Oxford University Press

Nature&'s Role in American HistoryA tour de force of writing and analysis, Down to Earth offers a sweeping history of our nation, one that for the first time places the environment at the very center of our story.     Writing with marvelous clarity, historian Ted Steinberg sweeps across the centuries, re-envisioning the story of America as he...

Sticks and stones may break your bones . . . but names will surely kill you...

A Very Short IntroductionIs our sexuality a product of our genes, or of society, culture, and politics? How have views of sexual norms changed over time? And how have feminism, religion, and HIV/AIDS affected our attitudes to sex? This Very Short Introduction examines these questions and many more, exploring what shapes our sexuality, and how our...

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Magic has regularly been configured as a definitively non-modern phenomenon, juxtaposed to the distinctly modern models of religion and science. As a category, however, magic has remained stubbornly amorphous. Randall Styers seeks to account for the extraordinary vitality of scholarly discourse purporting to define and explain magic despite its...