Oxford University Press

Working Virtue is the first substantial collective study of virtue theory and contemporary moral problems. Leading figures in ethical theory and applied ethics discuss topics in bioethics, professional ethics, ethics of the family, law, interpersonal ethics, and the emotions....

In the final years of the seventeenth century in a small New England town, the venerable Colonel Pyncheon decides to erect a ponderously oak-framed and spacious family mansion. It occupies the spot where Matthew Maule, `an obscure man', had lived in a log hut, until his execution for witchcraft. From the scaffold, Maule points his finger at the...

In a Western world suddenly acutely interested in Islam, one question has been repeatedly heard above the din: where are the Muslim reformers? With this ambitious volume, Tariq Ramadan firmly establishes himself as one of Europe's leading thinkers and one of Islam's most innovative and important voices....

A Short History"e;Quite ambitious, tracing religion in the United States from European colonization up to the 21st century.... The writing is strong throughout."e;--Publishers Weekly (starred review) "e;One can hardly do better than Religion in American Life.... A good read, especially for the uninitiated. The initiated might also read...

Dickson McCunn, a respectable, newly retired grocer of romantic heart, plans a modest walking holiday in the hills of south-west Scotland. He meets a young English poet and, contrary to his better sense, finds himself in the thick of a plot involving the kidnapping of a Russian princess, who is held prisoner in the rambling mansion, Huntingtower....

The Ballet of the Planets unravels the beautiful mystery of planetary motion,        revealing how our understanding of astronomy evolved from Archimedes and Ptolemy to        Copernicus, Kepler, and Newton. Mathematician Donald Benson shows that ancient        theories of planetary motion were based on the assumptions that the Earth was...