Oxford University Press

Since the mid-twentieth century, the field of linguistics has been a tumultuous discipline. The Linguistics Wars tells the story of the acrimonious schism, during the sixties and seventies, that divided the ranks of linguistics after the publication of Noam Chomsky's influental Aspects of the Theory of Syntax. This schism began when some of...

The only book to provide a detailed comparative analysis of existing domestic insolvency laws concerning the opening of insolvency proceedings in the main economically developed and emerging countries, meeting the need for thorough scrutiny of materials not available in English....

Barack Obama's stunning victory in the 2008 presidential election will go down as one of the more pivotal in American history. Given America's legacy of racism, how could a relatively untested first-term senator with an African father defeat some of the giants of American politics? In  The Obama Victory, Kate Kenski, Bruce Hardy, and Kathleen Hall...

The question of who 'we' are and what vision of humanity 'we' assume in Western        culture lies at the heart of hotly debated questions on the role of religion in        education, politics, and culture in general. The need for recovering a greater        purpose for social practices is indicated, for example, by the rapidly...

Polluters and those who manufacture dangerous products often oppose public health and environmental regulation through a strategy of 'manufacturing uncertainty', or questioning the validity of scientific evidence on which the regulation is based. The success of this strategy has encouraged opponents of regulation to advocate for formal regulatory...

Is John Calvin's view of God coercive, leaving no place for the human in redemption? J. Todd Billings explores Calvin's theology of `participation in Christ', arguing that for Calvin grace fulfils nature. Billings reframes the critiques of Calvin in the Gift discussion, opening up new possibilities for contemporary theology as well....