Oxford University Press

Studies the burgeoning field of psychohistory - from Freud, its primogenitor, to its present-day academic practitioners - and argues that little, if any, psychohistory is good histor. The author systematically points out the pitfalls, sheer irrationality, and ultimately ahistorical nature of this mode of historical inquiry....

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People covered by public pensions are often the subject of 'pension envy:' that        is, their benefits might seem more generous and their contributions lower than those        offered by the private sector. Yet this book points out that such judgments are        often inaccurate, since civil servants hold jobs with few counterparts in...

A Resource for Patients and FamiliesIn Demystifying Psychiatry, two eminent psychiatrists offer an illuminating look at the entire field, offering a clear and informative portrait of a medical specialty often clouded in myth. Zorumski and Rubin range from a basic discussion of what psychiatry is, to the types of illnesses psychiatrists treat, the...

In this book, The Work We Have To Do, Mark Noll establishes a coherent history of the multidimensional, multiregional , and multiethnic Protestant religious group. Beginning with the 'separatists' in England, Noll traces the physical and ideological route of protestants in America up to the present day. Back matter includes chronology, further...

Author Matt J. Rossano provides an evolutionary history of religion, beginning with the social lives of our primate ancestors. This book makes the case that religion is adaptive; that it is essential to morality; that childhood imagination provides its raw materials, and that it is the very essence of what it means to be human....