Oxford University Press

Cervical cancer is an emotive disease with multiple connotations. It has stood for the horror of cancer, the curse of femininity, the hope of cutting-edge medical technologies, and the promise of screening for malignant tumours. Ilana Lowy follows the disease from antiquity to the 21st century, tracing both medical progress and social change....

An invaluable source of pleasure to those English readers who wish to read this        great medieval classic with true understanding, Sinclair's three-volume prose        translation of Dante's Divine Comedy provides both the original Italian text and the        Sinclair translation, arranged on facing pages, and commentaries, appearing...

Dark HunterThe horrendous Hunter has escaped from Diablo Island jail and is seeking revenge . . ....

Duncan Wu's fascinating portrait of William Hazlitt - the first fully-researched biography, and the first to cover Hazlitt's entire life - reveals one of the greatest journalists in the language, and the principal spokesman of the Romantic age, interacting with every major writer and many other movers and shakers of the era....

In a challenge to existing accounts of Romanticism, Murray Pittock provides a broad re-reading of British Romanticism. Locating Scottish and Irish Romantic writing in the wider context of the British Isles, he explores the dialogue between national traditions through a detailed consideration of a range of Scottish, Irish, and English writers....

Why Global Markets, States, and Democracy Can't CoexistGlobalization, Rodrik argues, rests on shaky foundations. Despite the benefits it        has brought to much of the world, there are profound conflicts of interest between        democracy, national determination, and full economic globalization. He traces the        idea's history, pinpoints...