Oxford University Press

This book brings together many different relaxation phenomena in liquids under a        common umbrella and provides a unified view of apparently diverse phenomena. It        aligns recent experimental results obtained with modern techniques with recent        theoretical developments. Such close interaction between experiment and theory...

How do science and religion interact? Geoffrey Cantor examines the ways in which the Quaker and Anglo-Jewish communities engaged with the sciences in early modern and 19th-century Britain. Of central interest are the responses of both communities to the challenge of modernity posed by Victorian science and especially by Darwin's controversial...

Disgust has a strong claim to be a distinctively human emotion. But what is it to        be disgusting? What unifies the class of disgusting things? Colin McGinn sets out to        analyze the content of disgust, arguing that life and death are implicit in its        meaning. Disgust is a kind of philosophical emotion, reflecting the human...

Eusebius' magisterial Praeparatio Evangelica offers a defence of Christianity in the face of Greek accusations of irrationality and impiety. Aaron P. Johnson seeks to appreciate Eusebius' contribution to the discourses of Christian identity by investigating the constructions of ethnic identity at the heart of his work....

Why did so many of the writers who aligned themselves with the social and aesthetic aims of late nineteenth-century American literary realism rely on stock conventions of ethnic caricature in their treatment of immigrant African-American figures?   Playing the Races argues that literary realism and ethnic caricature, two dramatically different...

Orpheus in Manhattan is a comprehensive biography of Schuman that draws heavily upon his writings and on other archival materials. Filled with new discoveries and revisions of the received historical narrative, Orpheus in Manhattan repositions Schuman as a major figure in America's musical life....