Oxford University Press

This book will be of interest to students and researchers working on dynamical systems, including integrable and nonintegrable models, with a finite or infinite number of degrees of freedom. It can be used as a textbook or as background reading for an undergraduate or graduate course....

Daniel Russell develops the idea that a necessary part of virtue is practical intelligence, the skill of determining what the right (e.g. kind or fair) thing to do would be on a given occasion, which requires much time, experience, and practice. This idea, drawn from classical philosophy, has a key role to play in contemporary virtue ethics....

The Great Depression in CaliforniaIn Endangered Dreams, Kevin Starr paints a portrait that is both detailed and        panoramic, offering a vivid look at the personalities and events that shaped a        decade of explosive tension. He begins with the rise of radicalism on the Pacific        Coast, which erupted when the Great Depression swept...

David A. Palmer, Glenn Shive, and Philip L. Wickeri offer an introduction to religion in contemporary China. The essays in this volume consider religion in urban, rural, and ethnic minority settings; the religious dimensions of body, gender, environment, and civil society; and the historical, sociological, economic, and political aspects of...

Richard Swinburne argues compellingly that if there is a God, then the main doctrines which the Christian Church teaches about God are very probably true. In particular, he shows that there is strong philosophical support for the belief that Jesus, while remaining God, acquired a human nature and lived on earth for thirty years as a human being....

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