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Viruses: The Invisible Enemy (Oxford Landmark Science)Author: Dorothy H. CrawfordPublisher: Oxford University PressPublication Date: Jan 03, 2022Number of Pages: 272 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

In Wars of Ambition, Afshon Ostovar explores America's decline and Iran's rise in the Middle East since 9/11 and through 2023. It examines America's involvement in the region, Iran's counter to it,...

Author: David Hackett FischerPublisher: Oxford University PressPublication Date: Feb 01, 2006Number of Pages: 576 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 019518159XISBN-13: 9780195181593

This is the third and final volume of a new verse translation of the complete plays of Aristophanes by Stephen Halliwell. The translations combine accuracy with an attempt to capture the rich...

Waste Paper in Early Modern England argues that rhetorical commonplaces referring to waste paper are indicative of everyday, material experience - of an author's, reader's, housewife's, or...

The most romantic parts of this narrative are precisely those which have a foundation in fact. Edward Waverley, a young English soldier in the Hanoverian army, is sent to Scotland where he finds...

Weather has always affected human life. Understanding how weather events form and predicting what kind of weather is coming can help enormously to manage weather-risk and will become even more...

In What Cities Say, Emily Talen provides a wide-ranging yet concise synthesis of the fundamental drivers of built form, its social and cultural meaning, and how we should interpret it. Including...

This book is a fiftieth anniversary republication of Thomas Nagel's "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?", a classic article in the philosophy of mind. Through its argument for the irreducible subjectivity...

What Makes Civilization?: The Ancient Near East And The Future Of The WestAuthor: David WengrowPublisher: Oxford University PressPublication Date: Apr 01, 2018Number of Pages: 240 pagesLanguage:...

This book examines the nature of messianic movements by studying a specific case history. Carole Myscovski argues that underlying any single messianic movement is a messianic tradition that draws...

Christology is especially problematic for feminists. Because Jesus was undeniably male and because the Christian church claims him as the unique God-bearer, feminist christology confronts the dual...

This volume answers unusual questions from classical music lovers about things they have always wondered but didn't know who to ask. The answers come from professional musicians and give a glimpse...

Why do heroes fight each other? Why do villains keep trying even though they almost never win? Why don't heroes simply take over the world? Economics and comics may seem to be a world apart. But in...

Why the Nineties Matter offers an incisive yet broad-ranging history of America in that decade. Terry Anderson focuses on key trends that either began or gained steam then and which have had lasting...

Ian McEwan once said, 'When women stop reading, the novel will be dead.' This book explains how precious fiction is to contemporary women readers, and how they draw on it to tell the stories of their...

What are Christians to be and to do in the world? What does faithfulness look like in these complex and confusing times? This book offers a program for faithful Christian living in today's...

To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour William Blake wrote some of the most moving and memorable verse in the...

Author: William WordsworthPublisher: Oxford University PressPublication Date: Sep 01, 2008Number of Pages: 784 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0199536864ISBN-13: 9780199536863

This book offers an important contribution to the recovery and articulation of African-American womanist experience. Ida Wells-Barnett (1862-1931) was an activist, social reformer, and churchwoman...

This work examines the dynamics through which women are marginalized and impoverished, and offers a constructive proposal for addressing women's socio-economic vulnerability. Part One surveys the...

Author: Laura M. Argys, Susan L. AverettPublisher: Oxford University PressPublication Date: Mar 01, 2022Number of Pages: 256 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0190093382ISBN-13:...

Julie Candler Hayes explores the contributions of seventeenth and eighteenth-century French women philosophers and intellectuals to moralist writing, a genre focusing on dispassionate observations on...

Covering nearly 225 years, this volume tries to capture a broad spectrum of the situation of women performers from Gerasim Lebedeff's time (1795), who are considered to be the first performers in...

Word Myths: Debunking Linguistic Urban LegendsAuthor: David WiltonPublisher: Oxford University PressPublication Date: Nov 01, 2008Number of Pages: 240 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

We were prompted to write this book based on three recurring questions from our various audiences, who range from undergraduates to executive MBA students, from entry-level workers to seasoned...

Dali L. Yang's Fateful Choices offers a penetrating study of China's management of the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan, a momentous event that has reverberated globally as the severe pandemic in a century...

Xoana and the Origins of Greek SculptureAuthor: A. A. DonohuePublisher: Oxford University PressPublication Date: May 01, 1988Number of Pages: 536 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

Revision of paperback edition published in 2011.Author: George C. HerringPublisher: Oxford University PressPublication Date: Feb 17, 2017Number of Pages: 490 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

In 2014, a tribal alliance from Yemen's northern regions seized the capital city of Sana'a and overthrew a republic that had ruled since 1962. Known as the Houthi Movement, these rebels are today...