Oxford University Press

Biography of a LanguageOffers a well-researched and highly readable survey of the language in all its historical, geographic, and social aspects...

What Everyone Needs to KnowOf the 7,000 estimated non-native species present in North America, approximately 1,000 are invasive. Clearly, invasive species are in the minority, but their small numbers don't keep them from causing billions of dollars in economic and ecological harm each year. Policymakers and ecologists continue to try to figure...

A Critical History of Industrial MusicIn Assimilate, S. Alexander Reed provides the first ever critical history of industrial music. Through a series of revealing explorations of works spanning the entirety of industrial music's past, and drawing on extensive interviews with musicians, record label owners, DJs, and concert promoters, Reed...

Many have speculated about the meaning of John Lennon's Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. Psychologist Tim Kasser applies innovative methods to the song's lyrics and music, weaving his findings together with the musician's past to provide an integrative perspective on the place of Lucy in Lennon's life....

In this volume, Feinberg focuses on the meanings of "e;interest,"e; the relationship between interests and wants, and the distinction between want-regarding and ideal-regarding analyses of interest and hard cases for the aplication of the concept of harm. Examples of the "e;hard cases"e; are harm to character, vicarious harm,...

Rog Bande Sherab's Lamp of the TeachingsJose Cabezon offers a study of the life and most important extant work of Rog Bande Sherab, also known as Rogben (1166-1244). Rogben studied under some of the greatest Tibetan Buddhist teachers of his day. An itinerant scholar and yogi, he devoted his life to collecting important textual cycles and...