Oxford University Press

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A highly readable account of the dramatic changes in China from Mao Zedong's revolution through the turmoil of the Red Guards to the country's emergence as a world economic powerhouse....

In this, the first of two ground-breaking volumes on the nature of language in the light of the way it evolved, James Hurford looks at the origins of meaning and of its expression in language and reviews a mass of evidence to uncover the evolutionary path between the non-speaking minds of apes and our own speaking minds. This is a landmark...

An updated new edition of Michael Howard's classic history of war in European history, from medieval times to the 21st century, showing how the changing face of war has shaped the wider course of the continent's history over the last millennium....

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Neutrinos are as near to nothing as anything we know, and so elusive that they are        almost invisible. Frank Close tells the story of the neutrino, explaining their        growing significance, and looking at how neutrino astronomy is at the threshold of        enabling us to look into distant galaxies and to finding echoes of the...