Oxford University Press

One hundred years ago, Maria Montessori, the first female physician in Italy,        devised a very different method of educating children, based on her observations of        how they naturally learn. In Montessori, Angeline Stoll Lillard shows that science        has finally caught up with Maria Montessori. Lillard presents the research...

Nathaniel Hawthorne is one of the most likely taught American authors. This historical guide collects a number of original essays by Hawthorne scholars that place the author in historical context. Like all of the Historical Guides to American Authors, this volume includes an introduction, a brief biography, a bibliographical essay, and an...

This collection of previously unpublished essays presents a new approach to the history of analytic philosophy, one which does not assume at the outset a general characterization of the distinguishing elements of the analytic tradition. The distinguished contributors, including luminaries W.V. Quine, John Rawls and Hilary Putnam, pay close...

Scriptural interpretation was an important form of scholarship for Christians in        late antiquity. For no one does this claim ring more true than Origen of Alexandria        (185-254), one of the most prolific scholars of Scripture in early Christianity.          This book examines his approach to the Bible through a biographical lens: the...

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This book analyses the development of different meanings of the term 'religion' in different contexts and in relation to other categories with shifting and unstable nuances such as the state, politics, economics, and the secular. It traces a major transformation of the category as a function of Euro-American colonialism and capitalism from its...