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This book is a reassessment of the international monetary crises of the post-World War I period that led to the Great Depression of the...

First published in 2004, The Jewish Study Bible is a landmark, one-volume resource tailored especially for the needs of students of the...

The unprecedented political power of the Ottoman imperial harem in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries is widely viewed as illegitimate...

Here is the first biography to appear in fifty years of Harvey Cushing, a giant of American medicine and without doubt the greatest figure...

The Aesthetic Brain takes readers on an exciting journey through the world of beauty, pleasure, and art. Using the latest advances in neuroscience...

An updated new edition of Ted Gioia's universally acclaimed history of jazz, with a wealth of new insight on this music's past, present,...

Robert Dallek's masterful John F. Kennedy: An Unfinished Life was a number one national bestseller, and it remains the most widely read...

Embodied Visions presents a groundbreaking analysis of film through the lens of bioculturalism, revealing how human biology as well as human...

Offers a fascinating look at early forms of Christianity, showing how they came to be suppressed, reformed or forgotten.

Building on ideas first advanced żeby Arnold Schoenberg and later developed aby Erwin Ratz, this book introduces a new theory of form for...

A Jew passing as a Christian in occupied Poland during WWII, Oswald Rufeisen worked as translator and personal secretary to a Nazi commander...

Digital Discourse offers a distinctly sociolinguistic perspective on the nature of language in digital technologies. It starts by simply...

Music theorists have long believed that 19th-century triadic progressions idiomatically extend the diatonic syntax of 18th-century classical...

"Biomedical Ethics" is a brief philosophical introduction to the most important ethical questions and arguments in six areas of biomedicine:...

Technology and increasing levels of education have exposed people to more information than ever before. These societal gains, however, have...

There are few moments in American history in which the course of events tipped so suddenly and so dramatically as at the Battle of Midway....

On February 17, 2008, Kosovo declared its independence, becoming the seventh state to emerge from the break-up of the former Yugoslavia....

Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of...

Neuroimmunology, the latest volume in the Contemporary Neurology Series, provides a practical, clinical, and scientific background on a...

When Nazi Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, launching World War Two, its army seemed an unstoppable force. The Luftwaffe bombed...

Norse Mythology explores the magical myths and legends of Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland and Viking-Age Greenland-outlining along the...

Between the fall of the western Roman Empire in the fifth century and the collapse of the east in the face of the Arab invasions in the...

Stocks and bonds? Real estate? Hedge funds? Private equity? If you think those are the things to focus on in building an investment portfolio,...

From the seventeenth century Cavaliers and Uncle Tom's Cabin to Civil Rights museums and today's conflicts over the Confederate flag, here...

In recent years, a cult of anti-expertise has engulfed America. While the United States has long been prone to bouts of anti-intellectualism,...

Hailed in The New York Times Book Review as "the doyen of Middle Eastern studies," Bernard Lewis has been for half a century one of the...

Beginning in 1945, America rocketed through a quarter-century of extraordinary economic growth, experiencing an amazing boom that soared...

Doing Oral History: A Practical Guide is considered the premier guidebook to oral history, used żeby professional oral historians, public...

Now in its second edition, Brain Architecture is the continued exploration of how the brain works. At the very core of our existence, the...

"The philosophy of mind is unique among contemporary philosophical subjects," writes John Searle, "in that all of the most famous and influential...

For four hundred years--from the first Spanish assaults against the Arawak people of Hispaniola in the 1490s to the US Army's massacre of...

"We are surrounded aby a world that talks, but we don't listen. We are part of a community engaged in a vast conversation, but we deny our...

For many observers, the European Union is mired in a deep crisis. Between sluggish growth; political turmoil following a decade of austerity...

Even though women consistently receive better grades in math and science, men excel on math aptitude tests and are greatly overrepresented...

In Mind and Cosmos Thomas Nagel argues that the widely accepted world view of materialist naturalism is untenable. The mind-body problem...

In 1910, the surgeons Moreau and LePrince wrote about their successful operation on an eight-year-old boy who had been blind since birth...

In The Rule of Empires, Timothy Parsons gives a sweeping account of the evolution of empire from its origins in ancient Rome to its most...

Charity and Sylvia is the intimate history of the extraordinary marriage of two ordinary early American women. Their story, drawn from the...

Featuring extensive revisions to the text as well as a new introduction and epilogue-bringing the book completely up to date on the tumultuous...

A finalist for the 1972 National Book Award, hailed aby The New York Times Book Review as "brilliant" and "provocative," Nathan Huggins'...

