Oxford University Press imprint: 8626 books
by Bill McCarberg, Steven Stanos, Yvonne D'Arcy
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
An estimated 60 million Americans suffer from pain. There has been an explosion in pain research, new pharmaceuticals, the recognition of complementary and alternative therapies, interventional techniques and surgery, professional pain societies and providers with expertise in pain management. Still,...
by Perry Fine
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2008
Breakthrough pain (BTP) is episodic pain that emerges through the treatment of otherwise well-managed chronic background pain. Often called pain flare or transient pain, BTP negatively affects the function and quality of life of the patient and often results in a number of other physical, psychological...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
While patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC) are now living longer with improved quality of life, the success of novel therapies for mRCC has created challenges for practicing oncologists. Many patients who initially respond to targeted therapies ultimately develop progressive disease...
by Eva Moreda Rodriguez
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
The early years of the Franco regime saw the formation of a strong governmental propaganda apparatus. Through expansive press laws that solidified state control over public and private media outlets alike, the Franco government directly influenced what information was made available to the public....
Cyberwar
How Russian Hackers and Trolls Helped Elect a President What We Don't, Can't, and Do Know
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2018
The question of how Donald Trump won the 2016 election looms over his presidency. In particular, were the 78,000 voters who gave him an Electoral College victory affected by the Russian trolls and hackers? Trump has denied it. So has Vladimir Putin. Others cast the answer as unknowable. In Cyberwar,...
God's Man for the Gilded Age
D.L. Moody and the Rise of Modern Mass Evangelism
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2003
At his death on the eve of the 20th century, D.L. Moody was widely recognized as one of the most beloved and important of men in 19th-century America. A Chicago shoe salesman with a fourth grade education, Moody rose from obscurity to become God's man for the Gilded Age. He was the Billy Graham of...
The Body in Pain:The Making and Unmaking of the World
The Making and Unmaking of the World
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 1985
Part philosophical meditation, part cultural critique, The Body in Pain is a profoundly original study that has already stirred excitement in a wide range of intellectual circles. The book is an analysis of physical suffering and its relation to the numerous vacabularies and cultural forces--literary,...
Golden Dreams
California in an Age of Abundance, 1950-1963
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2011
A narrative tour de force that combines wide-ranging scholarship with captivating prose, Kevin Starr's acclaimed multi-volume Americans and the California Dream is an unparalleled work of cultural history. In this volume, Starr covers the crucial postwar period--1950 to 1963--when the California we...
The Life of Langston Hughes
Volume I: 1902-1941, I, Too, Sing America
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2002
February 1, 2002 marks the 100th birthday of Langston Hughes. To commemorate the centennial of his birth, Arnold Rampersad has contributed new Afterwords to both volumes of his highly-praised biography of this most extraordinary and prolific American writer. In young adulthood Hughes possessed a nomadic...
The Life of Langston Hughes
Volume I: 1902-1941, I, Too, Sing America
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2002
February 1, 2002 marks the 100th birthday of Langston Hughes. To commemorate the centennial of his birth, Arnold Rampersad has contributed new Afterwords to both volumes of his highly-praised biography of this most extraordinary and prolific American writer. The second volume in this masterful biography...
Writing with Scissors
American Scrapbooks from the Civil War to the Harlem Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2012
Men and women 150 years ago grappled with information overload by making scrapbooks-the ancestors of Google and blogging. From Abraham Lincoln to Susan B. Anthony, African American janitors to farmwomen, abolitionists to Confederates, people cut out and pasted down their reading. Writing with Scissors...
by Travis D. Stimeling
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2015
In The Country Music Reader Travis D. Stimeling provides an anthology of primary source readings from newspapers, magazines, and fan ephemera encompassing the history of country music from circa 1900 to the present. Presenting conversations that have shaped historical understandings of country music,...
Jazz Anecdotes:Second Time Around
Second Time Around
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2005
When jazz musicians get together, they often delight one another with stories about the great, or merely remarkable, players and singers they've worked with. One good story leads to another until someone says, "Somebody ought to wrie these down!" With Jazz Anecdotes, somebody finally has....
by Jeannette Brown
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
Dr. Marie Maynard Daly received her PhD in Chemistry from Columbia University in 1947. Although she was hardly the first of her race and gender to engage in the field, she was the first African American woman to receive a PhD in chemistry in the United States. In this book, Jeannette Brown, an African...