Oxford University Press

Believing the Bible in the Global SouthNamed one of the top religion books of 2002 by USA Today, Philip Jenkins&'s phenomenally successful The Next Christendom permanently changed the way people think about the future of Christianity. In that volume, Jenkins called the world&'s attention to the little noticed fact that Christianity&'s center of...

Must the strip mall and the eight-lane highway define 21st century American life? That is a central question posed by critics of suburban and exurban living in America. Yet despite the ubiquity of the critique, it never sticks-Americans by the scores of millions have willingly moved into sprawling developments over the past few decades. Americans...

Running the RiskThe second book in the fantastic Shapeshifter series by Blue Peter Award-winner, Ali Sparkes....

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Dictionaries are far more than works which list the words and meanings of a        language. In this Very Short Introduction Lynda Mugglestone takes a look at how        dictionaries are made, considering how they reflect the dominant social and cultural        assumptions of the time in which they were written....

The Vital Few, a study of the contribution of entrepreneurs to the American        economy, provides portraits of the men and women whose individual enterprise has        helped to establish the character of the American businessperson and to carry our        economy forward from colonial times. Examining such legendary figures as...