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Category mistakes are sentences such as 'Green ideas sleep furiously' or 'Saturday is in bed'. They strike us as highly infelicitous but it is hard to explain precisely why this is so. Ofra Magidor explores four approaches to category mistakes in philosophy of language and linguistics, and develops and defends an original,...

Finding Religion in Everyday LifeNancy Tatom Ammerman examines the stories Americans tell of their everyday lives, from dinner table to office and shopping mall to doctor's office, about the things that matter most to them and the routines they take for granted, and the times and places where the everyday and ordinary meet the spiritual....

What Everyone Needs to KnowWhat happens in Spain, among the euro zone&'s largest economies, matters. Its high unemployment (over 26%), burgeoning public debt, and banking crisis will be formative for the zone&'s future.   In Spain: What Everyone Needs to Know, a timely addition to Oxford&'s acclaimed What Everyone Needs to Know series, veteran...

Principles and practical implementationThis second edition of the well-illustrated practical handbook provides a concise summary of the basics of ultrasound technology, and includes the most recent knowledge in the topic of ultrasound in regional anaesthesia....

A User's GuideCausation is at once familiar and mysterious--we can detect its presence in the world, but we cannot agree on the metaphysics of the causal relation. L. A. Paul and Ned Hall guide the reader through the most important philosophical treatments of causation, and develop a broad and sophisticated understanding of the issues under...

Gerald O'Collins explores the full scope of the positive teaching by the Second Vatican Council (1962-65) on other living faiths, illustrating how the Council made a startling advance in official Catholic teaching and how this teaching was borne out in the work of Pope John Paul II and Jacques Dupuis....