Oxford University Press

Costs and Benefits of Economic Integration in Asia brings together authoritative essays that identify and examine various initiatives to promote economic integration in Asia....

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The changes to U.S. immigration law that were instituted in 1965 have led to an influx of West African immigrants to New York, creating an enclave Harlem residents now call ''Little Africa.'' Black Mecca shows how West African Muslims create Islamic practices and institutions that help them navigate the complexities of American society....

Antonia Lolordo presents an original interpretation of John Locke's metaphysics of        moral agency, in which to be a moral agent is simply to be free, rational, and a        person. Her account bears on Locke's metaphysics and political theory, and helps us        understand his wider philosophical project and his accounts of liberty,...

Kant's Thinker examines the  Critique of Pure Reason's account of the relation between cognition and self-consciousness. It shows how the theory that cognizers must understand their mental states as standing in relations of rational connection has implications for theories of the self-ascription of belief, consciousness and knowledge of other...

This book explores the Byzantine art of embroidery on liturgical vestments. Spanning the period from the eleventh through the fifteenth centuries, it studies the evolution of forms of liturgical costume in the Orthodox Church in relation to both currents in religious thought and the complex relationship between the church and the imperial court....