Oxford University Press

For 30 years, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Linda Greenhouse chronicled the        activities of the U.S. Supreme Court and its justices as a correspondent for the New        York Times. In this Very Short Introduction, she draws on her deep knowledge of the        court's history and of its written and unwritten rules to show readers how...

Using the tools of sociological theory, Robert Brenneman seeks to discover why a pot-smoking, gun-wielding "e;homie"e; gang member would want to trade in    la vida loca for a Bible and the buttoned-down lifestyle of an evangelical  hermano (brother in Christ) - and to what extent this strategy works for the many youth who have tried it....

Biography of Abdus Salam, the first citizen of Pakistan to win a Nobel Prize, who was nevertheless branded as a heretic and excommunicated from his home country, where his achievements are often overlooked, even besmirched. Instead, he acted out his dreams on an wider stage, as a citizen of the world....

Iconoclasm is not a barbaric act which takes place somewhere else but is instead a central strand of Anglo-American modernity. Our horror at the destruction of art derives in part from the fact that we did, and still do, that. This is most obviously true of England's iconoclastic century between 1538 and 1643, which stands at the core of this book....

A meticulously prepared and annotated edition of a previously unpublished and almost unknown Hardy notebook, one of the very few to have survived. Biographically significant because of its preservation of personal notes from old pocket-books subsequently destroyed, 'Poetical Matter' is a unique late working notebook devoted to verse....

This volume comprises three distinct investigations into the relationship between the nature and the value of knowledge. The three sections look at 'Knowledge and Understanding', 'Knowledge and Recognition', and 'Knowledge and Action'. Each section is written by one of the authors in consultation with the other two....