Oxford University Press, 2010. — 224 p. The Book of Genesis depicts them as doing strange things-mating with the daughters of men to spawn giants, for example, and wrestling with Jacob for no apparent reason. In It's a Wonderful Life, Frank Capra spun a tale of one as a bumbling helper of humans; in Wings of Desire, Wim Wenders told of one who wished to be human. They are...
Oxford University Press, 2011. — ISBN10: 0199793980; ISBN13: 978-0199793983. Recent advances in cognitive psychology, socio-linguistics, and socio-anthropology are revolutionizing our understanding of literacy. However, this research has made only minimal inroads among classicists. In turn, historians of literacy continue to rely on outdated work by classicists (mostly from the...
USA: Oxford University Press, 2011. — 384 p. ISBN10: 0199731691. ISBN13: 978-0199731695. Language: English. In his pathbreaking Israel in Egypt James K. Hoffmeier sought to refute the claims of scholars who doubt the historical accuracy of the biblical account of the Israelite sojourn in Egypt. Analyzing a wealth of textual, archaeological, and geographical evidence, he put...
Translated by Beatrice Pelloni. — Oxford University Press, 2006. — 792 p. — (Oxford Graduate Texts). — ISBN13: 978-0-19-850802-1. Analytical Mechanics is the investigation of motion with the rigorous tools of mathematics. Rooted in the works of Lagrange, Euler, Poincare (to mention just a few), it is a very classical subject with fascinating developments and still rich of open...
Oxford University Press, USA (March 31, 2011) Language: English ISBN10: 0199600422 ISBN13: 978-0199600427 Philosophy in the English-speaking world is dominated by analytic approaches to its problems and projects; but theology has been dominated by alternative approaches. Many would say that the current state in theology is not mere historical accident, but is, rather, how...
Oxford University Press, 2005. — ISBN10: 0199278997; ISBN13: 978-0199278992. Philosophy written in English is overwhelmingly analytic philosophy, and the techniques and predilections of analytic philosophy are not only unhistorical but anti-historical, and hostile to textual commentary. Analytic usually aspires to a very high degree of clarity and precision of formulation and...
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA, 2007. - 240 pages (Practical Econometrics) Providing a practical introduction to state space methods as applied to unobserved components time series models, also known as structural time series models, this book introduces time series analysis using state space methodology to readers who are neither familiar with time series analysis,...
USA: Oxford University Press, 2009. — 368 p. ISBN10: 0199554463. ASIN: B007PM4MTG. Language: English. Richly illustrated throughout, including 8 pages of color plates, An Infinity of Things tells the story of the greatest private collection ever made, and the life of the man behind it. American-born Henry Wellcome made his millions as one of the world's first pharmaceutical...
Oxford University Press, 2009. — 384 p.
Hailed in The New York Times Book Review as "the single best book written in recent years on the sweep of American political history," this groundbreaking work divides our nation's history into three "regimes," each of which lasts many, many decades, allowing us to appreciate as never before the slow steady evolution of American politics,...
USA: Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2009. — 558 p. ISBN10: 0195387805. ISBN13: 978-0195387803. Language: English. English-born Francis Asbury was one of the most important religious leaders in American history. Asbury single-handedly guided the creation of the American Methodist church, which became the largest Protestant denomination in nineteenth-century America, and...
Oxford University Press, 2005. — 360 p. — ISBN10: 0195300521; ISBN13: 978-0195300529. Rock, country, pop, soul, funk, punk, folk, hip-hop, techno, grunge-it's all here. In American Popular Music: The Rock Years , Larry Starr and Christopher Waterman take readers on a fascinating journey through the rich historical and stylistic landscape of American rock. An abridged version of...
USA: Oxford University Press, 2011. — 368 p. — 4 edition. ISBN10: 0199765065. ISBN13: 978-0199765065. Language: English. America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s, Fourth Edition, is the definitive interpretive survey of the political, social, and cultural history of 1960s America. Written by two top experts on the era-Maurice Isserman, a scholar of the Left, and Michael...
