Oxford University Press

A Practical Guide for Home and StudioMaking high-quality professional recordings requires the right balance of technical know-how and practical understanding of recording sessions. Getting the best audio recording results often requires as much common sense and intuitiveness in technique as it does a deep understanding of the technical elements...

This study of Lutheran funeral booklets - verse written to console bereaved parents - adds to our understanding of the genre, which has not been fully explored as literature or for what it reveals about the depiction of children or parent-child relationships in early modern Europe....

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The Age of Titans examines how heavy warships crewed by thousands of men developed from the agile triremes so popular during the Greek Classical Age. Following Alexander the Great, a new focus on naval siege warfare explains the rise in popularity of big ship navies and defines the model of naval power they made possible....

In this interdisciplinary book, Livia examines a broad corpus of written texts in English and French, concentrating on those texts which problematize the traditional functioning of the linguistic gender system. They range from novels and prose poems to film scripts and personal testimonies, and in time from the nineteenth century to the present....

The Classic and the ModernA collection of essays by a team of distinguished international contributors        concerned with how Classic - mainly Greek and Latin but also Arabic and Portuguese -        texts become present in later cultures; how they are passed on, received and affect        over time and space, and how they resonate in the modern....