Books in the What Everyone Needs To Know (R) series

An accessible and unfortunately timely introduction to the world's melting continent, Antarctica

Behavioral Finance: What Everyone Needs to Know (R) provides an overview of common shortcuts and mistakes people make in managing their finances.

This short guide to the timely topic of state creation and secession illuminates the legal, poltical, and practical matters of secession and state creation on a global scale.

In this revised and updated third edition of China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know (R) Jeffery N. Wasserstrom and Maura Elizabeth Cunningham provide an excellent introduction to this significant global power.

The Pornography Industry: What Everyone Needs to Know addresses key issues and concerns about a controversial and very hot topic. Written for a curious and intelligent audience interested in the foundations and developments of the industry, the book touches on the history of pornography, landmark legal cases, the latest medical research, and ongoing political debates.

Revised edition of the author's Economic development, [2014]

In this bold addition to Oxford's What Everyone Needs to Know series, John L. Esposito and Natana DeLong-Bas offer a guide to the often-discussed but seldom-understood concept of Sharia, responding to misunderstandings and distortions, as well as providing answers to questions about the origin, nature, and content of Sharia.

Informative, pithy, and lucidly written, Cuba: What Everyone Needs to Know, 3rd edition, is the best compact reference on Cuba's internal politics, its often fraught relationship with the United States, and its shifting relationship with the global community.

The Ethics of Sport explores moral issues that arise in sports in a manner that is accessible to a wide audience but which also explores and evaluates arguments on different sides of major controversies in the world of sports, such as the controversy over the use of performance enhancing drugs.

Campus Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know (R) provides the first even-handed look at political controversy on American university campuses, from struggles over "political correctness" to recent battles over racism, speech codes, and sexual assault.

A comprehensive and case-driven account of the core ethical principles of the "Profession of Arms," together with a description of the rigorous ethical demands and moral dilemmas these principles impose upon individuals, both in and beyond combat. A thorough but readable, engaging account addressed both to military personnel and the wider public.

Over the coming decades, Artificial Intelligence will profoundly impact the way we work and live. Whose interests should such systems serve? What limits should we place on their use? This book is a succinct introduction to the complex social, ethical, legal, and economic issues raised by the emergence of intelligent machines.

The campaign finance debate is about how we want our democracy to work. But it is conducted in terms of laws, regulations, and court decisions about super PACs, 501(c)(4)s, dark money, and even the IRS. This book explains how those laws and decisions fit into the larger debate about democracy.

Brazil is one of the largest economies in the world. Brazil: What Everyone Needs to Know evaluates the progress that has been made to date in consolodating democracy and addressing the challenging institutional issues that are obstacles to a higher level of development.

A sharp and concise overview of Al Qaeda, from its humble origins in the mountains of Afghanistan to the present, explaining its perseverance and adaptation since 9/11 and the limits of U.S. and allied counterterrorism efforts

The drone revolution has already changed warfare, and will soon become a commonplace tool in a civilian context too. It is clear that drone technology is here to stay. Drones: What Everyone Needs to Know explains how the revolution happened, what its current contours are, and where we might be headed next.

Eminent scholar John Prados brings his deep expertise to the subject of the US Special Forces and provides an essential primer on its various components.

Researched and written by Stephen Hinshaw, an international expert on ADHD, and Katherine Ellison, a Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist and author, ADHD: What Everyone Needs to Know (R) is the go-to book for authoritative, current, accurate, and compelling information about the global ADHD epidemic.

An analysis of the ecological and political impacts of invasive species, written by a leading invasion biologist

Hydrofracking: What Everyone Needs to Know is a concise, well-informed primer on one of the most promising yet controversial methods of accessing natural gas and oil. Exploring the promises and pitfalls of fracking, Alex Prud'homme offers an even-handed introduction for an interested general reader.

Spain has undergone significant transformations over the past three decades. In Spain: What Everyone Needs to Know, veteran journalist William Chislett recounts the country's fascinating and often turbulent history, its present economic crisis, and talks about the road ahead for the nation.

A focused and accessible introduction to modern India by award-winning author Mira Kamdar,India in the 21st Century addresses the history, political and social structures, economic and financial system, and geopolitical landscape of a country set to play a critical role in how the world evolves in the coming decades.