Oxford University Press Usa: 518 books
Pink Ribbon Blues: How Breast Cancer Culture Undermines Women's Health
How Breast Cancer Culture Undermines Women's Health
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2010
Medical sociologist Gayle A. Sulik reveals the hidden costs of the pink ribbon as an industry, one in which breast cancer functions as a brand name with a pink ribbon logo. Based on historical and ethnographic research, analysis of awareness campaigns and advertisements, and hundreds of interviews,...
Tomorrow's Table: Organic Farming, Genetics, and the Future of Food
Organic Farming, Genetics, and the Future of Food
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2008
By the year 2050, Earth's population will double. If we continue with current farming practices, vast amounts of wilderness will be lost, millions of birds and billions of insects will die, and the public will lose billions of dollars as a consequence of environmental degradation. Clearly, there must...
After the Spring:Economic Transitions in the Arab World
Economic Transitions in the Arab World
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
The Arab Spring constitutes perhaps the most far-reaching political and economic transition since the end of communism in Europe. For too long, the economic aspirations of the people in the region, especially young people, have been ignored by leaders in Arab countries and abroad. Competing views...
Beer:Tap into the Art and Science of Brewing
Tap into the Art and Science of Brewing
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2009
Written by one of the world's leading authorities and hailed by American Brewer as "brilliant" and "by a wide margin the best reference now available," Beer offers an amusing and informative account of the art and science of brewing, examining the history of brewing and how the...
The Complete Euripides:Volume I: Trojan Women and Other Plays
Volume I: Trojan Women and Other Plays
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2010
Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can best re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order to...
The Complete Euripides:Volume V: Medea and Other Plays
Volume V: Medea and Other Plays
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2010
Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order...
Norse Mythology:A Guide to Gods, Heroes, Rituals, and Beliefs
A Guide to Gods, Heroes, Rituals, and Beliefs
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2002
Norse Mythology explores the magical myths and legends of Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland and Viking-Age Greenland--outlining along the way the prehistoric tales and beliefs from these regions that have remained embedded in the imagination of the world. The book begins with an Introduction that helps...
The Arab Uprisings:What Everyone Needs to Know
What Everyone Needs to Know®
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2012
Beginning in December 2010 popular revolt swept through the Middle East, shocking the world and ushering in a period of unprecedented unrest. Protestors took to the streets to demand greater freedom, democracy, human rights, social justice, and regime change. What caused these uprisings? What is their...
by Reginald Gibbons
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2000
Regarded by many as Euripides' masterpiece, Bakkhai is a powerful examination of religious ecstasy and the resistance to it. A call for moderation, it rejects the temptation of pure reason as well as pure sensuality, and is a staple of Greek tragedy, representing in structure and thematics an exemplary...
A Slap in the Face: Why Insults Hurt--And Why They Shouldn't
Why Insults Hurt--And Why They Shouldn't
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Insults are part of the fabric of daily life. But why do we insult each other? Why do insults cause us such pain? Can we do anything to prevent or lessen this pain? Most importantly, how can we overcome our inclination to insult others? In A Slap in the Face, William Irvine undertakes a wide-ranging...
by John Corvino, Maggie Gallagher
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Polls and election results show Americans sharply divided on same-sex marriage, and the controversy is unlikely to subside anytime soon. Debating Same-Sex Marriage provides an indispensable roadmap to the ongoing debate. Taking a "point/counterpoint" approach, John Corvino (a philosopher...
by Michael S. A. Graziano
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
What is consciousness and how can a brain, a mere collection of neurons, create it? In Consciousness and the Social Brain, Princeton neuroscientist Michael Graziano lays out an audacious new theory to account for the deepest mystery of them all. The human brain has evolved a complex circuitry that...
Angst: Origins of Anxiety and Depression
Origins of Anxiety and Depression
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
Some twenty percent of us are afflicted with common anxiety and depressive disorders--not just brief bouts of nervousness or sorrow, but painful dysfunctions without obvious benefit. Why do so many people suffer from angst? In this path-breaking volume, engagingly written for the general public, psychiatrist...
Killing by Remote Control: The Ethics of an Unmanned Military
The Ethics of an Unmanned Military
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
The increased military employment of remotely operated aerial vehicles, also known as drones, has raised a wide variety of important ethical questions, concerns, and challenges. Many of these have not yet received the serious scholarly examination such worries rightly demand. This volume attempts...