Oxford University Press

Over the past century, Christianity's place and role in the world have changed dramatically. In 1900, 80 percent of the world's Christians lived in Europe and North America. Today, more than 60 percent of the world's Christians live outside of that region. This change calls for a reexamination of the way the story of Christianity is told, the...

Theoretical physics is in trouble. At least that's the impression you'd get from        reading a spate of recent books on the continued failure to resolve the 80-year-old        problem of unifying the classical and quantum worlds. The seeds of this problem were        sewn eighty years ago when a dramatic revolution in physics reached a climax at...

Scheindlin has written the first book on Halevi (d. 1141), the greatest of premodern Hebrew poets pilgrimage from Spain to Israel. A detailed narrative of his journey, interwoven with poems and samples of original documents is crowned by the complete corpus of Halevi's pilgrimage poems in new verse translations, accompanied by discussions....

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How Computers Changed the Work of American Financial, Telecommunications, Media, and Entertainment IndustriesThe Digital Hand, Volume 2 is an historical survey of how computers and telecommunications have been deployed in over a dozen industries in the financial, telecommunications, media, and entertainment sectors over the past half century. It is...