Oxford University Press Usa: 518 books
by Benjamin Ginsberg
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2011
Until very recently, American universities were led mainly by their faculties, which viewed intellectual production and pedagogy as the core missions of higher education. Today, as Benjamin Ginsberg warns in this eye-opening, controversial book, "deanlets"--administrators and staffers often...
by Richard M. Valelly
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
American politics seems to grow more contentious and complicated by the day, and whether American democracy works well is hotly debated. Amidst all this roiling partisan argument and confusing claims and counterclaims, there has never been a greater need for an impartial primer on the basics of the...
Spain: What Everyone Needs to Know
What Everyone Needs to Know®
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013
What happens in Spain, among the euro zone's largest economies, matters. Its high unemployment (over 26%), burgeoning public debt, and banking crisis will be formative for the zone's future. In Spain: What Everyone Needs to Know, a timely addition to Oxford's acclaimed What Everyone Needs to Know...
The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Volume 2: Purgatorio
Volume 2: Purgatorio
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2003
The second volume of Oxford's new Divine Comedy presents the Italian text of the Purgatorio and, on facing pages, a new prose translation. Continuing the story of the poet's journey through the medieval Other World under the guidance of the Roman poet Virgil, the Purgatorio culminates in the regaining...
The Body in Pain:The Making and Unmaking of the World
The Making and Unmaking of the World
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 1985
Part philosophical meditation, part cultural critique, The Body in Pain is a profoundly original study that has already stirred excitement in a wide range of intellectual circles. The book is an analysis of physical suffering and its relation to the numerous vacabularies and cultural forces--literary,...
by R. B. Bernstein
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2003
Thomas Jefferson designed his own tombstone, describing himself simply as "Author of the Declaration of Independence and of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, and Father of the University of Virginia." It is in this simple epitaph that R.B. Bernstein finds the key to this enigmatic...
The Bible and the Believer:How to Read the Bible Critically and Religiously
How to Read the Bible Critically and Religiously
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2012
Can the Bible be approached both as sacred scripture and as a historical and literary text? For many people, it must be one or the other. How can we read the Bible both ways? The Bible and the Believer brings together three distinguished biblical scholars--one Jewish, one Catholic, and one Protestant--to...
Rediscovering Eve: Ancient Israelite Women in Context
Ancient Israelite Women in Context
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
This groundbreaking study looks beyond biblical texts, which have had a powerful influence over our views of women's roles and worth, in order to reconstruct the typical everyday lives of women in ancient Israel. Carol Meyers argues that biblical sources alone do not give a true picture of ancient...
A Perfect Moral Storm: The Ethical Tragedy of Climate Change
The Ethical Tragedy of Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2011
Climate change is arguably the great problem confronting humanity, but we have done little to head off this looming catastrophe. In The Perfect Moral Storm, philosopher Stephen Gardiner illuminates our dangerous inaction by placing the environmental crisis in an entirely new light, considering it...
Hi-de-ho:The Life of Cab Calloway
The Life of Cab Calloway
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
Clad in white tie and tails, dancing and scatting his way through the "Hi-de-ho" chorus of "Minnie the Moocher," Cab Calloway exuded a sly charm and sophistication that endeared him to legions of fans. In Hi-de-ho, author Alyn Shipton offers the first full-length biography of Cab...
Fire in the City:Savonarola and the Struggle for the Soul of Renaissance Florence
Savonarola and the Struggle for the Soul of Renaissance Florence
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2006
A gripping and beautifully written narrative that reads like a novel, Fire in the City presents a compelling account of a key moment in the history of the Renaissance, illuminating the remarkable man who dominated the period, the charismatic Savonarola. Lauro Martines, whose decades of scholarship...
Dinner with Lenny: The Last Long Interview with Leonard Bernstein
The Last Long Interview with Leonard Bernstein
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
Leonard Bernstein was arguably the most highly esteemed, influential, and charismatic American classical music personality of the twentieth century. Conductor, composer, pianist, writer, educator, and human rights activist, Bernstein truly led a life of Byronic intensity--passionate, risk-taking,...
Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right
Ayn Rand and the American Right
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2009
Worshipped by her fans, denounced by her enemies, and forever shadowed by controversy and scandal, the novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand was a powerful thinker whose views on government and markets shaped the conservative movement from its earliest days. Drawing on unprecedented access to Rand's private...
Saint Augustine of Hippo: An Intellectual Biography
An Intellectual Biography
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
St. Augustine was undoubtedly one of the great thinkers of the early church. Yet it has long been assumed--and not without reason--that the main lines of Augustine's thought have been more or less fixed since his death. That insofar as we should be aware of him in the twenty-first century, he is a...