Oxford University Press

The Man who Saved Sea Turtles: Archie Carr and the Origins of Conservation Biology is the first scientific biography of Archie Carr (1909-1987), the leading authority on the ecology and conservation of sea turtles for most of his distinguished career....

This new reading of Irish literature identifies, for the first time, the formative influence of music in Irish writing over the past 200 years. Although this influence has long been acknowledged in studies of Shaw and Joyce, White explores music as an abiding preoccupation in the work of Moore, Yeats, Synge, Shaw, Joyce, Beckett, Friel, and Heaney....

Hume's Skeptical Crisis is a textual study of the shifts in perspective that unfold as Hume attempts to produce a complete science of human nature. In the process, Hume's standpoint shifts from buoyant optimism to profound skeptical melancholy and finally comes to rest at a stable form of mitigated skepticism....

1695-1717 Music to Delight the SpiritThis first of a two-volume study deals with the earlier part of Bach's career, and examines the output of his youth and its many external influences, before moving on to study the first great masterpieces in which Bach's own personal voice begins to emerge....

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Interpreting Russia's nineteenth-century colonial system in Alaska,     Russian America looks at how the Russians governed the indigenous people of their American colony and the ways in which they drew upon their experience in Siberia and other imperial models....