Books published by Oxford University Press

This book provides a comprehensive account of the emergence of the customary law of human rights. It examines a range of human rights norms, and provides a useful guide to identifying those which can be described as customary.

Over the last 20 years, there has been a huge increase in the number of scientific papers published on these remarkable creatures, and an authoritative synthesis is now timely. This accessible text goes beyond their natural history to describe the impacts on humans, conflict mitigation, animal husbandry, management, and conservation.

All the cases you need, together with the tools to understand them. Now updated by Professor Robert Merkin and Dr Severine Saintier, Poole's Casebook on Contract Law takes a uniquely supportive approach, to give you the confidence to engage with and analyse judgments.

The Cambridge Lower Secondary Complete Chemistry Workbook, part of the trusted Complete Science series, supports independent practice both inside and outside the classroom to help learners reach their full potential and progress seamlessly to IGCSE Chemistry.

Billy has two pirates for mums. He wishes his family could be more like everyone else's. Until a swashbuckling adventure changes everything!

Mirabelle is having a BAD DAY! Everything seems to be going wrong, and when her brother eats the last chocolate biscuit, Mirabelle finally loses her temper, with dramatic consequences! Will Mirabelle be able to turn her bad day around?

Progress with Oxford Fractions, Multiplication and Division Age 5-6 builds skills while helping your child to work independently. Engaging activities, fun characters and stickers keep them motivated and a progress chart captures their achievements, and further activities and support can be found on oxfordowl.co.uk.

From one of the world's most celebrated moral philosophers comes a thorough examination of the current American political crisis and recommendations for how to mend a divided country.

Introduction to the English Legal System is the ideal foundation for those new to the study of law. Writing in a highly engaging and accessible style, Partington introduces the purposes and functions of English law, the law-making process, and the machinery of justice, whilst also challenging assumptions and exploring current debates.

Numicon is a multi-sensory maths programme that encourages children to see and do maths using structured imagery and apparatus. Through active investigation with problem-solving at its heart, Firm Foundations Revised Edition supports children and teachers to reason and communicate mathematically with confidence.

The Cambridge Lower Secondary Complete English 7 Student Book embeds a solid foundation at Lower Secondary level and helps students reach their full potential, as well as preparing them to progress seamlessly to IGCSE English.

Molecular Biology of Cancer: Mechanisms, Targets, and Therapeutics offers the most engaging and accessible account of cancer biology that makes the link between our understanding of cancer and the development of new therapeutics crystal clear.

This pocketbook guides clinicians through the parameters measured in CPEX testing so that they can understand the underlying physiology and are able to interpret the results.

In this volume, Otto Saumarez Smith recounts the fraught history of the urban development of British city centres in the 1960s, uncovering the planning philosophy, and the political, cultural, and legislative background that created the conditions for these transformations to occur across the country.

This study illuminates the social, political, economic, and religious lives of those to whom the apostle Paul wrote. It articulates a method for bringing together biblical texts with archaeological remains.

How can we think about things in the outside world? There is still no widely accepted theory of how mental representations get their meaning. In light of pioneering research, Nicholas Shea develops a naturalistic account of the nature of mental representation with a firm focus on the subpersonal representations that pervade the cognitive sciences.

Written by an expert author team, this engaging textbook builds upon the traditional frameworks of brand strategy to analyse the emotional and cultural impact real-world brands have on contemporary consumers.

This leading dictionary contains over 3,000 clear and concise entries updated in line with curriculum and degree requirements. It covers pure and applied mathematics and statistics, features entry-level web links, and includes detailed appendices. Authoritative and comprehensive, this A-Z is invaluable for students and teachers of mathematics.

In Timaeus Plato attempts to describe and explain the structure of the universe: the creator god, the elements, the lower gods, the stars, and men. The companion piece, Critias, is the origin of the story of Atlantis, the lost empire defeated by ancient Athenians. This is the clearest translation yet of these crucial ancient texts.

Clarendon's History chonicles the English Civil War from the perspective of someone intimately involved in the events he describes. This classic work is admired for its literary quality as well as its historical value; this new selection also contains passages from The Life, Clarendon's autobiography, to produce a vivid narrative history.

Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark (1796) is both an arresting travel book and a personal memoir. In it Wollstonecraft describes the sublime landscape and the events and people she encounters. This edition includes reviews, additional letters, and documents on the background to the journey.

Considered by many as one of the finest novels in the English language, The Portrait of a Lady is both a dramatic Victorian tale of betrayal and a wholly modern psychological study of a woman caught in machinations she only comes to understand too late. This new edition usefully tracks the major textual changes James made for his New York Edition.

This established work, now a key text on cloud computing law, is fully updated to reflect numerous recent developments such as the implications of GDPR for cloud services, cybersecurity regulation, and the use of cloud services by governments and other public sector bodies.

The seventh novel in Zola's Rougon-Macquart cycle, The Assommoir is the story of a woman's struggle for happiness in working-class Paris.

With a unique narrative combining moving life stories and scholarly insight, this book offers a radical re-appraisal of Indian politics. The book demonstrates why Indian democracy is of global importance and why its pathologies are a cause for alarm: as much for India as for the future of democracy the world over.

These new Set 6A (Blue) Storybooks are designed to give children extra practice, and to develop their fluency and vocabulary further before completing the programme.

A new edition of this best-selling history of Britain, from Roman times, now updated to cover the first decade of the 21st century.

The second level in a three-level topic-based vocabulary course to learn and practise the words that learners need to know at each CEFR level, based on the Oxford 3000TM.

Mirabelle's mum is a witch, her dad is a fairy, and she is a bit of both. When Mirabelle goes off to witch school she promises not to cause any mischief . . . The only trouble is, causing mischief is one of her favourite things to do. Can Mirabelle and her best friend, Carlotta, put her mischief-making right by home time?