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| Author | : Peter Sutcliffe |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 354 |
| Release | : 1978 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 9780199510849 |
Oxford University Press is one of the oldest and best-known publishing houses in the world. This history, originally published to mark 500 years of printing in Oxford, traces the transformation of the Press from a lucrative Bible house into a great national and international publishing business. Great names in the early history of the Press, like Laud, Fell, and Blackstone, laid sound foundations, but as late as the 1890s the University was censured for sanctioning the publication of the secular and profane literature of Marlowe and Shakespeare.
| Author | : Ian Anders Gadd |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 914 |
| Release | : 2013-11 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 0199568405 |
The history of Oxford University Press spans five centuries of printing and publishing. This third volume begins with the establishment of the New York office in 1896. It traces the expansion of OUP in America, Australia, Asia, and Africa, and far-reaching changes in the business and technology of publishing up to 1970.
| Author | : Jan Morris |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 402 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780192804075 |
In this entertaining and lively anthology, Jan Morris traces the history of Oxford University from its foundation in the Middle Ages through to the twentieth century, combining extracts from contemporary observers with her own informative commentary. The reader is invited to view the development of the college system, the creation of the Bodleian, Magdalen's defiance of James II, Newman, and the Oxford Movement. The life and times of Oxford are exalted or derided by writers ranging from the antiquarian Anthony Wood to Evelyn Waugh, Dr. Johnson and Mr. Gladstone, Hilaire Belloc and Thomas Hardy. Unworldly scholars and eccentric dons walk the pages, accompanied by the great characters of Oxford such as Benjamin Jowett, Sir Maurice Bowra, and William Spooner.
| Author | : Jon Stallworthy |
| Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
| Total Pages | : 390 |
| Release | : 2014-06-26 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 0191053309 |
There can be no area of human experience that has generated a wider range of powerful feelings than war. Jon Stallworthy's classic and celebrated anthology spans centuries of human experience of war, from Homer's Iliad, through the First and Second World Wars, the Vietnam War, and the wars fought since. This new edition, published to mark the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, includes a new introduction additonal poems from David Harsent and Peter Wyton amongst others. The new selection provides improved coverage of the two World Wars and the Vietnam War, and new coverage of the wars of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
| Author | : Falconer Madan |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 400 |
| Release | : 1895 |
| Genre | : English literature |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : W. C. Brownell |
| Publisher | : Prabhat Prakashan |
| Total Pages | : 396 |
| Release | : 2021-01-01 |
| Genre | : Self-Help |
| ISBN | : |
This essay appeared originally in the Atlantic Monthly for May, 1883. During the thirty years which have elapsed since it was written the manifestations of the colonial spirit then apparent in the United States have not only altered in character but, I am glad to say, have weakened, diminished, and become less noticeable. Since 1883, also, there has been much achieved by Americans in Art and Literature, in painting, in sculpture, in music, and particularly in architecture. Success in all these fields has, with few exceptions, been won by men working in the spirit which is not colonial, but which it was the purpose of this essay to inculcate as the true one to which alone we could look for fine and enduring achievement. I have called attention to the date at which the essay was written in order that those who read it may remember that it applies in certain points to the conditions of thirty years ago and not to those of the present day.
| Author | : Richard Dawkins |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2008-03-13 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 0191550841 |
Selected and introduced by Richard Dawkins, The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing is a celebration of the finest writing by scientists for a wider audience - revealing that many of the best scientists have displayed as much imagination and skill with the pen as they have in the laboratory. This is a rich and vibrant collection that captures the poetry and excitement of communicating scientific understanding and scientific effort from 1900 to the present day. Professor Dawkins has included writing from a diverse range of scientists, some of whom need no introduction, and some of whose works have become modern classics, while others may be less familiar - but all convey the passion of great scientists writing about their science.
| Author | : J. G. Vaughan |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 224 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 0192806807 |
This text begins with an account of modern concepts of human nutrition, followed by a series of over 100 accounts of individual health foods and dietary supplements. The evidence for the claimed therapeutic value of herbal medicines is given.
| Author | : John Vaughan |
| Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
| Total Pages | : 806 |
| Release | : 2009-08-27 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 0191609498 |
The Oxford Book of Food Plants is a beautifully illustrated compendium of facts about the plants we grow in our gardens and use in our cooking. Gorgeous botanical illustrations are accompanied by accessible yet authoritative descriptions of each plant, along with fascinating historical details and nutritive values. This is a new edition of a classic book — fully updated with the latest nutritional research, as well as beautiful new plates and descriptions of many exotic edible plants that have only recently found their way into our markets and onto our kitchen tables — it is a must-have for anyone who loves good food, cooking, and gardening.
| Author | : Joyce Carol Oates |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 896 |
| Release | : 2013 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0199744394 |
Joyce Carol Oates has performed a full review of her acclaimed 1992 anthology, The Oxford Book of American Short Stories, and in this second edition embraces those authors who have come to define turn-of-the-century American literature. Jhumpa Lahiri, Junot Diaz, Richard Ford, and David Foster Wallace are just a few of the authors whose stories are now represented. Each story is accompanied by a brief introduction, and there is also a fascinating introductory essay by Joyce Carol Oates that explains why these stories form the foundation of the American literary canon, and the trends and innovations that have taken place in the last twenty years.
