Oxford University Press

Shattered Dreams? is an oral history of how physicians and nurses in South Africa struggled to contend with the world's most catastrophic AIDS epidemic. Based on more than 250 hours of extended interviews with almost 90 doctors and nurses, it seeks to capture the feelings of these health care providers and the challenges they faced....

A Very Short IntroductionModern Geography has come a long way from its roots in simply mapping and naming the regions of the world. Spanning both physical and human Geography, the discipline today is unique as a subject bridging the divide between the sciences and humanities, and between the environment and our society. This Very Short Introduction...

Soldiers, Nazis, and War in the Third ReichFocusing on the titantic struggle between Germany and the Soviet Union, Bartov        reveals how the German army became deeply political, reshaped in Hitler's image        through the savagery of war. In six years of warfare, the vast majority of German        men passed through the Wehrmacht and almost...

The Story of the King James Version 1611-2011A history of the King James Version of the Bible (known in Britain as the        Authorised Version) over the four hundred years from its remote beginnings to the        present day. It explains how the translation came to be commissioned and who the        translators were, before tracing its textual...

Lizzie Eustace's determination to hold on to a fabulous diamond necklace entangles her in a web of deceit that involves her cousin and his fiancee in a story that is part sensation fiction, part detective novel, part political satire and part romance. Hugely engaging, the novel is also a highly revealing study of Victorian Britain....

This volume brings together many of the leading international figures in development studies, such as Jose Antonio Ocampo, Paul Krugman, Dani Rodrik, Joseph Stiglitz, Daniel Cohen, Olivier Blanchard, Deepak Nayyar and John Williamson to reconsider and propose alternative development policies to the Washington Consensus....