Oxford University Press

In   Hannah's Heirs, Dr Pollen tells the compelling story of Hannah's family and their monumental contributions to the fight against Alzheimer's disease....

Gregory Landini presents and explores Bertrand Russell's substitutional theory of classes - a theory largely elaborated in unpublished manuscripts from the period before   Principia Mathematica. He shows how paradoxes about propositions gradually undermined this theory and forced Russell to recast his ideas. Landini argues, however, that even in...

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This book offers a radically new reading of Dickens. It argues that, rather than representing a largely conventional, conservative view of sexuality and gender, his corpus is distinctly queer, displaying a fascination with the diversity of gender roles, the expandability of notions of the family, and the multiplicity of sexual desire....

Using a wide array of archival documentation, including Inquisition records, wills, dowry contracts, folklore, and court cases, Poska examines how early modern Spanish peasant women asserted and perceived their authority within the family and community and how the large numbers of female-headed households in the region functioned in the absence of...

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