Oxford University Press

Invitations to ListeningThe power of music, the way it works on the mind and heart, remains an enticing mystery. Now two noted writers on classical music, Michael Steinberg and Larry Rothe, explore the allure of this melodious art--not in the clinical terms of social scientists--but through stories drawn from their own experience.    In For the...

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Jeff Mielke presents the results of a crosslinguistic survey of natural classes of distinctive features covering almost six hundred of the world's languages drawn from a variety of different families. In doing so he systematically tests the supposition that features are innate and universal rather than learned and language-specific....

The nearest we can get to a Dickens autobiography, these letters give us unique        insights into his life, and are essential reading for Dickens fans everywhere.          Whether you dip in or read straight through, this selection of his letters creates        afresh the brilliance of being Dickens, and the sheer pleasure of being in...

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