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; Reprint edition (November 2, 2010) Language: English ISBN10: 019977370X ISBN13: 978-0199773701 The Muslim thinker al-Ghazali (d. 1111) was one of the most influential theologians and philosophers of Islam and has been considered an authority in both Western and Islamic philosophical traditions. Born in northeastern Iran, he held the most...
Oxford University Press, 2007 - 384 p. ISBN10: 0198569238; ISBN13: 978-0198569237 Aging has long since been ascribed to the gradual accumulation of DNA mutations in the genome of somatic cells. However, it is only recently that the necessary sophisticated technology has been developed to begin testing this theory and its consequences. Vijg critically reviews the concept of...
Oxford University Press (USA), 2009. Language: English ISBN10: 0199550514 ISBN13: 978-0199550517 It is tempting to think that, if a person's beliefs are coherent, they are also likely to be true. Indeed, this truth-conduciveness claim is the cornerstone of the popular coherence theory of knowledge and justification. Hitherto much confusion has been caused by the inability of...
Oxford University Press, USA; 2006. 395 pages. The use of sign language has a long history. Indeed, humans' first languages may have been expressed through sign. Sign languages have been found around the world, even in communities without access to formal education. In addition to serving as a primary means of communication for Deaf communities, sign languages have become one...
New York: Oxford University Press. 2006. 588 p. ISBN: 0-19-517000-8 ISBN13: 978-0-19-517000-9 Although there has been a surge in our understanding of children's vocabulary growth, theories of word learning lack a primary focus on verbs and adjectives. Researchers throughout the world recognize how our understanding of language acquisition can be at best partial if we cannot...
Oxford University Press, 2005. — 320 p. — ISBN10: 0199275823 | ISBN13: 978-0199275823. Jay Rosenberg introduces Immanuel Kant's masterwork, the Critique of Pure Reason, from a "relaxed" problem-oriented perspective which treats Kant as an especially insightful practicing philosopher, from whom we still have much to learn, intelligently and creatively responding to significant...
Oxford University Press, 2009. — 300 p. Absolutism in Renaissance Milan shows how authority above the law, once the preserve of pope and emperor, was claimed by the ruling Milanese dynasties, the Visconti and the Sforza, and why this privilege was finally abandoned by Francesco II Sforza (d. 1535), the last duke. As new rulers, the Visconti and the Sforza had had to impose...
Oxford University Press, 2007. — 406 p. — ISBN10: 0199276439; ISBN13: 978-0199276431 The problem of absolute generality has attracted much attention in recent philosophy. Agustín Rayo and Gabriel Uzquiano have assembled a distinguished team of contributors to write new essays on the topic. They investigate the question of whether it is possible to attain absolute generality in...
Oxford University Press, 2008. — (Oxford Studies in the History of Archaeology). — ISBN10: 0199217173 | ISBN13: 978-0199217175 Margarita Díaz-Andreu offers an innovative history of archaeology during the nineteenth century, encompassing all its fields from the origins of humanity to the medieval period, and all areas of the world. The development of archaeology is placed within...
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (December 15, 2008) Language: English ISBN10: 0199297134 ISBN13: 978-0199297139 A World for Us aims to refute physical realism and establish in its place a form of idealism. Physical realism, in the sense in which John Foster understands it, takes the physical world to be something whose existence is both logically independent of the...
Clarendon Press, 2007. — 149 p. — ISBN10: 0199568200; ISBN13: 978-0199568208. A Virtue Epistemology presents a new approach to some of the oldest and most gripping problems of philosophy, those of knowledge and skepticism. Ernest Sosa argues for two levels of knowledge, the animal and the reflective, each viewed as a distinctive human accomplishment. By adopting a kind of...
