Oxford University Press

Arguing Cultural ValueArtworld Prestige examines the ways in which cultural arguments about value develop: the processes by which some practices, artists, and media in the artworld win and others lose. The authors argue that the concept of prestige, although uncomfortable and consistently overlooked, is an essential model for understanding artworld...

When the parcel arrives for Selina it causes great excitement. A beautiful dress and gorgeous shoes - the best present a girl could ever have! But when will she ever wear them? It's war time after all. She and her cousins take action and decide to organize a pageant - there will be singing and dancing and Selina, especially, will have a very...

For X-ray and Neutron UsersThis book provides the basic theoretical background for X-ray and neutron scattering experiments. Since these techniques are increasingly being used by biologists and chemists, as well as physicists, the book is intended to be accessible to a broad spectrum of scientists....

From the Stone Age to Medieval TimesThis is the first comprehensive study of the archaeology of rafts, boats, and ships from the Stone Age to Medieval times. All the regions of the world are covered, from Atlantic Europe and the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean, the China Sea, and the Pacific....

Gender and Racial Oppression, Epistemic Injustice, and Resistant ImaginationsThis book explores the epistemic side of racial and sexual oppression. It elucidates how social insensitivities and imposed silences prevent members of different groups from listening to each other....

The Jesus People Movement in AmericaThe Jesus People were an unlikely combination of evangelical Christianity and the hippie counterculture. God&'s Forever Family is the first major examination of this phenomenon in over thirty years. It shows that the Jesus People not only helped create a new, engaged evangelical relationship to youth and popular...