Oxford University Press

Virtues and Their Vices is the only extant contemporary, comprehensive treatment of specific virtues and, where applicable, their competing vices. Each of the essays, written exclusively for this volume, not only locates discussion of that virtue in its historical context, but also advances the discussion and debate concerning the understanding and...

How Religion is Passed Down across GenerationsIn Families and Faith, Vern Bengtson examines how religion is--or is not--passed down from one generation to the next. Armed with unprecedented data collected over more than four decades from more than 2400 individuals, Bengtson offers remarkable insight into American religion over the course of several...

In To the War Poets John Greening sends dispatches across the decades. In a sequence of verse letters he addresses the poets of the First World War directly, making connections yet always aware of distance: No larks, / just the passing of traffic. Greening explores Englishness, but also, in his translations from German poets, goes beyond it. From...

A Topography of Movement ImprovisationIn Landscape of the Now, author Kent De Spain takes readers on a deep journey into the underlying processes and structures of postmodern movement improvisation. Based on a series of interviews with master teachers who have developed unique approaches that are taught around the world - Steve Paxton, Simone...

The Great Financial Crisis of 1914A week before the outbreak of the First World War, an acute financial crisis surged over London: the Stock Exchange closed; money markets worldwide were paralysed. Drawing on diaries, letters, memoirs, press reports, and official archives, this book tells the extraordinary, and largely unknown, story of the first...

The Complex Link Between Aging, Work Disengagement, and Substance Misuse and What To Do About ItEvidence from both local and national surveys suggests that substance misuse and abuse among older adults in the United States is a "e;hidden epidemic"e; that poses a major threat to the welfare and quality of life of older drinkers and their...