Oxford University Press

The death of his beloved wife leaves the Duke of Omnium, former Primer Minister,        struggling to impose his will on his three children: in debt, and in love with        unsuitable marriage partners, they seek to go their own way, and the novel explores        family conflict, principle, and the conquering power of love. The last in the...

This collection of new essays presents a set of debates about what money was in antiquity and how it functioned. The focus is mainly on the Greeks, who were not the original inventors of coinage but were responsible for its widespread adoption, and on the Roman Empire, which developed one of the most complex of known pre-modern economies....

Reflections on the Gulf WarIn Into the Desert, Jeffrey Engel has gathered an all-star cast of contributors to write about and reflect on the first Gulf War: Michael Gordon of the New York Times; Sir Lawrence Freedman, former foreign policy advisor to Tony Blair; Ambassador Ryan Crocker; Middle East specialist Shibley Telhami; and Richard Haass,...

The philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) was almost wholly neglected during his sane life, which came to an abrupt end in 1889. Since then he has been appropriated as an icon by an astonishingly diverse spectrum of people, whose interpretations of his thought range from the highly irrational to the firmly analytical. Thus Spoke Zarathustra...

What do anaesthetists do? How do anaesthetics work? What are the risks? And how        does the anaesthetist know if you are really asleep? Anaesthesia is a mysterious and        sometimes threatening process. In this Very Short Introduction, Aidan O'Donnell        takes the reader on a tour through the whole of the modern...

A Very Short IntroductionThis  Very Short Introduction presents a succinct and accessible guide to the key episodes in the story of life on earth - from the very origins of life four million years ago to the extraordinary diversity of species around the globe today....