Oxford University Press

Published to glowing praise in 1990, Science for All Americans defined the        science-literate American--describing the knowledge, skills, and attitudes all        students should retain from their learning experience--and offered a series of        recommendations for reforming our system of education in science, mathematics,...

This unusual philosophy book asks the reader to reconsider the received view that animal rights have no place in ancient thought. Catherine Osborne argues that by reflecting on the work of the ancient philosophers and poets, we can see when and how we lost touch with the natural intelligence of dumb animals....

A monograph on the interface of computational complexity and randomness of sets of        natural numbers....

Contemporary psychiatry is a field that is especially conducive to the principles        of integrative medicine. With the exception of a few disorders, such as        schizophrenia, most psychiatric disorders respond to interventions other than drugs.          Patients who have not tolerated or not responded optimally to traditional...

The culmination of a lifetime's fascination with humour, Walter Redfern's book treats major French writers from the 18th to the 20th centuries as humorists, including Diderot, Rousseau, Sade, Huysmans, Flaubert, Beckett, and Tournier. He considers irony, hyperbole, wordplay, jokes, dialogue, humour as philosophical speculation, and plagiarism....

Novelist, scholar, journalist, statesman, and leading member of Chile&'s "e;Generation of 1842"e;--an intellectual movement so named for the founding of the National University--Jose Victorino Lastarria (1811-1888) lived his life at the forefront of nineteenth-century Chilean and Spanish American culture, literature, and politics. Recuerdos...