Oxford University Press

This book explores how godly wonder can be reborn through renewed attention to the place of beauty in preaching and worship. It develops a theological understanding of beauty, and then demonstrates through the author's own sermons how preachers can give witness to that beauty through sermons based on hymns, music and poetry....

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Barack Obama and Rise and Decline of Black PoliticsIn The Price of the Ticket, Fred Harris contends that Obama's success has, in reality, exacted a negative price. His victory has not only utterly transformed the forms of black politics that emerged in the 1960s and which laid the foundation for his eventual ascendance, Harris claims-it has...

The periodic table is one of the most potent icons in science. It lies at the core        of chemistry and embodies the most fundamental principles of the field. The one        definitive text on the development of the periodic table by van Spronsen (1969), has        been out of print for a considerable time. The present book provides a successor...

The biomedical sciences have recently undergone revolutionary change, due to the        ability to digitize and store large data sets. In neuroscience, the data sources        include measurements of neural activity measured using electrode arrays, EEG and        MEG, brain imaging data from PET, fMRI, and optical imaging methods....

Color Ordered is a comprehensive, in-depth compendium of 165 color order systems, dating from antiquity to the present. It presents a history and categorisation of colour systems, describing each one using original figures and schematic drawings, and provides a broad review of the underlying theory....