Oxford University Press

This book engages readers in life studies of individuals who created images of either themselves or others in flight. Featuring James Barrie, author of   Peter Pan, and modern perspectives on self-development and the onset of consciousness, the book endeavors to restore interest in an area of psychology that is starving for new ideas....

Do your intentions have no effect on your actions? Is free will an illusion? Some scientists say yes. Alfred Mele shows that these claims are not justified by the data and that there is weighty evidence of the existence of effective conscious intentions or the power of conscious will....

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This book presents a comprehensive, contrastive account of the phonological structures and characteristics of Icelandic and Faroese. It is written for Nordic linguists and theoretical phonologists interested in what the languages reveal about phonological structure and change and the relation between morphology, phonology, and phonetics....

'How should I teach the Daode Jing?' This question haunts a growing number of non-specialists who find themselves called upon for either curricular or intellectual reasons to teach the DDJ.  Teaching the Daode Jing is designed to provide access to contemporary scholarship and pedagogical strategies that can be used when introducing this confounding...

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