Oxford University Press

Understanding human beings and their distinctive rational and volitional capacities requires a clear account of such things as reasons, desires, emotions, and motives, and how they combine to produce and explain human behaviour. Maria Alvarez presents a fresh and incisive study of these concepts, centred on reasons and their role in human agency....

The Third Man of the Double Helix An AutobiographyWorking with Watson and Crick on the structure of DNA was a third man, Maurice Wilkins, based at King's College London with co-worker Rosalind Franklin. Franklin died in 1958 and the Nobel Prize for the discovery of the Double Helix was awarded to the three men in 1962. As Maurice Wilkins explains...

England 1914-1951The 'sequel' to the author's best-selling Classes and Cultures, this is the        history of British politics in the first decades of universal suffrage....

Why Family and Work Conflict and What To Do About ItIn Unbending Gender, Joan Williams takes a hard look at the state of feminism in America. Concerned by what she finds--young women who flatly refuse to identify themselves as feminists and working-class and minority women who feel the movement hasn&'t addressed the issues that dominate their daily...

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An in-depth study of  nouvelle theologie and the   ressourcement movement. Boersma argues that a return to mystery was the movement's deepest motivation. He sets out the context for the early development of the movement prior to Vatican II and provides detailed analysis of its characteristic elements and thinkers....