Oxford University Press

Cardiothoracic Surgery covers all areas of adult and paediatric, cardiac and thoracic surgery and intensive care. This new edition, with updated cardiac surgery and thoracic sections, provides practical on-the-spot guidance to common and less common operative procedures....

The best-selling Oxford Handbook of Acute Medicine is an up-to-date, practical and comprehensive guide to the management of the acutely ill patient.  This third edition has been revised throughout to include the most up-to-date guidelines and treatment management plans. A new junior author ensures that the content remains relevant and accessible to...

Legal and Economic Challenges for DevelopmentIn recent years, Intellectual Property Rights - both in the form of patents and copyrights - have expanded in their coverage, the breadth and depth of protection, and the tightness of their enforcement. Moreover, for the first time in history, the IPR regime has become increasingly uniform at...

Relative Truth and its ApplicationsJohn MacFarlane debates how we might make sense of the idea that truth is relative, and how we might use this idea to give satisfying accounts of parts of our thought and talk that have resisted traditional methods of analysis. Although there is a substantial philosophical literature on relativism about truth,...

Women and the Counter-Reformation in early modern MAnsterWomen and the Counter-Reformation in Early Modern MAnster examines how women from different social backgrounds encountered the Counter-Reformation. The focus is on MAnster, a city in the north of Germany, which was exposed to powerful Protestant influences which culminated in the notorious...

The field of environmental history emerged just decades ago but has established itself as one of the most innovative and important new approaches to history, one that bridges the human and natural world, the humanities and the sciences.  With the current trend towards internationalizing history, environmental history is perhaps the quintessential...