Oxford University Press

Swimming with the Sea Monster and other Jurassic AdventuresAre you ready for the best adventure ever? Welcome to the Jurassic! It's a totally awesome place, as Jamie and Tom are about to discover. With so many cool creatures to spot, the boys begin exploring. In three exciting adventures they meet an amazing stegosaurus, a seriously fed up...

How should neuroscience, psychology and behavioral genetics impact legal responsibility practices? Recent findings from these fields are sometimes claimed to threaten the moral foundations of legal responsibility practices by revealing that determinism, or something like it, is true. On this account legal responsibility practices should be...

Unravelling the Impact of Foreign AidThis volume examines how foreign aid has influenced democratic transitions and consolidation in sub-Saharan Africa....

A World HistoryMigration began with our origin as the human species and continues today. Each chapter of world history features distinct types of migration. The earliest migrations spread humans across the globe. Over the centuries, as our cultures, societies, and technologies evolved in different material environments, migrants conflicted, merged,...

This book is the first comprehensive attempt to solve what Hartry Field has called "e;the central problem in the metaphysics of causation"e;: the problem of reconciling the need for causal notions in the special sciences with the limited role of causation in physics....

Eminent Domain in PhiladelphiaNews media reports on eminent domain often highlight outrage and heated protest. But these accounts, Debbie Becher finds, obscure a much more complex reality of how Americans understand property. Private Property and Public Power presents the first comprehensive study of a city's acquisitions, exploring how and...