Oxford University Press

Gender, Violence, and the Past in Edda and Saga is the first book to investigate        both the relation between gender and violence in the Old Norse Poetic Edda and key        family and contemporary sagas, and the interrelated nature of these genres.          Beginning with an analysis of eddaic attitudes to heroic violence and its...

In   The Mind Possessed, Emma Cohen considers how the psychological systems undergirding spirit concepts are activated in real-world settings....

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Self Impression explores the fascinating ways in which writers from the 1870s to the 1930s - including Pater, Ruskin, Proust, Joyce, Stein, Pound, and Woolf - experimented with forms of life-writing. It proposes a new relation between autobiography and fiction in the period and a radically innovative literary history of Modernism....

Study of the American relationship between church and state tends to focus either on the founding period or the modern era. Steven Green argues that a crucial development occurred during the 19th century: a "e;second disestablishment."e; By the early 1800s, formal, political disestablishment had occurred nationally and among the states. Yet...

This edited volume is the first of its kind to bridge the epistemological gap between primate ethologists and primate neurobiologists. Leading experts in several fields review work ranging from primate foraging behavior to the neurophysiology of motor control, from vocal communication to the functions of the auditory cortex....