Oxford University Press

An updated version of the standard soil chemistry text published in 1989, The Chemistry of Soils 2nd Ed. covers topics that illustrate current applications to environmental chemistry, ecosystem biogeochemistry, and scientific agriculture, with a strong emphasis placed on the role of soil microbes as mediators of soil chemical phenomenon....

Autonomous Agents addresses the related topics of self-control and individual autonomy. "e;Self-control"e; is defined as the opposite of akrasia-weakness of will. The study of self-control seeks to understand the concept of its own terms, followed by an examination of its bearing on one's actions, beliefs, emotions, and personal values. It...

The historical course of Christianity in the twentieth century has been strongly marked by the Ecumenical Movement and the Liturgical Movement, and often these currents for the recovery of the Church's unity and the renewal of its worship have flowed together. In this book Geoffrey Wainwright draws on his three decades of active participation in...

Dr. Marie Maynard Daly received her PhD in Chemistry from Columbia University in        1947. Although she was hardly the first of her race and gender to engage in the        field, she was the first African American woman to receive a PhD in chemistry in the        United States. In this book, Jeannette Brown, an African American woman...

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Conversion and Conquest in Ottoman EuropeMarc David Baer proposes a novel approach to the historical record of Islamic        conversions during the Ottoman age and gathers fresh insights concerning the nature        of religious conversion itself. Rather than explaining Ottoman Islamization in terms        of the converts' motives, Baer...