Oxford University Press

This book is concerned with the most devastating fungal diseases in history. These are the plagues of trees and crop plants, caused by invisible spores that have reshaped entire landscapes and decimated human populations.  The Triumph of the Fungi focuses on the fascinating biology of the well- and lesser-known diseases, and also tells the stories...

The control over marble and metal resources was of major importance to the Roman        Empire. The emperor's freedmen and slaves, officers and soldiers of the Roman army,        equestrian officials, as well as convicts and free labour were seconded to mines and        quarries throughout Rome's vast realm. Alfred Hirt's comprehensive study...

In this book, Gandal reveals how the slum, in the last decade of the nineteenth century, became the source of spectacle as never before (in newspapers, documentary accounts, photographs, and literature), and emerged as a subject for aesthetic, ethnographic, and psychological description. He argues that the development of these new concepts and...

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Barbarians and Brothers presents a searching re-examination of early modern English and American warfare, focusing on the most important conflicts in the creation of the American republic: against the Irish in the 1500s, the English Civil War, the colonial Anglo-Indian wars, the American Revolution, and the American Civil War....

It is only recently that advances in chemistry, physics, and biology and in their application to space and the space sciences, have provided scientists with the tools to make accurate and well-informed predictions about the possibility of life on other planets. In this book, the authors summarize and present the scientific search for life in the...