Oxford University Press

Lord Jim is a book about courage and cowardice, self-knowledge and personal        growth, in the exotic setting of post-colonial Patusan, a remote Malay settlement.          This new edition uses the first English edition text and includes a new introduction        and notes by leading Conrad scholar Jacques Berthoud, glossaries, and an appendix...

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Davy Crockett&'s Last Stand and Other Mysteries of the Texas RevolutionIn Sleuthing the Alamo, historian James E. Crisp draws back the curtain on years of mythmaking to reveal some surprising truths about the Texas Revolution--truths often obscured by both racism and "e;political correctness,"e; as history has been hijacked by combatants in...

Christian images have a long history within the Western art tradition from the narrative and devotional works of the Medieval and Renaissance periods, to the radical new interpretations of the twenty-first century. This fascinating new book explores the changing nature of the representation of key themes and subjects found in Christian art,...

A tour de force examination of the contemporary ideological landscape by one of the world's leading analysts of globalization....

In the first original study of the women who never married in early modern England, Amy Froide looks at how their lives differed from those of wives and widows, at their social relationships, and at how singlewomen supported themselves. She also examines the contributions they made to urban life and the origins of the old maid stereotype....