Oxford University Press

France 1940Using eyewitness accounts, this is the first ever account of how the fall of France to the Germans in 1940 affected the lives of ordinary French people....

Spanish in New York is a groundbreaking sociolinguistic analysis of immigrant bilingualism in a U.S. setting. Drawing on one of the largest corpora of spoken Spanish ever assembled for a single city, Otheguy and Zentella demonstrate the extent to which the language of Latinos in New York City represents a continuation of structural variation as it...

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What Everyone Needs to Know, Revised and Updated EditionThe Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act signed by President Obama in March 2010 is a landmark in U.S. social legislation, and the Supreme Court's recent decision upholding the Act has ensured that it will remain the law of the land. The new law extends health insurance to nearly all...

Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein on Philosophy and ReligionAllusions to the relation between Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein are common in        philosophy, but there has been little serious commentary on the relationship of        their ideas. Genia Schnbaumsfeld closes this gap and offers new readings        of Kierkegaard's and Wittgenstein's...

New Grub Street (1891), generally regarded as Gissing's finest novel, is the story of the daily lives and broken dreams of men and women forced to earn a living by the pen. With vivid realism it tells of a group of novelists, journalists, and scholars caught in the literary and cultural crisis that hit Britain in the closing years of the nineteenth...