Oxford University Press

A Defence of Literary HumanismRichard Gaskin offers an original defence of literary humanism, according to which works of imaginative literature have an objective meaning which is fixed at the time of production and not subject to individual readers' responses. He shows that the appreciation of literature is a cognitive activity fully on a par...

In A Tale of Seven Elements, Eric Scerri presents the fascinating history of those seven elements discovered to be mysteriously "e;missing"e; from the periodic table in 1913....

Harry Hopkins and the Forging of the Alliance to Defeat HitlerAn engaging biography of one of FDR's closest advisors and political point man during World War II, The Hopkins Touch brings this significant figure to life, through previously private diaries and letters....

Tribal Sovereignty and the Limits of Legal PluralismIn order to counter the steady erosion of tribal powers of self-government, this book argues for redirecting the trajectory of tribal-federal relations to better reflect the formative ethos of legal pluralism that operated in the nation's earliest years, thus giving effect to the idea that...

Examining a developing culture of international commercial arbitration and the implications for the evolution of contract law, this book includes case studies and analysis from interviews with international arbitrators and national court judges, and identifies trends to explain and predict arbitration decisions on issues of substantive law....

Computer aided assessment is rapidly becoming widely used in mathematics education from open access learning materials to interactive materials and online assessments. This book provides a survey of the field, theoretical background and practical examples. It is aimed at any teachers interested in using or developing their own online assessments....