Oxford University Press

Discrediting 'mystical' or 'psychical' interpretations of out-of-body and near-death experiences, Michael Marsh demonstrates how these phenomena are explicable in terms of brain neurophysiology and its neuropathological disturbances, and discusses the theological and philosophical implications of his hypotheses....

Civil Resistance in the Late 20th CenturyIn Nonviolent Revolutions, Sharon Erickson Nepstad examines civilian uprisings in Panama, Chile, Kenya, the Philippines, and other countries. Taking a comparative approach that includes both successful and failed cases of nonviolent resistance, Nepstad analyzes the effects of movements' strategies along with...

Investigates the question of Russian identity, spanning a huge territory, many centuries, and a variety of political, social, and economic structures. Its main emphases are on the struggle against the steppe peoples, Orthodox Christianity, autocratic monarchy, and Westernization....

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The Greek Bible of the Ancient Jewish DiasporaA radical new study of the translation of the Hebrew Bible into Greek. This was an        enterprise of seminal importance. Without it there would have been no Western Jewish        disapora and no Christianity. Tessa Rajak places the production of the Septuagint in        historical context,...