Oxford University Press

A History of the American Prosperity GospelKate Bowler's Blessed represents the first attempt to examine the twentieth-century American prosperity gospel movement as a whole, seeking to introduce readers to its major figures and features, including its continuing pursuit of divine wealth, as believers look to their bank accounts for proof of...

National, Contractual, and International Frameworks for Foreign CapitalThere are three legal frameworks applicable to international investments: the laws of the host state and the investor's country, the contract between the host state and the investor, and the rules of international investment law. This book assesses how these three bodies of...

Augustine and the Pre-Augustinian SourcesOriginally published in Italian in 1978, Pier Franco Beatrice's The Transmission of Sin is a study of the origins of the doctrine of original sin, one of the most important teachings of the Catholic Church....

This is the first comprehensive analysis of the legal effects of EU agreements explored in both comparative perspective and in terms of the ramifications for the legal orders of the member states. The book provides a thorough analysis of the case-law in this increasingly important area of EU law, valuable to academics and practitioners alike....

Cracking the Case with Science and ForensicsThe Scientific Sherlock Holmes connects Holmes' vegetable poisons with concepts in botany, his use of fingerprinting with forensic science, and carbon monoxide poisoning and hemoglobin tests with concepts in chemistry, thus integrating the Holmes stories with all branches of science....

The Life and Legacy of a Radical Islamic IntellectualJames Toth traces the life and thought of Sayyid Qutb, the Egyptian thinker and Islamist martyr branded by The New York Times Magazine as "e;The Philosopher of Islamic Terror."e; By returning to Qutb's writings, both well-known and obscure, Toth draws a complex portrait of Qutb, one...