Oxford University Press

In a Western world suddenly acutely interested in Islam, one question has been repeatedly heard above the din: where are the Muslim reformers? With this ambitious volume, Tariq Ramadan firmly establishes himself as one of Europe's leading thinkers and one of Islam's most innovative and important voices....

A Short History"e;Quite ambitious, tracing religion in the United States from European colonization up to the 21st century.... The writing is strong throughout."e;--Publishers Weekly (starred review) "e;One can hardly do better than Religion in American Life.... A good read, especially for the uninitiated. The initiated might also read...

Dickson McCunn, a respectable, newly retired grocer of romantic heart, plans a modest walking holiday in the hills of south-west Scotland. He meets a young English poet and, contrary to his better sense, finds himself in the thick of a plot involving the kidnapping of a Russian princess, who is held prisoner in the rambling mansion, Huntingtower....

The Ballet of the Planets unravels the beautiful mystery of planetary motion,        revealing how our understanding of astronomy evolved from Archimedes and Ptolemy to        Copernicus, Kepler, and Newton. Mathematician Donald Benson shows that ancient        theories of planetary motion were based on the assumptions that the Earth was...

People act for reasons. That is how we understand ourselves. But what is it to act for a reason? This is what Fred Schueler investigates. He rejects the dominant view that the beliefs and desires that constitute our reasons for acting simply   cause us to act as we do, and argues instead for a view centred on practical deliberation, our ability to...

Our lives are full of inexactitude. We say a person is tall or an action is just without the precision of measurement on a dial. In this engaging account, Kees van Deemter explores vagueness, cutting across areas such as language, mathematical logic, and computing. He considers why vagueness is inherent, and why it is important in how we function....