Oxford University Press

In Jesus and Muhammad, Peters presents a balanced and objective study of two of the most renowned and controversial individuals in history, examining their lives and careers and the paths down which historians, both believers and non-believers, have pursued them over the last century and a half....

Rosemary Sutcliff's best-selling The Eagle of the Ninth - now a major motion picture filmed as The Eagle....

Carol Harrison counters the assumption that Augustine of Hippo's (354-430) theology underwent a revolutionary transformation around the time he was consecrated Bishop in 396. Instead, she argues that there is a fundamental continuity in his thought and practice from the moment of his conversion in 386....

A challenging reinterpretation of the political culture of the last century of the Roman Republic. Wiseman argues that the People had their own egalitarian ethos, usually in conflict with the self-styled `best' (   optimates), who, with their belief in justified murder, were responsible for the republic's breakdown in civil war....

Fundamental Principles and ApplicationsA self-contained and widely accessible text, with almost no prior knowledge of        mathematics required, this book presents a comprehensive introduction to the role        that cryptography plays in providing information security for technologies such as        the Internet, mobile phones, payment cards,...

Peter Pan, the boy who refused to grow up, is one of the immortals of children's literature. J. M. Barrie first created Peter Pan as a baby, living in secret with the birds and fairies in the middle of London, but as the children for whom he invented the stories grew older, so too did Peter, reappearing in Neverland, where he was aided in his epic...