Oxford University Press

A Very Short IntroductionStatistics has evolved into an exciting discipline which uses deep theory and powerful software to shed light on the world around us: from clinical trials in medicine, to economics, sociology, and countless other subjects vital to understanding modern life. This   Very Short Introduction explores and explains how statistics...

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Provides a comprehensive and topical overview of our current understanding of the        rates of evolution in biological systems. It includes case studies that exemplify        rapid evolution, and showcases the diversity of rapidly evolving genes and genetic        systems....

Is it still possible, in an age of religious and cultural pluralism, to engage in Christian apologetics? How can one urge one's faith on others when such a gesture is typically regarded with suspicion, if not outright resentment? In    Humble Apologetics John G. Stackhouse brings his wide experience as a historian, philosopher, journalist, and...

Strange Likeness examines how Old English was rediscovered by twentieth-century poets, and the uses to which they put that discovery in their own writing. Poets discussed include Ezra Pound, W. H. Auden, Edwin Morgan, and Seamus Heaney, whose translation of  Beowulf is for the first time fully contextualized within the rest of his work....

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