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The first book on the ethics of inheritance in nearly 100 years~A powerful attack on the right to pass wealth from generation to generation, as a driver of inequality and economic segregation~Defends the controversial measure of increasing inheritance tax~Accessible to a broad readership in philosophy, social sciences, and public policy~The first volume in New Topics in Applied Philosophy, a major new series for OUP

An original theory of criminal responsibility from a leading figure at the intersection of philosophy and law~Suggests a new approach to child criminality~Gives political rather than psychological grounding for leniency~Draws out implications for criminal justice policy

Provides a detailed exploration of Christology, from the beginnings of Christianity to present day~Examines the best biblical and historical scholarship and offers dynamic new perspectives~Brings together the latest research in Biblical, Patristic, Medieval, Reformation, and Systematic Christology~Concludes with sections concerning Christology and the arts and Christological norms

Over 1,800 clear and authoritative A-Z definitions of terms from the fields of social work and social care~Includes methods, theories, policies, organizations, and statutes, as well as key terms from interdisciplinary topics such as health and education~Updated to include over 200 new entries, including updates following the implementation of the Care Act (2014), and new definitions such as advocacy, care and support planning, Mental Health Ta...

The first Global study of the donkey's place in human history~Strongly grounded in archaeology, the book emphasizes the diversity and wealth of material evidence available for understanding donkeys in human history~Interdisciplinary focus; Using historical and anthropological sources~Draws on French, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese sources~Extensively illustrated; 100+ images and 16 page plate section

One of a kind book on Indian art~Resource book on Indian art that brings together primary material~Documentation on Indian art is remarkably thin and scattered~Detailed bibliography

Companion website features dozens of video and audio clips demonstrating the exercises in the book~Applies the Alexander Technique to the practice and performance of all string instruments~Offers a holistic approach to achieving technical and creative freedom on a string instrument

Synthesizes in-depth historical accounts with important theoretical arguments to challenge prevailing legal and theoretical approaches to questions about the source of constitutionalism~Argues that revolutionaries, anti-federalists, abolitionists, and suffragists should be recognized as civic founders and co-founders of the U.S. Constitution~Explores the role of engaged citizens and social movements in shaping the legal text and terms of moder...

Uses the term targeted development to describe the funding wealthy nations provide to development projects abroad when and where it serves their own self-interests~Provides historical comparisons, a formal model, and empirical analysis of foreign aid, trade agreements, and climate finance~Analyzes the rising importance of targeted development as an important foreign policy goal for wealthy states

Uses the term targeted development to describe the funding wealthy nations provide to development projects abroad when and where it serves their own self-interests~Provides historical comparisons, a formal model, and empirical analysis of foreign aid, trade agreements, and climate finance~Analyzes the rising importance of targeted development as an important foreign policy goal for wealthy states

Emphasizes an earlier time period--the 1950s--for the literary turn in anthropology~Demonstrates how writers and anthropologists continued their collaborations and conversations after the period of high modernism~Highlights the importance of the 1950s in cultural and intellectual history as a moment of dynamic transformation in its own right~Analyzes British, US, French, African, and Caribbean writers and intellectuals in a transatlantic, mult...

Only scholarly monograph to apply a unifying theory of temporality to Ralph Ellison's entire body of work~Challenges many long-held critical assumptions (or misconceptions) concerning Ellison's identity and reputation~Proves that Ellison's work anticipates complexity studies and Chaos Theory~Demonstrates the applicability of Ellison's work to the study of the arts and to the social problems that continue to shape our world

Proposes a new theory of the people as a process rather than a substance via analysis of early American literature~Advances an understanding of enchantment as a contingent state of embodied cognition~Contests traditional formulations of enchantment as a pre-modern or religious worldview--or as a necessarily delusive mental state--by conceiving of enchantment as a mood with distinct affective and temporal dimensions

Interprets the Civil War era across an astonishing variety of primary materials~Uses philosophy and critical theory to open up new ways of thinking about the Civil War~Dismantles the conventional wisdom that photography was more important than other areas of Civil War visual culture~Challenges our customary ways of thinking about the cultural importance of the Civil War dead

Provides the first study to focus on Emerson's experience, late in life, of profound memory loss~Offers a reading of Emerson that positions his thinking as inherently communal, social~Assesses the extent to which works published under Emerson's name were actually collaborations~Reveals the crucial role of Ellen Tucker Emerson in helping to compose many of Emerson's texts

Theorizes and examines the genre of white liberal race fiction from the 18th century to the present~Places recognizably important novels such as Uncle Tom's Cabin, Huckleberry Finn, and To Kill a Mockingbird in a new light by linking them together in the effort to create racial liberalism through fiction~Mixes history, biography, close reading, cultural analysis, and literary theory in prose that is lively and accessible

Offers the first full-length study of foliate friezes as a distinct class of objects~Addresses the symbolism and ideological functions of medieval churches in unique ways~Splendidly illustrated with 170 photographs, with 50 in color~Engages critically with polychromy of medieval churches

A new theory of composite literary form in the first half of the twentieth century, hinging on the figuration of the woman-in-series~A series of original and convincing readings of four major modernist authors that build on new archival findings in establishing photography as an aesthetic analogue and travelling discourse to their work~The first literary study to systematically apply to modernist writing the insights of new work in visual cult...

Brings together, for the first time, the far-flung history of American Studies~Explores unpublished archival material from Ralph Ellison, F.O. Matthiessen, Alfred Kazin, and Margaret Mead~Draws on the archives of the Salzburg Seminar in American Studies (originally the Salzburg Seminar in American Civilization)~Reveals alternative histories of American exceptionalism, both within the United States and without

Brings together, for the first time, the far-flung history of American Studies~Explores unpublished archival material from Ralph Ellison, F.O. Matthiessen, Alfred Kazin, and Margaret Mead~Draws on the archives of the Salzburg Seminar in American Studies (originally the Salzburg Seminar in American Civilization)~Reveals alternative histories of American exceptionalism, both within the United States and without