Oxford University Press

This accessible selection of the most important and significant of the remarkable        and often bizarre apocryphal stories surrounding the life of Jesus and the Early        Church has established a reputation as an invaluable introduction to the genre of        Christian apocryphal literature.J. K. Elliott clearly explains the...

This book presents a unified theory of how grammar relates to meaning. Intended for scholars and graduate students of linguistics and philosophy it provides fresh ways of thinking about semantic generalizations that may reflect innately determined aspects of human languages....

Major changes have taken place in the organization and management of professional academic work within British universities in recent years. The authors consider the wider implications for policy innovations and strategies, developing a critical response to nostrums concerning the 'entrepreneurial university'....

'As I looked about me I felt that the grass was the country, as the water is the sea. The red of the grass made all the great prairie the colour of wine-stains...And there was so much motion in it; the whole country seemed, somehow, to be running.'My Antonia (1918) depicts the pioneering period of European settlement on the tall-grass prairie of...

Talbot Brewer offers a new approach to ethical theory, founded on a far-reaching        reconsideration of the nature and sources of human agency. He argues that ethical        reflection is itself a centrally important life activity, and philosophical ethics        is an extension of this practical activity rather than just a theoretical...

This book explores the central role played by Catholic identity within the early Nazi movement and how this early Catholic orientation was eventually replaced by the highly ritualized, yet distinctly anti-Christian, form of National Socialism....