Oxford University Press

This new collection offers a vivid picture of the world in the 21st century, against a backdrop of the landmark events leading up to it. From Catherine Tate and the Simpsons to Mother Teresa and Winston Churchill, here are the key voices of our time. An authoritative look-up reference, and an enjoyable source for browsing....

From Beginning to EndPractical guidelines, tips and strategies, and action steps checklists in each        chapter make this a handy pocket guide for students as well as advisors seeking a        comprehensive, unintimidating road map to the social work dissertation....

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With a broad scope across the millennia, from high literature to popular culture, between page and stage and screen, this Very Short Introduction considers comedy not only as a literary genre, but also as a broader impulse at work in many other historical and contemporary forms of satire, parody, and play....

The White Man's World explores ideas of the white man during the last 100 years of        the British Empire. Working back from Enoch Powell's 'Rivers of Blood' speech of        1968, it discusses the racial assumptions that accompanied the founding of colonial        Australia, South Africa, and Rhodesia - colonies which were popularly known as...

Thomas Paine was the first international revolutionary. His Common Sense was the most widely read pamphlet of the American Revolution, while his   Rights of Man sent out a clarion call for revolution throughout the world. This collection brings together Paine's most powerful political writings in the first fully annotated edition of these works....