Oxford University Press

A Very Short IntroductionAn account of the literature of the Spanish-speaking Americas from the time of        Columbus to Latin American Independence, this book examines the origins of colonial        Latin American literature in Spanish, the writings and relationships among major        literary and intellectual figures of the colonial period,...

iVagueness and Degrees of Truth develops and defends a new position on vagueness. To make the book accessible to non-specialists, Nicholas Smith includes both an introduction to the relevant philosophical literature, and a gentle but thorough introduction to the required logical tools and concepts....

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This history of the Spanish lexicon is written from the interacting perspectives        of linguistic and cultural change and in the light of advances in the study of        language contact and lexical change. The author describes the language inherited        from spoken Latin in the Iberian Peninsula during six centuries of Roman...

This book introduces readers to the remarkable linguistic diversity of East and Southeast Asia. It combines serious but accessible treatments of diverse areas not usually found in a single volume: for example, word origins, cultural key words, tones and sounds, language families and typology, key syntactic structures, writing systems, communicative...

The Promise of Sustainable CritiqueSurveying six decades of scholarship, Recovering International Relations suggests new ethical and methodological foundations for the study of world politics. IR is conceived as a vocation; one that must balance the insights of normative and empirical theory against each other to address a densely populated,...