Oxford University Press

The first ever biography of Maurice Bowra - classicist, poet, wit , raconteur extraordinary, and the most famous don of his generation....

Therapist Guide Interventions for pediatric sleep disordersThis therapist guide presents targeted interventions for a variety of childhood sleep disorders. Parents may seek help for their children because of sleep problems themselves, or sleep issues may come up during treatment for other disorders. This guide provides tools for assessment and...

Shakespeare and Women challenges a number of current assumptions about Shakespeare and women, including the women in his family, the women who worked in the London theatre industry, the female characters in his plays, and the dark lady of the Sonnets. It argues that the current scholarly emphasis on patriarchal power, male misogyny, and women's...

Recent scholarship in political theory has focused on the treatment of colonialism in the writings of canonical thinkers such as Locke, Burke, Mill, Diderot, Tocqueville, Smith, and Kant, revealing the extent to which the subject of colonialism and imperialism dominated the minds of great thinkers as the colonial project took place. While such...

There are over 2 million people diagnosed with diabetes in the UK and worldwide        194 million. An epidemic of diabetes is reported and by 2025 it is predicted that        there will be 330 million people with diabetes in the world. Diabetes is likely to        present one of this century's greatest medical challenges. However, the impact...

Rachel Carson's    Silent Spring antagonized some of the most powerful interests in the nation--including the farm block and the agricultural chemical industry--and helped launch the modern environmental movement. In   The Gentle Subversive, Mark Hamilton Lytle offers a compact life of Carson, illuminating the road that led to this vastly...