Oxford University Press

Our understanding of the properties of materials, from drugs and proteins to catalysts and ceramics, is almost always based on structural information. This book describes the developments in powder diffraction which make it possible for scientists to obtain such information, and guides both novices and practitioners through all the possibilities....

Plato is the best known and most widely studied of all the ancient Greek philosophers. Malcolm Schofield, a leading scholar of ancient philosophy, offers a lucid and accessible guide to Plato's political thought, enormously influential and much discussed in the modern world as well as the ancient. Schofield discusses Plato's ideas on education,...

How the Body Shapes the Mind offers a fascinating examination of the role played by the body in perception and in the development and practice of thinking. Shaun Gallagher uses the concepts of body image and body schema to address a range of philosophical questions about cognition, drawing on recent work in developmental psychology, brain research,...

Arguing that early postwar Holocaust testimony was plentiful and significant in its own right, Rosen highlights the Russian-born American psychologist David Boder, who in 1946 was among the earliest to interview Holocaust survivors in DP camps and, as far as we know, the first to audio record their testimony. Examining the origins and implications...

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'I tender these tales of the Jazz Age into the hands of those who read as they run        and run as they read.'Tales of the Jazz Age (1922) was Fitzgerald's second        collection of short stories, and it contains some of the best examples of his talent        as a writer of short fiction. Often overshadowed by his major novels,...