Oxford University Press

Southern California and the Shaping of Modern AmericaThe Frontier of Leisure examines the centrality of leisure to the history of Southern California, and how the region's tourist resorts and residential recreation influenced the nation, from ranch houses and the landscape of postwar suburbia to relations of labor and race, and the place of nature...

To perform well in today's highly competitive world where technical skills have        been advanced to an unprecedented degree, a singer must be able to handle incredible        pressure within the performing arena; his or her ability to deal with this stress        will often determine whether he or she will succeed. Why, then, do singers with...

Not Bread Alone is the first detailed and wide-ranging examination of food and its symbolism in the Old Testament and the world of ancient Israel. Nathan MacDonald demonstrates how references to food play a surprising and interesting role in many stories of the Old Testament....

Macy argues that for the first 1200 years of Christianity, women were in fact ordained into roles in the church. He uncovers references to the ordination of women in papal, episcopal and theological documents of the time. Beliefs that women were not ordained, he shows, is based on a later definition of ordination; unknown in the early Middle Ages....

As is becoming clearer and clearer, pressures on water resources in the United        States are growing, with no foreseeable end in sight. A Twenty-First Century US        Water Policy culls together independent analysis of freshwater availability; water        usage in agriculture, municipalities, tribal settlements, and energy...

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