Oxford University Press

A general handbook covering post-surgical complications across all specialties.          Particularly relevant for junior doctors and those preparing for their membership of        the Royal College of Surgery (MRCS) exams....

The most extensive and detailed work yet written on the subject, this book examines case studies of recent prison riots in five states, explaining the occurrence and variations of riots as a reflection of the administrative breakdown of the prison system within a changing ideological context....

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In the 300 hundred years following the translation of The Arabian Nights into French and English, a chain of editions, compilations, translations, and variations has circled the globe. Here scholars from across the world reassess the influence of the Nights in Enlightenment and Romantic literature and beyond....

The Other Virgil tells the story of how a classic like the Aeneid can say        different things to different people. As a school text it was generally taught to        support the values and ideals of a succession of postclassical societies, but        between 1500 and 1800 a number of unusually sensitive readers responded to cues in        the...

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