Oxford University Press

Learning to Build Peace?Millions depend on UN peace operations as the main bulwark between state collapse        and hopes for peace. The New World of UN Peace Operations takes a critical look at        the apparatus tasked to protect civilians in zones of conflict. This is an        indispensable resource for those interested in the evolution of...

Hilary Kornblith presents a new account of mental reflection, and its importance for knowledge, reasoning, freedom, and normativity. He argues that reflection cannot solve the philosophical problems it has traditionally been thought to, and offers a more realistic, demystified view of its nature which draws on dual process approaches to cognition....

Twenty-four scholars from different universities, churches, and continents gathered in New York at Easter 2000 for the Incarnation Summit, a meeting exploring the belief that Jesus is the Son of God who took on the human condition. The scholars are experts in different fields: the Bible, ancient Christian writers, ancient Jewish writers, theology,...

Health risks are dynamic and ever-changing, both at home and while traveling abroad. To stay abreast of the most up-to-the-minute health recommendations, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's user-friendly Health Information for International Travel (commonly referred to as the "e;Yellow Book"e;) has been relied on for decades as...

This book is aiming at filling the gap between the different languages of the        physics and chemistry communities to understand the electronic structure of solids.          How structure and properties of solids are related is illustrated by considering in        detail a large number of real examples....

Volume 1: GenomicsSystems Biology is a powerful new computational approach to studying complex living systems. Unlike traditional biology that examines single genes or proteins in isolation, systems biology simultaneously explores the complex interaction of many levels of interaction, leading to a new understanding of how they work together....