Robert Durling's much-anticipated translation of the Paradiso, the third and final volume of Dante's Divine Comedy, is available at last. Durling's prose translations of the Inferno and the Purgatorio garnered high praise, and with this superb version of the Paradiso readers can now traverse the ent[...]

What will be the future of social science? Where exactly do we stand, and where do we go from here? What kinds of problems should we be addressing, with what kinds of approaches and arguments? In "Cognitive Dimensions of Social Science", Mark Turner offers an answer to these pressing questions: soci[...]

All normal human beings alive in the last fifty thousand years appear to have possessed, in Mark Turner's phrase, "irrepressibly artful minds." Cognitively modern minds produced a staggering list of behavioral singularities--science, religion, mathematics, language, advanced tool use, decorative dr[...]

With differentiated structure, this Italian course uses humour, characters, interest areas, and material to help motivate the students.[...]

This brand new updating supplement brings the main work up to date and incorporates all substantive developments since publication of the 7th edition in March 2013. It is an essential purchase for all who already own the Main Work, and maintains its currency. The main body of the supplement contai[...]

The original essays in Oxford Twenty-First Century Approaches to Literature mean to provoke rather than reassure, to challenge rather than codify. Instead of summarizing existing knowledge scholars working in the field aim at opening fresh discussion; instead of emphasizing settled consensus they di[...]

The cognitive science of religion is an inherently heterogeneous subject, incorporating theory and data from anthropology, psychology, sociology, evolutionary biology, and philosophy of mind amongst other subjects. One increasingly influential area of research in this field is concerned specifically[...]

Social Work Treatment remains the most popular and trusted compendium of theories available to social work students and practitioners. This treasure trove of practice knowledge equips professionals with a broad array of theoretical approaches, each of which shine a spotlight on a different aspect of[...]

The Ritual Process has acquired the status of a small classic. Turner demonstrates how the analysis of ritual behavior and symbolism may be used as a key to understanding social structure and processes. The American Anthropologist called Turner's book "ingenious and erudite, rich in highly stimulati[...]

This text presents a reader-friendly introduction to the basic principles of experimental psychological research. Research Methods, Design, and Analysis is organized so that each chapter focuses on a specific step in the research process. This text provides instruction in experimental research as we[...]