Oxford University Press

...

Animal Welfare and the Liberal StateGoverning Animals explores the role of the liberal state in protecting animal        welfare. Examining liberal concepts such as the social contract, property rights,        and representation, Kimberly K. Smith argues that liberalism properly understood can        recognize the moral status and social meaning of...

The same week in February 1836 that Charles Dickens was hired to write his first        novel, The Pickwick Papers, the first railway line in London opened. Charles        Dickens's Networks explores the rise of the global, high-speed passenger transport        network in the nineteenth century and the indelible impact it made on...

What if the creator of the world were evil? What if Christ, the Son, were the antagonist not the ally of the Father? Nuttall tracks this subversive theology from the Gnostics of the second century, through its flickering reappearance in Marlowe and Milton, to its full development in Blake....

A LifeMeticulously researched and engagingly written, this is the first biography of the important Irish playwright Stewart Parker. It illuminates the genesis and meaning of such classic plays as Spokesong and Pentecost - works that continue to shed light on Northern Ireland's past, present, and future - in the context of Parker's life and times....

In this classic work, Peter Elbow sets out his innovative teaching methods and outlines a practical programme for learning how to write. Equally useful for writing fiction, poetry, and essays as well as reports, lectures and memos, this approach is especially helpful to people who get "e;stuck"e; in their writing. Challenging traditional...