Oxford University Press

Definitive, concise, and very interesting... From William Shakespeare to Winston Churchill, the Very Interesting People series provides authoritative bite-sized biographies of Britain's most fascinating historical figures - people whose influence and importance have stood the test of time. Each book in the series is based upon the biographical...

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In the 1960s, Latin American literature became known worldwide as never before.          Writers such as Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Mario Vargas Llosa,        Carlos Fuentes, Pablo Neruda, Octavio Paz, and Mario Vargas Llosa all became part of        the general culture of educated readers of English, French, German, and Italian....

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Tracing the subject from the Middle Ages to the present, David Nash outlines the history of blasphemy as a concept - from a species of heresy to modern understandings of it as a crime against the sacred and individual religious identity....

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