Oxford University Press

Patients with pain disorders pose many clinical challenges for the attending        physician. Even experienced clinicians occasionally arrive at the point where        diagnostic, work-up, treatment, or prognostic thinking becomes blocked.Pain teaches        the reader to recognize and appropriately treat a variety of pain disorders using...

A new biography of Joseph Severn, Keats's best-known but most controversial friend, who is buried next to him in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome. Severn accompanied the dying poet to Italy and was virtually the only witness of his last days. Brown reassesses Severn's character and the nature of his friendship with Keats....

A lively account of popular religion in England under Elizabeth I and the early Stuarts, a time when everyone had to go to church and almost everyone was religious to some extent. The book deals with the religious beliefs and practices of ordinary people - mainly by quoting their actual words....

Easter 1916The story of the Easter Rising from the perspective of those who made it, focusing on the experiences of rank-and-file revolutionaries and exploiting a unique and recently released collection of over 1,700 eye-witness statements....

A History of the Moral Imagination from Spenser to RochesterChristopher Tilmouth's study of Early Modern ideas of emotion, self-indulgence,        and self-control explores a series of philosophical authors in relation to poets and        dramatists of the period 1580 to 1680. Aristotle, Aquinas, Augustine, and Hobbes        receive detailed...

In this classic work Bernard Lewis examines the key issues of Arab development - their identity, the national revival which cemented the creation of the Islamic state, and the social and economic pressures that destroyed the Arab kingdom and created the Islamic empire. He analyses the forces which contributed to that empire's eventual decline and...