Oxford University Press

This volume guides its reader through the basics of reliability, with an emphasis on what and how to include relevant information in the methods and results sections of professional papers. The author offers examples of good and bad write-ups....

Exploring a Way for Contemporary EcumenismThis volume proposes a fresh strategy for ecumenical engagement - 'Receptive        Ecumenism' - that is fitted to contemporary challenges. 32 original essays draw on a        wide variety of denominational and disciplinary perspectives bringing        ecclesiologists, sociologists, psychologists, and...

A breathtaking achievement, this Concise Companion is a suitable crown to the        astonishing production in African American literature and criticism that has swept        over American literary studies in the last two decades. It offers an enormous range        of writers-from Sojourner Truth to Frederick Douglass, from Zora Neale Hurston...

This book offers a brief, accessible introduction to the thought of Boethius. After a survey of Boethius's life and work, Marenbon explicates his theological method, and devotes separate chapters to his arguments about good and evil, fortune, fate and free will, and the problem of divine foreknowledge. Marenbon also traces Boethius's influence on...

This Very Short Introduction looks deep into space and describes the worlds that        make up our Solar System: terrestrial planets, giant planets, dwarf planets and        various other objects such as satellites (moons), asteroids and Trans-Neptunian        objects. It considers how our knowledge has advanced over the centuries, and how...

Little Women has remained enduringly popular since its publication in 1868, becoming the inspiration for a whole genre of family stories. Set in a small New England community, it tells of the March family: Marmee looks after her four daughters in the absence of her husband, who is serving as an army chaplain in the Civil War, and Meg, Jo, Beth, and...