Oxford University Press

The three novels which make up The Forsyte Saga chronicle the ebbing social power of the commerical upper-middle class Forsyte family between 1886 and 1920. This, the only critical edition of Galsworthy's popular masterpiece, contains detailed notes which are vital to the saga, explaining particularly the contemporary artistic and literary...

A Very Short IntroductionConsciousness, 'the last great mystery for science', has now become a hot topic. How can a physical brain create our experience of the world? What creates our identity? Do we really have free will? Could consciousness itself be an illusion? New developments in brain science are opening up debates on these issues, and now...

Origins of Anxiety and DepressionWith so many afflicted by the slings and arrows of outrageous angst, its true origin has remained mysterious. A new theoretical synthesis suggests that while animals share a set of evolved social instincts, we humans experience commonplace Anxiety and Depressive disorders when we use our reason to defy that biology....

On the Tree of LifeThis is the story of a profound revolution in the way biologists explore life&'s history, understand its evolutionary processes, and reveal its diversity. It is about life&'s smallest entities, deepest diversity, and greatest cellular biomass: the microbiosphere. Jan Sapp introduces us to a new field of evolutionary biology and a...

Suitable for students, this is a short, accessible introduction to moral rules and reasoning and should find course use in introductory classes in ethics, applied ethics, and moral theory....

Widowed during the First World War at the age of 21, Christina returns to Flambards in the hope of picking up the threads of the life she knew before her marriage. But the Flambards Christina returns to is not the same - the paddocks are a jungle, the house buried in ivy, and the once busy stables empty and desolate. Christina sets herself to the...