Oxford University Press

The Music of James Bond is the first comprehrensive chronicle of the songs and scores written for the movie adventures of Ian Fleming's intrepid Agent 007. New interviews with Bond songwriters and composers coupled with previously undiscovered details -- tales of temperamental artists, unexpected hits and surprising convergences of great music with...

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Love and Ambition in the Civil War SouthIn May 1861, Jefferson Davis issued a general call for volunteers for the Confederate Army. Men responded in such numbers that 200,000 had to be turned away. Few of these men would have attributed their zeal to the cause of states&' rights or slavery. As All That Makes a Man: Love and Ambition in the Civil...

A Very Short IntroductionWorld Music draws readers into a remarkable range of historical encounters, in which music had the power to evoke the exotic and to give voice to the voiceless. In the course of the volume's eight chapters the reader witnesses music's involvement in the modern world, but also the individual moments and particular histories...

The law of occupation imposes two types of obligations on an army that seizes        control of enemy land during armed conflict: obligations to respect and protect the        inhabitants and their rights, and an obligation to respect the sovereign rights of        the ousted government. In theory, the occupant is expected to establish an...

Darwin's enormous cultural success depended as much on the construction of his argument and the artistry of his language as it did on the power of his ideas. By exploring Darwin as a writer as well as a scientist, this book transforms our understanding of him, giving us a Darwin who is comic rather than tragic and ebullient rather than austere....