Oxford University Press Usa: 518 books
by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 1997
Like other great nineteenth century novels--The Scarlet Letter, Anna Karenina, Madame Bovary--Machado de Assis's Dom Casmurro explores the themes of marriage and adultery. But what distinguishes Machado's novel and what makes it such a delightful discovery for English-speaking readers, is its eccentric...
by Robert M. Durling, Ronald L. Martinez
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 1996
This new translation presents the Italian text of the Inferno, and, on facing pages, Robert Durling's new prose translation, which brings a new power and accuracy to the rendering of Dantes extraordinary vision of Hell, with all its terror, pathos, and sardonic humor, and its penetrating analyses...
by Ted Gioia
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2011
Ted Gioia's History of Jazz has been universally hailed as a classic--acclaimed by jazz critics and fans around the world. Now Gioia brings his magnificent work completely up-to-date, drawing on the latest research and revisiting virtually every aspect of the music, past and present. Gioia tells the...
The Learning Brain:Memory and Brain Development in Children
Memory and Brain Development in Children
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
Despite all our highly publicized efforts to improve our schools, the United States is still falling behind. We recently ranked 15th in the world in reading, math, and science. Clearly, more needs to be done. In The Learning Brain, Torkel Klingberg urges us to use the insights of neuroscience to improve...
A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy
The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2008
One of the great fears many of us face is that despite all our effort and striving, we will discover at the end that we have wasted our life. In A Guide to the Good Life, William B. Irvine plumbs the wisdom of Stoic philosophy, one of the most popular and successful schools of thought in ancient Rome,...
Desperate Passage:The Donner Party's Perilous Journey West
The Donner Party's Perilous Journey West
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2008
In late October 1846, the last wagon train of that year's westward migration stopped overnight before resuming its arduous climb over the Sierra Nevada Mountains, unaware that a fearsome storm was gathering force. After months of grueling travel, the 81 men, women and children would be trapped for...
A Genius for Deception:How Cunning Helped the British Win Two World Wars
How Cunning Helped the British Win Two World Wars
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
In February 1942, intelligence officer Victor Jones erected 150 tents behind British lines in North Africa. "Hiding tanks in Bedouin tents was an old British trick," writes Nicholas Rankin; German general Erwin Rommel not only knew of the ploy, but had copied it himself. Jones knew that...
by Paul S. Boyer
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
In a miracle of concision, Paul S. Boyer provides a wide-ranging and authoritative history of America, capturing in a compact space the full story of our nation. Ranging from the earliest Native American settlers to the presidency of Barack Obama, this Very Short Introduction offers an illuminating...
Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters
Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2013
While many transnational histories of the nuclear arms race have been written, Kate Brown provides the first definitive account of the great plutonium disasters of the United States and the Soviet Union. In Plutopia, Brown draws on official records and dozens of interviews to tell the extraordinary...
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
The Civil War Era
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 1988
Filled with fresh interpretations and information, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, Battle Cry of Freedom will unquestionably become the standard one-volume history of the Civil War. James McPherson's fast-paced narrative fully integrates the political, social, and military events that...
by Craig L. Symonds
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2011
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. At dawn of June 4, 1942, a rampaging Japanese navy ruled the Pacific. By sunset, their vaunted carrier force (the Kido Butai) had been sunk and their grip on the...
Mind and Cosmos:Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False
Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2012
The modern materialist approach to life has conspicuously failed to explain such central mind-related features of our world as consciousness, intentionality, meaning, and value. This failure to account for something so integral to nature as mind, argues philosopher Thomas Nagel, is a major problem,...
Ignorance:How It Drives Science
How It Drives Science
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2012
Knowledge is a big subject, says Stuart Firestein, but ignorance is a bigger one. And it is ignorance--not knowledge--that is the true engine of science. Most of us have a false impression of science as a surefire, deliberate, step-by-step method for finding things out and getting things done. In...
Golden Harvest:Events at the Periphery of the Holocaust
Events at the Periphery of the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
It seems at first commonplace: a group photograph of peasants at harvest time, after hard work well done, resting contentedly with their tools behind the fruits of their labor. But when one finally notices the "crops" scattered in front of the group, what seemed innocent on first view become...