Oxford University Press

A History of CosmologyThis book presents the history of how the universe at large became the object of scientific understanding. Starting with the ancient creation myths, it offers an integrated and comprehensive account of cosmology that covers all major events from Aristotle's Earth-centred cosmos to the recent discovery of the accelearting...

A History of the Noble GasesThere are eight columns in the Periodic Table. The eighth column is comprised of the rare gases, so-called because they are the rarest elements on earth. They are also called the inert or noble gases because, like nobility, they do no work. They are colorless, odorless, invisible gases which do not react with anything,...

Michael Slote develops a virtue ethics inspired more by Hume and Hutcheson's moral sentimentalism than by the Aristotelianism that has recently been so influential....

Why is there a material world? Why is it fundamentally mathematical? Matter Matters explores a seventeenth-century answer to these questions as it emerged from the works of Descartes and Leibniz. Kurt Smith establishes the claim that mathematics is intelligible if, and only if, matter exists....

Beginning with an overview of the central issues of documentary filmmaking--its        definitions and purposes, its forms and founders--Aufderheide focuses on several of        its key subgenres, including public affairs films, government propaganda        (particularly the works produced during World War II), historical documentaries,...

Penal Populism and Political CultureThis title examines the role of political culture and penal populism in the        response to the emotive subject of child-on-child homicide, comparing the differing        responses of English and Norwegian criminal justice systems to two high profile        cases: those of the killers of James Bulger and Silke...