Oxford University Press

Fathers, sons, brothers, kings. Does the predominantly masculine symbolism of the Biblical writings exclude women or overlook the riches of their spiritual life? Janet Martin Soskice opens up the Bible's imagery for sex, gender, and kinship, by discussing its place in the central teachings of Christian theology....

Visible Identities critiques the critiques of identity and of identity politics and argues that identities are real but not necessarily a political problem. Moreover, the book explores the material infrastructure of gendered identity, the experimental aspects of racial subjectivity for both whites and non-whites, and in several chapters looks...

A Very Short IntroductionRen'e Descartes (1596-1650) had a remarkably short working life, and his output was small, yet his contributions to philosophy and science have endured to the present day. In this book Tom Sorell shows that Descartes was, above all, an advocate and practitioner of a new mathematical approach to physics, and that he...

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A comprehensive and accessible guide to the major themes and debates in Holocaust        historiography over the last two decades....

The struggle between Russia and Great Britain over Central Asia in the nineteenth        century was the original "e;great game."e; But in the past quarter century, a new "e;great        game"e; has emerged, pitting America against a newly aggressive Russia and a        resource-hungry China, all struggling for influence over one of...