Oxford University Press

How Societies Overwhelm OthersA radical new history of conquest through the ages, showing how conquering societies have established their claims to the lands of the conquered and how this has affected the invaded peoples, the invaders themselves, and the wider world...

Practice and ProcedureThis practical handbook offers guidance on good practice in core policing areas. It draws together practical advice across a wide range of police duties, along with extracts and explanations of official policy and guidance from ACPO, the NPIA/College of Policing and the National Centre for Policing Excellence....

A Journey into the Heart of NarniaFormer Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams opens a new window onto C.S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia, revealing the moral wisdom and passionate faith beneath their perennial appeal....

Feminist Theory Between Power and ConnectionHow can we think about identities in the wake of feminist critiques of identity and identity politics? Allison Weir rethinks conceptions of individual and collective identities in relation to freedom. Drawing on Taylor and Foucault, Butler, Zerilli, Mahmood, Mohanty, Young, and others, Weir develops a...

Inside British Foreign PolicyIn a book that lifts the lid on the making of British foreign policy, former Whitehall insider Gill Bennett reveals the inside story of six crucial foreign policy challenges since the Second World War, from the Korean War to the Falklands conflict - and how governments from Attlee to Thatcher responded to them....

Sound and Music in Hip CultureHipsters have always used clothing, hairstyle, gesture, and slang to mark their distance from consensus culture, yet it is music that has always been the privileged means of cultural disaffiliation, the royal road to hip. Dig argues that in hip culture it is sound itself, and the faculty of hearing, that is the...