Oxford University Press

This book considers the constitutionality of hate speech regulation, and examines        how liberal democracies have adopted fundamental differences in the way they respond        to racist or extreme expressions....

This book examines the literary response to Sir Philip Sidney, the most influential writer of the Elizabethan period. It does so by looking closely at Sidney and at four writers who had an important stake in his afterlife: his sister Mary Sidney, his brother Robert Sidney, his best friend Fulke Greville, and his niece Mary Wroth....

Is the universe ''designed'' for life? Will science ever unlock the mysteries of the human mind or explain the origins of religion?  In   Atoms and Eden, Peabody Award-winning journalist Steve Paulson explores these questions in an unprecedented collection of interviews with the major figures in the science and religion debate,...

A study of the ways in which British poets of the First World War used classical literature, culture, and history as a source of images, ideas, and even phrases for their own poetry. Elizabeth Vandiver offers a new perspective on that poetry and on the history of classics in British culture....

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This book investigates the way grammar deals with the representation of aspectual (aktionsart) concepts, focussing on issues of the lexicon-syntax interface. The authors' innovative analyses of this interface significantly advance our understanding of the role that syntax plays in determining verbal meaning, aspectual interpretation, and thematic...