Oxford University Press

Historians and President of the German Academy for Language and Literature in        Darmstadt and in 2003 received thee prestigious Jacob Grimm prize for German        literature. culture so special? A Culture of Freedom attempts to answer this        question - to find the key to the 'miracle' of ancient Greece.The book takes us on a        tour...

Bennett Helm presents a reexamination of our common understanding of ourselves as persons in light of the phenomena of love and friendship. He argues that the individualism that is implicit in that understanding cannot be sustained if we are to understand the kind of distinctively personal intimacy that love and friendship essentially involve....

This book describes the structures of molecules, i.e. their shape and size, as determined by experiments or advanced theoretical calculations, and gives an introduction to the simple concepts that chemists use to interpret these structures....

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Essays in the Ethnohistory of Colonial North America#N/A...

The Jewish mother has become an icon of intrusive, obsessive parenting, caricatured in generations of films, novels, radio and television programs, stand-up comedy and jokebooks. A new, more positive, narrative, developed by feminist writers, comedians, scholars, and mothers themselves, demonstrates why the Jewish mother is a perfect role model for...