Oxford University Press

Like any other human endeavor, chemistry was built by real people, with all their strengths and faults. Cathedrals of Science describes its construction-the intersection of science and personality that transformed chemistry, with its chemists struggling for understanding, squabbling over scientific credit, and making moral choices about chemical...

The story of how the  Aeneid has been approached by various postclassical authors - including Shakespeare and Milton - not as an endorsement of the ideals of their societies, but as a model for poems that probed and challenged dominant values, just as Virgil himself had done centuries before....

In this book George Marsden responds to critics of his The Soul of the American University (OUP 1994), and attempts to explain how, without heavy-handed dogmatism or moralizing, Christian faith can be of great relevance to contemporary scholarship of the highest standards....

How can we be active agents when processes in the world are explicable by the laws        of natural science? Erasmus Mayr explores this deep-running tension in our        self-understanding and develops a new agent-causal solution to the conflict. He        argues that actions explained by aims and reasons are compatible with a...

This book presents a comprehensive and authoritative summary of modern approaches to macroeconomics. Edmund Phelps has contributed much to macroeconomics himself, and here offers an original critique of these approaches. The book also provides a good survey of topics which feature prominently in the research agenda. This is the first in a promising...

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