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Decadence: A Very Short Introduction provides an elegant overview of the culture of decadence - defined as the artistic expression of a...

Deep brain stimulation programming (DBS) continues to grow as an effective therapy for a wide range of neurological and psychiatric disorders,...

A compact and informative introduction to the Old Testament, written żeby a leading authority on the Bible. It provides an overview of one...

Thailand is home to over 350 species of reptiles, consisting of many kinds of turtles and tortoises, lizards, snakes and crocodiless. With...

The exponential growth of clinical psychology since the late 1960s can be measured in part żeby the extensive-perhaps exhaustive-literature...

Ketogenic diets have been used to successfully treat epilepsy and stop seizures for nearly a century. When more traditional therapies, such...

Systematically encompassing the major areas of applied linguistics, the editors and contributors to The Oxford Handbook of Applied Linguistics...

We all know what the words cat and dog and mother and tree mean. What we really need is a dictionary that helps us with the tough words,...

Every year, at the Wa Huang Gong temple in Hebei Province, China, people gather to worship the great mother, Nuwa, the oldest deity in Chinese...

This easy-to-carry edition of the renowned Old Scofield(R) Study Bible offers a wealth of study materials at a fantastic price. Featuring...

Today genomics, part of a larger movement toward personalized medicine, is poised to revolutionize health care. By cross-referencing an...

The era known as Reconstruction is one of the unhappiest times in American history. It succeeded in reuniting the nation politically after...

While the success of national and international law enforcement cooperation to suppress organized crime means that stable, large-scale criminal...

Change is constant in everyday life. Infants crawl and then walk, children learn to read and write, teenagers mature in myriad ways; the...

How do animals perceive the world, learn, remember, search for food or mates, communicate, and find their way around? Do any nonhuman animals...

Kinky boots, corsets, underwear as outerwear, second-skin garments of rubber and leather, uniforms, body piercing. Today everything from...

As Bill and Melinda Gates point out in their Foreword, Singer's classic essay "Famine, Affluence and Morality," is as relevant today as...

A recent estimate suggests that employees endure a staggering 55 million meetings a day in the United States. This tremendous time investment...

First published in 2011, The Jewish Annotated New Testament was a groundbreaking work, bringing the New Testament's Jewish background to...

"I celebrate myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I loafe and invite my soul,...

This handbook offers new arguments about the ways that dance improvisation informs understandings of history, socio-cultural conditions,...

When Charles Darwin, then age 22, first saw the HMS Beagle, he thought it looked "more like a wreck than a vessel commissioned to go round...

The twenty-eight challenging yet accessible essays in this Handbook represent the best of current thinking in the study of Latin language...

This thoroughly revised and substantially updated edition contains the best scholarship informed by recent discoveries and anchored in the...

What does Tibetan Buddhism teach? Just what is the position of the Dalai Lama, and how will his succession be assured? This Very Short Introduction...

A large gap exists in the literature of ancient numismatics between general works intended for collectors and highly specialized studies...

What do we wish to know about psychotherapy and its effects? What do we already know? And what needs to be accomplished to fill the gap?...

The Oxford Handbook of Urban Planning is an authoritative volume on planning, a long-established professional social science discipline...

Victors not only write history: they also reproduce the texts. Bart Ehrman explores the close relationship between the social history of...

This brief history of America will span the earliest migrations to the present, reflecting Paul S. Boyer's interests in social, intellectual,...

Japan and the Shackles of the Past offers a penetrating overview of Japan, from a historical, social, political, economic, and cultural...

Princeton neuroscientist Michael Graziano lays out an audacious new theory to account for the mystery of consciousness. Suitable for general...

Borders: A Very Short Introduction offers insights into the form and function of historical and contemporary political and social boundaries....

Keyboard artists in the time of J.S. Bach were simultaneously performers, composers, and improvisers. Żeby the twentieth century, however,...

A definitive new account of the professional and personal life of one of Hollywood's most unforgettable, influential stars. Archie Leach...

This classic text covers over 700 different genetic syndromes involving the head and neck, and has established itself as the definitive,...

The United Nations has been called everything from "the best hope of mankind," to "irrelevant" and "obsolete." With this much-needed introduction...

This Handbook is the first authoritative reference work solely dedicated to the theory, method, and applications of Construction Grammar,...

Accessible guide offering a positive and critical reading of the New Testament, placing the ancient writings in their historical and literary...

