Oxford University Press

Camera Works is about the impact of photography and film on modern art and literature. With examples from the avant-garde of the little magazine and from classic authors like Fitzgerald and Hemingway, it argues that literature and art become modern by responding to these new means of representation....

In this book the authors draw on extensive field work that took them over a five year period to a variety of Russian regions. By describing the forms of small farming they found in these regions, the authors uncover for the reader Russia's 'unknown agriculture', speculating about the role it will have in Russia's future....

This book summarizes the advances in our understanding of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD), as well as the potential relationship between the two....

A Concise HistoryOne hundred and fifty years ago the Civil War began, and its hold on the American imagination has not abated since. This volume offers a concise history of the era, and serves as a necessary introduction to dramatic events that fundamentally reshaped the nation....

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Sui-Tang China and Its Turko-Mongol Neighbors challenges readers to reconsider        China's relations with the rest of Eurasia. Investigating interstate competition and        cooperation between the successive Sui and Tang dynasties and Turkic states of        Mongolia from 580 to 800, Jonathan Skaff upends the notion that inhabitants of...