Oxford University Press

The newest volume of the annual    Studies in Contemporary Jewry series features the major and rapid changes undergone by Sephardic Jewry in the last fifty years, drawing on essays from the fields of demography, history, political science, literature, sociology, gender studies, and anthropology. The themes of the symposium papers include identity,...

Between the years 1918 and1920, influenza raged around the globe in the worst        pandemic in recorded history, killing at least fifty million people, more than half        a million of them Americans. Yet despite the devastation, this catastrophic event        seems but a forgotten moment in the United States.American Pandemic offers...

In   Montessori, Angeline Lillard shows that science has finally caught up with Maria Montessori: current scientific research provides astounding support for her insights. Lillard presents the research behind eight principles that provide the foundation for Montessori education and describes how each principle is applied in the Montessori...

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If America has a claim to exceptionalism,   American Credo locates it in a little understood ability to engage in deep conflicts over political ideas, while at the same time reducing adversarial positions to legitimate derivatives of American history and development....