Oxford University Press

In this book, Christina de Bellaigue uses schooling for girls as a lens through which to examine the lives of women on either side of the Channel. She looks at boarding-schools for girls in nineteenth-century England, exploring the emergence and expansion of private schooling for girls, the recruitment and training of schoolmistresses; the...

A fascinating case study of a province of Alexandretta caught in mandate system of the League of Nations and Great Power Politics in the interwar period....

"e;Character"e; has become a front-and-center topic in contemporary discourse, but        this term does not have a fixed meaning. Character may be simply defined by what        someone does not do, but a more active and thorough definition is necessary, one        that addresses certain vital questions. Is character a singular...

Catholics and Protestants have, since the earliest days of the Reformation, held markedly different views about the Virgin Mary. Beth Kreitzer examines the development of Lutheran views on this subject as expressed in 16th century Lutheran published sermons, starting with the earliest of Luther's own Reformation sermons. She shows that from the...

Just Enough Physiology takes the reader on a guided tour of cardiopulmonary physiology. You'll discover how the heart, lungs, and circulation work in extreme environments so that you're better equipped to understand how they function - or malfunction - at the bedside, in the operating room, or in the intensive care unit. Like the brain teasers that...

This is the second of three volumes of plays by Henry Fielding, whose vibrant early career in theatre has been overshadowed by his later fame as the author of novels like  Tom Jones. The edition makes his plays, and his rich gift for theatrical comedy, accessible for the first time in modern form....