Oxford University Press

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From the gene that causes people to age prematurely to the "e;bitter gene"e; that may spawn broccoli haters, this book explores a few of the more exotic locales on the human genome, highlighting some of the tragic and bizarre ways our bodies go wrong when genes fall prey to mutation and the curious ways in which genes have evolved for our...

How to be spiritual without believing in the supernatural....

How Hitler's Henchmen Fled JusticeThe story of how Nazi war criminals escaped from justice by fleeing through the Tyrolean Alps to Italian seaports at the end of the Second World War and the role played by the Red Cross, the Vatican, and the Secret Services in smuggling them away from prosecution in Europe to a new life in South America....

The frequency and virulence of recent financial crises have led to calls for reform of the current international financial architecture. To learn more about today's international financial environment, the authors turn to an earlier era of financial globalization to help us understand the characteristics of global crises by learning from the past....

The Counter-Reformation saw an upsurge of feminine religious enthusiasm without parallel since medieval times. Inspired by new translations of the lives of the saints, devout women all over Catholic Europe sought to imitate these "e;athletes of Christ"e; through extremes of self-abnegation, physical mortification and devotion. Just as in...