(Izdošanas datums: 30-Oct-2014, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780199363551)
Since the founding, American evangelicals have espoused a civil religion that sees limited government as a condition for a thriving church. This republican theology, however, also accentuates the churchs capacity to elevate civic virtue....Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 09-Oct-2014, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780199975877)
Poverty, Agency, and Human Rights collects thirteen new philosophical papers that focus on the diverse ways poverty impacts the agency of the poor, the reasons why poverty alleviation schemes should also promote the agency of beneficiaries, and the...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 25-Sep-2014, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780199359479)
The essays in this volume offer a groundbreaking comparative analysis of religious education, and state policies towards religious education, in seven different countries and in the European Union as a whole. They pose a challenging and crucial ques...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 25-Sep-2014, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780199376247)
Echoes of Mutiny explores how the challenges of Indian migrants to racial exclusion in the United States and Canada and British supremacy at home provoked a global inter-imperial collaboration between U.S. and British officials to repress those deem...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 25-Sep-2014, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780199733583)
This book tells the story of the rise of Holocaust consciousness in the United States from the perspective of survivors and their descendants. If survivors tended to see Holocaust storytelling as mainly a private affair, their children -- who reache...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 18-Sep-2014, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199969104)
This collection of new essays by leading scholars examines philosophical issues at the intersection of feminism and autonomy studies.Contributors advance central debates in autonomy theory by examining basic components, normative commitments and app...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 11-Sep-2014, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780199378982)
Cities and Stability examines the threats that large cities pose to authoritarian regime survival and the ways that regimes respond to those threats, particularly focusing on Chinas management of urbanization through its household registration (huk...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 11-Sep-2014, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780199892815)
Adult Development applies the concept of complex postformal thought in order to explore how certain cognitive processes support individuals close relationships such that those relationships grow stronger and richer over time....Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 11-Sep-2014, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780199936892)
This book tells the history of sound machines through singers whose bodies and voices do not match. Jennifer Fleeger explores this phenomenon, moving from the fictional Trilby to the real-life Youtube star Susan Boyle, and demonstrating along the wa...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 04-Sep-2014, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198702528)
An intellectual biography of Max Weber which uses his most famous work, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism as its starting point, with wider reference to the social, political, and religious thought of the time...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 04-Sep-2014, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199363032)
This book proposes a new concept - musical experience - as the most effective framework for navigating the shifting terrain of educational policy as it is applied to music education. It expands upon the dimensions of musical experience and provides,...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 04-Sep-2014, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199371914)
This book unearths the origins of popular minority-rights politics in American history. Focusing on controversies spurred by grassroots moral reform in the early nineteenth century, it shows how a motley array of self-understood minorities reshaped...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Sep-2014, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780199357505)
In Mass Politics in Tough Times, the eminent political scientists Larry Bartels and Nancy Bermeo have gathered a group of leading scholars to analyze the political responses to the Great Recession in the US, Western Europe, and East-Central Europe....Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Sep-2014, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780199359653)
Jacob Kinnard offers an in-depth examination of the complex dynamics of religiously charged places. He argues that places are sacred because we make them sacred, and that they remain in perpetual motion, transforming themselves from moment to moment...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Sep-2014, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780199371259)
This volume explores at length the contours of an important and troubling virtue -- its cognates, contrasts, and perversions; its strengths and weaknesses; its awkward relations with universal morality; its oppositional form and limits; as well as t...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 28-Aug-2014, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780199375134)
Twenty Years After Communism is concerned with the explosion of a politics of memory triggered by the fall of state socialism in Eastern Europe, and it takes a comparative look at the ways that communism and its demise have been commemorated (or not...Lasīt vairāk
