Books published by Oxford University Press, USA

Consistency in sentencing is regarded as essential for a fair system. Achieving Consistency in Sentencing brings together theoretical and practical considerations of the concept of consistency to examine how these can be realised. The book provides readers with an analysis of the various shapes that guidance takes and examines their efficacy.

Explores the intersection between medicine and medieval Iberian literature with a particular emphasis on melancholy and its links to depression and lovesickness.

Modern Irish and Scottish Literature: Connections, Contrasts, Celticisms explores the ways Irish and Scottish literatures have influenced each other from the 1760s to the contemporary era.

Considers lyrical works and the reception of Petrarch's poetry in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England. It explores these themes in the light of development of literary canons, poetic imitation, and production, from Thomas Wyatt to William Shakespeare.

This volume draws together contributions from leading international scholars in ancient philosophy to explore central issues in the moral psychology of Plato, Aristotle, and the Hellenistic schools.

A new five volume critical text edition of the only surviving ancient commentary on Plato's Timaeus, in which Proclus encompasses seven centuries of philosophical reflection on Plato's cosmology. Each volume is preceded by a substantial introduction.

This volume explores the creation and reception of Piranesi's three colossal neoclassical candelabra. Caroline Van Eck's study explores the intense interest taken by producers and consumers of art objects in objects that made the classical live again in the late 1700s and early 1800s.

Pavlov's research was foundational to the twentieth-century understanding of physiology and psychology, yet much of his work remains untranslated from the original Russian language. In this book, Olga Yokoyama translates the third volume of Pavlov's Complete Works, as well as his last unpublished paper. The volume also contains the papers from the sixth edition of Twenty Years of Objective Study of the Higher Nervous Activity of Animals. His concept of the conditional reflex has influenced human thought far beyond physiology, raising philosophical questions of the mind and its relationship to the psyche, creativity, and individual freedom.

Public administration plays an integral role at every stage of social policy creation and execution. Program operators' management decisions shape policymakers' perceptions of what can and should be accomplished through social programs, while public administrators wield considerable power to mobilize tangible and intangible resources and fill gaps in policy designs.

The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Indigenous Australia and New Guinea reviews and brings together the latest findings on the archaeology of the Australia-New Guinea region. In 42 new chapters commissioned for this book, 77 leading researchers present the archaeological evidence for Australia and New Guinea's deep-time history. The stories told reveal the astounding richness of Australia and New Guinea's Indigenous cultural history, stories of tens of thousands of years of Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander, and New Guinean adaptation, cultural know-how, and creative ingenuity.

Provides a semi-structured interview to assess DSM-5 anxiety and related disorders and includes appendix with material for autism-related expressions of anxiety in children on the autism spectrum.

The Oxford Handbook of Roman Philosophy provides a thorough exploration of Roman philosophy as a valuable study in its own right. Topics covered include ethnicity, cultural identity, literary originality, the environment, Roman philosophical figures, epistemology, and ethics.

Doing Valuable Time considers the interest--and disinterest--we take in our own lives. It explores the nature of meaningful living, the attraction to the future that is lost in depression, the motivating force of hope, the role of commitments, the inevitability of boredom, and the possibilities for contentment with imperfection.

Until recently, Baruch Spinoza's standing in Anglophone studies of philosophy has only seemed to confirm Heinrich Jacobi's assessment of him as "a dead dog." However, an exuberant outburst of scholarship on Spinoza has of late come to dominate work on early modern philosophy. While the 26 essays in this volume--by many of the world's leading Spinoza specialists--grapple directly with Spinoza's most important arguments, these essays also seek to identify and explain Spinoza's debts to previous philosophy, his influence on later philosophers, and his significance for contemporary philosophy and for humanity.

The Triumph of Doubt traces the ascendance of science-for-hire in American life and government, from its origins in the tobacco industry in the 1950s to its current manifestations across government, public policy, and even professional sports. Well-heeled American corporations have long had a financial stake in undermining scientific consensus and manufacturing uncertainty; in The Triumph of Doubt, former Obama and Clinton official David Michaels details how bad science becomes public policy -- and where it's happening today.

