Oxford University Press

The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity is a wide-ranging collection of essays that engages with valuable questions about the end of the ancient world and the beginning of the medieval....

Nobel Prizes, Science, and ScientistsThe Nobel Prize is the most prestigious award a scientist can receive. This book brings the Nobel Prize, the science, and the human drama behind it into focus, based on the author's encounters with over 70 Nobel laureates and other famous scientists....

Marie McGinn provides a clear and original interpretation of Wittgenstein's     Tractatus and of its relation to Wittgenstein's later work. It is one of the most famous works of early analytic philosophy, the interpretation of which has always been a matter for controversy and is currently the focus of considerable philosophical debate....

The Large Hadron Collider at CERN is the world's largest scientific experiment involving 3,000 scientists from 38 countries. Here a team of organization theorists collaborate with leading figures at CERN to understand how this project has been organized and what lessons can be learnt for the management of major projects and 'big...

Ted Gioia&'s History of Jazz has been universally hailed as a classic--acclaimed by jazz critics and fans around the world. Now Gioia brings his magnificent work completely up-to-date, drawing on the latest research and revisiting virtually every aspect of the music, past and present.     Gioia tells the story of jazz as it had never been told...

Deepening the discussion of the relationship between Islamic law and human rights, this volume gathers leading experts in both fields to examine how each system protects and limits fundamental freedoms. From gender equality to freedom of religion the book explores the main flashpoints in the debate, examining the operation of the law in context....