Oxford University Press

The Oxford Handbook of Dental Nursing serves as a practical, easily accessible, informative and up-to-date quick reference guide that a dental nurse can use throughout their career, from the initial training stage to qualification and beyond. It is the indispensable pocket guide for dental nursing....

In this book, Slote offers the first full-scale foundational account of virtue ethics to have appeared since the recent revival of interest in the ethics of virtue. Slote advocates a particular form of such ethics for its intuitive and structural advantages over Kantianism, utilitarianism, and common-sense morality, and he argues that the problems...

Commentary, Cases, and MaterialsEconomic, social and cultural rights are finally coming of age. This book brings together all essential documents, materials, and case law relating to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) - one of the most important human rights instruments in international law - and its...

A Century of Waging WarAmerican Arsenal examines the United States' transformation from isolationist state to military superpower by means of sixteen vignettes, each focusing upon an inventor and his contribution to the cause. Beginning with Thomas Edison's developments of WWI submarine technology, and ending with Neal Blue, chairman of...

Current Practice GuidelinesClinical Cardiology: Current Practice Guidelines is an essential tool for the busy clinician, providing succinct yet detailed access to the most recent trial and guideline data supporting practice and patient management in cardiology. ESC and ACC/AHA guidelines are continually being updated and often overlap in their...

Hip Hop, Poetry, and Contemporary Rhyming CultureRhyme&'s Challenge offers a concise, pithy primer to hip-hop poetics while presenting a spirited defense of rhyme in contemporary American poetry. David Caplan&'s stylish study examines hip-hop&'s central but supposedly outmoded verbal technique: rhyme. At a time when print-based poets generally...