Oxford University Press

Dodder, Baldmoney, Cloudberry, and Sneezewort are the last four gnomes in Britain, and were first introduced to us in the Carnegie Medal-winning book, "e;The Little Grey Men"e;. In this charming book, their story continues, and we find them tucked up in their cosy home, next to the Folly, for winter. But, when they're awakened from...

The modern applications of X-ray crystallography range from drug design to characterization of high technology materials. This book tells the story of its pioneers and relates how the first crystal structures were determined....

While much has been written about race in early America, scholars have generally focused on the southern colonies in the 18th century. Here, Bailey turns his gaze northward and to an earlier period, to the origins of puritan New England, and contends that as colonial New Englanders offered spiritual redemption to their neighbors they began creating...

Ethics and the Aesthetics of Suffering in the MahabharataThis book explores the relationship between ethics, aesthetics, and religion in classical Indian literature and literary theory by focusing on one of the most celebrated and enigmatic texts to emerge from the Sanskrit epic tradition, the Mahabharata....

The Partial PowerEminent China scholar David Shambaugh&'s China Goes Global is the sweeping synthesis of that nation&'s growing prominence on the world stage that we have been waiting for. Thirty years ago, China&'s role in global affairs beyond its immediate East Asian periphery was decidedly minor. Its military was extremely weak, and it had...

The History, Life, and Thought of Bhaktisiddhanta SarasvatiModern Hindu Personalism explores the life and works of Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati (1874-1937), a Vaishnava guru of the Chaitanya school of Bengal. Ferdinando Sardella examines Bhaktisiddhanta's background, motivation and thought, especially as it relates to his forging of a modern...