Oxford University Press

This book considers how languages have traditionally been divided into families, and asks how they should be classified in the future. It tests current theories and hypotheses, shows how new ideas can be formulated, and offers a series of demonstrations that the new techniques applied to old data can produce convincing results. It will be of great...

This Very Short Introduction to Classics links a haunting temple on a lonely        mountainside to the glory of ancient Greece and the grandeur of Rome, and to        Classics within modern culture-from Jefferson and Byron to Asterix and Ben-Hur.We        are all Classicists - we come into touch with the Classics daily: in our...

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Fear no more the heat of the sun.' Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf's fourth novel, offers the reader an impression of a single June day in London in 1923. Clarissa Dalloway, the wife of a Conservative member of parliament, is preparing to give an evening party, while the shell-shocked Septimus Warren Smith hears the birds in Regent's Park chattering...

Terror in the Name of IslamThe September 11th attacks left the world stunned, angry, and uncomprehending. In        this level-headed and authoritative book, John L. Esposito, one of the world's most        respected scholars of political Islam, illuminates the teachings of        Islam--explaining Quran, the example of the Prophet, and Islamic law...

Invaded in 1830, populated by one million settlers who co-existed uneasily with        nine million Arabs and Berbers , Algeria was different from other French colonies        because it was administered as an integral part of France, in theory no different        from Normandy or Brittany. The depth and scale of the colonization process...