Oxford University Press

In this interdisciplinary book, Livia examines a broad corpus of written texts in English and French, concentrating on those texts which problematize the traditional functioning of the linguistic gender system. They range from novels and prose poems to film scripts and personal testimonies, and in time from the nineteenth century to the present....

The Classic and the ModernA collection of essays by a team of distinguished international contributors        concerned with how Classic - mainly Greek and Latin but also Arabic and Portuguese -        texts become present in later cultures; how they are passed on, received and affect        over time and space, and how they resonate in the modern....

Landmark Papers in Cardiology provides a detailed summary of the most important trials and studies in cardiology, allowing the reader to rapidly extract key results....

In   'They Say,' James West Davidson recounts the first thirty years in the passionate life of Ida B. Wells--as well as the story of the great struggle over the meaning of race in post-emancipation America. Davidson captures the breathtaking and often chaotic changes that swept the South as Wells grew up in Holly Springs, Mississippi: the spread of...

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Although there are many popular biographies of George W. Bush, McAdams' is the first true psychological analysis based on established theories and the latest research. Short and focused, written in an engaging style, this book offers a truly penetrating look at our forty-third president....