Oxford University Press

Body, Substance, MonadDaniel Garber presents a study of Leibniz's conception of the physical world, elucidating his puzzling metaphysics of monads, mind-like simple substances. Tracing the development of Leibniz's thought, Garber shows how dealing with problems about the physical world lead him to a world of animate creatures, and finally to a...

Why Americans Are Losing Their Inalienable Right to Self-GovernanceWhat underlies this development? In this concise and highly engaging work, Federal        Appeals Court Judge and noted author (From Brown to Bakke) J. Harvie Wilkinson        argues that America's most brilliant legal minds have launched a set of cosmic        constitutional...

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From patriotic "e;God Bless America"e; to wistful "e;White Christmas,"e; Irving Berlin's        songs have long accompanied Americans as they fall in love, go to war, and come home        for the holidays. Irving Berlin's American Musical Theater is the first book to        fully consider this songwriter's immeasurable influence on...

Bernard Berofsky argues that there is room in a deterministic world for a conception of free will as self-determination including the power of genuine choice. He grounds this compatibilist position in a new version of the regularity theory of laws, derived from David Hume's denial of necessary connections in nature....

A collected volume featuring the work of Armenian, Turkish, and other scholars, this book presents the story of the Armenian Genocide coolly and objectively, exploring how and why the Young Turk government ordered and carried out the mass deportations and massacres of its Christian subjects....