Oxford University Press

An Exploration of Language, Mind, and UnderstandingLanguage is one of the faculties that sets humans apart from animals, the crucial thing which makes our complex social interactions possible. The Ascent of Babel explores the ways in which the mind produces and understands language: the ways in which the sounds of language evoke meaning, and the...

This book considers the use of the Bible by dissenters in Britain from the mid-seventeenth to the mid-twentieth centuries. It reconsiders the divided history of Protestantism--dissenters were people drawn together by the belief that they were truer to the Bible than any other Christians, yet still divided by differences in how they read it....

The Pre-Chomskyan EraHow do we manage to speak and understand language? How do children acquire these skills and how does the brain support them? These psycholinguistic issues have been studied for more than two centuries. Though many Psycholinguists tend to consider their history as beginning with the Chomskyan "e;cognitive revolution"e;...

A Lyricist's LettersThe man behind "e;I Could Have Danced all Night"e; and "e;Almost Like Being in Love"e;, lyricist Alan Jay Lerner (1918-1986) is widely regarded as one of the most important figures of the American musical stage. In penning the lyrics to some of the most well-known and beloved Broadway shows, including...

Describes the science of cheese making, from chemistry to biology, in a lively way that is readable for both the food scientist and the artisanal hobbyist....

The Case of IndochinaFrench Women and the Empire is the first book-length investigation of colonial gender politics in Third Republic France, using Indochina as a case study. Its departure point is the interrogation of the dramatic change in the French colonialist view of the empire as an exclusively male preserve where women feared to tread. At...