Oxford University Press

The short story has a long rich history in Brazil, and this anthology collects the best examples from the last 125 years. The collection is edited by a leading authority in the field who has provided a critical introduction....

A Cross-Linguistic TypologyThis book is a cross-linguistic examination of the grammatical means languages        employ to represent a set of semantic relations between clauses. Professor Dixon's        opening discussion is followed by fourteen case studies of languages ranging from        Korean and Kham to Iquito and Ojibwe. The book's...

Taking another look at what is meant by "e;policing,"e; Jean-Paul Brodeur offers a comprehensive and novel theory on what policing is, how it has developed, and the various forms it takes....

As World War II came to a close and the Cold War set in, the United States had precious little knowledge about its new enemy and was poorly equipped to comprehend the new global threat. How did America learn about the Soviet Union?  In this book, David Engerman, an award-winning historian of American foreign policy, Russian history, and...

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The Lion's Pride is the first book to tell the full story of Theodore Roosevelt and his family in World War I. It is both a poignant group biography and an insightful study of the Rooseveltian notion of    noblesse oblige....