Oxford University Press

What is humanism? Can there be morality without God? Without religion, are our        lives left without meaning? Stephen Law considers all these questions in this Very        Short Introduction. Discussing the arguments for and against religious belief, and        examining the value and meaning of life, he explores humanism as a...

As public accountability has increased and resources have become scarcer, public health, like clinical medicine, has been forced to re-examine the benefits and costs of its activities. Decision and economic analysis are basic tools in carrying out that mission. These methods have become standard practice in clinical medicine and health service...

In the final volume of her trilogy, Wendy James presents a case study of how the Uduk-speaking people, originally from the Blue Nile region between the 'north' and the 'south' of Sudan, have been caught up in and displaced by a generation of civil war....

A Very Short IntroductionThe Quakers are a fascinating religious group both in their origins and in the variety of reinterpretations of the faith since. This    Very Short Introduction charts the history of Quakerism and its present-day diversity, and outlines its approach to worship, belief, theology and language, and ecumenism....

Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and William Faulkner stand as the American voice of the Great War. But was it warfare that drove them to write? Not according to Keith Gandal, who argues that the authors' famous postwar novels were motivated not by their experiences of the horrors of war but rather by their failure to have those experiences....

In this Very Short Introduction, Thomas Forrest Kelly frames chapters on the forms, techniques, and repertories of the medieval, Renaissance, and baroque periods with discussion of why old music has been and should be revived, along with a short history of early music revivals....