Oxford University Press

This collection of eighteen essays, including one by Nobel Prize winning author J. M. Coetzee, explores the fascinating and nuanced relationship between translation and the classic text....

Seven Generations of an American FamilyWhether opposing Nathaniel Bacon and his rebels in 1676, condemning English colonial policy in 1776, or turning back the Union Army at the Seven Days' Battles of 1862, the descendants of Richard and Anne Lee have occupied a preeminent place in American history. Two were signers of the Declaration of...

War of Another Kind studies a North Carolina county during the Civil War period and draws broader implications. It is essentially a work of social history - akin in many ways to Michael Fellman's Inside War. The book fits well into Civil War courses, those on the antebellum period and wartime South, and broader social-history oriented courses....

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This fully revised classic text provides a comprehensive and integrated overview of the community theory and skills fundamental to all areas of social work practice....

In this book, Powers examines works on Tibetan history by Tibetan and Chinese authors that have been produced in English for Western consumption. He finds some of their claims absurd, others highly implausible, some humorous in an unintended way. Both narratives are fraught with internal contradictions and inconsistencies - even the most ridiculous...