Oxford University Press

In many ways, the Northern soldier in the Civil War fought as if he had never left        home. On campsites and battlefields, the Union volunteer adapted to military life        with attitudes shaped by networks of family relationships, in units of men from the        same hometown. Understanding these links between the homes the troops left...

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Sir Anthony Kenny continues his magisterial new history of Western philosophy with        a fascinating guide through more than a millennium of thought from 400 AD onwards,        charting the story of philosophy from the founders of Christian and Islamic thought        through to the Renaissance.The middle ages saw a great flourishing of...

A User's Guide to Thought and Meaning presents a profound and arresting        integration of the faculties of the mind - of how we think, speak, and see the        world.Ray Jackendoff starts out by looking at languages and what the meanings of        words and sentences actually do. He shows that meanings are more adaptive and        complicated...

A Very Short IntroductionEminent biblical scholar Michael D. Coogan offers here a wide-ranging and stimulating exploration of the Old Testament, illuminating its importance as history, literature, and sacred text. He provides a marvelous overview of one of the great pillars of Western religion and culture, a book whose significance has endured for...

In this provocative volume, Gabor S. Boritt brings together five of today's        premier Civil War historians--James McPherson, Archer Jones, Gary Gallagher, Reed        Mitchell, and Joseph Glatthaar-- to reveal how battlefield decisions shaped the very        forces--social, economic, and political--that many scholars claim determined...