Oxford University Press

This volume is based on the 2004 series of the Oxford Amnesty Lectures, one of the world's leading name lecture series. In it major figures in philosophy, political science, law, psychoanalysis, sociology, and literature address the challenges that displacement, asylum, and migration pose to our notions of human rights....

From CEOS on down, people in the world of business are increasingly turning to spiritualy for help in attainging the clarity of mind that allows them to be decisive, spontaneous, and strategic in dealing with crises and transforming setbacks into opportunities for advancemetn and growth. In this innovative book, Steven Heine shows that Zen Buddhism...

Are Islam and the West on a collision course? From the Ayatollah Khomeini to        Saddam Hussein, the image of Islam as a militant, expansionist, and rabidly        anti-American religion has gripped the minds of Western governments and media. But        these perceptions, John L. Esposito writes, stem from a long history of...

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Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930sHere is a pioneering account of everyday life under Stalin, written by a leading authority on modern Russian history. Focusing on the urban population, Fitzpatrick shows how living conditions and day-to-day practices changed dramatically with "e;Stalin's Revolution"e; at the...

Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of PhysicsIn his bestselling work of popular science, Sir Roger Penrose takes us on a fascinating roller-coaster ride through the basic principles of physics, cosmology, mathematics, and philosophy to show that human thinking can never be emulated by a machine....