Oxford University Press

How do scientific conjectures become laws? Why do some laws turn out to be wrong? Why does proof mean different things in different sciences? Experience shows that disentangling scientific knowledge from opinion is harder than one might expect. Full of illuminating examples and quotations, this book brings alive issues at the heart of all science....

This book offers an ethnographic study of the initiation ritual practiced by one coven of Witches located in Ohio. Nikki Bado-Fralick's analysis of the Wiccan initiation ceremony offers an important challenge to the commonly accepted anthropological model of 'rites of passage.' As a High Priestess within the coven as well as a scholar of religion,...

Everett, Quantum Theory, & RealityWhat follows when quantum theory is applied to the whole universe? This is one of        the greatest puzzles of modern science. Philosophers and physicists here debate the        Everett interpretation of quantum mechanics, according to which this universe is one        of countlessly many others, constantly...

New Negroes, Sex, and Popular Culture in the 1920sIn the wake of the Great Migration of thousands of African Americans from the scattered hamlets and farms of the rural South to the nation&'s burgeoning cities, a New Negro ethos of modernist cultural expression and potent self-determination arose to challenge white supremacy and create...

In the wake of massive injustice, how can justice be achieved and peace restored?        Is it possible to find a universal standard that will work for people of diverse and        often conflicting religious, cultural, and philosophical backgrounds?In Just and        Unjust Peace, Daniel Philpott offers an innovative and hopeful response to...

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