Oxford University Press

This book introduces the reader to the importance of observation prior to, and sometimes instead of, experimental manipulation in the study of animal behaviour. It starts with simple and easily accessible methods suitable for student projects, before going on to demonstrate the possibilities that now exist for much more sophisticated analyses of...

Kit Fine develops a Fregean theory of abstraction, and suggests that it may yield a new philosophical foundation for mathematics, one that can account for both our reference to various mathematical objects and our knowledge of various mathematical truths.   The Limits of Abstraction breaks new ground both technically and philosophically....

This book presents the first comprehensive description of the Manambu language of Papua New Guinea. Manambu belongs to the Ndu language family, and is spoken by about 2,500 people in five villages in East Sepik Province, Ambunti district. The book is based entirely on the author's fieldwork....

From Andrew Hudgins's often humorous narratives to Wendell Berry's poignant evocations of the divine presence in nature, this book presents a selection of the best Christian poetry being written in English today. Featuring only poets who are currently writing and publishing, it focuses in depth on the work of about a dozen poets who are recognized...

The BiographyThe story of asthma stretches from antiquity to the present day, and perceptions of the disease have shifted with time. Mark Jackson describes not only the growing medical understanding of asthma, but shifting cultural views, from artisans' disease to Proust's elegant suffering. Asthma is part of the series,  Biographies of Diseases....

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