Oxford University Press

The American YearsThe first full-length study of Schoenberg's American years, Schoenberg's New World dispels myths and fills significant gaps in the existing Schoenberg literature. The book traces early American Schoenberg champions and illuminates Schoenberg's socialization in America, his American works and their performance and publication. The...

His Life, His Work, His WorldAward-winning music historian Howard Pollack's new biography of Marc Blitzstein        deftly captures the fascinating life and career of an American composer who was        openly gay and Marxist at a time when neither was acceptable to the American public.          The first biographer to deal with Blitzstein's music...

The Matter of Money in English Renaissance LiteratureRelying on works by Spenser, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Nashe, and Donne, The Face of        Mammon argues that the coinage of the sixteenth century is a very different object        from the money that we know today--not only formally but conceptually, in that        modern money is the object proper...

This book is a comparative study of the emergence, political influence and political role of businessmen in political life....

This illustrated study of the complex social relationships in the Wessex region of southern England in the first millennium BC offers an exciting new interpretation of the data, and also supplies a model for archaeologists of how later prehistoric societies can be interpreted....

The Lost Self: Pathologies of the Brain and Identity is an in-depth exploration into one of the most mysterious and controversial topics in neuroscience, neurology, psychiatry, and psychology - namely, the search for the biological basis of the self.   The Lost Self is a guide to understanding how the brain creates who we are, and what happens when...