Arts, Literature and Humanities

About the Book OXFORD SHAKESPEARE TOPICS General Editors: Peter Holland and Stanley Wells Oxford Shakespeare Topics provide students and teachers w...

About the Book This book explores how recollections and traces of the reign of Richard III survived a century and more to influence the world and w...

About the Book Shakespeare and the Gods examines Shakespeare's many allusions to six classical gods (Jupiter, Diana, Venus, Mars, Hercules and Cere...

About the Book In the last ten years, virtually every previously known fact about Shakespeare has been modified by new research. Park Honan draws o...

About the Book Shakespeare's tragedies are among the greatest works of tragic art and have attracted a rich range of commentary and interpretation ...

About the Book The idea of an alliance between Britain and its old Commonwealth colonies has recently made a remarkable comeback in the context of ...

Shades of Kashmir captures the poignant mood of the Valley when a modicum of normalcy returned to it after two decades of proxy war. Shome's journe...

About the Book Sentencing is the process through which the legitimacy of punishment is declared and justified. However, it is increasingly portraye...

About the Book S elf-Translation: Brokering originality in hybridculture provides critical, historical and interdisciplinary analyses ofself-transl...

About the Book Cees Nooteboom, best known for his novel The Following Story, is one of the most distinguished and significant authors living in the...

About the Book Oudeyer combines insights from neuroscience, evolutionary biology, and linguistics to explore questions about the origins of speech....

About the Book Oudeyer combines insights from neuroscience, evolutionary biology, and linguistics to explore questions about the origins of speech....

About the Book Exploring the quest for 'self' in the city through migrant women's narratives This ethnographical study explores the process of migr...

About the Book Frederick Garber takes up in detail several problems of the self broached in his previous book, The Autonomy of the Self from Richar...

About the Book Philosophies in several ancient traditions aimed to alleviate people's anxieties and improve their lives. In contrast to the contemp...

About the Book The Story of Nuncomar and the Impeachment of Sir Elijah Impey (1885) examines some of the most controversial events of 18th century ...

About the Book Millions of readers throughout the world continue to enjoy Treasure Island, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, A Child's Garden of Verses, and...

Explore the ancient Stoic way of thinking and the valuable lessons it holds for contemporary life This new volume contains the Enchiridion and sel...

About the Book This book aims to create a Christian theology of wisdom for the present day, in discussion with two sets of conversation-partners. T...

Secularism: The Basics is a concise and engaging introduction to confusing and contradictory public discussions of secularism across the globe. I...

Readers of Dan Brown's extraordinary bestseller The Da Vinci Code are fascinated by the questions raised in the novel. Was Jesus actually married t...

From the team that brought you the bestselling SECRETS OF THE CODE: The Unauthorized Guide to the Mysteries Behind the Da Vinci Code, comes the fir...

About the Book In the decades before the rise of the Third Reich, "Secret Germany" was a phrase used by the circle of writers around the poet Stefa...

About the Book This is the first book to approach depictive secondary predication - a hot topic in syntax and semantics research - from a crossling...

About the Book Second Language Processing: An Introduction is the first textbook to offer a thorough introduction to the field of second language p...

‘You have come into your comfort zone, haven’t you? The comfort zone is the enemy of ambition. I am willing to try, and I might even fail miserably...

About the Book Praise for Seasons of Grace "In this beautifully written book, Alan Jones and John O'Neil deliver a timely antidote to the stressed...

About the Book Our twice-yearly daylight savings holiday, in which we faithfully, collectively adjust our clocks, is purely human tampering with th...

About the Book Science occupies an ambiguous space in contemporary society. Scientific research is championed in relation to tackling environmental...

About the Book Leave no stone unturned with Andy Hirsch's Science Comics: Rocks and Minerals, the latest volume in First Second’s action-packed n...

About the Book Andrew Steane reconfigures the public understanding of science, by drawing on a deep knowledge of physics and by bringing in mainstr...

About the Book School cyberbullying, bullying and violence have reached epidemic levels. One in five school students report being bullied. Youth vi...

About the Book Since the late twentieth century, new institutions of Islamic learning for South Asian women and girls have emerged rapidly, particu...

Scarred Communities is a qualitative, psycho-ecological study of the long-term effects of disasters—both man-made and natural—on Sri Lankan communi...

About the Book This book explores the radical reconceptions of knowledge and science emerging from constructivist epistemology, social studies of s...

The Vedas are considered the oldest scriptures of mankind, the sermon by Lord Krishna is known as the Bhagvad Gita and The Upanishads are said to b...

The Vedas are considered the oldest scriptures of mankind, the sermon by Lord Krishna is known as the Bhagvad Gita and the Upanishads are said to b...

The Vedas are considered the oldest scriptures of mankind, the sermon by Lord Krishna is known as the Bhagvad Gita and The Upanishads are said to b...

About the Book Fran ois Recanati has proposed a wide-ranging truth-conditional model of pragmatics. In this collection, his theories are addressed ...

About the Book Sartre and Fiction offers a clear and accessible introduction to the extensive fictional writings of Jean-Paul Sartre. Providing com...

Sarojini Naidu: Her Way With Words

About the Book In this powerful book, Sara Paretsky explores the traditions of political and literary dissent that have informed her life and work,...

About the Book A compendium of practical information and in-depth discussions about the best places to see in San Francisco and innovative work by ...

About the Book This volume in the 21st-Century Oxford Authors series offers students an authoritative, comprehensive selection of the work of Samue...

Editorial Reviews - Samuel Johnson

About the Book Samuel stands out in many important biblical texts as the figure who facilitated ancient Israel's transition from a tribal league to...