Oxford University Press

Recent discoveries in astronomy have revolutionized the field of cosmology. While        many long-standing questions in cosmology have now been answered, the new data pose        new mysteries such as the nature of the "e;dark energy"e; that dominates the universe.          This second edition provides an accessible and thorough text on...

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Recent years have seen a remarkable surge in interest in the book of Genesis - the first book of the Bible - and a foundational text of Western culture. In this new commentary, Thomas Brodie offers a complete and accessible overview of Genesis from literary, theological, and historical standpoints. Brodie's work is organized around three main...

Dark Feelings, Grim Thoughts is about the early work of Camus and Sartre, including Camus's The Stranger, The Myth of Sisyphus, The Plague, and Sartre's  Nausea, No Exit and the concepts of Bad Faith and 'Being-for-Others'....

Gender, Violence, and the Past in Edda and Saga is the first book to investigate        both the relation between gender and violence in the Old Norse Poetic Edda and key        family and contemporary sagas, and the interrelated nature of these genres.          Beginning with an analysis of eddaic attitudes to heroic violence and its...

In   The Mind Possessed, Emma Cohen considers how the psychological systems undergirding spirit concepts are activated in real-world settings....