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• Author(s): Lorna Hutson • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Subjects & Themes - Historical EventsThis Handbook triangulates the disciplines of history, legal history, and literature to produce a new, interdiscip...

• Author(s): Jonathan Powell | Jeremy Paterson • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Ancient and ClassicalThis is the first book in English to take Cicero's forensic speeches seriously as acts of advocacy, i.e. as desig...

• Author(s): J. Powell | P. Paterson | Jeremy Paterson • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Ancient and ClassicalThis is the first book in English to take Cicero's forensic speeches seriously as acts of advocacy, i.e. ...

• Author(s): E. Brian Davies • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Religion & ScienceThis book discusses deep problems about our place in the world with a minimum of technical jargon. It argues that 'absolutist' ide...

• Author(s): Udo Thiel • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Mind & BodyThe Early Modern Subject explores the understanding of self-consciousness and personal identity--two fundamental features of human subjectivity...

• Author(s): J. Clyde Mitchell | Bruce Kapperer • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanA dramatic consequence of the impact of Western capitalism on countries to which it has turned for raw materials and...

• Author(s): E. Phoevos Panagiotidis • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis book draws together nine original investigations by leading linguists and promising young scholars on the syntax of co...

• Author(s): Mathew Thomson • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Europe - Great Britain - GeneralPsychological Subjects is a broad-ranging and original historical study of how psychological thinking developed as a feat...

• Author(s): Marcia Cavell • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Mind & BodyMarcia Cavell draws on philosophy, psychoanalysis, and the sciences of the mind in a fascinating and original investigation of human subjec...

• Author(s): Brigid Haines | Margaret Littler • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: European - GermanBrigid Haines and Margaret Littler draw on the latest developments in feminist theory to explore contemporary German w...

• Author(s): Barry Cunliffe | Chris Gosden | Rosemary A. Joyce • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: ArchaeologyArchaeology is a vast subject--it is the study of human society everywhere in the world, from distant human...

• Author(s): Eric Matthews • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Psychiatry - GeneralHow should we deal with mental disorder - as an "illness" like diabetes or bronchitis, as a "problem in living", or what? This book se...

• Author(s): Katalin Farkas • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: History & Surveys - GeneralDescartes's philosophy has had a considerable influence on the modern conception of the mind, but many think that this inf...

• Author(s): Brian P. McLaughlin | Ansgar Beckermann | Sven Walter • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Mind & BodyThe study of the mind has always been one of the main preoccupations of philosophers, and has been ...

• Author(s): A. C. Spearing • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: PoetryThis book investigates how subjectivity is encoded in the texts of a wide variety of medieval narratives and lyrics--not how they express the subje...

• Author(s): Andrew Mason • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: History & Theory - General"Equality of opportunity for all" is a fine piece of political rhetoric but the ideal that lies behind it is slippery to say ...

• Author(s): Stephen Foster • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Europe - Great Britain - GeneralThe contributions to British North America in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries acknowledge the value of the histo...

• Author(s): Erich Segal • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Ancient & ClassicalAristophanes is the only author of Greek Attic comedy whose work survives in any form beyond fragments. His eleven surviving comedies...

• Author(s): Huw Price | Richard Corry | H. Price • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Philosophy & Social AspectsIn philosophy as in ordinary life, cause and effect are twin pillars on which much of our thought se...

• Author(s): David P. Blecher | Christian Le Merdy • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Algebra - LinearThis invaluable reference is the first to present the general theory of algebras of operators on a Hilbert space, ...

• Author(s): Frank Prochaska • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Philanthropy & CharityFew subjects bring out so well the differences between ourselves and our ancestors as the history of Christian charity. In an ...

• Author(s): Dean W. Zimmerman • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: MetaphysicsOxford Studies in Metaphysics is the forum for the best new work in this flourishing field. Much of the most interesting work in philosophy...

• Author(s): Nils Melzer • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: InternationalA comprehensive analysis into the lawfulness of state-sponsored targeted killings under international human rights and humanitarian law, this b...

• Author(s): John Sloboda • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Cognitive Psychology & CognitionIn the 20 years since publication of John Sloboda's landmark volume The Musical Mind, music psychology has developed as...

• Author(s): John P. Cleave • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: LogicIt is a fact of modern scientific thought that there is an enormous variety of logical systems - such as classical logic, intuitionist logic, tempor...

• Author(s): Reinhold A. Bertlmann • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Physics - GeneralAn anomaly is the failure of a classical symmetry to survive the process of quantization and regularization. The study of anomali...

• Author(s): James Premack | Ann Premack | Daniel Sperber • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Cognitive Psychology & CognitionWhile most psychologists agree that understanding cause-effect relationships is fundame...

• Author(s): Gilbert Meilaender | William Werpehowski • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Christian Theology - Ethics & Moral TeachingThe Oxford Handbooks series is a major new initiative in academic publishing. E...