Oxford University Press

Tragedy's End argues that artificial endings in Euripides reinforce innovations in plot and ending. After exploring the playwright's novel closing gestures, the book offers readings of plot, ending, and generic innovation in six of Euripides' plays....

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The number of women elected to national legislatures has grown significantly over the past thirty years. Although this increase is due to gender-friendly electoral rules such as gender quotas and proportional electoral systems, it has, in turn, fostered constituent support for representative democracy. Still, although women are gaining political...

Culture and Identity presents an alternative to the individualist vs. collectivist approach to identity. Unlike most psychological and anthropological studies of culture and self, it directly studies individuals, using study of lives-style interviews with young adults living in villages and small towns in southern Morocco. It analyses the...

Drawing from such resources as newspaper articles, official publications and Hussein's public statements, speeches and writing,  Saddam's World uses language to examine the Ba'th regime and its leader, Saddam Hussein. This is a study of how speech and language influenced and shaped what became the political culture of modern Iraq....

A comprehensive guide to all aspects of participation in the retirement programs of TIAA-CREF...