Oxford University Press

This path-breaking book addresses the nature of human sociality. By bringing together experimental and ethnographic data from fifteen different tribal societies, the contributors are able to explore the universality of human motives in economic decision-making, and the importance of social, institutional and cultural factors, in a manner that has...

This book deals with the theoretical and practical problems involved in measuring        the extent of inequality. The book covers modern theoretical developments in        inequality analysis, and shows how the way we think about inequality has been shaped        by classic contributions in economics and related disciplines....

Horace exposes the vices and follies of his Roman contemporaries in his Satires,        and the Epistles include the famous Art of Poetry, whose advice on poetic style        influenced many later writers and dramatists. John Davie's new prose translations        perfectly capture the ribald style of the original....

A Site-by-Site Tour of the Stone, Bronze, and Iron AgesEurope before Rome uses the extraordinary archaeology of prehistoric Europe to explore questions about the origins and evolution of human society...

Here Jerome Murphy-O'Connor presents a completely new, vivid, and dramatic account of the life of Paul. From his childhood in Tarsus and his years as a student in Jerusalem, to the successes and failures of his ministry, this biography gives the most detailed reconstructions of his movements and motives available....

Willa Cather's second novel, O Pioneers! (1913) tells the story of Alexandra Bergson and her determination to save her immigrant family's Nebraska farm. By placing a strong, self-reliant woman at the centre of her tale, Cather gives the quintessentially American novel of the soil a radical cast. Yet, although influenced by the democratic utopianism...