Oxford University Press

This present work examines what it means to call Christ our priest, in the light of the Scriptures and the Christian tradition. Beginning with a study of the biblical material, the book then moves to the witness to Christ's priesthood from the Church through its history....

Savannahs are tropical and subtropical grasslands with scattered bushes and trees, and comprise about 20% of the earth's land surface. This book looks at the major plants and animals that live in African savannahs, and details the biological and ecological factors that influence their population size, interactions and community composition....

This book examines Graham Greene's structure and language and traces the obsessive motifs that recur throughout his novels. Bergonzi argues that Greene was at his best in the earlier work, which combines melodrama, realism, and poetry....

Michael Ferber considers Romanticism in its time of growth in Western Europe,        examining various types of Romantic literature, music, painting, religion, and        philosophy. He provides examples and quotations throughout to demonstrate the        diverse nature of the movement....

Pierre-Yves Oudeyer combines insights from neuroscience, evolutionary biology, and linguistics to explore questions about the origins of speech. He puts forward the startling proposal that speech can be spontaneously generated by the coupling of evolutionarily simple neural structures connecting perception and production. He tests this hypothesis...

Part agricultural manual, part political poem and allegory, the Georgics' scenes are real and vivid, and the poet-farmer Peter Fallon restores to life the sights, sounds, and textures of the ancient Italian landscape....