Oxford University Press

Between 1800 and 1975, sexuality in the West was transformed. Hera Cook shows how the growing effectiveness of contraception gradually eroded the connection between sexuality and reproduction. The increasing control over fertility was crucial to the remaking of heterosexual physical sexual behaviour and had a massive impact on women's lives. Dr...

Uniting work from philosophical, cognitive and linguistic perspectives, Dr        Truswell develops a model of the structure of events as perceptual and cognitive        units. He predicts the acceptability of particular formulations, considers the        individuation of events in the light of the model, and provides a novel account...

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Less famous than the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal but no less        important, the Nuremberg Military Tribunals tried lower-level functionaries and        private citizens for their parts in WW II. This book gives a full overview of these        trials and it traces the critical role they have played in the development...

Digital Discourse offers a distinctly sociolinguistic perspective on the nature of language in digital technologies....

Using evidence from the world's largest language databank, the Oxford English Corpus, Butterfield uncovers fascinating facts about the English language. Where does our vocabulary come from? How is our language   really being used? How do word meanings change? This entertaining book has the authoritative answers to key questions about our language....