Oxford University Press

In   Created Equal, Joshua Berman engages the text of the Hebrew Bible from a novel perspective--as a document of social and political thought. He proposes that the Pentateuch can be read as the earliest prescription on record for the establishment of an egalitarian polity....

What caused the New Left rebellion of the 1960s? In Smoking Typewriters, historian John McMillian argues that the "e;underground press"e; contributed to the New Left's growth and cultural organization in crucial, overlooked ways....

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In   The Digital Hand, James W. Cortada combines detailed analysis with narrative history to provide a broad overview of computing's role in sixteen industries, accounting for nearly half of the U.S. economy. Beginning in 1950, when commercial applications of digital technology began to appear, Cortada examines the ways different industries adopted...

The essays in this book cover diverse aspects of the evolution of thought and practice in neuropsychology and behavioral neurology. Among the topics considered are the frontal lobes, disorders of spatial thinking, developmental dyslexia and the historical aspects of aphasiology. Emphasis is placed on the interplay of experimental and clinical...

Rasa is the most thorough treatment to date of this all-important concept at the heart of Javanese aesthetics. Rasa encompasses not only mood and intuition, but also theories of musical perception and cognition, as well as meaning and expression in music....