Oxford University Press

This book is a reference guide for practitioners to the major legal and regulatory issues involved in media, but could also be used as a media law textbook for a course of academic study. Written by experts in the field, the wide-ranging coverage addresses the law regulating both traditional and new media....

Emily Grosholz offers an original investigation of demonstration in mathematics and science, examining how it works and why it is persuasive. Focusing on geometrical demonstration, she shows the roles that representation and ambiguity play in mathematical discovery. She presents a wide range of case studies in mechanics, topology, algebra, logic,...

Islamization is commonly seen as the work of Islamist movements who have forced their ideology on ruling regimes and other hapless social actors. There is little doubt that ruling regimes and disparate social and political actors alike are pushed in the direction of Islamic politics by Islamist forces. However, Islamist activism and its...

This edited volume is a comprehensive presentation of views on the relations        between metaphysics and logic from Aristotle through twentieth century philosophers        who contributed to the return of metaphysics in the analytic tradition. The        collection combines interest in logic and its history with interest in...

As both a clinical psychologist and an authority on comparative religion, James W. Jones is uniquely qualified to address the increasingly urgent issue of religious terrorism. Research on the psychology of violence shows that several factors work to make ordinary people turn "e;evil."e; Authoritarian religion or...

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