Oxford University Press

Is there such a thing as the self? If so, what is it? We all have experience of having or being a self, a hidden inner mental presence. Galen Strawson argues that if we look closely at what experience of a self is like, we may be able to work out what a self must be, if it exists. He concludes that selves do exist, but they are not what we think....

Covering eight countries and thirty cities, but focusing on Britain and France, Europe's Angry Muslims provides an authoritative and engaging account of how Islam came to 20th century Europe and altered the continent's cultural, political, and security landscape. This balanced book combines first-hand reporting, based on interviews of former...

Antonaccio presents the first systematic analysis of Murdoch's moral philosophy to date. The book advances a distinctive thesis about the underlying structure of Murdoch's thought, suggests a new interpretive method for reading her philosophy, and outlines the significance of her thought in the context of current debates in ethics....

A collection of fascinating stories, entertainingly told, showing the human face of science.   Eurekas and Euphorias contains around 200 anecdotes brilliantly illustrating scientists in all their shapes: the obsessive and the dilettantish, the genial, the envious, the preternaturally brilliant and the slow-witted who sometimes see further in the...

In this memoir of Rosalind Franklin, her sister, the writer and historian Jenifer Glynn, tells the story of Rosalind's life; her relationship with her family, her part in the DNA story, and her early death from cancer. Using Rosalind's letters and family photographs, Glynn reveals sides of her sister's life that will surprise and delight readers....

An exploration of the role of women writers in the Victorian reception of ancient Greece and Rome. The restrictions which applied to women's learning liberated them from the dullness of a traditional classical education, allowing them to respond imaginatively to classical texts using modern forms such as the novel....