Oxford University Press

This book presents a state-of-the-art account of what we know and would like to know about language, mind, and brain. It brings together leading researchers in linguistics, psycholinguistics, language acquisition, cognitive neuroscience, comparative cognitive psychology, and evolutionary biology....

The Japanese mafia - known collectively as   yakuza - has had a considerable influence on Japanese society over the past fifty years. Based on extensive interviews with criminals, police officers, lawyers, journalists, and academics, this is the first academic analysis in English of Japan's criminal syndicates....

Dostoevsky's last and greatest novel, The Karamazov Brothers (1880),is both a        brilliantly told crime story and a passionate philosophical debate. the dissolute        landowner Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov is murdered; his sons - the atheist        intellectual Ivan, the hot-blooded Dmitry, and the saintly novice Alyosha - are all        at...

A Case-Based HandbookThrough 71 case presentations, Clinical Pediatric Anesthesia covers the field of pediatric anesthesiology with a practical, point-of-care approach....

Martin Daunton provides a clear and balanced view of the continuities and changes that occurred in the economic history of Britain from the Great Exhibition of 1851 to the Festival of Britain in 1951.        In 1851, Britain was the dominant economic power in an increasingly global economy. The First World War marked a turning point, as...

Volume 1 Trinity, Incarnation, and AtonementA new two volume anthology bringing together the best recent writing in the interdisciplinary field of philosophical theology. Volume 1 collects essays on three distinctively Christian doctrines: trinity, incarnation, and atonement. Volume 2 focuses on topics arising in all of the major theistic...