Oxford University Press

In the passionate debate over globalization, critics have blamed it for a host of ills afflicting poorer nations, everything from child labor to environmental degradation and cultural homogenization. Now the economist, Bhagwati, reveals that globalization, when properly governed, is in fact the most powerful force for social good in the world...

A Look at the EvidenceAre Muslims Distinctive? represents the first major scientific effort to assess how Muslims and non-Muslims differ--and do not differ--in the contemporary world. Using rigorous methods and data drawn from around the globe, M. Steven Fish reveals that in some areas Muslims and non-Muslims differ less than is commonly imagined....

The American IconoclastHere is the definitive biography of Mencken, the most illuminating book ever        published about this giant of American letters. We see the prominent role he played        in the Scopes Monkey Trial, his long crusade against Prohibition, his fierce battles        against press censorship, and his constant exposure of pious...

A founding text of European aestheticism and literary criticism, Poetics underpins our moden understanding of imaginative writing. Anthony Kenny's new translation is accompanied by associated material from Plato, Sir Philip Sidney, P. B. Shelley, and Dorothy L. Sayers and a wide-ranging introduction....

The Voyage Out (1915) is the story of a rite of passage. When Rachel Vinrace embarks for South America on her father's ship she is launched on a course of self-discovery in a modern version of the mythic voyage.  Virginia Woolf knew all too well the forms that she was supposed to follow when writing of a young lady's entrance into the world, and...

On the limits of brain scienceNeuroeconomics, neuromarketing, neuroaesthetics, and neurotheology are just a few        of the novel disciplines that have been inspired by a combination of ancient        knowledge along with recent discoveries about how the human brain works.This        fascinating and thought provoking new book critically questions...