Oxford University Press

Following James Tyler's earlier introduction to the four-and five-course guitar, this collaboration with Paul Sparks is an authoritative guide to the history and repertory of the guitar from the Renaissance to the dawn of the Classical era....

Living Wisely With Our LimitsHow can we live life wisely? Tiberius argues that we need to develop the kind of        wisdom that emphasizes the importance of learning from experience. We need to care        about things that sustain us and give us good experiences, have perspective on our        successes and failures, and be moderately self-aware...

Long considered a classic in Bolivia, Juan de la Rosa tells the story of a young        boy's coming of age during the violent and tumultuous years of Bolivia's struggle        for independence. Indeed, in this remarkable novel, Juan's search for his personal        identity functions as an allegory of Bolivia's search for its identity as...

We may think of the twenty-seven books of the New Testament as the only sacred writings of the early Christians, but this is not the case. Lost Scriptures offers an anthology of up-to-date and readable translations of many of non-canonical writings from the centuries after Christ--texts that have for the most part been neglected or lost for nearly...

It is a near truism of philosophy of language that sentences are prior to words---that they are the only things that fundamentally have meaning. Robert's Stainton's study interrogates this idea, drawing on a wide body of evidence to argue that speakers can and do use mere words, not sentences, to communicate complex thoughts....

'The Butterfly Effect ': the scientific theory that a single occurrence, no matter how small, can change the course of the universe forever. When a butterfly startles a young rabbit, and the rabbit makes a horse rear, it starts a chain of events, over the course of one day, that will change people's lives . . . and end people's...