Oxford University Press

A practical and succinct guide designed to help you give your manuscript its best chance to be noticed by literary agents. Contains a systematic chapter-by-chapter look at the symptoms of bad writing and how to avoid them. Written in an engaging and friendly style by a successful literary agent with a knowledgeable insider's perspective....

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Jeremy Smith looks at the origins of a series of sound changes in English and examines their linguistic properties and the social and cultural context in which they took place in order to investigate why do sound changes happen when and where they do....

Institutions, Politics, and LawThis book provides an economic rationale for the dominant role of investment banks        in the capital markets, and uses it to explain both the historical evolution of the        investment banking industry and also recent changes to its organization. It provides        a fascinating insight into why investment...

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How Scholars and Politicians Have Imagined the World, from Plato to Eleanor RooseveltAs Mary Ann Glendon writes in this fascinating new book, the relationship between politics and the academy has been fraught with tension and regret-and the occasional brilliant success-since Plato himself.   In The Forum and the Tower, Glendon examines thinkers who...