Oxford University Press

This volume collects the best and most influential essays on knowledge,        rationality and morality that Stephen Stich has published in the last 40 years. All        of the essays are concerned, in one way or another, with the ways in which findings        and theories in the cognitive sciences can contribute to, and sometimes...

A collection of new essays on films from a range of geopolitical locations,     Global Art Cinema reassesses the field of art cinema in light of 1) a flourishing international cinema and 2) growing scholarly interest in the category of art cinema and developments within world film culture. The editors have assembled a stimulating group of essays...

The essays collected in this volume examine the multidisciplinary and multicultural nature of the subject of aesthetics. The contributed articles address the vexed relation of the arts and criticism to contemporary social, political, and cultural issues of ethnicity, race, class, and gender in the United States today. These essays aim to resolve...

Over the centuries, New Testament texts have often been read in ways that reflect and encourage anti-Semitism. Since the Holocaust, Christian scholars have increasingly recognized and rejected this inheritance. In Parables for Our Time Tania Oldenhage seeks to fashion a biblical hermeneutics that consciously works with memories of the Holocaust....

This book summarizes the most recent and useful information about the public health impact of natural and man-made disasters. It emphasizes the uses of epidemiologic knowledge about different types of disasters. Each chapter is based on a variety of experiences and literature drawn from both developing and industrialized countries....

Charles Ponzi perpetrated his infamous scheme almost a hundred years ago. But his        method of using new investments to pay existing investors and finance a highflying        lifestyle is alive and well: just as much money is lost in the United States today        from Ponzi schemes as from shoplifting. Somehow, con artists are able to...