Oxford University Press imprint: 8626 books
by Paul Davies, David Pearse
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
Clear, easy to follow, and free of jargon - does not assume the reader is a native speaker of English. Covers all the major topics relevant for trainee teachers with the right level of detail. Strong focus on classroom teaching, applying theoretical principles to hands-on teaching practice. Can be used...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2003
This is a reference for understanding world religious societies in their contemporary global diversity. Comprising 60 essays, the volume focuses on communities rather than beliefs, symbols, or rites. It is organized into six sections corresponding to the major living religious traditions: the Indic...
The Life of David Lack
Father of Evolutionary Ecology
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Most people who have taken a biology course in the past 50 years are familiar with the work of David Lack, but few remember his name. Almost all general biology texts produced during that period have a figure showing the beak size differences among the finches of the Galapagos Islands from Lack's...
Achieving College Dreams
How a University-Charter District Partnership Created an Early College High School
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
Achieving College Dreams: How a University-Charter District Partnership Created an Early College High School tells the story of a remarkable 10-year collaboration between the University of California, Berkeley and Aspire Public Schools to develop and nurture the California College Preparatory Academy....
Ivan Pavlov
Exploring the Animal Machine
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2000
Hailed as the "Prince of World Physiology," Ivan Pavlov continues to influence scientists today. His pioneering research on digestion, the brain, and behavior still provides important insights into the minds of animals--including humans--and is an inspiring example of imaginative experimental technique....
Identities and Audiences in the Musical
An Oxford Handbook of the American Musical, Volume 3
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
Issues of identity have always been central to the American musical in all its guises. Who appears in musicals, who or what they are meant to represent, and how, over time, those representations have been understood and interpreted, provide the very basis for our engagement with the genre. In this...
Media and Performance in the Musical
An Oxford Handbook of the American Musical, Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
For the past several years, the American musical has continued to thrive by reflecting and shaping cultural values and social norms, and even commenting on politics, whether directly and on a national scale (Hamilton) or somewhat more obliquely and on a more intimate scale (Fun Home). New stage musicals,...
Histories of the Musical
An Oxford Handbook of the American Musical, Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
The American musical is a paradox. On stage or screen, musicals at once hold a dominant and a contested place in the worlds of entertainment, art, and scholarship. Born from a mélange of performance forms that included opera and operetta, vaudeville and burlesque, minstrelsy and jazz, musicals have...
by José Victorino Lastarria
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2000
Novelist, scholar, journalist, statesman, and leading member of Chile's "Generation of 1842"--an intellectual movement so named for the founding of the National University--José Victorino Lastarria (1811-1888) lived his life at the forefront of nineteenth-century Chilean and Spanish American culture,...
The Oxford History of the Novel in English
The Novel in Africa and the Caribbean since 1950
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
Why did the novel take such a long time to emerge in the colonial world? And, what cultural work did it come to perform in societies where subjects were not free and modes of social organization diverged from the European cultural centers where the novel gained its form and audience? Answering these...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
This Second Edition of the Handbook addresses the evolving interdisciplinary health care context and the broader social work practice environment, as well as advances in the knowledge base which guides social work service delivery in health and aging. This includes recent enhancements in the theories...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2017
Throughout history and across the globe, governments have taken a strong hand in censoring music. Whether in the interests of "safeguarding" the moral and religious values of their citizens or of promoting their own political goals, the character and severity of actions taken to suppress and control...
Public Ethnomusicology, Education, Archives, & Commerce
An Oxford Handbook of Applied Ethnomusicology, Volume 3
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2019
The seven ethnomusicologists who contributed to this volume discuss the role and impact of applied ethnomusicology in a variety of public and private sectors, including the commercial music industry, archives and collections, public folklore programs, and music education programs at public schools....
De-Colonization, Heritage, and Advocacy
An Oxford Handbook of Applied Ethnomusicology, Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2019
The nine ethnomusicologists who contributed to this volume present a diverse range of views, approaches, and methodologies that address indigenous peoples, immigrants, and marginalized communities. Discussing participatory action research, social justice, empowerment, and critical race theory in relation...