Books published by Oxford University Press, USA

It is widely agreed that to treat some human beings as less worthy of concern and respect than others is to lose sight of their humanity. But what does this moral blindness amount to? The essays in this volume offer a wide range of competing, yet overlapping, answers to this question. Some essays appeal to distinctively human capacities. Others argue that our obligations to one another are ultimately grounded in self-interest, or certain shared interests, or our natural sociability. This rich selection of proposals encourages us to rethink some of our own deepest assumptions about the moral significance of being human.

J.S. Bach's 250 extant organ works represent the greatest body of music for the pipe organ, and during his lifetime Bach was able to combine great virtuosity--daring passages for the feet as well as the hands--with bold, dramatic gestures to produce music that dazzled contemporary audiences. In this book, leading musicologist George B. Stauffer shows that Bach focused steadily on organ composition for more than fifty years, and that his unending quest for novelty, innovation, and refinement resulted in pieces that continue to reward and awe listeners today.

An account of the literary origins and development of the devotion to the Name of Jesus in late medieval England, exploring the ways in which literary texts bear witness to the Name as a powerful source of contemplation and spiritual development which became central to devotional practice in the period.

Through a close examination of scholarly works, government documents, and over 60 in-depth focusedinterviews with experts based in India, China, Australia and the U.S. the author argues that, while strategic rivalry is not the only driver of naval modernization, it is the most compelling explanation.

The book recreates a past of Hindus and Muslims living together in Kashmir. The atmosphere of togetherness is rife. Almost perfect. The stories also return the reader to the terrible conditions of Hindu refugees as they began to live in the refugee camps in Jammu and other places of India.

Setting out the correct indictments and sentencing provisions for the different sexual offences dating back to 1943, The Sexual Offences Referencer is an all-encompassing and invaluable guide containing all the technical information likely to be needed in sexual offences cases.

Peacebuilding Legacies addresses an important gap relating to the long-term effects of peacebuilding programmes involving children and young people. Podder unpacks the concept of peacebuilding legacy through the lens of time, transformation, and intergenerational peace.

LGBT Victorians explores Victorian thought around gender and sexual identity to examine how Victorians considered these identity categories to have produced and shaped each other, highlighting a range of individuals including Anne Lister, the defendants in the 1870s "Fanny and Stella" trial, Karl-Heinrich Ulrichs, and John Addington Symonds.

Studies the logic of propositional attitudes such as knowledge, belief, and imagination to shed new light on philosophical issues such as dogmatism, skepticism, hyperintensionality, belief revision, and mental simulation.

Presents a pragmatist explanation of ethical objectivity that argues that there are objective ethical truths that neither require nor admit of a vindication or foundation from domains outside of ethics.

Modernity and the Victorians lays out in sweeping terms an alternative conception of the political and social dynamics of the period, centred on the past, morality, and community. It offers a deliberately bracing challenge to a swathe of received wisdoms which, it asserts, have fatally misled students of modern Britain.

Firearms and Clinical Practice is an essential handbook for medical and mental health professionals, providing readers with the overarching Know, Ask, Do (KAD) framework for navigating gun-related issues that may arise in their work. With concepts grounded in the empirical literature and best practices in the clinical and forensic treatment and assessment arenas, this book will facilitate clinical-decision making for practitioners working in a broad range of settings and contexts.

In Hold Your Friends Close, Sarah Logan provides the first exploration of counter-radicalization policy and homegrown extremism through a theoretical and historical lens. While there are some basic similarities in approach across countries, there are important divergences too. Logan argues that this stems from different ideas about the nature of citizenship and national belonging. Providing the first detailed policy history of counter-radicalization in the US and the UK, as well as a detailed overview of counter-radicalization policies globally, Hold Your Friends Close is an essential read for scholars and policymakers who work on terrorism and its sources.

