Oxford University Press

The Music and Mysticism of La Monte YoungLa Monte Young is one of America's most important living composers, but his        esoteric compositional methods and reclusive personality have prevented in-depth        scholarly examination of his life and work. This book draws on rare access to the        composer and his archives to tell the story of...

Drawing upon a wealth of original research, David Mayers' fascinating life of        George Kennan examines his participation in the process of making foreign policy and        interprets his political and philosophical development within a historical        framework. He presents an engaging and lucid account of Kennan's training; his...

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Faith and HumanitarianismThe global humanitarian movement, which originated within Western religious organizations in the early nineteenth century, has been of most important forces in world politics in advancing both human rights and human welfare. While the religious groups that founded the movement originally focused on conversion, in time more...

This volume presents seventeen essays by one of the world's leading scholars on        Kant. Henry E. Allison explores the nature of transcendental idealism, freedom of        the will, and the concept of the purposiveness of nature. He places Kant's views in        their historical context and explores their contemporary relevance to present...

Hunky Parker is the new craze. His drooling, dribbling pig face is everywhere: on T-shirts and badges, and there are even horrible pig-trotter trainers and pig-swill yogurts in the shops. But it's when the Hunky TV shows air nationally that the trouble really begins. Suddenly, people are going crazy for Hunky goods . . . and when the shops...