Oxford University Press

This volume brings together key chapters from Darwin's most important books, including the     Journal of Researches on the  Beagle voyage (1845), the  Origin of Species (1859), the Descent of Man (1871), and the full text of his delightful autobiography. They are accompanied by responses from 19th-century readers from around the world....

Eastern Europe and China, 1989-2009Socialism Vanquished, Socialism Challenged examines the twenty-year aftermath of the 1989 assaults on established, state-sponsored socialism in the former Soviet bloc and in China. Editors Nina Bandelj and Dorothy J. Solinger bring together prominent experts on Eastern Europe and China to examine the respective...

Patients with pain disorders pose many clinical challenges for the attending        physician. Even experienced clinicians occasionally arrive at the point where        diagnostic, work-up, treatment, or prognostic thinking becomes blocked.Pain teaches        the reader to recognize and appropriately treat a variety of pain disorders using...

A new biography of Joseph Severn, Keats's best-known but most controversial friend, who is buried next to him in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome. Severn accompanied the dying poet to Italy and was virtually the only witness of his last days. Brown reassesses Severn's character and the nature of his friendship with Keats....

A lively account of popular religion in England under Elizabeth I and the early Stuarts, a time when everyone had to go to church and almost everyone was religious to some extent. The book deals with the religious beliefs and practices of ordinary people - mainly by quoting their actual words....

Easter 1916The story of the Easter Rising from the perspective of those who made it, focusing on the experiences of rank-and-file revolutionaries and exploiting a unique and recently released collection of over 1,700 eye-witness statements....