Oxford University Press

What can homespun cloth, stuffed birds, quince jelly, and ginseng reveal about the        formation of early American national identity? In this wide-ranging and bold new        interpretation of American history and its Founding Fathers, Kariann Akemi Yokota        shows that political independence from Britain fueled anxieties among the...

The current financial crisis has caused many of us to question the motives and actions that drive the business world, even the basic notion that firms should be run so as to maximize shareholder value has come under increasing scrutiny. Very simply, the failures of some of our nation's most venerable financial institutions has called into question...

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McCracken argues that the gospels are in an important sense `occasions for offence', and that the Jesus of the gospels is a scandal (   skandalon in the original Greek) and never more scandalous than when he speaks in parables. McCracken seeks to recover the gospels' narrative sense of Jesus as   skandalon....

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