Oxford University Press

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the        African, first published in England in 1789, was one of the earliest and remains to        this day one of the best-known English language slave narratives. Characterizing        Olaudah Equiano's eighteenth-century narrative of his life as a type of...

Rebecca Armstrong investigates the myths of three Cretan women - King Minos' wife, Pasiphae, and their daughters Ariadne and Phaedra - as they appear in Latin poetry of the late Republic and early Empire. She offers detailed readings of the most prominent treatments of the stories, alongside a thematic investigation of the ideas of memory,...

Catholicism has grown from a suppressed and persecuted outsiders' religion in the American colonies to become the nation's single largest denomination. James Fisher surveys more than four centuries of Catholics' involvement in American history, following the transformation of catholicism into one of America's most culturaly and ethnically diverse...

This original and important book looks in depth at the challenge of how to mobilize talent for international development. It shows that if managed effectively, this international mobility of talent can benefit both developing countries and more advanced economies....

Tomography provides three-dimensional images of materials or engineering components and an unprecedented insight into their internal structure. This book, written for applied physicists, materials scientists and engineers, discusses recent developments in the field, such as the extension of tomographic methods to materials research and engineering....

Written by Nancy E. Lane, a leading investigator and clinician in the field of osteoporosis. The Osteoporosis Book is an indispensable guide to the exciting medical breakthroughs that have taken place in the past few years - in bone density measurement, in oestrogen therapy, in bisphosphonate therapy, and in our knowledge of the bone cycle - that...