Oxford University Press

An introduction for biologistsR is rapidly becoming the standard computational environment for analysis,        graphical presentations and programming in the biological sciences. This book        details how to start doing statistics in R or how to integrate the use of R with an        existing research programme and how to achieve this...

In   Moonshadows, the Cowherds, a team of ten scholars of Buddhist Studies, address the nature of conventional truth as it is understood in the Madhyamaka tradition deriving from Nagarjuna and Candrakarti. Moonshadows combines textual scholarship with philosophical analysis to elucidate the metaphysical, epistemological and ethical consequences of...

Horace exposes the vices and follies of his Roman contemporaries in his Satires, and the Epistles include the famous Art of Poetry, whose advice on poetic style influenced many later writers and dramatists. John Davie's new prose translations perfectly capture the ribald style of the original....

This book offers an introductory survey of contemporary poetry in English from all the regions that have developed into modern nations from the former British Empire. It is ideally suited for readers interested in world writing in English, contemporary literature, postcolonial writing, cultural studies, and postmodern culture....

This is the first book on molecular nanomagnetism, which is a new research area of wide interest to chemists and physicists who want to discover the beauty of the molecular world and its potentialities to give new classes of magnetic materials....

A Very Short IntroductionAdvertising is riddled with myths and misunderstandings. It is believed to be both immensely powerful yet immensely wasteful, to increase economic prosperity and to be morally questionable. Neither its historic origins nor its modern operations are well understood. This  Very Short Introduction will tell the truth about how...