Oxford University Press

A Colonial Scandal in the Heart of AfricaThe story of the Voulet-Chanoine mission to central Africa in 1898-9, one of the        most notorious atrocities to take place during the European 'scramble for Africa'        and a highly revealing portrait of European colonial brutality at its most      extreme....

Written by recognized experts in their respective fields, the books of the Series in Specialty Competencies in Professional Psychology are comprehensive, up-to-date, and accessible. These volumes offer invaluable guidance to not only practicing mental health professionals, but those training for specialty practice as well....

This handbook encompasses the entire scope of disaster medicine from general concepts and fundamental principles to both manmade and natural threats....

Peter McDonald offers a controversial reading of twentieth-century British and Irish poetry centred on six figures, all of whom are critics as well as poets: W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice, Seamus Heaney, and Geoffrey Hill.  Serious Poetry provocatively returns these writers to the elements of difficulty and cultural...

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Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction offers insights into theories about the        nature of language and meaning, human identity, and the power of language. Fully        updated for 2011 and including a new chapter on 'Ethics and aesthetics', it steers a        clear and lucid path through an often impenetrable subject....