Books published by Oxford University Press, USA

In The Shadow of Childhood Harm, Wolff, using a balance of compassion and evidence, takes readers through the lives of people who end up inside prison. Guided by the words of those who have lived the experience of harm, she weaves an expansive body of research that lays bare the harm that began in childhood (the curse) and its subsequent shadow that later, during adolescence and adulthood, manifests as harm to self and others, eventually culminating in crime that results in incarceration, where harm there, once again, repeats like a bad dream.

Theocritus: Space, Absence, and Desire discusses many of Theocritus's Idylls with emphasis on how these poems construct space--its contours and borders, along with the people, animals, and objects that fill it--and the equally important role of absence.

We, Together offers an account of our living together in terms of joint activity. The book analyzes shared intention and explores how the social worlds of roles and statuses, norms and structures, institutions and artifacts are of our own making. Hans Bernhard Schmid illuminates obstacles to overcome in our attempts to do better--to live well, better, together.

Thomas K Holcomb's highly successful textbook on Deaf culture has been fully revised and updated in this second edition. The changes reflect those in the field and include three new chapters focusing on the impact of technology on the Deaf experience, the roles of allies in supporting the Deaf community, and the diversity that exists in the Deaf community. Also new to this edition is an ASL summary of each chapter, making the book accessible in two languages that are important in the Deaf community, ASL and English.

This Handbook describes the ways in which 50 countries from every continent, except Antarctica, have devised measures to protect children from maltreatment and exploitation. The Handbook discusses the legislative responses, public administrative systems, and the social service networks that governments utilize to secure children's safety. Synthesizing data from across the world, the authors suggest a global typology of child protection systems for understanding the diversity of service responses.

Rethinking Migrations in Late Prehistoric Eurasia rethinks the role of migrations in late prehistoric Eurasia, integrating cutting-edge scientific analyses with theoretical perspectives that highlight the complexity of past population movements.

Judicial Independence Under Threat seeks to situate contemporary challenges to judicial independence in their proper legal, philosophical, political and historical contexts. It asks how threats to judicial independence can be protected against.

This volume offers a typology of reference systems across a range of typologically and genetically distinct languages. Zygmunt Frajzyngier describes and explains the differences between these systems across languages and explores their implications for syntactic theory and analysis and for linguistic typology.

John E. Hare investigates the work of the Holy Spirit in the world. He proposes that the Spirit aims at unity of four different kinds: unity between us and the material world, unity within us, unity between us and others, and unity between us and God. The book ends by asking why the Spirit aims at unity, and the answer is that the Spirit loves.

This volume looks at the relationship between constitutional law and the African political economy. It tackles a range of issues from the impact of globalization to the State's role in the economy, and the constitutional foundations for land and natural resources exploitation, regulation and protection.

Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy presents a selection of the best current work in the history of early modern philosophy. It focuses on the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries - the extraordinary period of intellectual flourishing that begins, very roughly, with Descartes and his contemporaries and ends with Kant.

The 53rd edition of the SIPRI Yearbook analyses developments in 2021 in security and conflicts; military spending and armaments; non-proliferation; arms control; and disarmament.

Drawing on a rich storehouse of short stories in Hindi, after Premchand, the book evokes the entire spectrum of crises that the rural world has experienced since the early decades of independent India through the period of liberalization till the recent decades. The transcribed excerpts poignantly carry the spirit of rural India.

Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy showcases the best new scholarly work on philosophy from the end of antiquity into the Renaissance. OSMP combines historical scholarship with philosophical acuteness, and will be an essential resource for anyone working in the area.

This book explores a domain of discourse processing referred to as 'interactive grammar', based on an analysis of grammatical descriptions of over 100 languages. Bernd Heine shows that interactive grammar should be treated as a distinct category that contrasts with sentence grammar in both its functions and its structural behavior.

Matthew Day reassesses how the spread of Renaissance humanism in England impacted the reception of Virgil. In emphasizing the very gradual pace of humanist development and the continuous influence of medieval scholarship, a more qualified view is reached of how humanism did and (just as importantly) did not affect Virgilian reading and translation.

This book is about how the activities of the Chinese sojourners in wartime India caused great concerns to the British colonial regime and the Chinese Nationalist government alike and how these sojourners responded to the surveillance, discipline, and check imposed by the governments.

The first biography of Elizabeth Wiskemann - historian, journalist, intelligence agent - delving into her lives in 1920s Cambridge, Nazi-era Germany and Eastern Europe, and post-war European reconstruction in Italy and West Germany, as a female pioneer in the male-dominated spheres of journalism, government service, and academia.

This is an interesting book of conversations, which not only endorses the life and thoughts of Ashok Vajpeyi, but also praises poetry in general. He makes the mystery of the world visible to us by speaking with/of poetry. Throughout these conversations we encounter a poet who sets his own pace through poetry, music and painting.

This book deals with the interface between identity, culture and literature. It studies questions of cultural identity and gender in Hindi plays of the 19th- and 20th- centuries and the interplay of poetics and politics, as revealed in the work of several influential playwrights.

The book is aimed at providing a short introduction to the divergent ways in which space and place evince themselves in literature. With suitable illustrations from some very well- known canonical texts the book offers a brief survey of the possible ways of looking at the seemingly impossible relationship between Literature and Geography.

Cardiopulmonary Transplantation and Mechanical Circulatory Support provides a comprehensive review of the field. Suitable for all tiers of healthcare professionals managing such complex patients.

Throughout history, American literature has provided an escape from the classroom; yet authors like Twain, Melville, and Ellison remain key figures in high school and college curricula. This book offers an account of this paradox, examining the contentious but ultimately generative relationship between literary and scholastic culture in the US.

The book argues that collective skill formation systems remain attractive for firms and governments. However, continuous and profound adjustments will be needed if they are to fulfil their objectives in terms of equity and efficiency.

This handbook shows the unexpected richness and diversity of key phenomenological and post-phenomenological thinkers in an aim to help management and organization scholars to understand a huge variety of contemporary phenomena such as AI, digitalization of organizational processes, remote work, financial markets, and much more.

Concealing Caste opens a window into the experience of women and men in India who, though born into communities stigmatized as 'untouchable,' are perceived as 'high caste' outside the home.

This book offers the first systematic treatment of the idea of a critical theory of world society. Malte Frøslee Ibsen develops a reconstruction of the Frankfurt School tradition as four paradigms of critical theory, in original interpretations of the work of notable theorists.