Oxford University Press Usa: 518 books
by Ami Pedahzur
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Two decades ago, the idea that a "radical right" could capture and drive Israeli politics seemed improbable. While it was a boisterous faction and received heavy media coverage, it constituted a fringe element. Yet by 2009, Israel's radical right had not only entrenched itself in mainstream...
Masters of the Battlefield: Great Commanders From the Classical Age to the Napoleonic Era
Great Commanders From the Classical Age to the Napoleonic Era
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
"The personality of a general is indispensable," Napoleon once said. "He is the head, he is the all, of an army." In Masters of the Battlefield, Paul K. Davis offers vivid portraits of fifteen legendary military leaders whose brilliance on and off the battlefield embody this maxim. Hailing from the...
Talibanistan: Negotiating the Borders Between Terror, Politics and Religion
Negotiating the Borders Between Terror, Politics, and Religion
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2012
The longest war the United States has ever fought is the ongoing war in Afghanistan. But when we speak of "Afghanistan," we really mean a conflict that straddles the border with Pakistan--and the reality of Islamic militancy on that border is enormously complicated. In Talibanistan, an unparalleled...
The Power of Place: Geography, Destiny, and Globalization's Rough Landscape
Geography, Destiny, and Globalization's Rough Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2008
The world is not as mobile or as interconnected as we like to think. As Harm de Blij argues in The Power of Place, in crucial ways--from the uneven distribution of natural resources to the unequal availability of opportunity--geography continues to hold billions of people in its grip. We are all born...
The Throne of Adulis: Red Sea Wars on the Eve of Islam
Red Sea Wars on the Eve of Islam
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
Just prior to the rise of Islam in the sixth century AD, southern Arabia was embroiled in a violent conflict between Christian Ethiopians and Jewish Arabs. Though little known today, this was an international war that involved both the Byzantine Empire, which had established Christian churches in...
Word Myths:Debunking Linguistic Urban Legends
Debunking Linguistic Urban Legends
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2008
Do you believe that Ring Around the Rosie refers to the Black Death? Or that Eskimos have 50 (or 500) words for "snow"? Or that "Posh" is an acronym for "Port Out, Starboard Home"? If so, you badly need this book. In Word Myths, David Wilton debunks some of the most spectacularly wrong word histories...
Language Matters: A Guide to Everyday Questions About Language
A Guide to Everyday Questions About Language
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2010
Is Ebonics really a dialect or simply bad English? Do women and men speak differently? Will computers ever really learn human language? Does offensive language harm children? These are only a few of the issues surrounding language that crop up every day. Most of us have very definite opinions on these...
Helping Children with Selective Mutism and Their Parents:A Guide for School-Based Professionals
A Guide for School-Based Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2010
Selective mutism, or refusal or unwillingness to speak in certain situations or settings, poses a particular challenge to educators and other school-based professionals. In many cases, school personnel are on the front lines of assessment and treatment for these children and must help them succeed...
by John Corvino
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
For the last twenty years, John Corvino--widely known as the author of the weekly column "The Gay Moralist" --has traversed the country responding to moral and religious arguments against same-sex relationships. In this timely book, he shares that experience--addressing the standard objections to...
Mormon Christianity: What Other Christians Can Learn From the Latter-day Saints
What Other Christians Can Learn From the Latter-day Saints
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2013
Mormons are adamant that they are Christian, and eloquent writers within their own faith have tried to make this case, but no theologian outside the LDS church has ever tried to demonstrate just how Christian they are. Stephen H. Webb's Mormon Christianity: What Other Christians Can Learn from the...
Souls in Transition:The Religious and Spiritual Lives of Emerging Adults
The Religious and Spiritual Lives of Emerging Adults
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2009
How important is religion for young people in America today? What are the major influences on their developing spiritual lives? How do their religious beliefs and practices change as young people enter into adulthood? Christian Smith's Souls in Transition explores these questions and many others as...
How to Read the Bible: History, Prophecy, Literature--Why Modern Readers Need to Know the Difference and What It Means for Faith Today
History, Prophecy, Literature--Why Modern Readers Need to Know the Difference and What It Means for Faith Today
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2009
McKenzie argues that to comprehend the Bible we must grasp the intentions of the biblical authors themselves--what sort of texts they thought they were writing and how they would have been understood by their intended audience. In short, we must recognize the genres to which these texts belong. McKenzie...
Desert Christians:An Introduction to the Literature of Early Monasticism
An Introduction to the Literature of Early Monasticism
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2004
In the fourth century, the deserts of Egypt became the nerve center of a radical new movement, what we now call monasticism. Groups of Christians-from illiterate peasants to learned intellectuals-moved out to the wastelands beyond the Nile Valley and, in the famous words of Saint Athanasius, made...
by Thomas Nagel
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 1986
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 1986
Human beings have the unique ability to view the world in a detached way: We can think about the world in terms that transcend our own experience or interest, and consider the world from a vantage point that is, in Nagel's words, "nowhere in particular". At the same time, each of us is a particular...