Oxford University Press

In Jesus and Muhammad, Peters presents a balanced and objective study of two of the most renowned and controversial individuals in history, examining their lives and careers and the paths down which historians, both believers and non-believers, have pursued them over the last century and a half....

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This selection offers a cross-section from the 6,000 surviving sheets that constitute Leonardo's notebooks, including his thoughts on landscape, optics, anatomy, architecture, sculpture, and painting. Fully updated, this new edition includes some 70 line drawings and a Preface by Leonardo expert Martin Kemp....

A Very Short IntroductionWhat is 'contemporary' about contemporary art? Who is really running the art world? This controversial and witty exploration of the dramatic changes that have taken place in the art world since the fall of the Berlin Wall provides a critical look at the reasons for the current art boom, and reveals the politics behind the...

Galileo is aptly known as 'the father of modern science'. But there is much more        to him than his well-known discoveries in physics and astronomy, and his infamous        clash with the Catholic church. John Heilbron's wonderfully rounded new biography        presents a multi-talented but difficult man - writer, philosopher,...

For a belief to be justified, must the believer have some sort of awareness of the features that make it a good belief? Internalists insist such awareness is required. Michael Bergmann argues that internalism faces an inescapable dilemma, and develops his own externalist theory of justification....