This handbook provides both an overview of state-of-the-art scholarship in philosophy of science, as well as a guide to new directions in...

The Maya forged the greatest society in the history of the ancient Americas, and one of the great societies in human history. Long before...

To European explorers, it was Eden, a paradise of waist-high grasses, towering stands of walnut, maple, chestnut, and oak, and forests that...

Ronald W. Langacker created an approach to linguistics called Cognitive Grammar, which is essentially a system of symbols that can be used...

In a world obsessed with appearance, it is not surprising that body dysmorphic disorder, or BDD -- an emotionally painful obsession with...

The Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation of Jewish sacred writings) is of great importance in the history of both Judaism and Christianity....

Parenting an anxious child means facing constant challenges and questions: When should parents help children avoid anxiety-provoking situations,...

Winner of the Cantemir Prize of the Berendel Foundation Eugenic thought and practice swept the world from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth...

City planning is a practice and a profession. It is also a set of goals and--sometimes utopian--aspirations. Formal thought about the shaping...

For over 50 years students, professors, clergy, and general readers have relied on The New Oxford Annotated Bible as an unparalleled authority...

This handbook offers an invaluable and up-to-date resource on this criticial and fascinating World Hertiage site

In this Very Short Introduction, Alan Taylor presents the current scholarly understanding of colonial America to a broader audience. He...

Revised edition of A concise economic history of the world, 2003.

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The first half of this book argues that physicalism cannot account for consciousness, and hence cannot be true. The second half explores...

Byzantium has long been regarded by many as one big curiosity - decadent, degenerate, superstitious, theocratic, effeminate. With its tales...

In The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order, Gary Gerstle provides a sweeping re-interpretation of the entire era-from the revival of market...

This Very Short Introduction deals with the social life of language, presenting a succinct account of the most important aspects - both...

In this Very Short Introduction, leading historian of science Owen Gingerich offers a fascinating portrait of Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543),...

The Oxford Handbook of Carl Schmitt collects thirty original chapters on the diverse oeuvre of one of the most controversial thinkers of...

If you feel as though you can no longer control your gambling, if your gambling has interfered with your family, social, or working life,...

Beatriz Caiuby Labate and Clancy Cavnar offer an in-depth exploration of how Amerindian epistemology and ontology concerning indigenous...

A foremost scholar in comparative cognition-a discipline closely connected to behavioral biology, evolution, and cognitive neuroscience-author...

The Atlas of Descriptive Histology is the most comprehensive histology atlas available. It covers all tissues and organs, each subject prefaced...

Early Americans were suspicious of centralized authority and executive power. Casting away the yoke of England and its king, the founding...

Brazil's bird diversity is one of the richest in the world. And yet there has never been a comprehensive field guide to this splendid and...

For film-goers and film students, this new book in the }VSI{ series gives a behind the scenes look at the process of film composition and...

Business ethics raises many important philosophical issues. A first set of issues concerns the methodology of business ethics. What is the...

Homer's tale of the abduction of Helen to Troy and the ten-year war to bring her back to Greece has fascinated mankind for centuries since...

This new edition of Garner's Dictionary of Legal Usage marshals and analyses the modern legal vocabulary more thoroughly than any other...

BLA new translation from the Tibetan, with a verse-by-verse philosophical commentary in English Mulamadhyamakakarika is the foundational...

In this comprehensive book Michael Witzel persuasively demonstrates the prehistoric origins of most of the mythologies of Eurasia and the...

The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation, which was unknown to the Western world until its first publication in 1954, speaks to the quintessence...

The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Theory provides a rich overview of the analytical frameworks and theoretical concepts that feminist theorists...

This Very Short Introduction employs the disciplines of history, religious studies, and anthropology as it illuminates the complexities...

A wide-ranging rethinking of the many factors that comprise the making of American Grand Strategy. What is grand strategy? What does it...

Have men really been engaged in a centuries-old conspiracy to exploit and oppress women? Have the essential differences between men and...

This succinct and insightful account of decolonization analyses the tumultuous events that caused the shift from a world of colonial empires...

This book examines how people understand utterances that are intended figuratively. Traditionally, figurative language such as metaphors...

1001 Legal Words You Need to Know explains and illuminates the most difficult and arcane vocabulary any American has to deal with--that...

The Greek Bronze Age, roughly 3000 to 1000 BC, witnessed the flourishing of the Minoan and Mycenean civilizations, the earliest expansion...

