Oxford University Press

Choral Repertoire is a comprehensive reference book about choral music in Western culture from Gregorian chant to compositions of the early twenty-first century. The material in the book covers general characteristics of the major historical eras, biographical sketches and discussions of the complete choral output of more than 500 composers, and...

Merrill Peterson provides a fascinating history of Lincoln's place in American thought and imagination from the hour of his death to present. In tracing the changing image of Lincoln through time, this wide-ranging account offers insight into the evolution and struggles of American politics and society....

Narcissists have been much maligned, but according to clinicians who study        personality, there are many productive narcissists who succeed spectacularly well in        life because they can articulate a vision and make others follow. Elsa Ronningstam,        who has been studying and treating narcissists for 20 years, presents a...

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This is the first collection of the complete writings of Susanna Wesley, the mother of John, Charles, and Samuel Wesley, the founding fathers of Methodism. As an outstanding female figure of the seventeenth and eighteenth century, her writings should interest not only Methodists' but feminists and scholars of English social and religious history as...