Oxford University Press

Virtual Realism is an art form and a way of living with technology. To explain it, Michael Heim draws on a hypertext of topics, from answering machines to interactive art, from engineering to television programs, from the meaning of UFOs to the Internet. The book begins with the primer "e;VR 101"e;. The issues are discussed, then several...

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Neville Wylie examines Britain's diplomatic efforts to safeguard its prisoners of war in Germany between 1939 and 1945....

Griffin's study reveals the virtually unknown lives of the men who worked in the sixteenth-century presses. Using the papers of the Spanish and Portuguese Inquisition, he provides insights into popular culture and religion; the history of printing, reading, and writing; the Inquisition; and the double lives led by lower-class Protestants living...

At no time in history have prisons been filled so quickly and to such capacity than in the United States, and nowhere has this growth been more concentrated than in the disadvantaged-and primarily minority-neighborhoods of America's largest urban cities. In the first detailed empirical exploration of the effects of mass incarceration on poor...

Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance is an indispensable guide to performing and        interpreting CMR scans, with comprehensive detail on what to look for, which        sequences to include, how to acquire them, and how to interpret the images....