Oxford University Press

Europe and the Challenge of the CenturyAn ambitious, original book describing a century of Europe coping with America:        its inventions, personalities, films, armies, business, and politics. These decades        reveal how much emotional energy Europeans invested in finding their own ways to        reconcile tradition and modernity under the...

Managers face a complex and seemingly overwhelming set of decisions in their work        lives. Investigating exactly what managers do on the job, this study presents a        wealth of new evidence to analyze why managers act in the ways they do, what        influences their focus of attention, and which issues and other actors in...

Linguistic Practice and PoliticsThis volume offers a representative selection of Sally McConnell-Ginet's publications on language, gender and sexuality, which circle around the following themes: language users are actively engaged in making meanings, both as speakers and listeners; languages and socio-political institutions constrain, but do...

The English Novel from its Origins to the Present DayPatrick Parrinder's new history of the English novel traces the form's distinctive        and often subversive reflection of national identity across the centuries. From the        early stories of rogues and criminals to present-day novels of immigration, fiction        has played a major part...

Kabir was an extraordinary oral poet whose works have been sung and recited by millions throughout North India for half a millenium. He may have been illiterate--'I do not touch ink or paper, this hand has never grasped a pen'--and he preached an abrasive, sometimes shocking, always uncompromising message that exhorted his audience to shed their...

Explores the interactions between Britain and the Islamic world from 1558 to 1713, showing how much scholars, diplomats, traders, captives, travellers, clerics, and chroniclers were involved in developing and describing those interactions....