Oxford University Press

The Oxford Handbook of the Italian Economy Since Unification provides, for the first time, a comprehensive, quantitative "e;new economic history"e; of Italy....

Women, Poetry and Culture 1640-1680Forms of Engagement sheds light on questions of poetic form in women's poetry. It traces the influences on the work of Lucy Hutchinson, Katherine Philips, and Margaret Cavendish, allowing readers to understand better both how women composed their poems and how they engaged with their contemporaries....

The purpose of this book is to present a new theory of mutation-driven evolution, which is based on recent advances in genomics and evolutionary developmental biology. This theory asserts that the driving force of evolution is mutation and natural selection is of secondary importance....

Our conception of logical space is the set of distinctions we use to navigate the world. AgustA-n Rayo argues that this is shaped by acceptance or rejection of 'just is'-statements: e.g. 'to be composed of water just is to be composed of H2O'. He offers a novel conception of metaphysical possibility, and a new trivialist...

The Roots of Christian ZionismMillions of American Christians see U.S. support for the State of Israel as a God-ordained responsibility. Robert O. Smith provides an in-depth look at the English Protestant tradition of Judeo-centric prophecy interpretation at the heart of this popular affinity....

The Rise of American Black Israelite ReligionsThe first comprehensive examination of the rise of black Judaism in America....