History, n. An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly...

Since its publication in 1990, Athenaze: An Introduction to Ancient Greek has helped tens of thousands of students learn classical Greek....

A gripping and beautifully written narrative that reads like a novel, Fire in the City presents a compelling account of a key moment in...

Offers a detailed account of the chemistry of wine, from grape to bottle.

Sportsman. Naturalist. Warrior. President. There are so many sides to Theodore Roosevelt that it is easy to overlook one of his most enduring...

Beginning with music fundamentals,The Complete Musician covers all the topics necessary for a thorough understanding of undergraduate music...

The Antikythera Mechanism, now 82 small fragments of corroded bronze, was an ancient Greek machine simulating the cosmos as the Greeks understood...

Over the course of a generation, algorithms have gone from mathematical abstractions to powerful mediators of daily life. Algorithms have...

An array of remarkably varied writings from early Christian groups.

What makes the modern world work? The answer to this deceptively simple question lies in four "grand transitions" of civilization—in populations,...

More than half of American adults and more than seventy-five percent of young Americans believe in intelligent extraterrestrial life. This...

In this groundbreaking book, Tymoczko uses contemporary geometry to provide a new framework for thinking about music, one that emphasizes...

This book present a years-long discussion between composers Ennio Morricone and Alessandro De Rosa about life, music, and the unpredictable...

In "The Life of the Cosmos", Lee Smolin offers a theory of the universe that is radically different from anything proposed before. He argues...

Invaluable insight into the nature of Middle East politics and religion from this globally recognised authority on Islam. All articles included...

This book vividly demonstrates how a little knowledge about the foods and drugs we eat can teach us a lot about how our brain functions....

Written aby award-winning jazz historian Ted Gioia, this comprehensive guide offers an illuminating look at more than 250 seminal jazz compositions....

In print for twenty-seven years, A Map of Misreading serves as a companion volume to Bloom's other seminal work, The Anxiety of Influence....

"The American Dream" is one of the most familiar and resonant phrases in our national lexicon, so familiar that we seldom pause to ask its...

Reveals the complex past and present of the mountainous Caucasus region at the intersection of Europe, Russia and the Middle East.

While few soldiers may have read the works of Epictetus or Marcus Aurelius, it is undoubtedly true that the ancient philosophy known as...

In the nineteenth and early twentieth century, a controversial school of Russian thinkers emerged, convinced that humanity was entering...

Richard Gilman referred to How to Read a Film as simply "the best single work of its kind." And Janet Maslin in The New York Times Book...

Spanning Ancient Egyptian culture (ca. 3200 BC to AD 400), this 'Handbook of Egyptian Mythology' is a complete survey of Egyptian mythology.

Metaphysicians should pay attention to quantum mechanics-not because it provides definitive answers to many metaphysical questions, but...

Despite its obvious advantages, our ability to be self-reflective comes at a high price. Few people realise how profoundly their lives are...

Former industry insider Sean McFate lays bare the opaque world of private military contractors, explaining the economic structure of the...

Psychopharmacology: A Concise Overview, 3rd Edition is an evidence-based overview of the major classes of psychiatric medications and their...

In The Third Revolution, eminent China scholar Elizabeth C. Economy provides an incisive look at the transformative changes underway in...

Are our lives meaningless? Is death bad? Would immortality be better? Alternatively, should we hasten our deaths aby acts of suicide? Many...

Marine pollution occurs today in varied forms-chemical, industrial, and agricultural-and the sources of pollution are endless. In recent...

The renaissance flute, with its rich history, stunning repertoire, and mellow tone, has attracted a significant following among flutists,...

As robots slip into more domains of human life-from the operating room to the bedroom-they take on our morally important tasks and decisions,...

Tropical Diseases outlines the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of diseases encountered in developing regions--areas where the unexpected...

In The Captured Economy, Brink Lindsey and Steven M. Teles identify a new culprit for increasing inequality: the government-corporate sector...

The American Military: A Concise History narrates the American military experience. It focuses on four recurring themes- citizen soldiers...

A study in contrasts, the career of Sergey Prokofiev spanned the globe, leaving him witness to the most significant political and historical...

Over a span of eighteen years, Lady Bird Johnson recorded forty-seven oral history interviews with Michael Gillette and his colleagues....

Gunther Schuller is one of America's leading contemporary composers, conductors, and musicologists. He has become increasingly dismayed...

In A Slap in the Face, William Irvine undertakes a wide-ranging investigation of insults, their history, the role they play in social relationships,...

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship...

