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If humans are purely physical, then must all our thoughts and actions be determined by the laws of neurobiology? Free will, moral responsibility, and reason itself appear to be in jeopardy. But Murphy and Brown present a non-reductive version of physicalism which leaves room for us to be (sometimes) the authors of our own thoughts and actions....

The Gettysburg Lectures"e;Americans interested in history need to make the pilgrimage to Gettysburg,"e;        writes Gabor Boritt in the Acknowledgments. In this book seven historians make that        journey, five of them Pulitzer laureates, looking for Lincoln. Kenneth Stampp        explores the issue of national self-determination,...

A Very Short IntroductionAntisemitism has been a chillingly persistent presence throughout the last millennium, culminating in the dark apogee of the Holocaust. Steven Beller examines and untangles the history of the phenomenon: from medieval religious conflict, to its growth as a political and ideological movement in the 19th century, and 'new'...

In   Basic Linguistic Theory R. M. W. Dixon provides a comprehensive guide to the nature of human languages and their description and analysis. The books are a one-stop text for undergraduate and graduate students, the triumphant outcome of a lifetime's immersion in every aspect of language, and a lasting monument to innovative scholarship....

The Oxford History of the British Empire is a major new assessment of the Empire        in the light of recent scholarship and the progressive opening of historical        records. Volume III covers the long nineteenth century, from the achievement of        American independence in the 1780s to the eve of world war in 1914. This was...

A Very Short IntroductionFirst published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, Paul Langford's Very Short Introduction to Eighteenth-Century Britain spans from the aftermath of the Revolution of 1688 to Pitt the Younger's defeat at attempted parliamentary reform....