Oxford University Press

This volume collects important recent articles by Richard Kayne, one of the top formal linguists in the world. Although the articles range widely in topic and theme, they hang together in that they illustrate the power of the comparative approach, and that they reinforce Kayne's view that syntax is generally more complex than it first appears. As...

An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting is the first English book on the craft of nagging. A bitingly funny social satire, it is also an advice book, a handbook of anti-etiquette, and a comedy of manners.  The Art provides a fascinating glimpse into eighteenth-century daily life, the treatment of servants and dependants and the bringing up of...

Abraham Lincoln and Civil LibertiesOnly one president has ever suspended habeas corpus: the Great Emancipator,        Abraham Lincoln. This insightful account of civil liberties under Lincoln sheds new        light on the controversy over the great president's record on domestic security. Far        from Gore Vidal's "e;absolute...

Throughout his career, David Lewin labored to make even the most abstract theory        speak to the experience of the ordinary listener. This book combines many of Lewin's        classic articles on song and opera with newly drafted chapters on songs of Brahms,        Robert Schumann, Clara Schumann, and Milton Babbitt. Bound together by...

Therapist Guide It's Only a False AlarmThis Therapist Guide outlines a 12-session CBT-based treatment for OCD that benefits not only children and adolescents ages 8 - 17, but their families as well. Each session incorporates a family therapy component in addition to individual treatment for the child. It is a combined approach program that educates...

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