Oxford University Press

The Rise and Fall of America's Soviet ExpertsAs World War II ended, few Americans in government or universities knew much about        the Soviet Union. As David Engerman shows in this book, a network of scholars,        soldiers, spies, and philanthropists created an enterprise known as Soviet Studies        to fill in this dangerous gap in...

In   Viral Sex, leading AIDS researcher Jaap Goudsmit illuminates the origins and nature of the world's most lethal disease. He provides an eyewitness account of science's effort to understand and control the spread of this deadly virus, in a fascinating journey that reaches from the deepest recesses of the African rainforest, to ancient Egypt and...

Emotions shape our mental and social lives, but their relation to morality is problematic: are they sources of moral knowledge, or obstacles to morality? Fourteen original articles by leading scholars in moral psychology and philosophy of mind explore the relation between emotions and practical rationality, value, autonomy, and moral identity....

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This is the first collection of essays in any language on the wide-ranging second-century Roman miscellanist Aulus Gellius. The contributors are a mix of established and younger scholars including Gellian experts looking out with specialists in other fields looking in; combining traditional and new approaches, they place his achievements in...

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