Oxford University Press

Justice, Gender, and the Origins of the LA RiotsIn The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins, Stevenson explores the long-simmering resentment within LA's black community that ultimately erupted in April 1992 by focusing on an preceding event that encapsulated the growing racial and social polarization in the city over the course of the 1980s...

Latin America's Struggle for IndependenceA premier volume in Oxford's Pivotal Moments in World History series, Americanos offers an engagingly written, compact history of the Latin American wars of independence. Proceeding almost cinematically, scene by vivid scene, John Charles Chasteen introduces the reader to lead players, basic...

The astonishing role of the placentaHow does the foetus - a foreign body - survive inside the mother? The placenta is the extraordinary organ that allows this to happen; but this remarkable feat of evolution is only just being fully appreciated by science. Y.W. Loke explores the fascinating nature of the placenta and what it can tell us about...

Japanese Women, Pregnancy Loss, and Modern Rituals of GrievingBardwell L. Smith offers a fresh perspective on mizuko kuyo, the Japanese ceremony performed to bring solace to those who have experienced miscarriage, stillbirth, or abortion....

This is the first book devoted exclusively to the Major Declamations and its reception in later European literature....

A History of the American Prosperity GospelKate Bowler's Blessed represents the first attempt to examine the twentieth-century American prosperity gospel movement as a whole, seeking to introduce readers to its major figures and features, including its continuing pursuit of divine wealth, as believers look to their bank accounts for proof of...