Since its publication in 1990, Athenaze: An Introduction to Ancient Greek has helped tens of thousands of students learn classical Greek....

An eye-opening account of day to day life in the 1930s, subtitled }Ordinary Life In Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia In The 1930s{. 10...

Fourteen centuries of Islamic thought have produced a legacy of interpretive readings of the Qu'ran written almost entirely by men. Now,...

The first truly global history of the Napoleonic Wars, arguably the first world war.

Stretching from Antiquity to the Second World War, a major new work of history that examines how battles have been fought-and reveals how...

As a scientist, you are a professional writer: your career is built on successful proposals and papers. Success isn't defined żeby getting...

How did the Seregenti become an internationally renowned African conservation site and one of the most iconic destinations for a safari?...

Best known for its World Heritage program committed to "the identification, protection and preservation of cultural and natural heritage...

Most people have heard of the Celts--the elusive, ancient tribal people who resided in present-day England, Ireland, Scotland and France....

Sleep Paralysis: Historical, Psychological, and Medical Perspectives offers the first comprehensive examination of sleep paralysis from...

"Peking Man," a cave man once thought a great hunter who had first tamed fire, was actually a composite of the gnawed remains of some fifty...

This book introduces the reader to a new framework for both online dispute resolution and online dispute prevention, known as "Digital Justice."...

Feeling Unreal is the first book to reveal what depersonalization disorder is all about. This important volume explores not only depersonalization,...

China's economic growth has been revolutionary, and is the foundation of its increasingly prominent role in world affairs. It is the world's...

Visionary Film has remained the kanon text on the American avant-garde since the publication of its first edition in 1974. It has been hailed...

This book lays out foundations for a "science of morals." Binmore uses game theory as a systematic tool for investigating ethical matters....

Russia is justly famous for its vodka. Today, the Russian average drinking man consumes 180 bottles of vodka a year, nearly half a bottle...

The Bottom Billion is an elegant and impassioned synthesis from one of the world's leading experts on Africa and poverty. It was hailed...

Polymer chemistry and technology form one of the major areas of molecular and materials science. This field impinges on nearly every aspect...

In The Musician's Way, veteran performer and educator Gerald Klickstein combines the latest research with his 30 years of professional experience...

Magnetoencephalography (MEG) and electroencephalography (EEG) provide complementary views to the neurodynamics of healthy and diseased human...

The Baader-Meinhof Group-later known as the Red Army Faction (RAF)-was a violent urban guerilla group which terrorized Germany in the 1970s...

The Tang Dynasty (618-907), traditionally regarded as the goldenage of China, was a time of patricians and intellectuals, Buddhist monks...

The world is on the cusp of a global turn. Between 1500 and 1800, the West sprinted ahead of other centers of power in Asia and the Middle...

In The Real North Korea, Lankov substitutes cold, clear analysis for the overheated rhetoric surrounding this opaque police state. Based...

Widely acclaimed fresh perspective that rejects the prevailing reductionist trend. "A startling first book" }Economist{. "One of the best...

An analysis of the ecological and political impacts of invasive species, written żeby a leading invasion biologist

Now updated to include Trump's election and the rise of global populism, Corey Robin's The Reactionary Mind traces conservatism back to...

Sexting. Cyberbullying. Narcissism. People-and especially the media-are consumed żeby fears about the effect of social media on young people....

Uncommon Sense is an innovative and lively examination of science and its historical development as an "unnatural" mode of thought. This...

R. Andrew Chesnut offers a fascinating portrayal of Santa Muerte, a skeleton saint whose cult has attracted millions of devotees over the...

Refining Sound is a practical roadmap to the complexities of creating sounds on modern synthesizers. As author, veteran synthesizer instructor...

Andrei Lankov has gone where few outsiders have ever been. A native of the former Soviet Union, he lived as an exchange student in North...

Historically, Americans have seen libertarians as far outside the mainstream, but with the rise of the Tea Party movement, libertarian principles...

According to the Bible, Eve was the first to heed Satan's advice to eat the forbidden fruit and thus responsible for all of humanity's subsequent...

The world is not as mobile or as interconnected as we like to think. As Harm de Blij argues in The Power of Place, in crucial ways--from...

The end of the Cold War ushered in an age of American triumphalism best characterized aby the 'Washington Consensus': the idea that free...

Human culture values some nonhumans but not others, while human culture as a whole is engaged with an incredibly diverse range of living...

Do you want to learn everything you need to know to be a fantastic video game music composer? The Game Music Handbook is for you. This book...