Oxford University Press

The Yoginihrdaya, a Sanskrit Tantric TreatiseAndre Padoux offers the first English translation of the Yoginihrdaya, a seminal Hindu tantric text dating back to the 10th or 11th century CE....

An Oral History of Cloistered NunsFor almost six years, Abbie Reese worked intimately with members of a community of cloistered monastic nuns in Rockford, Illinois. Dedicated to God tells their stories, based on a series of oral history interviews of the Poor Clare Colettine Order....

Why the Struggle Against Climate Change Failed -- and What It Means for Our FutureFrom the 1992 Rio Earth Summit to the 2009 Copenhagen Climate Conference there was a concerted international effort to stop climate change. Yet greenhouse gas emissions increased, atmospheric concentrations grew, and global warming became an observable fact of life. ...

New Archaeological Perspectives for the Twenty-First CenturyThis volume resituates the way in which archaeologists use and apply the concept of the environment. Covering basic themes, such as applied environmental archaeology and the archaeology of disaster, each chapter critically explores the potential for archaeological data and practice to...

Victory, Defeat, and Freedom at the End of the Civil WarA revisionist narrative of Appomattox, the surrender of the Confederacy to the Union....

Giving We Receive, Grasping We LoseDetermining why, when, and to whom people feel compelled to be generous affords invaluable insight into positive and problematic ways of life. Organ donation, volunteering, and the funding of charities can all be illuminated by sociological and psychological perspectives on how American adults conceive of and...