Oxford University Press

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Life in Black and White provides a panoramic portrait of family and community life in the American South--weaving the fascinating personal stories of planters and slaves, of free blacks and poor-to-middling whites, into a powerful portrait of southern society from the mid-eighteenth century to the Civil War. Loudoun County, Virginia and the...

How well does memory work, how accurate is it, and can we tell when someone is        reporting an accurate memory? Can we distinguish a true memory from a false one? Can        memories be selectively enhanced, or erased? Are memories altered by emotion, by        stress, by drugs? These questions and more are addressed by Memory and Law,...

This book will deepen our understanding of the sources of hatred and prejudice among groups, adding a developmental and evolutionary perspective to explain how we convey our beliefs to the youngest members of our society. The Hamburgs explore the psychological obstacles to peaceful relations between groups and focus on the developmental processes...

The Reformation thinker John Calvin had significant and unusual things to say about life in public encounter, things which both anticipate modern thinking and, says William Stevenson, can serve as important antidotes to some of modern thinking's broader pretensions. This study attempts to give a coherent picture of Calvin's political theory by...

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