Oxford University Press

Algeria&'s Fight for Independence and the Origins of the Post-Cold War EraAlgeria sits at the crossroads of the Atlantic, European, Arab, and African worlds. Yet, unlike the wars in Korea and Vietnam, Algeria&'s fight for independence has rarely been viewed as an international conflict. Even forty years later, it is remembered as the scene of a...

The Contemporary Relevance of the Sacred Text of Islam"e;I grew up reading the Qur&'an on my mother&'s lap,"e; writes Ziauddin Sardar. "e;It&'s an experience I share with most Muslim children. And so it is that our connection to the Qur&'an is infused with associations of the warmest and most enduring of human bonds."e;    In...

This critically acclaimed volume--a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize--offers an unsurpassed history of the Revolutionary War and the birth of the American republic. Beginning with the French and Indian War and continuing to the election of George Washington as first president, Robert Middlekauff offers a panoramic history of the conflict between...

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When Dinah is fostered by the Hunters she thinks her biggest problem will be fitting in with her foster-brothers, Lloyd and Harvey. However, once she starts at her new school it's clear that there's more to worry about. All the children, apart from a handful including Lloyd and Harvey, are too well-behaved-robotic almost-and oddly keen to...

In our lives, we aim to achieve welfare for ourselves, that is, to live good lives. But we also have another, more impartial perspective, where we aim to balance our concern for our own welfare against a concern for the welfare of others. This is a perspective of justice. Nils Holtug examines these two perspectives and the relations between them....