Oxford University Press

Amanda Podany here takes readers on a vivid tour through a thousand years of ancient Near Eastern history, from 2300 to 1300 BCE, paying particular attention to the lively interactions that took place between the great kings of the day....

A thrilling search for a missing man amidst the scorching deserts and perilous mountains of Africa. In 1885, H. Rider Haggard's publisher considered King Solomon's Mines 'the most amazing book ever written.'...

Clorinda Matto de Turner was the first Peruvian novelist to command an        international reputation and the first to dramatize the exploitation of indigenous        Latin American people. In this tragic tale, she explores the relationship between        the landed gentry and the indigenous peoples of the Andean mountain communities.         ...

The Critical Nexus confronts an important and vexing enigma of early writings on        music: why chant, which was understood to be divinely inspired, needed to be altered        in order to work within the then-operative modal system. To unravel this mystery,        Charles Atkinson creates a broad framework that moves from Greek harmonic theory...

What Everyone Needs to KnowFor thirty years Sudan has been a country in crisis, wracked by near-constant warfare between the north and the south. But on July 9, 2011, South Sudan became an independent nation. As Sudan once again finds itself the focus of international attention, former special envoy to Sudan and director of USAID Andrew Natsios...

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