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In The Oxford Handbook of Personality and Social Psychology, contributors explore the historical, conceptual, methodological and empirical foundations that link the two fields of personality psychology and social psychology across numerous domains. Their explorations provide new and rich understandings that promise to advance the state of...

Renewal within TraditionIn   Vatican II: Renewal within Tradition, an international team of theologians challenges the standard view of the Council as causing a rupture with earlier Catholic teaching. Examining each document issued, they argue the The Council was indeed putting forth a vision for the future of the Church, but that vision was...

Enormously influential in the development of American literature, Adventures of        Huckleberry Finn remains a controversial novel at the centre of impassioned critical        debate. This edition discusses all the current issues and the evolution of Mark        Twain's penetrating genius....

What Everyone Needs to KnowWhile there have always been norms and customs around the use of drugs, explicit public policies--regulations, taxes, and prohibitions--designed to control drug abuse are a more recent phenomenon. Those policies sometimes have terrible side-effects: most prominently the development of criminal enterprises dealing in...

Serving on a jury is a powerful experience.  The Jury and Democracy is a ground-breaking study that shows how the process of deliberating and reaching a verdict transforms the lives of ordinary citizens. People who serve on juries are more active in civic life and vote more, and the authors examine a number of reasons why this is so. In an era when...

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