Oxford University Press

From the earliest evidence of human consumption around half a million years ago to the era of the drive-through diner, Martin Jones unfolds the history of the human meal and its huge impact both on human society and the ecology of the planet....

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Oxford Studies in Metaethics is the only publication devoted exclusively to original philosophical work in the foundations of ethics. It provides an annual selection of much of the best new scholarship being done in the field....

In his famous book A Night to Remember, historian Walter Lord described the        sinking of the Titanic as 'the last night of a small town'. Now, a hundred years        after her sinking, John Welshman reconstructs the fascinating individual histories        of twelve of the inhabitants of this tragically short-lived floating...

A group of pilgrims entertain each other with stories on their way to Canterbury in a poem whose characters, from the Knight to the Wife of Bath, are as vivid as their tales. This new edition of David Wright's acclaimed translation includes a new critical introduction and invaluable notes by a leading Chaucer scholar....

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