Oxford University Press

America's Literature of Race and FreedomPhiladelphia Stories analyzes the narratives about race, character, manners, violence, and freedom that unfold across a range of texts written in and about Philadelphia between 1790 and 1860. A historic and symbolic city on the border between slavery and freedom, Philadelphia was home to one of the...

A Pianist's Guide to Musical InterpretationPlaying Beyond the Notes: A Pianist's Guide to Musical Interpretation demystifies the complex concepts of musical interpretation in Western tonal piano music by boiling it down to basic principles in an accessible writing style. Author and veteran piano instructor Deborah Rambo Sinn tackles a...

Measuring Welfare and Assessing SustainabilityIs GDP a good proxy for social welfare? Building on economic theory, this book confirms that it is not, but also that most alternatives to it share its basic flaw, i.e., a focus on specific aspects of people's lives without sufficiently taking account of people's values and goals. A better...

Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches in Poverty AnalysisThis book is about poverty in the Global South. It presents results from a wide range of mixed method, or Q-Squared (QA2) - combined qualitative and quantitative approaches - studies conducted in sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and Latin America about who are poor and why....

Gerald O'Collins explores the full scope of the positive teaching by the Second Vatican Council (1962-65) on other living faiths, illustrating how the Council made a startling advance in official Catholic teaching and how this teaching was borne out in the work of Pope John Paul II and Jacques Dupuis....

Producing the Patient Through Film, Television, and Imaging TechnologiesHow do visual images shape the practice of medicine? What role does visual representation play in the cultivation of medical ways of seeing? And how has medicine's visual culture changed in the digital age?   Kirsten Ostherr's ambitious study explores 120...