Oxford University Press

The best introduction to word history ever published combines scholarship with        readability. OED's chief etymologist shows how words originate and change. He        explores the histories of place and personal names and explains how to use different        kinds of evidence, historical as well as linguistic. This is a book for...

Philip Davis's acclaimed full-scale biography of Bernard Malamud (1914-1986), the self-made son of poor Jewish immigrants who went on to become one of the foremost novelists and short-story writers of the post-war period....

Iconoclasm in the Anglo-American TraditionIconoclasm is not a barbaric act which takes place somewhere else but is instead a        central strand of Anglo-American modernity. Our horror at the destruction of art        derives in part from the fact that we did, and still do, that. This is most        obviously true of England's iconoclastic...

This book, based on brand new data from a major study and long-standing collaboration between a number of prominent European scholars, provides a fresh perspective on the future of the welfare state across the EU. Through detailed case-study analysis, it analyses the emergence of new social risks alongside traditional needs....

It is not only in our dark hours that scepticism, relativism, hypocrisy, and        nihilism dog ethics. Whether it is a matter of giving to charity, or sticking to        duty, or insisting on our rights, we can be confused, or be paralysed by the fear        that our principles are groundless. Many are afraid that in a Godless world...

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