Oxford University Press

This book describes the historical emergence and spread of the to-infinitive in English. The exposition is clear and does not assume an up-to-date knowledge of generative theory. The book will appeal to the wide spectrum of scholars interested in the transformation of Old to Middle English as well as to those studying the processes and causes of...

In the early evening of 16 October 1834, to the horror of bystanders, a huge ball        of fire exploded through the roof of the Houses of Parliament, creating a blaze so        enormous that it could be seen by the King and Queen at Windsor, and from        stagecoaches on top of the South Downs. In front of hundreds of thousands...

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In this short, elegant book, Philip Kitcher distills the case for Darwinian evolutionary theory and its implications in a clear and forceful way. Kitcher shows how the alleged rivals to Darwinism, like Intelligent Design, are essentially scientifically bankrupt - and that scientific discoveries, including Darwin's, pose a genuine problem for...

Throughout history plague has been the cause of many major catastrophes. It was        responsible for the Black Death of 1348 and the Great Plague of London in 1665, and        for devastating epidemics much earlier and much later, in the Mediterranean in the        sixth century, and in China and India between the 1890s and 1920s. Today, it...

A Very Short IntroductionLeofranc Holford-Strevens explores time measurement and the organisation of time into hours, days, months and years using a range of fascinating examples from Ancient Rome and Julius Caesar's Leap Year, to the 1920s' project for a fixed Easter....