Oxford University Press

W. D. Hamilton (1936-2000) has been described by Richard Dawkins as 'a good candidate for the title of most distinguished Darwinian since Darwin'. His work on evolutionary biology continues to influence scientists working across a wide variety of disciplines, including evolution, population genetics, animal behaviour, genetics, anthropology, and...

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Anxious, accident-prone, occasionally waspish, Charles Pooter has come to be seen        as the epitome of English suburban life. This edition features Weedon Grossmith's        hilarious illustrations and is complemented by an introduction detailing the book's        social background....

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This delightfully eclectic book, part comedy, part travelogue, and part cultural history, uncovers the story of the British delegations that were invited to China in 1954 - a full eighteen years before President Nixon's more famous 1972 mission....

The first cross-linguistic study of infixation explores its prosodic, phonological, and morphological characteristics, considers its diverse functions, and formulates a general theory to explain the rules and constraints by which it is governed. It examines 154 infixation patterns from over a hundred languages, compares their formal properties and...