Oxford University Press

Betrayed. Attacked. Lost.  Life has returned to normal for Hanna, Ned and Jik after their adventures in the tempestuous Sulu Sea. But then Dad heads to Borneo to look for gold and everything goes horribly wrong. Dad is accused of murder, and Hanna, Ned and Jik know they must go into the jungle to prove his innocence.  It is a race against time but...

Our sense that a waltz is "e;in three"e; or a blues song is "e;in four with a shuffle"e;        comes from our sense of musical meter. Hearing in Time explores the metric aspect of        our musical experience from a psychological point of view. Musical meter is subject        to a number of fundamental perceptual and cognitive...

This is a sustained critique of materialism (the thesis that all reality consists of material particles, their relations and interactions). The contributors offer arguments from conscious experience, rational thought, the interaction of mind and body, and the unity and persisting identity of human persons, and develop a wide range of alternatives....

What Speech Can Bring to WritingSince the publication of his groundbreaking books Writing Without Teachers and Writing with Power, Peter Elbow has revolutionized how people think about writing. Now, in Vernacular Eloquence, he makes a vital new contribution to both practice and theory. The core idea is simple: we can enlist virtues from the...

An imaginative, engaging, and short biography of Paul. Jerome Murphy-O'Connor's disciplined imagination, nourished by a lifetime of research, shapes numerous textual, historical, and archaeological details into a colourful and enjoyable story of which Paul is the flawed but undefeated hero. Paul's travels and mission are put into a plausible...

An unrivalled collection of literary gossip and intimate sidelights on the lives of the authors. This hugely entertaining anthology ranges from Chaucer to the present day, with anecdotes that are hilarious, touching, outrageous, sinister, inspiring, and downright weird....