Oxford University Press

This book begins with two fatal duels, as the most apt introduction to a literary period best defined by its antagonisms. Exploring three publishing phenomena of the age; the novels of Walter Scott, Byron's   Don Juan, and the new literary magazines, it attempts a radical reconfiguration of our understanding of literary culture after Waterloo....

Presenting for the first time a complete analysis of the issues surrounding commodity prices and development, this thought-provoking study provides a number of recommendations and policy prescriptions to address the unique set of development issues faced by countries reliant on only a handful of commodities for export earnings....

A revisionist assessment of the Oxford Movement. James Pereiro's rediscovery of a so far neglected concept fundamental to Tractarian thinking provides a deeper understanding of Tractarian intellectual developments and the historical events surrounding the Movement....

John Wilson Foster presents a comprehensive survey of more than sixty novelists - over a hundred popular, minor, and mainstream Irish novels - of the 1890-1922 period, largely overlooked until now. In doing so, he exposes the orthodoxy that there was never a real unbroken Irish novel tradition....

A Concise Moral CritiquePresenting an engaging critique of current criminal justice practice in the UK and USA, this book introduces central questions of criminal law theory. It develops a forceful argument that the prevailing justifications for punishment are misguided, and have resulted in the systematic infliction of unnecessary human misery....

This book serves as an invaluable guide on how clinical trials are designed and        run, how to interpret the results, and what to make of them in general. The book        includes shopping guides for trials, a list of common abbreviations used by        trialists, and tools for patients for deciding if or when to enroll in a...