Oxford University Press

Fundamentalism is seen as the major threat to world peace today, a conclusion impossible to ignore since the events in New York on September 11 2001. But what is fundamentalism? Malise Ruthven tackles the polemic and stereotypes surrounding this complex phenomenon - one that eludes simple definition, yet urgently needs to be understood....

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Schopenhauer is the most readable of German philosophers. This book gives a        succinct explanation of his metaphysical system, concentrating on the original        aspects of his thought, which inspired many artists and thinkers including        Nietzsche, Wagner, Freud, and Wittgenstein. Schopenhauer's central notion is that of        the...

Provides concise, yet authoritative descriptions of the most common techniques used to study wild carnivores and to conserve and manage their populations within increasingly human-dominated landscapes....

This book examines the hypothesis of "e;direct compositionality"e; which requires that semantic interpretation proceed in tandem with syntactic combination. In the first extended discussion of the hypothesis for twenty years, contributors from both sides of the debate draw on examples from a wide range of languages and discuss the place of...

Grounded in key observations in consumer psychology, Bounded Rationality and        Industrial Organization develops non-standard models of "e;boundedly rational"e;        consumer behavior and embeds them into familiar models of markets. It then        rigorously analyzes each model in the tradition of microeconomic theory, leading...