This important collection of essays from the leading writers in the field, focuses on the importance of taking environmental…

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This work considers the story behind papyri discovered in 1961 in the Cave of Letters by the Dead Sea. The archive contains…

Eleven scholars present a comprehensive study of the first book of Aristotle's Metaphysics. This is a key text for the…

In this book, Susan Niditch seeks a deeper understanding of Israelite culture as expressed, shaped and reinforced in images…

The Deceived Husband is an ambitious and original study of the representation in European literature of adultery, focusing…

The author argues that emotional systems in humans, as well as other creatures, necessarily must be mixtures of innate and…

Produkt Imaginary Museum of Musical Works - Goehr, Lydia (Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics, Professor of Philosophy…

This text examines attempts to construct a Jewish identity suitable for an increasingly secular world. He examines both…

A collection of the writings of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762), which includes essays (some published anonymously in…

Losers' Consent shows how being able to accept losing is one of the central requirements of democracy, and provides a major…

This volume brings together the most recent debates in the measurement of global poverty - a topic of the greatest…

Cognitive Grammar offers an alternative to mainstream linguistic theories. This book introduces the theory in clear,…

Shows that a properly crafted structural account of pictures has many advantages over the perceptual accounts that dominate…

This book examines the theories and arguments put forward by Plato in his `Phaedo', in which he attempts to show that the…

This book discusses the nature of exogeneity - a central concept in econometrics texts - and shows how to test for it by…

This book looks at the relationship between the structure of the sentence and the organization of discourse. Experts in the…

This book reconstructs what the earliest grammars might have been and shows how they could have led to the languages of…

This book is the first to show how metaphors can be used productively in CBT as an integral part of the treatment. It…

The Black Death, the Peasants' Revolt, the Hundred Years War, the War of the Roses... A succession of dramatic social and…

In this work, the author has fashioned out of the logical and linguistic theses of his earlier books a full-scale but…

Terence Irwin presents a historical and critical study of the development of moral philosophy over two thousand years, from…

The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity is a wide-ranging collection of essays that engages with valuable questions about the…

Philosophy has much to offer psychiatry, not least regarding ethical issues, but also issues regarding the mind, identity,…

For a belief to be justified, must the believer have some sort of awareness of the features that make it a good belief?…

Brigid Haines and Margaret Littler draw on the latest developments in feminist theory to explore contemporary German women…

This selection, drawn from Mark Storey's complete Oxford edition of the "Letters", covers the whole of Clare's adult life…

This text discusses the period 800-1100 AD, offering an integrated treatment of the whole of the British Isles. It offers a…

Organized Jewish welfare was a vital element in the formation and maintenance of British and German Jewish subcultures. The…

Linguists, biological anthropologists, and cognitive scientists explore the origins and early evolution of phonology,…

The aim of this text is to provide an understanding of rationality which is broader than that which underlies today's…

Explains how strategic reasoning makes sense of the complexity of war on land, at sea, in the air, in space, and even…

These essays examine current theoretical and computational work on polysemy. Three theoretical approaches are presented: the…

Produkt Farewell to Matters of Principle - Marquard, Odo (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, University of…

A companion volume to Peter Pulzer's successful "German Politics 1945-1995", this is a study of the three failed regimes…

This book is a powerful and thoughtful critique of American commercial media from a writer with wide experience in both the…

With interest growing in the tradition of women's writing, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762) has been transformed from a…

This volume in the "Oxford Readings in Philosophy" series brings together some of the most influential essays on Descartes'…

Andrew Reynolds' The Children of Harvey Milk is not only a compelling collective portrait of gay politicians around the…

The volume focuses on esoteric interpretation as a phenomenon in the field of Qur'anic exegesis. The work shows how it has…

A general introduction to the philosophy of mind, covering all the main topics: the mind-body problem; the nature of…

This new volume in the long-running and successful Oxford Readings in Philosophy series offers a selection of the most…

Cicero's writings contain a first-hand view of the age of Caesar and Pompey; however, readers need to learn how to interpret…

Introduces English-language philosophy since 1945. A brief description of the first half of the 20th century is followed by…

This text provides an introduction to the topic of women and work in modern Britain. Rosemary Crompton gives an account of…

This is the first full historical study of a key strand in the development of modern moral philosophy. The subject is a…

The Oxford Textbook Violence Prevention brings together an international team of experts to provide an extensive global…

Colin Crouch presents a wide ranging survey of the relationship between trade unions, employers, and governments in western…

Bringing together important writings not easily available elsewhere, this volume provides a convenient and stimulating…