Oxford University Press

In this beautifully written and thoughtful book Wordsworth's biographer and editor Stephen Gill explores the ways in which the poet attempted as an artist to maintain continuities through all the stages of his life and shows how revisitings of various kinds are at the heart of his creativity....

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A Very Short IntroductionHow did Islam arise from the obscurity of seventh century Arabia to the headlines of the twenty first century? This   Very Short Introduction answers that question; exploring the cultural and religious diversity of Islamic history. Adam Silverstein explains its significance and considers its impact on Islamic society today....

In 1974, the Academy Award-winning film    The Sting brought back the music of Scott Joplin, a black ragtime composer who died in 1917. This is the definitive biography of Scott Joplin. Drawing on a vast quantity of previously unconsidered primary material, it tells Joplin's vivid story and puts his life and music in its historical context with...

Liberalism forms the dominant political ideology of the modern world. Despite its pervasive influence, this is the first book-length treatment of liberal political thought from a Christian theological perspective. Song discusses the different approaches to the subject of three twentieth-century theologians and draws out the implications for current...

This book teaches undergraduates in physical science how to understand soft matter: fluids containing polymers, colloidal particles or surfactant molecules. The book gives a unified account of their distinctive properties such as their large viscosities or their weak elasticity using basic statistical principles....