Oxford University Press

Florent Quenu returns to Paris after being unjustly imprisoned and finds the city utterly changed. The great new food market, Les Halles, has been built, and food dominates the political and social life of the capital. The third in Zola's Rougon-Macquart series,  The Belly of Paris appears in a vibrant new translation....

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A Very Short IntroductionWhether we recognise it or not, virtually every aspect of our life today has been influenced in part by the aesthetic legacy of Modernism. In this  Very Short Introduction Christopher Butler examines how and why Modernism began, explaining what it is and showing how it has gradually informed all aspects of 20th and 21st...

In 'Winnie's Fun Run' Winnie joins the local charity race but her trainers seem to have a mind of their own; in 'Winnie Gets Things Moving' Winnie decides to rearrange her furniture . . . and ends up with a mutiny on her hands; in 'Which is Witch?' a social scientist decides to study Winnie with hilarious results;...

European International History 1933-1939In this magisterial narrative, Zara Steiner traces the twisted road to war that began with Hitler's assumption of power in Germany. Covering a wide geographical canvas, from America to the Far East, Steiner provides an indispensable reassessment of the most disputed events of these tumultuous years.Steiner...

This book examines the distribution and interpretation of anaphors and pronouns. Through a detailed analysis of simplex and complex anaphors in Dutch and English, as well as other Romance and Germanic languages, the authors show that the relationship between an anaphor and its antecedent can be captured in terms of general Minimalist principles....