Oxford University Press

The Sick Child in Early Modern England is a powerful exploration of the treatment,        perception, and experience of illness in childhood, from the late sixteenth to the        early eighteenth century. At this time, the sickness or death of a child was a        common occurrence - over a quarter of young people died before the age of fifteen...

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Revisioning macro-democratic processes in light of the processes and promise of micro-deliberation,  Innovating Democracy provides an integrated perspective on democratic theory and practice after the deliberative turn....

Can animals act morally? Philosophical tradition answers "e;no,"e; and has apparently convincing arguments on its side. Cognitive ethology supplies a growing body of empirical evidence that suggests these arguments are wrong. This groundbreaking book assimilates both philosophical and ethological frameworks into a unified whole and argues...

This critical study locates musical monumentality, a central property of the nineteenth-century German repertoire, at the intersections of aesthetics and memory. In examples including Beethoven, Liszt, Wagner and Bruckner, Rehding explores how monumentality contributes to an experiential music history and how it conveys the sublime to the listening...