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Most people remember chemistry from their schooldays as largely incomprehensible, a subject that was fact-rich but understanding-poor, smelly, and so far removed from the real world of events and...

In China Goes Global, eminent China scholar David Shambaugh delivers the book that the world has been waiting for--a sweeping account of China's growing prominence on the international stage. Thirty...

Originally published: Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, c2002.Author: E. B. SledgePublisher: Oxford University PressPublication Date: September 04, 2003Number of Pages: 192 pagesLanguage:...

China'S Economy: What Everyone Needs To Know® - 9780190946463Author: Arthur R. KroeberPublisher: Oxford University PressPublication Date: Jul 01, 2020Number of Pages: 464 pagesLanguage:...

Chinese theologian Kwok Pui-lan draws on a wide variety of archival material to reconstruct the life of Chinese women in the church. She analyzes their participation in social reform, and looks at...

Author: Karen StohrPublisher: Oxford University PressPublication Date: Feb 01, 2022Number of Pages: 328 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: HardcoverISBN-10: 0197537812ISBN-13: 9780197537817

This volume explains how organisms can 'know' the time and reveals what we now understand of the nature and operation of chronobiological processes. Covering variables such as light, the metabolism,...

Civil resistance is a method of conflict through which unarmed civilians use a variety of coordinated methods (strikes, protests, demonstrations, boycotts, and many other tactics) to prosecute a...

This is, for my money, the best single-source primer on the state of climate change. - New York Magazine "The right book at the right time: accessible, comprehensive, unflinching, humane." - The...

Considered by many to be the most terrifying writer in English, James's stories draw on the terrors of the everyday. Documents and objects unleash terrible forces, often in closed rooms and...

Author: M. R. JamesPublisher: Oxford University PressPublication Date: Jun 01, 2017Number of Pages: 512 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: HardcoverISBN-10: 0198797362ISBN-13: 9780198797364

Collected Maxims And Other Reflections (Oxford World'S Classics)Author: Fran^Cois De La Rochefoucauld, A.M. Blackmore, Francine Giguã¨RePublisher: Oxford University PressPublication Date: Jul 01,...

Author: Joseph A. MccartinPublisher: Oxford University PressPublication Date: Sep 01, 2013Number of Pages: 504 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0199325200ISBN-13: 9780199325207

On February 24, 2022, Vladimir Putin launched a massive invasion of Ukraine, setting in motion changes that have been felt around the globe. Collision is the story of this war's origins. It begins in...

'Colonization through a process of affection', wrote the London-based Barbadian novelist George Lamming in 1960, was 'the worst form of colonization'. Lamming's London was marked by the violent...

COMBEE is based upon original research and offers the first full account of Tubman's Civil War service and the Combahee River Raid. In the process, it also offers the story of enslaved families...

Compact Oxford German DictionaryAuthor: Michael ClarkPublisher: Oxford University PressPublication Date: Jun 10, 2013Number of Pages: 976 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

Author: Pat Bulhosen, Francesca Logi, Loredana RiuPublisher: Oxford University PressPublication Date: Jun 10, 2013Number of Pages: 960 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

Sabrina Ragone and Guido Smorto provide a concise introduction to the field of comparative law, explaining how it is used by legislators, judges, international organizations and scholars, and...

This is the only fully annotated and modernized edition to bring together Shakespeare's sonnets as well as all his poems (including those attributed to him after his death) in one volume. A full...

This work contrasts the living guru in whom disciples place their trust to other objects of faith found in the world religions. Of these, two main alternatives emerge: past founders and great gods,...

The marvellous complexity of the Universe emerges from several deep laws and a handful of fundamental constants that fix its shape, scale, and destiny. There is a deep structure to the world which at...

The marvellous complexity of the Universe emerges from several deep laws and a handful of fundamental constants that fix its shape, scale, and destiny. There is a deep structure to the world which at...

This book provides an authoritative new narrative of the Roman conquest of Britain, from the two campaigns of Julius Caesar up until the construction of Hadrian's Wall. It highlights the motivations...

First published as an Oxford world's classics paperback, 2015.--Verso of title page.Author: Eratosthenes, Hyginus, AratusPublisher: Oxford University PressPublication Date: Aug 01, 2015Number of...

In Conversations on Consciousness, Susan Blackmore interviews some of the great minds of our time, a who's who of eminent thinkers, all of whom have devoted much of their lives to understanding the...

When did Christianity become cool? How did an Australian church conquer the world and expanded into Brazil, a country with its own crop of powerful megachurches? In her exciting new book,...

Copyright law was once an esoteric backwater, the special province of professional authors, publishers, and entertainment companies, but it now impacts everyone who uses the Internet or consumes...

Coral reefs are among the most biodiverse of ecosystems. Here, Charles Sheppard tells the fascinating story of how and where coral reefs are formed and the variety of marine life they support. He...

Since the mid-1990s corruption has been increasingly recognized as a global problem. Covering a vast range of activities, from global trafficking and terrorism, to bribery and nepotism, corruption is...