Oxford University Press

The volume unites the three aspects - poetry, philosophy, and science - found in Lucretius' De Rerum Natura. With ten original essays and an analytical introduction, the volume aims not only to combine different approaches within single covers, but to offer responses to the poem by experts from all three scholarly backgrounds....

Current Legal Issues Volume 15Law and Language, the latest volume in the Current Legal Issues series, contains a broad range of essays by scholars interested in the interactions between law and language. This volume examines the themes of truth in language and the law, and the role of language in different areas of law, including contract and...

Language in the New MediaDigital Discourse offers a distinctly sociolinguistic perspective on the nature of language in digital technologies....

This book uses state of the art models from the frontier of macroeconomics to answer key questions about how the economy functions and how policy should be conducted. It includes contributions on the market as a bearer of risk, the European Debt crisis, and possible stagflation of the US economy....

History, Politics and Aesthetics in the Writings of James Joyce 1898-1915The Strong Spirit considers James Joyce's earlier writings, including Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, placing these texts in relation to the different British-Irish historical contexts immediately contemporary with them, and also the often rather...

Negotiating "e;Spanish Music"e; in Paris, 1908-1929In this book, Llano analyzes the socio-political discourses underpinning critical and musicological descriptions of "e;Spanish music"e; at the beginning of the nineteenth century and their connection with French politics and culture of the era. Llano studies operas and other musical...