Oxford University Press

One of the most intriguing questions in contemporary American Christianity is whether the recent warming of relations between Catholics and conservative evangelicals promises a thaw in the ice age that has lasted since the sixteenth century. American evangelical Protestants and Roman Catholics have hated and suspected one another since colonial...

We are told that 'work is good for us' and that ill health is caused by        'individual lifestyles'. Drawing on research from public health, social policy,        epidemiology, geography and political science, this evidence-based        inter-disciplinary book firmly challenges these contemporary orthodoxies. It        systematically...

Microcircuits are the specific arrangements of cells and their connections that carry out the operations unique to each brain region. This book summarizes succinctly these circuits in over 40 regions. It provides a new foundation for understanding brain function that will be of interest to all neuroscientists....

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Dunlaith Bird argues that vagabondage - a physical and textual        elaboration of gender identity in motion - emerges as a totemic concept in European        women's travel writing from 1850. For travellers including Olympe Audouard, Isabella        Bird, Isabelle Eberhardt, and Freya Stark,vagabondage is a means of pushing out...

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