Oxford University Press

Bryan Frances presents a highly original argument template for generating new kinds of radical scepticism, ones that hold even if all the clever anti-sceptical fixes defeat the traditional sceptic. Sharp, witty, and fun to read,  Scepticism Comes Alive will be highly provocative for anyone interested in knowledge and its limits....

Drugs in sport are big news and the use of performance-enhancing drugs in sport is        common. Here, Chris Cooper, a top biochemist at the University of Essex, looks at        the science behind drugs in sport. Using the performance of top athletes, Cooper        begins by outlining the limits of human performance. Showing the basic problems...

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This study, in the celebrated Oxford Political Theory series, provides a ground-breaking contribution to the widespread and controversial debate about how women, ethnic minorities, and other disadvantaged groups should be represented in politics....

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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...