle, and Policy. (book review)

  - 2002-06-01

  By Dean J. Kotlowki. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002. 404 pp. Many scholars have written about Richard Nixon's civil rights policies in the course of wider projects--biographies of Nixon, surveys of federal policy toward African Americans--but surprisingly few have done so in...

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• Robert Grosseteste. (book review)

  - 2001-09-22

  McEvoy, James Robert Grosseteste New York: Oxford University Press 219 pp., $35.00, ISBN 0-19-511450 Publication Date: September 2000 James McEvoy, the general editor of the series in which Robert Grosseteste's many still-unedited works are now appearing, has also written various studies of Grosseteste's thought....

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• Race and the Writing of History: Riddling the Sphinx.(Review) (book review)

  - 2001-03-22

  Keita, Maghan Race and the Writing of History: Riddling the Sphinx New York: Oxford University Press 214 pp., $45.00, ISBN 0-19-511274-1 Publication Date: November 1999 This useful book, which is a significant contribution to Oxford University Press's Race and American Culture series, is a...

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• Saint Saul: A Skeleton Key to the Historical Jesus

  - 2000-12-06

  Saint Saul: A Skeleton Key to the Historical Jesus. By Donald Harman Akenson. Oxford University Press, 352 pp., $27.50. OUTSIDE THE Four Gospels, the New Testament yields precious little about Jesus," writes John P. Meier, a prominent Catholic biblical scholar and author of A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical...

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