Oxford University Press

For all that science knows about the living world, notes David P. Barash, there        are even more things that we don't know, genuine evolutionary mysteries that perplex        the best minds in biology. Paradoxically, many of these mysteries are very close to        home, involving some of the most personal aspects of being human.Homo...

Genocide has scarred human societies since Antiquity. In the modern era, genocide        has been a global phenomenon: from massacres in colonial America, Africa, and        Australia to the Holocaust of European Jewry and mass death in Maoist China. In        recent years, the discipline of 'genocide studies' has developed to offer...

This widely-praised book identified peaceful struggle as a key phenomenon in        international politics a year before the revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt confirmed        its central argument. Civil resistance - non-violent action against such challenges        as dictatorial rule, racial discrimination and foreign military occupation - is...

The Politics of Human Rights provides an engaging and systematic introductory overview of the nature and development of human rights....

Preaching and Religious Culture in Colonial New England"e;Both the sources he employs and the scope of his study set his work apart from all that have precede it...The first study of New England preaching to span the entire colonial period...very important book."e; - Journal of American History "e;Simply breathtaking in scope. No one...

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