Many Victorian novels take place not in the steam-powered railway present of that era, but in the recent past: a world…

Victor Nuovo represents the philosophical thought of John Locke as the work of a Christian virtuoso: an empirical natural…

These early13th-century documents contain a wealth of information on the religious, ecclesiastical, and parochial life of…

Leading philosophers offer a rich survey of the development of our understanding of the emotions, discussing major thinkers…

This volume draws together Richard Joyce's work from the last decade on moral skepticism, the view that there is no such…

Focuses on German political and juridical thought. This book contributes significantly to the history of European ideas,…

This edition is the first full scale study of John Cannon and his chronicles. Known to some as 'the poor man's Pepys',…

In Courthouse Democracy and Minority Rights: Same-Sex Marriage in the States, Robert J. Hume shows how increasing the…

The Abstractiones is of great historical interest because it gives a window onto how generations of British scholars learned…

The Moral Psychology Handbook offers a comprehensive discussion of how the human mind influences, and is influenced by,…

This volume re-examines how the incentives created by specific electoral institutions affect the behaviour of voters and…

This volume surveys of Petrarch's literary legacy in Britain. It explores a number of key topics: Petrarch's analysis of the…

This is the first detailed ethnography of rural Mongolian life since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Based on fieldwork…

The book examines one of the most contested topics in linguistics and cognitive science: the role of recursion in language.…

In the folklore of mathematics, James Joseph Sylvester (1814-1897) is the eccentric, hot-tempered, 19th-century…

Cicero in Letters analyzes letter-writing habits and political preoccupations that define the correspondence between Cicero…

Computation permeates our world, but a satisfactory philosophical theory of what it is has been lacking. Gualtiero Piccinini…

Imogen Dickie develops an account of aboutness-fixing for thoughts about ordinary objects, and of reference-fixing for the…

Existence questions have been topics for heated debates in metaphysics, but this book argues that they can often be answered…

Thinking Like an Engineer is both a work in engineering ethics and an attempt to understand engineering as a profession.…

How does thinking affect doing? It is widely held that thinking about what you are doing, as you are doing it, hinders…

Revealing the richness and influence of Oxford's mathematical tradition and the fascinating characters that have helped to…

A study of the life of Sidi Mahmud al-Baghdadi, who is believed to have introduced new doctrines of Oriental Sufism into the…

This Primer nurtures the development of biologists interested in using animal behaviour concepts and tools to solve…

Produkt Return to Diversity - Rothschild, Joseph (Professor of Political Science and Associate of the Institute on East…

A landmark in the scientific literature, the Oxford Handbook of Neuroethics presents a pioneering review of a topic central…

These essays, three of which appear for the first time, examine and elucidate aspects of the Arab exodus from Palestine in…

Cicero's Topica is one of the canonical texts on ancient rhetorical theory. This is the first full-scale commentary on this…

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2013 sees the centenary of Jaspers' foundation of psychopathology as a science. Many of the issues concerning methodology…

Is the relationship between psychology and neuroscience one of autonomy or mutual constraint and integration? This volume…

This study suggests approaches to the governance of our increasingly interdependent human society. It makes recommendations…

A Life Course Approach to Mental Disorders examines the causes and consequences of a wide-range of mental disorders…

Adopting a social-psychological perspective, this work focuses on relationships between groups that have been living…

The purpose of this monograph is to show that a theory can be developed to underpin the molecular structure hypothesis -…

The text presents and discusses some of the most influential papers in Matrix Computation authored by Gene H. Golub, one of…

Helen Steward argues that determinism is incompatible with agency itself--not only the special human variety of agency, but…

Kiesewetter defends the normativity of rationality by presenting a new solution to the problems that arise from the common…

Scholars and students of modern literature; anyone with an interest in the work of Thomas Mann.…

This book explores moral questions that go beyond the issues commonly considered in the ethics of action.…

This volume examines the relationship between banks and states, and how the traditional, political bank-state ties have been…

Produkt Being There Together - Schroeder, Ralph (James Martin Research Fellow, James Martin Research Fellow, Oxford…

This volume examines the dialogue around global public goods and development cooperation. It asks: how will international…

This book examines the interaction between global norms and local contexts, from global norms about 'the rule of law' from…

This is the first book devoted to the Bene Ephraim--a group of former untouchables in Andhra Pradesh who have claimed Jewish…

Featuring an original social work practice model, this book shows students to use a decision tree that helps them take a…

Emily Bloom chronicles the emergence of the British Broadcasting Corporation as a significant promotional platform and…

The book examines issues related to the way modeling and simulation enable us to reconstruct aspects of the world we are…

Kris McDaniel argues that there are different ways in which things exist. For instance, past things don't exist in the same…