Oxford University Press

A Guide to Researching and Writing about MusicA writing guide and style reference manual in one, Music in Words is a compact and        indispensable guide to researching and writing about music, addressing all the        issues that anyone who writes about music--from students to professional musicians        and critics--may confront when putting...

The acclaimed correspondent on PBS's The News Hour, Charlayne Hunter-Gault here offers a fresh assessment of modern Africa, revealing that there is more to the continent than the bad news of disease, disaster, and despair. A compelling book on a topic of vital importance, it promises to re-define what is news about this vast and complex continent....

Michael Potter presents a comprehensive new philosophical introduction to set theory. Anyone wishing to work on the logical foundations of mathematics must understand set theory, which lies at its heart. What makes the book unique is that it interweaves a careful presentation of the technical material with a penetrating philosophical...

A Very Short IntroductionThis book tells the story of Chinese literature, from prehistory to the present, in terms of literary culture's key role in supporting social and political concerns. A welcome guide for teachers, students, and lay readers, Chinese Literature: A Very Short Introduction honors traditional Chinese understandings of literature...

In this accessible and provocative book Mark Richard argues that the performative and expressive can trump the semantic, making truth the wrong dimension for evaluating a sentence. He explains what it is for truth to be relative, rebuts objections to relativism, assesses objections to expressivism, and gives a novel account of matters of taste....

In Contradiction advocates and defends the view that there are true contradictions (dialetheism), a view that flies in the face of orthodoxy in Western philosophy since Aristotle. The book has been at the centre of the controversies surrounding dialetheism ever since its first publication in 1987. This second edition of the book substantially...