Oxford University Press

A Curriculum Using TechnologyTeaching Music through Composition offers a practical, fully multimedia curriculum designed to teach basic musical concepts through the creative process of music composition. Author and award-winning music educator Barbara Freedman presents classroom-tested ways of teaching composition with technology as a tool with...

Harry Hopkins and the Forging of the Alliance to Defeat HitlerAn engaging biography of one of FDR's closest advisors and political point man during World War II, The Hopkins Touch brings this significant figure to life, through previously private diaries and letters....

Family, Work, and Religion among American CatholicsWhy do polarizing conflicts concerning the family resonate so strongly among American Catholics? Through detailed ethnographic analysis of one conservative and one progressive parish, this book reveals how church metaphors and religious identities matter to parishioners&' marriages, childrearing,...

Gender, Power, and Organizational CultureChild Sexual Abuse and the Catholic Church is a unique reference for scholars of the Church and therapists who work with both victims and offenders, as well as a forward-thinking blueprint for reform....

Digital Media and the Arab SpringIn 2011, the international community watched as citizens mobilized through the Internet and digital media to topple three of the world's most entrenched dictators: Ben Ali in Tunisia, Mubarak in Egypt, and Qaddafi in Libya. Democracy's Fourth Wave examines not only the unexpected evolution of events during...

The Septuagint and the Making of the Christian BibleMost readers of religious literature have no knowledge of the Bible that was used almost universally by early Christians, or of how that Bible was birthed, how it grew to prominence, and how it differs from the one used as the basis for most modern translations. Timothy Michael Law offers the...