Oxford University Press

The new edition of this popular Blackstone's Guide to the Freedom of Information        Act 2000 provides a comprehensive overview of the Act, combined with comment and        analysis on the effect of the legislation, along with a full copy of the Act        itself....

This group biography follows three generations of ministers' daughters and wives in a famed American Unitarian family. Cynthia Tucker examines the Eliots, their religious tradition, and the Eliot women's largely neglected female vocation. Spanning 150 years from the early 19th century forward, the narrative is shaped into a series of stories. Each...

This book is an attempt to explain how, in the face of increasing religious        authoritarianism in medieval Islamic civilization, some Muslim thinkers continued to        pursue essentially humanistic, rational, and scientific discourses in the quest for        knowledge, meaning, and values. Drawing on a wide range of Islamic writings,...

This book of new research by leading experts expands our current understanding of the ways in which languages allow for ellipsis of the sluicing type to occur, and shows how sluicing constructions reveal important information about the general architecture of grammar....

American Landscape and Painting, 1825-1875, With a New Preface#N/A...

Reviews the origin and spread of cultivation in southwest Asia, Europe, and northeast Africa, from the very earliest beginnings. This new edition incorporates recent findings from molecular biology and extensive new archaeological data about the spread of agriculture within the region....