Oxford University Press

Drawing together the work and ideas of a combination of the world's leading and        emerging International Relations scholars, Refugees in International Relations        provides a comprehensive and challenging overview of the international politics of        forced migration....

David Bevington demonstrates that the staging, criticism, and editing of   Hamlet go hand in hand over the centuries to such a remarkable extent that the history of   Hamlet can be seen as a kind of paradigm for the cultural history of the English-speaking world....

The Science of Sexual OrientationIn this book, neuroscientist Simon LeVay summarizes a wealth of scientific evidence that points towards a radical new explanation of what makes a person gay, straight or bisexual: Sexual orientation results primarily from an interaction between genes, sex hormones, and the developing brain--biological processes that...

Poststructuralism changes the way we understand the relations between human        beings, their culture, and the world. Following a brief account of the historical        relationship between structuralism and poststructuralism, this Very Short        Introduction traces the key arguments that have led poststructuralists to...

All too often scholars of science and religion have focused their attention almost exclusively on the Christian experience. At a time when religious ignorance and misunderstanding have lethal consequences, such provincialism must be avoided. This book expands our knowledge of science and religion beyond its largely Christian base to include the...

During the 1970s, monetarism and the new classical macroeconomics ushered in an era of neoliberal economic policymaking. Keynesian economics was pushed aside. It was almost forgotten that when Keynesian thinking had dominated economic policymaking in the middle decades of the twentieth century, it had coincided with postwar economic reconstruction...