Oxford University Press

The Great War Letters of an Oxford FamilyThe First World War has survived as part of our national memory in a way no previous war has ever done. This collection of letters - which lay untouched for almost ninety years - allows a unique glimpse into the war as experienced by one family at the time, transporting us back to an era which is now...

How Psychology is Revolutionizing WarPsychology is the science that will determine who wins and who loses the wars of the 21st century, just as physics ultimately led the United States to victory in World War II. Changes in the world&'s political landscape coupled with radical advances in the technology of war will greatly alter how militaries are...

Sexuality and Patriarchal Rule in Massachusetts, 1700-1830Sexuality was critical to how individuals experienced, learned, and contested their place in early America. Regulating Passion shows the sweeping changes that affected the social and political morass centered on sexual behavior during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in...

Speculation about Shakespeare&'s own religious beliefs and responses to the Reformation have dominated discussions of faith in the playwright&'s work for decades. As a result, we often lose sight of what&'s truly important-the plays themselves. By focusing on those plays in several succinct, fluently written chapters, Richard McCoy reminds us of...

Why the End of Poverty Requires the End of ViolenceA Washington Post bestseller While the world has made encouraging strides in the fight against global poverty, there is a hidden crisis silently undermining our best efforts to help the poor.  It is a plague of everyday violence.   Beneath the surface of the world&'s poorest communities, common...

In this book, leading scholars consider the ways in which syntactic variation can be accounted for in a minimalist framework. They explore the theoretical significance, content, and role of parameters; whether or not variation should be strongly or weakly accounted for by syntactic factors; and the explicitness - or lack thereof - should be assumed...