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Author Matt J. Rossano provides an evolutionary history of religion, beginning with the social lives of our primate ancestors. This book makes the case that religion is adaptive; that it is essential to morality; that childhood imagination provides its raw materials, and that it is the very essence of what it means to be human....

Traditional understandings of the genesis of the separation of church and state        rest on assumptions about 'Enlightenment' and the republican ethos of citizenship.          Nicholas Miller does not seek to dislodge that interpretation but to augment and        enrich it by recovering its cultural and discursive religious contexts...

Europeanism offers a major new examination of the political, economic, and social norms, and values associated with Europe and Europeans....

Considering its importance, the history of fetal health and mortality remains a        neglected area. Medical historians have tended to focus on maternal mortality and        professional conflicts between midwives rather than on the unborn, while among the        social scientists demographers and epidemiologists have until recently devoted...

This book i sone of two volumes in which leading scholars examine the way in which EU member states co-ordinate their European policies. Eschewing the 'Europeanisation' problematic within which the issue is usually adressed, this book adopts a broader, more inclusive approach. It examines domestic processes and investigates co-ordination in ten...