Oxford University Press

Social Memory and ImaginationSocial memory studies offer an under-utilised lens through which to approach the texts of the Hebrew Bible. In this volume, the range of associations and symbolic values evoked by twenty-one characters representing ancestors and founders, kings, female characters, and prophets are explored by a group of international...

From Melodrama to ModernismRussia in Britain explores the extent of British fascination with Russian and Soviet culture from the 1880s up to the Soviet Union's entry into the Second World War....

The book examines the relationship between the 'vulnerable' and international society through cases of political violence, climate change, human movement, and global health....

Producing the Patient Through Film, Television, and Imaging TechnologiesHow do visual images shape the practice of medicine? What role does visual representation play in the cultivation of medical ways of seeing? And how has medicine's visual culture changed in the digital age?   Kirsten Ostherr's ambitious study explores 120...

A Brief History of SwearingAlmost everyone swears, or worries about not swearing, from the two year-old who has just discovered the power of potty mouth to the grandma who wonders why every other word she hears is obscene. Whether they express anger or exhilaration, are meant to insult or to commend, swear words perform a crucial role in language....

How We Make Decisions and How those Decisions Go WrongWith verve and humor in an easily readable style, David Redish brings together cutting edge research in psychology, robotics, economics, neuroscience, and the new fields of neuroeconomics and computational psychiatry, to show how vulnerabilities, or "e;failure-modes,"e; in the...