Written by the leading expert in the field, The Oxford Introductions to U.S. Law: Contracts provides students with ready access to the basic doctrines of contract law, the story behind their...
The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Iran fills a gap in the literature of the ancient Near East, providing up-to-date, authoritative essays by leading specialists on a wide range of historical,...
The "Nicomachean Ethics" is one of Aristotle's most widely read and influential works. Ideas central to ethics - that happiness is the end of human endeavor, that moral virtue is formed...
The first edition of Albert R. Rice's The Baroque Clarinet is widely considered the authoritative text on the European clarinet during the first half of the eighteenth century. Since its...
In 1987, the University of Chicago Press published "Primate Societies", the kanon reference in the field of primate behavior for an entire generation of students and scientists. But in the...
More people were killed aby smallpox during the twentieth century—over 300 million—than by all of the wars of that period combined. In 1918 and 1919, influenza virus claimed over 50 million lives....
book with easy-to-follow instructions for 45 different traditional Japanese designs and an attractive sturdy box that can store paper and act as pedestal to display finished products. 160 pieces of...
Initially denounced as a collection of sinister maxims and as a recommendation of tyranny, this text has more recently been defended and applauded as the first scientific treatment of politics as...
Anthony Powell's universally acclaimed epic encompasses a four-volume panorama of twentieth century London. Hailed żeby "Time as "brilliant literary comedy as well as a brilliant sketch...
In this third volume of 'Dance to the Music of Time, ' we again meet Widmerpool, doggedly rising in rank; Jenkins, shifted from one dismal army post to another; Stringham, heroically...
In this climactic volume of A Dance to the Music of Time, Nick Jenkins describes a world of ambition, intrigue, and dissolution. England has won the war, but now the losses, physical and moral,...