Oxford University Press

The sinking public trust in contemporary institutions is a multifaceted phenomenon        with political, sociological, economic, and psychological antecedents and        consequences. Restoring Trust in Organizations and Leaders is the first volume to        adopt the multidisciplinary approach required to understand this decline and...

Explores the rich history of baseball in Cuba and the social, political, and cultural climate through which the game has thrived....

How and why should hope play a key role in a twenty-first century democratic        politics?Alan Mittleman offers a philosophical exploration of the theme, contending        that a modern construction of hope as an emotion is deficient. He revives the        medieval understanding of hope as a virtue, reconstructing this in a...

This groundbreaking handbook of human strengths and virtues is the first progress report from a prestigious group of researchers in the Values in Action Classification Project, which has undertaken a systematic classification and measurement of universal strengths and virtues. This landmark work makes possible for the first time a science of human...

Herald of a 'New Poetic Age'Forced by a hand injury to abandon a career as a pianist, Robert Schumann went on to become one of the world's great composers. Now, in    Robert Schumann: Herald of a `New Poetic Age', John Daverio presents the first comprehensive study of the composer's life and works to appear in nearly a century. Drawing on documents...

Walker proposes a view of morality and an approach to ethical theory which uses the critical insights of feminism and race theory to rethink the epistemological and moral position of the ethical theorist, and how moral theory is shaped by culture and history. The new edition contains a new preface, chapters and an afterword responding to critics....