Books, audiotapes, and classes about yoga are today as familiar as they are widespread, but we in the West have only recently become engaged...

The Anxiety and Related Disorders Interview Schedule for DSM-5 (ADIS-5) Clinician Manual accompanies both the Adult and Lifetime versions...

A new method of music theory education for undergraduate music students, Harmony, Counterpoint, Partimento is grounded in schema theory...

In the first comprehensive study of the relationship between music and language from the standpoint of cognitive neuroscience, Aniruddh...

This book narrates the story of human biological and cultural evolution, from the earliest beginnings of our zoological family Hominidae,...

Now in its Fifth Edition, Neuropsychological Assessment reviews the major neurobehavioral disorders associated with brain dysfunction and...

A long overdue and thrillingly paced narrative of one of the most dramatic periods in Medieval history, Streams of Gold, Rivers of Blood...

Like Carl Darling Buck's Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin (1933), this book is an explanation of the similarities and differences...

As gambling becomes more prevalent and more accessible in our society, pathological gambling is growing as a serious problem. In most instances,...

Thousands of texts, written over a period of three thousand years on papyri and potsherds, in Egyptian, Greek, Latin, Aramaic, Hebrew, Persian,...

The international law governing armed conflict is at a crossroads, as the formal framework of laws designed to control the exercise of self-defense...

Building on the tradition of its classic first edition, the long-awaited second edition of Elements of Power Electronics provides comprehensive...

Mixing and mastering, the two final steps in the complex process of sound engineering, require both artistic finesse and technical facility....

Cracking the China Conundrum provides a holistic and contrarian view of China's major economic, political, and foreign policy issues.

This classic text is much beloved by medical students and physicians-in-training throughout the English-speaking world, as its many editions...

In Great Songwriting Techniques, veteran composer and teacher Jack Perricone shares years of experience in the art, science, and pedagogy...

A leading authority on the early Church offers a fascinating look at what we really know about Peter, Paul and Mary Magdalene.

BPD is a potentially devastating mental disorder characterized aby unstable moods, negative self-image, and dangerous impulsivity. Many...

Morbid obsessions with sex, germs, or with one's appearance, and uncontrollable compulsions to hoard objects, to check and recheck locks,...

Religion plays a central role in human experience. Billions of people around the world practice a faith and act in accordance with it. Religion...

Thousands of entries putting myths into historical, scientific and sociological context.

A concise and gripping account of eugenics from its origins in the twentieth century and beyond.

Japanese gods, too numerous to count, are known collectively as yaoyorozu-no-kamigami--the eight million. They are the cast of a vast, complex...

In Kabbalah: A Very Short Introduction, Joseph Dan, one of the world's leading authorities on Jewish mysticism, offers a concise and highly...

Text only edition. A comprehensive survey of the world from which the bible emerged.

More than one hundred and fifty years after the first shots were fired on Fort Sumter, the Civil War still captures the American imagination,...

The first comprehensive account of the Gospel of Judas. Extensive media promotion; on-line, in journals and conference displays.

In this engaging and readable book, Peter Decherney tells the story of Hollywood, from its nineteenth-century origins to the emergence of...

The French flute player and conductor Paul Taffanel (1844-1908) was an extraordinary virtuoso and a major figure in fin-de-siecle Parisian...

Mayo Clinic Cases in Neuroimmunology delivers a case-based walk-through of demyelinating, autoimmune, and other inflammatory neurologic...

To dramatize a story using moving images, a director must have a full understanding of the meaning and emotional effect of all the various...

Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy provides concise, evidence-based, bedside guidance for the management of critically ill patients with...

This book provides a concise, lively, up-to-date portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte's character and career, including his most important battles,...

This easy-to-carry edition of the renowned Old Scofield(r) Study Bible offers a wealth of study materials at a fantastic price. Featuring...

The first new history of the First Crusade since Steve Runciman's classic trilogy on the Crusades written in the 1950's.

The Oxford American Handbook of Oncology is the essential reference for medical students, residents, and clinical oncologists seeking a...

"One of the best analyses of the impact of Tiananmen throughout China in the years since 1989." -The New York Times Book Review On June...

A timely overview of populism, one of the most contested concepts in political journalism and the social sciences.

The first edition of Understanding Vineyard Soils, published in 2009, has been praised for its comprehensive coverage of soil topics relevant...

This book explores the lands of the ancient Near East from around 3200 BCE to 539 BCE. The earth-shaking changes that marked this era include...