Oxford University Press

Democratic theorists frequently assume that the "e;people"e; must have something in common, or else democracy will fail. This produces an ironically anti-democratic tendency to emphasize the passive possession of commonality. Sharing Democracy counters this tendency with a radical vision of democracy grounded instead in the active exercise...

Technology: A World History offers a brilliant history of invention around the globe. Historian Daniel R. Headrick ranges from the Stone Age and the beginnings of agriculture to the Industrial Revolution and the electronic revolution of the recent past. In tracing the growing power of humans over nature through increasingly powerful innovations, he...

The Dharmasutras are the four surviving works of the ancient Indian expert tradition on the subject of dharma, or the rules of behaviour a community recognizes as binding on its members. Written in a pithy and aphoristic style and representing the culmination of a long tradition of scholarship, the Dharmasutras record intense disputes and divergent...

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Why the World's Only Superpower Can't Go It AloneNot since the Roman Empire has any nation had as much economic, cultural, and        military power as the United States does today. Yet, as has become all too evident        through the terrorist attacks of September 11th and the impending threat of the        acquisition of nuclear weapons by Iran,...

Policy Making in the Age of MediatizationOne of the world's leading analysts of public policy offers a radical new        interpretation of governance and authority in a media-driven age....