Oxford University Press, 2009. — 264 p. — ISBN10: 0199552258; ISBN13: 978-0199552252. The distinguished philosopher Robert M. Adams presents a major work on virtue, which is once again a central topic in ethical thought. A Theory of Virtue is a systematic, comprehensive framework for thinking about the moral evaluation of character. Many recent attempts to stake out a place in...
Clarendon Press, 2008. — 352 p. — ISBN10: 019954395X, ISBN13: 978-0199543953 Margaret Gilbert offers an incisive new approach to a classic problem of political philosophy: when and why should I do what the laws of my country tell me to do? Beginning with carefully argued accounts of social groups in general and political societies in particular, the author argues that in...
New York, Oxford. Oxford University Press, 2000. — 342 p. — ISBN10: 0195160290; ISBN13: 978-0195160291. Is jealousy eliminable? If so, at what cost? What are the connections between pride the sin and the pride insisted on by identity politics? How can one question an individual's understanding of their own happiness or override a society's account of its own rituals? What makes...
Oxford University Press, 2003. — 266 p. — ISBN10: 0195144368; ISBN13: 978-0195144369. This book takes a novel look at the topics of school mathematics-arithmetic, geometry, algebra, and calculus. In this stroll on the mathematical seashore we hope to find, quoting Newton, ".a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary." This book assembles a collection of mathematical...
Publication Date: January 30, 1997 | ISBN10: 0198240023 | ISBN13: 978-0198240020 One of the most difficult tasks confronting the English speaker learning German is that of finding exactly the right German word to translate an English word in a particular context. Many common English words have several German equivalents. Thus it is all too easy to find yourself saying the...
ISBN10: 0195168143 | ISBN13: 978-0195168143 What place does consciousness have in the natural world? If we reject materialism, could there be a credible alternative? In one classic example, philosophers ask whether we can ever know what is it is like for bats to sense the world using sonar. It seems obvious to many that any amount of information about a bat's physical structure...
Oxford University Press, USA, 2005. — 308 p. — (Oxford Master Series in Statistical, Computational, and Theoretical Physics). The importance and the beauty of modern quantum field theory resides in the power and variety of its methods and ideas, which find application in domains as different as particle physics, cosmology, condensed matter, statistical mechanics and critical...
ISBN10: 1440042233 | ISBN13: 978-1440042232 The memoir of my Aunt, Jane austen, has been received with more favour than I had ventured to expect. The notices taken of it in the periodical press, as well as letters addressed to me by many with whom I am not personally acquainted, show that an unabated interest is still taken in every particular that can be told about her. I am...
Oxford University Press, 2002. — 256 р. Why do we age? Is aging inevitable? Will advances in medical knowledge allow us to extend the human lifespan beyond its present limits? Because growing old has long been the one irreducible reality of human existence, these intriguing questions arise more often in the context of science fiction than science fact. But recent discoveries in...
4th edition. — Oxford University Press, 2001. — 328 p. Designed for first-time readers of the subject, this stimulating introduction offers a historical exposition of differing views on the philosophy of science. With concise profiles presenting the major philosophers whose contributions are discussed in this book, Losee explores the long-argued questions raised by philosophers...
Oxford University Press EAN: 9780199705566 One of the great fears many of us face is that despite all our effort and striving, we will discover at the end that we have wasted our life. In A Guide to the Good Life, William B. Irvine plumbs the wisdom of Stoic philosophy, one of the most popular and successful schools of thought in ancient Rome, and shows how its insight and...
Oxford University Press, 2003. Thousands of people die every year from floods, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, hurricanes and typhoons. Yet compared to what the Earth endured in prehistoric times-lethal volcanic winters, deadly asteroid collisions-our civilization has developed against a backdrop of relative geological calm. Will this calm last? A Brief Guide to the End of the...
2 edition. — Oxford University Press, 2005. — 337 p. — ISBN: 0195174984
This is the official text for the National Association of Science Writers. In the eight years since the publication of the first edition of A Field Guide for Science Writing, much about the world has changed. Some of the leading issues in today's political marketplace - embryonic stem cell research, global...
