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Rodrigo D?az, the legendary warrior-knight of eleventh-century Castile known as El Cid, is still honored in Spain as a national hero for liberating the fatherland from the occupying Moors. Yet, as...

The connectivity fostered by globalization coupled with the increased tension generated by the tragedies of September 11th and other terrorist atrocities have created an intellectual hunger on both...

Author: Andrei LankovPublisher: Oxford University PressPublication Date: Dec 01, 2014Number of Pages: 336 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0199390037ISBN-13: 9780199390038

Michael O. Emerson and Glenn E. Bracey II argue that most white Christians in America are believers in a "Religion of Whiteness" that raises the perpetuation of racial inequality to a spiritual...

The Renaissance Battle for Rome examines the rhetorical battle fought simultaneously between a wide variety of parties (individuals, groups, authorities) seeking prestige or legitimacy through the...

The first English language political history of Kuwaiti parliament, this book provides an unprecedented holistic treatment of grassroots contemporary Kuwaiti politics in English in over two decades,...

The most sweeping account of how neoliberalism came to dominate American politics for nearly a half century before crashing against the forces of Trumpism on the right and a new progressivism on the...

In 1933, the delightfully eccentric travel writer Robert Byron set out on a journey through the Middle East via Beirut, Jerusalem, Baghdad and Teheran to Oxiana, near the border between Afghanistan...

This very short introduction sets out the origins and development of an English-language debate centered around the phrase rule of law." It aims is to explore the distinctive ethical contribution...

The series provides commentaries on the most important of the non-biblical texts from the Dead Sea Scrolls. This volume considers the Serek Texts, or the Rule of the Community, which are concerned...

The Sea Around UsAuthor: Rachel CarsonPublisher: Oxford University PressPublication Date: Dec 18, 2018Number of Pages: 256 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0190906766ISBN-13:...

The Selected Classical Papers of Basil Lanneau GildersleeveAuthor: Basil Lanneau GildersleevePublisher: Oxford University PressPublication Date: May 01, 1992Number of Pages: 400 pagesBinding:...

With a new epilogue to the 40th anniversary edition.Author: Richard DawkinsPublisher: Oxford University PressPublication Date: August 01, 2016Number of Pages: 544 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

The Simple Care Of A Hopeful Heart : Mentoring Yourself In Difficult TimesAuthor: Robert J. WicksPublisher: Oxford University PressPublication Date: Dec 01, 2021Number of Pages: 176 pagesLanguage:...

Author: C. Wright MillsPublisher: Oxford University PressPublication Date: Apr 13, 2000Number of Pages: 256 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0195133730ISBN-13: 9780195133738

The Solace Of Fierce Landscapes: Exploring Desert And Mountain SpiritualityAuthor: Belden C. LanePublisher: Oxford University PressPublication Date: Feb 01, 2007Number of Pages: 282 pagesLanguage:...

The SpartansAuthor: Andrew J. BaylissPublisher: Oxford University PressPublication Date: Aug 03, 2020Number of Pages: 160 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: HardcoverISBN-10: 0198853084ISBN-13:...

After receiving a PhD in mathematics from MIT, Larry spent three decades working in the tech industry, most recently in the area of speech recognition. And today, in his late-fifties and after a...

The verb be has a remarkable history, and a wider range of meanings, uses, and forms than any other English word. In this book, David Crystal explores the intriguing story of this verb over 26...

The System of Public Sacrifice in Fourth-Century AthensAuthor: Vincent J. RosivachPublisher: Oxford University PressPublication Date: May 01, 1994Number of Pages: 184 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

In this penetrating new study, Skocpol of Harvard University, one of today's leading political scientists, and co-author Williamson go beyond the inevitable photos of protesters in tricorn hats and...

The New Oxford Shakespeare edition of The Tempest provides a friendly yet authoritative introduction to Shakespeare's famous play.Author: William Shakespeare, Lecturer in Early Modern Studies Lauren...

Since the end of the twentieth century, our understanding of Nazi Germany has been transformed in a variety of ways. In this collected volume, Richard J. Evans offers a critical commentary on that...

Author: Elizabeth C. EconomyPublisher: Oxford University PressPublication Date: Sep 02, 2019Number of Pages: 368 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 019005655XISBN-13: 9780190056551

Situated at the intersection of film and media studies, literary theory, and continental philosophy, The Traces of Jacques Derrida's Cinema provides a trenchant account of the role of cinema in the...

This book presents an introduction to one of the most important treaties ever written, the Treaty of Versailles, which formally ended World War I in 1919. Controversial from the very beginning, the...

The Trial is one of the central works of modern literature. This meticulous new translation includes the chapters Kafka left incomplete and is accompanied by a biographical preface, detailed...

A fully updated new edition of Ronald Hutton's classic work on the history of modern pagan witchcraft.Author: Ronald HuttonPublisher: Oxford University PressPublication Date: March 01, 2021Number of...

In The Two Faces of Fear, Ana Villareal provides an in-depth study of how people live in a high-violence environment, drawing on two years of qualitative fieldwork conducted during a violent turf war...

Compromise is essential for accomplishing anything significant in the legislative arena, and yet recent political polarization has made compromise much harder to achieve. The U.S. Congress was...