Oxford University Press: 9227 books
Making Harvard Modern
The Rise of America's University
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2001
Making Harvard Modern is a candid, richly detailed portrait of America's most prominent university from 1933 to the present: seven decades of dramatic change. Early twentieth century Harvard was the country's oldest and richest university, but not necessarily its outstanding one. By the century's...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016
The second edition of Neurobiology of Disease includes nearly 200 articles surveying all major disorders of the nervous system in both adults and children, focusing on relevant diagnosis and treatments from the perspective of cutting edge clinical and basic neurobiological research. Akin to an encyclopedia...
by C. John Sommerville
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2006
The American university has embraced a thorough secularism that makes it increasingly marginal in a society that is characterized by high levels of religious belief. The very secularization that was supposed to be a liberating influence has resulted in the university's failure to provide leadership...
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...
Black Reconstruction in America (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois)
An Essay Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860-1880
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black political culture in the United States through his founding role in the NAACP, as well as internationally through the Pan-African movement. Du Bois's sociological...
Restless Giant
The United States from Watergate to Bush v. Gore
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2005
In Restless Giant, acclaimed historical author James Patterson provides a crisp, concise assessment of the twenty-seven years between the resignation of Richard Nixon and the election of George W. Bush in a sweeping narrative that seamlessly weaves together social, cultural, political, economic, and...
The Oxford Guide to Financial Modeling
Applications for Capital Markets, Corporate Finance, Risk Management and Financial Institutions
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2004
The essential premise of this book is that theory and practice are equally important in describing financial modeling. In it the authors try to strike a balance in their discussions between theories that provide foundations for financial models and the institutional details that provide the context...
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 Early Twentieth Century
The Oxford History of Western Music
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2006
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...
Music from the Earliest Notations to the Sixteenth Century
The Oxford History of Western Music
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2006
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...
by Christopher Brumfit
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
The book draws upon linguistic, psychological, philosophical, and sociolinguistic principles and uses practical examples from second, foreign, and mother tongue teaching. It attempts to integrate theoretical and empirical work with the practical needs of institutions and of teachers without losing sight of learners' needs for free personal choice combined with effective communication.
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Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
The Scottish philosopher David Hume (1711-1776) is widely regarded as the greatest and most significant English-speaking philosopher and often seen as having had the most influence on the way philosophy is practiced today in the West. His reputation is based not only on the quality of his philosophical...
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...