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First Raise a Flag: How South Sudan Won the Longest War but Lost the Peace

Oxford University Press, 2019

When South Sudan's war began, the Beatles were playing their first hits and reaching the moon was an astronaut's dream. Half a century later, with millions massacred in Africa's longest war, the continent's biggest country split in two. It was an extraordinary, unprecedented experiment. Many have fought, but South Sudan did the...

The Qur'an and Late Antiquity: A Shared Heritage (Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity)

Oxford University Press, 2019

In this book, Angelika Neuwirth provides a new approach to understanding the founding text of Islam. Typical exegesis of the Qur'an treats the text teleologically, as a fait accompli finished text, or as a replica or summary of the Bible in Arabic. Instead Neuwirth approaches the Qur'an as the product of a specific...

General Relativity: A Concise Introduction

Oxford University Press, 2019

Einstein's general theory of relativity -- currently our best theory of gravity -- is important not only to specialists, but to a much wider group of physicists. This short textbook on general relativity and gravitation offers students glimpses of the vast landscape of science connected to general relativity. It incorporates some of the...

Social Practices of Rule-Making in World Politics

Oxford University Press, 2019

Rule-based global order remains a central object of study in International Relations. Constructivists have identified a number of mechanisms by which actors accomplish both the continuous reproduction and transformation of the rules, institutions, and regimes that constitute their worlds. However, it is less clear how these mechanisms...

Eurydice and the Birth of Macedonian Power (Women in Antiquity)

Oxford University Press, 2019

Eurydice (c.410-340s BCE) played a significant part in the public life of ancient Macedonia, the first royal Macedonian woman known to have done so, though hardly the last. She was the wife of Amyntas III, the mother of Philip II (and two other short-lived kings of Macedonia), and grandmother of Alexander the Great. Her career marks a...

The Brain from Inside Out

Oxford University Press, 2019

Is there a right way to study how the brain works? Following the empiricist's tradition, the most common approach involves the study of neural reactions to stimuli presented by an experimenter. This 'outside-in' method fueled a generation of brain research and now must confront hidden
assumptions about causation and...

Archilochus: The Poems: Introduction, Text, Translation, and Commentary

Oxford University Press, 2019

In antiquity Archilochus of Paros was considered a poet rivalled only by Homer and Hesiod, yet he has been relatively neglected by modern scholarship. This is largely due to the fragmentary state of his surviving poetry, though our knowledge has expanded significantly since the middle of the
twentieth century as new papyrological...

Love: A New Understanding of an Ancient Emotion

Oxford University Press, 2019

What is love's real aim? Why is it so ruthlessly selective in its choice of loved ones? Why do we love at all?

In addressing these questions, Simon May develops a radically new understanding of love as the emotion we feel towards whomever or whatever we experience as grounding our life--as offering us a possibility of...

Augustine's Early Thought on the Redemptive Function of Divine Judgement (Oxford Early Christian Studies)

Oxford University Press, 2019

Augustine's Early Thought on the Redemptive Function of Divine Judgement considers the relationship between Augustine's account of God's judgement and his theology of grace in his early works. How does God use his law and the penal consequences of its transgression in the service of his grace,
both personally...

The Prodigal Son in English and American Literature: Five Hundred Years of Literary Homecomings (Biblical Refigurations)

Oxford University Press, 2019

The Parable of the Prodigal Son is one of the best-known stories in the Bible. It has captured the imagination of commentators, preachers and writers. Alison M. Jack explores the reconfiguring of the character of the Prodigal Son and his family in literature in English. She considers diverse
literary periods and genres in which the...

Computational Models of Reading: A Handbook (OXFORD SERIES ON COGNITIVE MODELS)

Oxford University Press, 2021

This book is about computational models of reading, or models that explain (and often simulate) the mental processes that allow us to convert the marks on a printed page into the representations that allow us to understand the contents of what we are reading. Computational Models of Reading
assumes no prior knowledge of the...

God, Suffering, and the Value of Free Will

Oxford University Press, 2021

For many of us, the question of whether or not God exists is one of the most perplexing and profound questions of our lives, and numerous philosophers and theologians have debated it for centuries. Laura Ekstrom here takes a new look at the issue of God's existence by examining it against the
reality of human suffering, bringing...

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