Oxford University Press

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym is an archetypal American story of escape from home and family which traces a young man's rite of passage through a series of terrible brushes with death during a fateful sea voyage. But it also goes much deeper, as Pym encounters various interpretative dilemmas, at last leaving the reader with a broken-off ending...

Silence, Awareness, and ContemplationIn his sequel to the best-selling Into the Silent Land, Martin Laird guides the reader more deeply into the sanctuary of Christian meditation. He focuses here on negotiating key moments of difficulty on the contemplative path, showing how the struggles we resist become vehicles of the healing silence we seek....

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A totally absorbing novel about twelve-year-old Christina who is sent to live with her fierce uncle and his two sons in their decaying mansion, Flambards. Christina discovers a passion for horses and riding but finds herself part of a strange household, divided by emotional undercurrents and cruelty....

Radioactivity - the breakdown of unstable atomic nuclei, releasing radiation - is        a fundamental process in nature, and used to provide important applications in        science, medicine, and energy production. But it remains misunderstood and feared.          In this Very Short Introduction, Claudio Tuniz explains the nature and mechanisms...

An attempt to show the main reasons that can be advanced in support of the Christian faith. Brian Hebblethwaite defends the view that belief in God makes most sense of the world, and argues that the history of religions offers the best diagnosis and solution of the problems that afflict humanity....