Oxford University Press

Dragonflies and Damselflies documents the latest advances in odonate biology and relates these to a broader ecological and evolutionary research agenda. Contributions from many of the leading researchers in dragonfly biology offer new perspectives and paradigms as well as additional, unpublished, data....

Lawrence M. Principe takes a fresh approach to the story of the scientific        revolution, emphasising the historical context of the society and its world view at        the time. From astronomy to alchemy and medicine to geology, he tells this        fascinating story from the perspective of the historical characters involved....

Sandra Visser and Thomas Williams offer a brief, accessible introduction to the life and thought of St. Anselm (c. 1033-1109). Anselm, who was Archbishop of Canterbury for the last 16 years of his life, is unquestionably one of the foremost philosopher-theologians of the Middle Ages....

This classic work, first published in 1912, has never been supplanted as an approachable introduction to the theory of philosophical enquiry. It gives Russell's views on such subjects as the distinction between appearance and reality, the existence and nature of matter, idealism, knowledge by acquaintance and by description, induction, truth and...

Most Americans saw President Bill Clinton and Speaker Newt Gingrich as staunch        foes--"e;the polar extremes of Pennsylvania Avenue."e; But as Steven Gillon reveals in        The Pact, these powerful adversaries formed a secret alliance in 1997, a pact that        would have rocked the political landscape, had it not foundered in the...

Sir Gawain and The Green Knight is probably the most skilfully told story in the whole of the English Arthurian cycle. Acclaimed poet Keith Harrison's verse translation uses a modern alliterative pattern which subtly echoes the music of the original at the same time as it strives for fidelity. This is the most generously annotated edition...