Oxford University Press

In   Political Parties, Business Groups, and Corruption in Developing Countries, Vineeta Yadav examines corruption levels in sixty-four developing democracies over a twenty-year period, with a comparative focus on Brazil and India....

'Ladies and Gentlemen...I have to state that Mrs Lovett's pies are made of human        flesh!'This shocking announcement provides the stunning dnouement to a        narrative first published over a period of four months in the winter of 1846-7. The        revelation marked only the beginning, however, of the notorious career of...

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This life story of Milarepa--the important Tibetan religious leader who lived over        800 years ago--is part of a remarkable four-volume series on Tibetan Buddhism        produced by the late W.Y. Evans-Wentz, all four of which are being published by        Oxford in new editions. While there are many parochial differences among the...

Keith Hossack presents an original approach to philosophy founded on the thesis that knowledge is an absolutely fundamental relation. Taking knowledge as the key to a wide range of philosophical issues, he offers new theories of facts, content, representation, reference, truth, necessity, consciousness, persons, and language....

The story of arsenic in Victorian Britain, looking both at its widespread presence in everything from candles to curtains, and also its more sinister use for murder and suicide....