Oxford University Press

The tales with which Sheherazade nightly postpones the murderous intent of the Sultan Schahriar have entered our language and our lives like no other collection before or since.   This, the only edition to include the complete text of the earliest English translation of the Nights, also offers extensive textual apparatus such as explanatory notes...

Forensic science is a subject of wide fascination. What happens at a crime scene?        How does DNA profiling work? How can it help solve crimes that happened 20 years        ago?In forensic science, a criminal case can often hinge on a piece of evidence such        as a hair, a blood trace, half a footprint, or a tyre mark. High profile cases...

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Negotiating the Borders Between Terror, Politics and ReligionEssays by experts exploring the intersection of geography, religion, foreign policy, and terrorism in Afghanistan and Pakistan...

Grandpa is dying. He can barely move his hands any more but, stubborn as ever, refuses to stay in hospital. He's determined to finish his last painting, 'River Boy', before he goes. At first Jess can't understand his refusal to let go, but then she too becomes involved in the mysterious painting. And when she meets the river boy...

A Very Short IntroductionIn a fluid and uncertain world, wracked by fears of terrorism, the Bomb matters. Indeed it may matter more today than at any time before or during the Cold War. This book reveals why - providing a lucid and chilling account of nuclear weapons, their history, their role in global politics, and how we have - so far - managed...