Oxford University Press

We talk about what doesn't exist. We say: "e;Mickey Mouse was invented by Walt Disney,"e; and if we say this, we've said something true. But if something doesn't exist, it has no properties. (What, after all, is it that's supposed to have properties?) How, then, can anything we say be true (or false) of such things? This is the old problem...

Despite the liberalized reconfiguration of civil society and political practice in        nineteenth-century Europe, the right to make foreign policy, devise alliances, wage        war and negotiate peace remained essentially an executive prerogative. Citizen        challenges to the exercise of this power grew slowly. Drawn from the educated...

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This book presents a review of all current knowledge about the developmental effects of media on adolescents, from television and movies to magazines and advertising. Legal restrictions and less formal regulatory bodies are reviewed to present a full picture of the ways in which media is constrained to protect adolescents' development....

This is the first single-author book on what has come to be known as neuroethics. Walter Glannon uses a philosophical framework that is fully informed by cutting edge neuroscience as well as contemporary legal cases such as Terri Schiavo, to offer readers an introduction to this fascinating topic....

A compelling new interpretation of early Mormonism, Samuel Brown's In Heaven as It        Is On Earth views this religion through the lens of founder Joseph Smith's profound        preoccupation with the specter of death.Revisiting historical documents and        scripture from this novel perspective, Brown offers new insight into the origin...