Oxford University Press

What happens when we engage with fictional characters? How do our imaginative        engagements bear on our actions in the wider world? Moving between the literary and        the philosophical, Sophie Ratcliffe considers the ways in which readers feel when        they read, and how they understand ideas of feeling.On Sympathy uses...

Internationally recognized master teacher and noted tenor Richard Miller answers over 200 specific questions on voice technique and performance. In this guide to technical security, he offers professional performers, students, and teachers practical means for assisting artistic performance....

Using sources ranging from the famous 12th-century female practitioner, Trota of Salerno, through to the great tomes of Renaissance male physicians, this is a pioneering study challenging the common belief that, prior to the 18th century, men were never involved in any aspect of women's healthcare in Europe....

This text has grown from years of teaching psychiatry to medical students and residents. Though the mental status examination is covered in brief chapters in psychiatric texts, this is a current and thorough text which is devoted solely to describing its components. Such a comprehensive work on the MSE will fill a void in the teaching literature...

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This book examines how tax policies contributed to the financial crisis; whether taxation can play a role in the reform efforts to establish a sounder and safer financial system; and the pros and cons of various tax initiatives....