Oxford University Press

Terrors of the Table tells the absorbing story of our struggle to recognise the connections between diet, health, and disease. Walter Gratzer combines the science of nutrition with a colourful history of the fads and quackery that continue to waylay the unwary when it comes to matters of food and health....

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The Traveller in the Evening is a study of Blake's poetry, art, and thought during the last years of his life, from 1818 to 1827. Morton Paley considers some of Blake's major accomplishments, including Blake's wood engravings for Thornton's   Virgil, the separate plate known as  The Laocoon, 101 illustrations to Dante's    IDivine Comedy, and the...

Mechanical Witness will be the first cultural and legal history charting the changing role and theoretical implications of the use of film and video as courtroom evidence. The author moves from the earliest uses of film in the courts of the 1920s to Osama Bin Laden's taped statements after 9/11, revealing how the courts have developed a reliance on...

Culture and Commerce in an Anxious AgeFrom mad cows to McDonaldization to genetically modified maize, European food scares and controversies at the turn of the millennium provoked anxieties about the perils hidden in an increasingly industrialized, internationalized food supply. These food fears have cast a shadow as long as Africa, where farmers...

It's odd to meet a god-but Abandinus seems harmless enough, and maybe he can help Kevin get some of the things he wants. Then Kevin finds out that Abandinus is just one of many long-forgotten deities. And while one god might be manageable, a whole bunch o...