Oxford University Press

Describing and understanding the evolution of the diversity of bodyplans is a major goal of evolutionary biology. Taking a modern, integrated approach to this question, a group of leading researchers describe how modern techniques and disciplines have been combined, resulting in a dramatic renaissance in the study of animal evolution....

The experience of traumatic events is a near-universal, albeit unfortunate, part        of the human experience. Given how many individuals are exposed to trauma, it is        interesting to question why some individuals are resilient in the face of trauma        while others go on to develop chronic post-traumatic stress. Throughout...

This is a thorough revision of the standard text on local circuits in the different regions of the brain. In this fifth edition, the results of the mouse and human genome projects are incorporated for the first time. Also for the first time, the reader is oriented to supporting neuroscience databases. Among the new advances covered are 2-photon...

Defining 'magic' is a maddening task. Over the last century numerous philosophers,        anthropologists, historians, and theologians have attempted to pin down its        essential meaning, sometimes analysing it in such complex and abstruse depth that it        all but loses its sense altogether. For this reason, many people often shy away...

In this wide-ranging book that moves from Greek drama to modern poetry, from the meaning of the Logos to the history of vestments, David Brown explores the ways in which poetry and drama in the past were rooted in religious questions. Their creative potential needs to be re-discovered, to bring present-day worship and experience of God alive....

When beautiful Lucy Graham becomes Lady Audley, her future looks secure. But her past is shrouded in mystery, and the disappearance of a young man sparks an investigation that will reveal her dark secret... This new edition explores the novel in the context of nineteenth-century sensation fiction and the lively debates it provoked....