Oxford University Press

Self-restraint may appear to be the opposite of erotic desire. But in this careful literary analysis, Diane Lipsett traces the intriguing interplay of desire and self-restraint in three ancient Christian or Jewish tales of conversion, analyzing "e;conversion"e; itself as an effect of story, a function of narrative texture and coherence....

The relationship between men and the domestic in eighteenth-century Britain has        been obscured by two well-established historiographical narratives. The first charts        changes in domestic patriarchy, founded on political patriarchalism in the early        modern period and transformed during the eighteenth century by new types of...

The 1997 Asian Crisis principally affected Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Korea, as well as other East Asian countries heavily dependent on intra-regional trade. Banks and other financial institutions quickly become insolvent, and heavily indebted industrial firms went bankrupt. Many of these firms were affiliated with the business groups of...

Music in the Galant Style is an authoritative and readily understandable study of the core compositional style of the eighteenth-century....

Spinoza rejects fundamental tenets of received morality, including the notions of Providence and free will. Yet he retains rich theories of the good, virtue, perection, and freedom. Building interconnected readings of Spinoza's accounts of imagination and desire, Michael LeBuffe defends a comprehensive interpretation of Spinoza's enlightened vision...

This book presents a new conceptualization of quantum mechanics, using quaternions instead of complex numbers. The author gives a systematic treatment of quaternionic quantum mechanics paralleling the standard textbook treatment of complex quantum mechanics....