Oxford University Press

The first full philological edition in English of the Roman philosopher Seneca's        De Clementia. It includes the Latin text with apparatus criticus, a new English        translation, a substantial introduction, and a commentary on matters of textual and        literary criticism and issues of socio-political, historical, cultural,...

This second volume in the Feminist Philosophy series focuses on the topic of autonomy in the context of gender politics. Marilyn Freidman's project concentrates primarily on the notion of personal autonomy as the self-referential capacity to define the terms of one's own life. She develops a new account of autonomy that can bridge the gap between...

Terrors of the Table tells the absorbing story of our struggle to recognise the connections between diet, health, and disease. Walter Gratzer combines the science of nutrition with a colourful history of the fads and quackery that continue to waylay the unwary when it comes to matters of food and health....

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The Traveller in the Evening is a study of Blake's poetry, art, and thought during the last years of his life, from 1818 to 1827. Morton Paley considers some of Blake's major accomplishments, including Blake's wood engravings for Thornton's   Virgil, the separate plate known as  The Laocoon, 101 illustrations to Dante's    IDivine Comedy, and the...

Mechanical Witness will be the first cultural and legal history charting the changing role and theoretical implications of the use of film and video as courtroom evidence. The author moves from the earliest uses of film in the courts of the 1920s to Osama Bin Laden's taped statements after 9/11, revealing how the courts have developed a reliance on...