A thoughtful and thought generating overview of what ails the banking sector and a reminder that the purpose of banks is to help create economic growth.
This volume collects essays and reviews by Thomas Nagel in three controversial subject areas: first, religious belief and its relation to... Læs mere
W. Bradford Wilcox and Nicholas Wolfinger offer a provocative portrait of the influence of churches on sex, childbearing, relationships, and marriage among African Americans and Latinos.
Sounding Feminine traces the development of attitudes towards the female voice that have decisively shaped modern British society and... Læs mere
One of the fundamental properties of human language is movement, where a constituent moves from one position in a sentence to another position. This book investigates how different... Læs mere
What kind of nuclear strategy and posture does the United States need to defend itself and its allies? Contrary to conventional... Læs mere
The Roman emperor Julian (361-363) was raised as a Christian, but soon after apostatized, and, during his short reign, attempted to revive paganism. This provoked the anger of the... Læs mere
In The Mark of Cain, Katharina von Kellenbach draws on letters exchanged between clergy and Nazi perpetrators, written notes of prison chaplains, memoirs, sermons, and prison publications to illuminate the moral and spiritual struggles of perpetrators after the war.