Oxford University Press

Neighborhood Rebuilding After KatrinaComing Home to New Orleans documents grassroots rebuilding efforts in six New Orleans neighborhoods after hurricane Katrina, and draws lessons on their contribution to the post-disaster recovery of cities. Through the rebuilding narratives of these neighborhoods, the book argues that grassroots and neighborhood...

Improving patient careImproving patient experience is a global priority for health policy-makers and care providers. This book critically examines the various ways in which people's experience of health and healthcare can be recorded, analyzed and therefore improved....

There is growing interest in trying to understand and rethink the goals of labour law in light of changing realities in the labour market and regulation. Responding to such fundamental questions as: What is labour law for? How can it be justified? And on what should reforms be based? This book challenges the way we think about labour law....

This book is about the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, taking seriously the current scientific arguments and its implications for religion....

A Study of the Philosophy and Theology of the Spiritual LifeA study of the philosophy and theology of the spiritual life that takes religious sensibility or the practice of religious life, rather simply creedal commitment, as a starting point....

Christian Theology in Historical PerspectiveChurch historian and op-ed writer David Steinmetz examines problems in the present by using the perspective the past affords - primarily, though not exclusively, the church&'s past....