This updated edition of The Oxford Handbook of Psychology and Spirituality codifies the leading empirical evidence in the support and application of postmaterial psychological science. Lisa J. Miller has gathered together a group of ground-breaking scholars to showcase their work of many decades that has come further to fruition in the past ten years with the collective momentum of a Spiritual Renaissance in Psychological Science. With new and updated chapters from leading scholars in psychology, medicine, physics, and biology, the Handbook is an interdisciplinary reference for a rapidly emerging approach to contemporary science. Highlighting fresh ideas and supporting science, this overarching work provides both a foundation and a roadmap for what is truly a new ideological age.

The law of torts is concerned with what we owe to one another in the way of obligations not to interfere with, or impair, each other's urgent interests as we go about our lives in civil society. This book argues that tort law addresses a domain of basic justice and that its rhetoric of reasonableness implies a distinctive morality of mutual right and responsibility.

How has The Wizard of Oz become so popular on film, television, and stage? This book offers new insights into American identity through the special relationship between musicals and L. Frank Baum's children's novel. Drawing on personal experience, Ryan Bunch offers new readings of the MGM film (1939), The Wiz (1975), Wicked (2003), and other Oz musicals to reveal how the performative magic of the fairy tale musical, with its impliedinclusions and exclusions, imagines an American utopia.

The rule of law, once widely embraced and emulated, now faces serious threats to its viability. To answer these fundamental threats, we first must return to its foundational principles. This book articulates a coherent framework and foundation for thinking about the rule of law and planning strategies for building and defending it against serious challenges to its intelligibility, relevance, and normative force.

The Oxford Handbook of Traumatic Stress Disorders covers the current landscape of research and clinical knowledge surrounding traumatic stress disorders. Topics include classification and phenomenology, contributions from theory, assessment and treatment of traumatic stress disorders, prevention, and early intervention following trauma. This expanded, updated edition provides research updates and highlights areas that need continued clarification through additional research. With new chapters on adverse childhood experiences, suicide following the experience of trauma, and evidence-based treatments, the second edition provides an up-to-date and valuable resource for clinicians and investigators with interest in traumatic stress disorders.

Cultural Competency in Psychological Assessment: Working Effectively with Latinx Populations focuses on the practical application of culturally informed assessment approaches with Latinx persons in mental health settings. Drs. Mercado and Venta discuss the mental health needs of the growing Latinx population and provide guidance on the best practices to use when working with this highly diverse cultural group.

The Ex Post Facto Clause, one of the few civil liberty protections found in the body of the US Constitution, reflects the Framers' acute concern over the tendency of legislatures to enact burdensome retroactive laws targeting unpopular individuals. In The Ex Post Facto Clause, Wayne A. Logan provides the first book-length examination of the history of the Clause and its potential for tempering the punitive impulses of modern American legislatures. Drawing on Framing Era history, seminal Supreme Court decisions, and the global embrace of the values underlying the Ex Post Facto Clause, Logan provides a blueprint for how the Clause can play a reinvigorated and more robust role in guarding against the penal populism besetting modern American legislatures.

Containing patient vignettes as well as scientific and policy controversies that have emerged as the opioid epidemic has evolved, The Right to Pain Relief and Other Deep Roots of the Opioid Epidemic examines the ethical and scientific concepts about pain that made the opioid epidemic possible and offers a new lens through which to view the opioid epidemic as a consequence of serious misunderstandings of both opioids and pain.

In Blood and Ashes provides the first historical study of the development and dissemination of ritualized curse practice in the ancient Greek world (c. 750-250 BCE). Filled with new material and insights, the volume offers a fresh perspective on ancient Greek social history and religion, highlighting the importance of ritual in negotiating life's uncertainties.

The definitive reference for travel medicine, updated for 2024!For over half a century, the CDC Yellow Book has been providing trusted, vetted, reliable information for travelers and professionals. Along with disease- and destination-based recommendations for vaccines and precautions, this comprehensive resource serves as a guide to understanding and addressing the various health threats associated with all types of international travel, including pandemic guidance.

Part of the "What Do I Do Now?: Emergency Medicine" series, Pediatric Emergency Radiology is an engaging collection of thought-provoking cases which clinicians can utilize for effective imaging of pediatric patients in emergency situations.