Oxford University Press

The World of a Gentry Family in Provincial RussiaBased on diaries and letters by a husband, wife, and son, this book examines the Chikhachev family's social life, reading habits, attitudes toward illness and death, as well as gendered marital roles and their reception of the major ideas of their time: domesticity, Enlightenment, sentimentalism, and...

David Brown argues that it is important to experience God through place in all its variety - nature, landscape art, architecture (both secular and sacred, historical and modern), gardens, sports venues, pilgrimage, maps, and town planning. Religious consciousness in cultural and artistic contexts reinvigorates debates concerning the existence of...

Moral Dilemmas is the second volume of collected essays by the eminent moral philosopher Philippa Foot, gathering the best of her work from the late 1970s to the 1990s. It fills the gap between her famous 1978 collection   Virtues and Vices (now reissued) and her acclaimed monograph  Natural Goodness, published in 2001. In this new collection...

A concise, lucid development of the fundamental structure of quantum mechanics from a thoroughly modern perspective. Focusing on physical and mathematical understanding, with over 60 problems, this compact introduction is invaluable for students and researchers in physics and other fields where quantum mechanics plays an important role....

As Ian Bremmer and Preston Keat reveal in this innovative book, volatile political        events such as the 2008 Georgia-Russia confrontation--and their catastrophic effects        on business--happen much more frequently than investors imagine. On the curve that        charts both the frequency of these events and the power of their impact, the...

This second edition of The African Governance Report covers 35 African countries and assesses and monitors the progress of governance in Africa, it is the most comprehensive periodic report on governance on the continent....