Oxford University Press

Fred Feldman presents a philosophical study of the nature and value of happiness.          The aim is to understand what happiness is. Opposing theories of happiness are        explained and criticized and a new theory is presented and defended. Feldman's views        have important implications for moral philosophy and also for the emerging field...

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A Very Short IntroductionLaw touches every aspect of our daily lives, and yet the main concepts, terms, and processes of the legal system remain obscure to many. This Very Short Introduction provides a clear, jargon-free account of modern legal systems, explaining how the law works both in the Western tradition and around the world....

Blue-eyed and high-spirited, Elfride Swancourt has little experience of the world beyond her remote parish, and becomes entangled with two men: the boyish architect, Stephen Smith, and the older literary man, Henry Knight. The former friends become rivals, and Elfride faces an agonizing choice. Elfride's dilemma mirrors the difficult decision Hardy...

The Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000#N/A...

It seems at first commonplace: a group photograph of peasants at harvest time,        after hard work well done, resting contentedly with their tools behind the fruits of        their labor. But when one finally notices the "e;crops"e; scattered in front of the        group, what seemed innocent on first view become horrific skulls and...