Through Iceboxes and Kennels informs readers about lesser discussed issues in immigration reform. Luis H. Zayas introduces the history and politics of the systems of immigration enforcement and of detention centers operated by private prison companies growing rich by using penal methods on infants, toddlers, children, and mothers. Featuring stories told by children and parents, the book describes government decisions, at the federal and state levels, that vilified and hurt children and parents. It analyzes the stages of migration from Central America and dissects the damaging effects on children's brain growth and their social, psychological, and emotional development.

Marx, Revolution, and Social Democracy argues that Marx should be understood as a social democrat. In response to claims that Marx is either totalitarian, utopian, or not a democrat, Philip J. Kain presents a four-fold argument concerning the relationship between Marx and social democracy: that Marxian socialist society is compatible with a market economy (as long as markets are controlled to eliminate alienation), that markets can be controlled democratically, that Marx accepted a democratic electoral theory of revolution, and that Marx and Engels worked actively with the Social Democratic Party of Germany.

The Protestant conviction that believers would rise again, in bodily form, after death, shaped their attitudes towards personal and religious identity, community, empire, progress, race, and the environment. In To Walk the Earth Again Christopher Trigg explores the political dimension of Anglo-American Protestant writing about the future resurrection of the dead, examining texts written between the seventeenth and mid-nineteenth centuries.

This book tells a new story about patterns of public and private grantmaking from the 1950s to the 1970s, a period during which the United States witnessed a remarkable expansion in arts patronage. Through archival documents, oral history, and ethnographic material, author Michael Sy Uy offers an in-depth analysis of grant-making practices, and highlights important and instructive issues concerning philanthropy, arts patronage, and musical production and consumption.

Thoughtful Images demonstrates that there is a rich tradition of illustrations of philosophy that originated in Ancient Greece, spread throughout Europe, thrived in twentieth century America, and continues to this day. Illustration is not generally regarded as a genuine art form on a par with painting and sculpture and many believe that the abstract claims made by philosophers are not amenable to being rendered in visual images. Wartenberg shows that the denigration of illustration as an art form is misguided in a number of ways.

STEM-H for Mental Health Clinicians is a textbook for clinical students and postgraduate practitioners who work as medical team members or independent practitioners. Scientific concepts of each bodily system are introduced using a scientific, technological, engineering, mathematical model applied to the client's health (STEM-H). Signature illnesses and injuries, technological apparatuses, and biomedical engineering of medications that treat these conditions are thoroughly explained. Mathematics are applied to determine prevalence and incidence of the illnesses or injuries in the U.S. and globally. STEM-H components contribute to research informed practice applied to the health of the client and the well-being of the family using a bench-side to bedside approach.

This is the inside story of the International Criminal Court, perhaps the most innovative international institution, from the unique perspective of its first Chief Prosecutor, Luis Moreno Ocampo.

Included in "What Do I Do Now?: Pain Medicine" series, Neuropathic Pain uses a case-based approach to cover important topics in the examination, investigation, management, and treatment of various types of neuropathic pain.

Part of the Psycho-Oncology Care: Companion Guides for Clinicians series, Psycho-Oncology in Palliative and End-of-Life Care provides expert advice and clinical management guidelines on the impact of advanced cancer and its treatment on the life and wellbeing of a patient in palliative and end-of-life care.

In this volume, Munch-Jurisic offers the first in-depth philosophical analysis of perpetrator disgust: the phenomenon of individuals experiencing severe physiological or emotional distress following acts of atrocity. By examining the relationship between emotions, human nature, and cognition through the lens of perpetrator disgust, she argues that our gut feelings are not moral instincts but should be understood as templates that can embody a broad range of values and morals.

In Theocratic Secularism, author Naser Ghobadzadeh questions the religious logic used to legitimize the rule of the clergy in Iran. Ghobadzadeh argues that orthodox shi'ism considers the institution of government to be outside the realm of religion and religious leaders. Coining the term 'theocratic secularism', Ghobadzadeh ultimately argues for the re-instatement of a form of political secularism in Iran.

Soon after the fall of the Aztec empire in 1521, missionaries began teaching Latin to native youths in Mexico. This initiative was intended to train indigenous students for positions of leadership, but it led some of them to produce significant writings of their own in Latin, and to translate a wide range of literature, including Aesop's fables, into their native language. Aztec Latin reveals the full extent to which the first Mexican authors mastered and made use of European learning and provides a timely reassessment of what those indigenous authors really achieved.