Oxford University Press

This book is a joint biography of William and Lawrence Bragg, who reshaped science in the twentieth century with the development of X-ray crystallography, and by mentoring the mid-century discovery of the structure of DNA. Their stories are vivid examples of science teaching and research in a colonial setting (Australia)....

Oxford Handbooks of Political Science are the essential guide to the state of political science today. With engaging contributions from 51 major international scholars, the   Oxford Handbook of Political Theory provides the key point of reference for anyone working in political theory and beyond....

America's Original Contribution to Religious LibertyNo Establishment of Religion shows how America's ongoing battles over religion and education, immigration, polygamy, religious funding, religious exemptions, and more have made the original and evolving understanding of disestablishment of religion a source of perennial cultural and constitutional...

Medical thinking at the end of the RenaissanceCultures of Plague highlights this most feared epidemic, one that threatened Italy        from 1575 to 1578 and unleashed an avalanche of plague writing. In the heartland of        Counter-Reformation Italy, physicians, along with those outside the profession,        questioned the foundations of...

Mark Wilson investigates the way we get to grips with the world conceptually, and the way that philosophical problems commonly arise from this. He combines traditional philosophical concerns about human conceptual thinking with illuminating data derived from physics and applied mathematics, cognitive psychology, and linguistics....

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