Oxford University Press Usa imprint: 199 books
by Peter Burian;Alan Shapiro
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2010
Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can best re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus Sophocles and Euripides the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order to evoke...
What Does It All Mean? : A Very Short Introduction to Philosophy
A Very Short Introduction to Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 1987
Should the hard questions of philosophy matter to ordinary people? In this down-to-earth nonhistorical guide Thomas Nagel the distinguished author of Mortal Questions and The View From Nowhere brings philosophical problems to life revealing in vivid accessible prose why they have continued to fascinate...
by Naomi Baron
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2010
In Always On, Naomi S. Baron reveals that online and mobile technologies--including instant messaging, cell phones, multitasking, Facebook, blogs, and wikis--are profoundly influencing how we read and write, speak and listen, but not in the ways we might suppose. Baron draws on a decade of research to...
The Nature of Design : Ecology, Culture, and Human Intention
Ecology, Culture, and Human Intention
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2002
The environmental movement has often been accused of being overly negative--trying to stop "progress." The Nature of Design, on the other hand, is about starting things, specifically an ecological design revolution that changes how we provide food, shelter, energy, materials, and livelihood,...
The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri : Volume 3: Paradiso
Volume 3: Paradiso
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2010
Robert Durling's spirited new prose translation of the Paradiso completes his masterful rendering of the Divine Comedy. Durling's earlier translations of the Inferno and the Purgatorio garnered high praise, and with this superb version of the Paradiso readers can now traverse the entirety of Dante's...
by Paul S. Ropp
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2010
Here is a fascinating compact history of Chinese political, economic, and cultural life, ranging from the origins of civilization in China to the beginning of the 21st century. Historian Paul Ropp combines vivid story-telling with astute analysis to shed light on some of the larger questions of Chinese...
The Reactionary Mind : Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin
Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2011
Late in life William F. Buckley made a confession to Corey Robin. Capitalism is "boring" said the founding father of the American right. "Devoting your life to it" as conservatives do "is horrifying if only because it's so repetitious. It's like sex." With this unlikely conversation began Robin's...
by C. Vann Woodward
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 1992
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 1992
No history of the European imagination and no understanding of America's meaning would be complete without a record of the ideas fantasies and misconceptions the Old World has formed about the New. Europe's fascination with America forms a contradictory pattern of hopes and fears dreams and...
Friendly Fire : American Images of the Vietnam War
American Images of the Vietnam War
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2000
Hundreds of memoirs novels plays and movies have been devoted to the American war in Vietnam. In spite of the great variety of media political perspectives and the degrees of seriousness with which the war has been treated Katherine Kinney argues that the vast majority of these works share a single...
Hitler's Army : Soldiers Nazis and War in the Third Reich
Soldiers, Nazis, and War in the Third Reich
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 1991
As the Cold War followed on the heels of the Second World War as the Nuremburg Trials faded in the shadow of the Iron Curtain both the Germans and the West were quick to accept the idea that Hitler's army had been no SS no Gestapo that it was a professional force little touched by Nazi politics. But...
Cultures in Conflict : Christians Muslims and Jews in the Age of Discovery
Christians, Muslims, and Jews in the Age of Discovery
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 1995
Hailed as "the doyen of Middle Eastern studies" in The New York Times Book Review Bernard Lewis stands at the height of his field. "To read Mr. Lewis" wrote Fouad Ajami in The Wall Street Journal "is to be taken through a treacherous terrain by the coolest and most reassuring of guides. You are in...
Women in the Classical World : Image and Text
Image and Text
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 1994
Information about women is scattered throughout the fragmented mosaic of ancient history: the vivid poetry of Sappho survived antiquity on remnants of damaged papyrus; the inscription on a beautiful fourth century B.C.E. grave praises the virtues of Mnesarete an Athenian woman who died young; a great...
Max/MSP/Jitter for Music : A Practical Guide to Developing Interactive Music Systems for Education and More
A Practical Guide to Developing Interactive Music Systems for Education and More
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2011
In Max/MSP/Jitter for Music, expert author and music technologist V. J. Manzo provides a user-friendly introduction to a powerful programming language that can be used to write custom software for musical interaction. Through clear, step-by-step instructions illustrated with numerous examples of working...
The Art of Digital Audio Recording : A Practical Guide for Home and Studio
A Practical Guide for Home and Studio
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Making great audio recordings requires striking the right balance between technical know-how and practical understanding of recording sessions. Even in the digital age some of the most important aspects of creating and recording music are non-technical and as a result are often overlooked by traditional...