Oxford University Press

How the Social Brain Creates IdentityThe Self Illusion explores where the self comes from, why we have it, why it is        incoherent, and why research in neuroscience has shown it to be fundamentally- an        illusion. By revealing the developmental origins of the self in early childhood,        Bruce Hood shows what this means in our daily...

Beowulf is the longest and finest literary work to have come down to us from Anglo-Saxon times, and one of the world's greatest epic poems. This acclaimed translation is complemented by a critical introduction and substantial editorial apparatus....

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Caritas in veritate (Charity in Truth) is the ''social'' encyclical of Pope        Benedict XVI, one of many papal encyclicals over the last 120 years that address        economic life. This volume, based on discussions at a symposium co-sponsored by the        Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies and the Pontifical Council for Justice...

This book explores how domestic institutions shape the ways governments redistribute the risks and benefits of economic globalization. The author identifies the Anglo-American democracies, because of their majoritarian polities combined with decentralized, competitive economies, as uniquely vulnerable to the contemporary challenges of globalization...

Once, the ocean of Tethys stretched across the world. It vanished just before Man appeared on Earth. Dorrik Stow tells of the powerful forces that created and destroyed a great ocean, its marine life, its extinctions, its impact on climate, and the many clues by which scientists have put together its story, stretching back 250 million years....