Oxford University Press Usa: 518 books
by Jeremy Brown;J. P. Wyatt;R. N. Illingworth;M. J. Clancy;P. Munro
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2008
Written by leading American practitioners, the Oxford American Handbooks of Medicine each offer a pocket-sized overview of an entire specialty, featuring instant access to guidance on the conditions that are most likely to be encountered. Precise and prescriptive, the handbooks offer up-to-date advice...
by John L. Esposito
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2000
Lavishly illustrated with over 300 pictures including more than 200 in full color The Oxford History of Islam offers the most wide-ranging and authoritative account available of the second largest--and fastest growing--religion in the world. John L. Esposito Editor-in-Chief of the four-volume Oxford...
Music in the Nineteenth Century : The Oxford History of Western Music
The Oxford History of Western Music
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2009
The universally acclaimed and award-winning Oxford History of Western Music is the eminent musicologist Richard Taruskin's provocative, erudite telling of the story of Western music from its earliest days to the present. Each book in this superlative five
by John L. Heilbron
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2003
Containing 609 encyclopedic articles written by more than 200 prominent scholars, The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science presents an unparalleled history of the field invaluable to anyone with an interest in the technology, ideas, discoveries, and learned institutions that have shaped...
by William Beezley;Michael Meyer
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
The Oxford History of Mexico is a narrative history of the events, institutions and characters that have shaped Mexican history from the reign of the Aztecs through the twenty-first century. When the hardcover edition released in 2000, it was praised for both its breadth and depth--all aspects of...
by Simon Winchester
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2011
In the summer of 1858 in a garden behind Christ Church in Oxford Charles Dodgson--better known by his pseudonym Lewis Carroll--dressed the six-year-old Alice Liddell in ragamuffin's clothes and then snapped the camera's shutter. In The Alice Behind Wonderland Simon Winchester uses the famous photograph...
by William L. Andrews;Frances Smith Foster;Trudier Harris
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2001
A breathtaking achievement this Concise Companion is a suitable crown to the astonishing production in African American literature and criticism that has swept over American literary studies in the last two decades. It offers an enormous range of writers-from Sojourner Truth to Frederick Douglass from...
by David M. Albala;Leonard G. Gomella;Allen F. Morey;John P. Stein
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
The Oxford American Handbook of Urology provides authoritative point-of-care guidance on all aspects of the field covering both benign and malignant conditions as well as medical and surgical management. Incorporating diagnosis and treatment advice from established published guidelines as well as...
The Bottom Billion : Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It
Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2007
Global poverty Paul Collier points out is actually falling quite rapidly for about eighty percent of the world. The real crisis lies in a group of about 50 failing states the bottom billion whose problems defy traditional approaches to alleviating poverty. In The Bottom Billion Collier contends that...
Music In The Seventeenth And Eighteenth Centuries
The Oxford History of Western Music
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2009
The universally acclaimed and award-winning Oxford History of Western Music is the eminent musicologist Richard Taruskin's provocative erudite telling of the story of Western music from its earliest days to the present. Each book in this superlative five-volume set illuminates-through a representative...
Music In The Late Twentieth Century
The Oxford History of Western Music
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2009
The universally acclaimed and award-winning Oxford History of Western Music is the eminent musicologist Richard Taruskin's provocative erudite telling of the story of Western music from its earliest days to the present. Each book in this superlative five-volume set illuminates-through a representative...
Tibetan Yoga and Secret Doctrines : Or Seven Books of Wisdom of the Great Path According to the Late Lama Kazi Dawa-Samdup's English Rendering
Or Seven Books of Wisdom of the Great Path, According to the Late L=ama Kazi Dawa-Samdup's English Rendering
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2000
Books audiotapes and classes about yoga are today as familiar as they are widespread but we in the West have only recently become engaged in the meditative doctrines of the East--only in the last 70 or 80 years in fact. In the early part of the 20th century it was the pioneering efforts of keen scholars...
by C. Vann Woodward;William S. McFeely
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2001
C. Vann Woodward who died in 1999 at the age of 91 was America's most eminent Southern historian the winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Mary Chestnut's Civil War and a Bancroft Prize for The Origins of the New South. Now to honor his long and truly distinguished career Oxford is pleased to publish this...
The Scratch of a Pen : 1763 and the Transformation of North America
1763 and the Transformation of North America
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
In this superb volume in Oxford's acclaimed Pivotal Moments series Colin Calloway reveals how the Treaty of Paris of 1763 had a profound effect on American history setting in motion a cascade of unexpected consequences as Indians and Europeans settlers and frontiersmen all struggled to adapt to new...