2 ed. — Oxford University Press, USA; 2007. — 576 p.
Edited by renowned author and broadcaster Ian Ridpath, with the help of over 20 expert contributors, the second edition of this highly popular dictionary contains over 4,200 up-to-date entries on all aspects of astronomy. Readers will find a galaxy of informative, vividly written entries on everything from space exploration...
Oxford University Press, 2005. — 208 p. — (Fundamentals of Philosophy). — ISBN10: 019514970X; ISBN13: 978-0195149708. Accessible to students with no background in the subject, A Contemporary Introduction to Free Will provides an extensive and up-to-date overview of all the latest views on this central problem of philosophy. Opening with a concise introduction to the history of...
Oxford University Press, 2003. — 245 p. The earth is continuously changing and evolving yet it is unclear how environmental changes will affect us in years to come. What changes are inevitable? What changes, if any, are beneficial? And what can we do as citizens of this planet to protect it and our future generations? Larry Slobodkin, one of the leading pioneers of modern...
Oxford University Press, 2000. — X, 389 p. — ISBN: 0-19-285371-6. In the introduction to the Oxford Illustrated History of Modern Europe, T.C.W. Blanning argues that, in many ways, the essence of modern man is that he is self-consciously dynamic. We are attracted to change-it captures the eye much more than stability. This excellent book reveals much about the things that have...
Kogan Page, 2007. — 300 p. — ISBN: 0-74-9449470. Ultimate IQ Tests: 1000 Practice Test Questions to Boost Your Brain Power Written and compiled by IQ-test experts, Ultimate IQ Tests contains 1,000 practice questions organized into 25 tests, with a simple guide to assessing individual performance. The questions themselves are similar to those on an actual IQ test. In order for...
2nd edition. — Bradford Book Publication, 2006. — 1080 p. — ISBN10: 0262524511, ISBN13: 978-0262524513 The Philosophy of Mind remains the only sourcebook of primary readings offering in-depth coverage of both historical works and contemporary controversies in philosophy of mind. This second edition provides expanded treatment of classical as well as current topics, with many...
Oxford University Press, 2005. — (Oxford Handbooks in Philosophy). — ISBN10: 0195301706; ISBN13: 978-0195301700 The Oxford Handbook of Epistemology contains 19 previously unpublished chapters by today's leading figures in the field. These chapters function not only as a survey of key areas, but as original scholarship on a range of vital topics. Written accessibly for advanced...
Wiley, 2006 - 6384 pages. Классификация: Энциклопедии и справочные материалы. Социология и социальные исследования Обложка/Формат: Hardcover Язык: Eng иллюстрации: 30 Читательская аудитория: Professional & vocational The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology is published in both print and online. Arranged across eleven volumes in A-Z format, it is the definitive reference source...
VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften; Auflage: 2., durchgesehene Aufl. 2006 ( 26. September 2006) Deutsch ISBN10: 3531150669 ISBN13: 978-3531150666 Viele sozialwissenschaftliche Untersuchungen beruhen auf Rekonstruktionen von Situationen oder Prozessen. Das Lehrbuch vermittelt anhand zweier Beispieluntersuchungen anwendungsbereites Wissen über alle Phasen solcher...
Routledge, 2007. — 256 p. This book examines and interprets a wide range of approaches to the causes of violence and conflict. The causes of violence and conflict are often left untheorized, or they are discussed as an existent problem assumed to be an inevitable part of human interaction. Adopting an accessible approach, this volume presents readers with a clear understanding...
Minorities, Mullahs, and Modernity: Reshaping Community in the Former Soviet Union (Research Series (University of California, Berkeley International and Area Studies)) ISBN: With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Caucasus and Central Asia suddenly became significant actors on the world stage. Yet outside knowledge of this vast region has been limited and superficial. This...