Oxford University Press

Art Tatum was the greatest virtuoso performer in the history of jazz piano; his technique overwhelmed almost every jazz player who heard him and caused classical virtuosos to take notice. Through extensive interviews with Tatum's friends and fellow musicians, James Lester captures the complexities of this remarkable talent and the vibrant jazz...

Galvani's Spark describes the gradual understanding of the nerve impulse--the basis of all thoughts, sensations and actions. Proceeding from a chance observation on a frog leg, to studies on squid giant axons and bacteria, this book concludes with the increasing realization that ion channells are responsible for a variety of clinical disorders....

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George Benston, professor of Finance, Accounting, and Economics at Emory University and an impassioned advocate for corporate integrity, died unexpectedly in January 2008. His colleagues have selected and organized his most important papers into two volumes. This first volume consists of his research in the banking and financial services industry....

What Earliest Christianity Learned from the Apocrypha and PseudepigraphaJews have sometimes been reluctant to claim Jesus as one of their own; Christians have often been reluctant to acknowledge the degree to which Jesus' message and mission were at home amidst, and shaped by, the Judaism(s) of the Second Temple Period. In The Jewish Teachers of...