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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History The unforgettable saga of one enslaved woman's fight for justice--and reparations Born into slavery, Henrietta Wood was taken to Cincinnati and legally freed...

Teaching to Live explores the connections between religion, education, and struggles for freedom within African American communities throughout the twentieth century by examining the lives of African...

What happens when Broadway goes abroad? Tell It to the World: The Broadway Musical Abroad offers a look at how the Broadway musical travels the world, influencing and even transforming local...

The European Court of Human Rights, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, and the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights are three supranational jurisdictions that protect human rights. This...

The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars In The Midst Of A Big OneAuthor: David KilcullenPublisher: Oxford University PressPublication Date: Apr 15, 2011Number of Pages: 384 pagesLanguage:...

Many thinkers believe that the next transformational change in human organisation will be the onset of human-level artificial intelligence (the 'singularity'), and that the most likely method of...

On a summer's day in 1858, in a garden behind Christ Church College in Oxford, Charles Dodgson, a lecturer in mathematics, photographed six-year-old Alice Liddell, the daughter of the college dean,...

The American Military: A Concise History narrates the American military experience. It focuses on four recurring themes-- citizen soldiers vs. the standing armed forces; military professionalism;...

Familiar figures - missionaries, explorers, trappers, traders, prospectors, gunfighters, cowboys, and Indians - appear in these pages. So do renowned individuals such as Daniel Boone, Thomas...

For all men are persuaded by considerations of where their interest lies... Aristotle's Art of Rhetoric is the earliest systematic treatment of the subject, and it remains among the most incisive...

Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) was one of the most admired astronomers who ever lived and a key figure in the scientific revolution. A defender of Copernicus' s sun-centered universe, he famously...

Author: Craig L. SymondsPublisher: Oxford University PressPublication Date: Sep 01, 2013Number of Pages: 464 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0199315981ISBN-13: 9780199315987

The victor belongs to the spoils.' F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel, The Beautiful and Damned (1922), is a devastating portrait of a generation of wealthy young Americans who struggle to find...

In 'The Best Things in Life', distinguished philosopher Thomas Hurka takes a fresh look at these perennial questions as they arise for us now in the 21st century. Should we value family over career?...

Author: Robert Carroll, Stephen PrickettPublisher: Oxford University PressPublication Date: May 01, 2008Number of Pages: 1824 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0199535949ISBN-13:...

Author: Michael D. CooganPublisher: Oxford University PressPublication Date: Dec 01, 2020Number of Pages: 216 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0199383030ISBN-13: 9780199383030

Author: Catherine FletcherPublisher: Oxford University PressPublication Date: Jul 08, 2020Number of Pages: 338 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0190092149ISBN-13: 9780190092146

Discusses the inexpressibility of physical pain and analyzes the philosophical and cultural aspects of pain, torture, and warAuthor: Elaine ScarryPublisher: Oxford University PressPublication Date:...

A compelling exploration of Bosniak political identity, chronicling the development of a nation and its people in the wake of catastrophe.Author: Jasmin MujanovicPublisher: Oxford University...

In this acclaimed and award-winning work, Collier shines much-needed light on a group of small nations--home to the poorest one billion people on Earth--that pose the central challenge of the...

Alfonso X (1221-84) ruled over the Crown of Castile from 1252 until his death. Known as "the Wise," he oversaw the production of a wealth of literature, one of the most impressive of which is the...

The Castle (Oxford World'S Classics)Author: Franz Kafka, Anthea BellPublisher: Oxford University PressPublication Date: Jul 01, 2009Number of Pages: 336 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Race, slavery, and ideology in colonial North America -- Resistance and African American identity before the Civil War -- War, freedom, and a nation reconsidered -- Civilization, race, and the...

For thirty years the director of the Wiener Library in London--the leading institute for the study of anti-Semitism--Walter Laqueur here offers both a comprehensive history of anti-Semitism as well...

The twelve articles in this book (five of them by editor Jacob Neusner) explore the background developments and motivating forces for what Neusner calls the "re-invention" of history in the fourth...

The Condition Of The Working Class In England (Oxford World'S Classics)Author: Friedrich EngelsPublisher: Oxford University PressPublication Date: Aug 01, 2009Number of Pages: 368 pagesLanguage:...

The Consolation Of Philosophy (Oxford World'S Classics)Author: Boethius,, P. G. WalshPublisher: Oxford University PressPublication Date: Oct 15, 2008Number of Pages: 171 pagesLanguage:...

In The Constitution of the War on Drugs, David Pozen provides an authoritative, critical constitutional history of the drug war, casting new light on both drug prohibition and U.S. constitutional...

This book offers a comprehensive introduction to the thought of Chicago Divinity School theologian Bernard Meland (1871-1993). Tyron Inbody places Meland's theology within the development of the...