1091 results for '"Oxford"'

This fourth volume in the Alimentary Canal section covers these topics: History, Structure and Innervation, Smooth Muscle Physiology, Motor Actions and Controlling Mechanisms, and General Controlling...

The story of F. Scott Fitzgerald's creation of Jay Gatsby—war hero and Oxford man—at the beginning of the Jazz Age, when the City of Dreaming Spires attracted an astounding array of intellectuals,...

Hailed by The Washington Post as "a definitive synthesis of the best editions" and by The Times of London as "a monument to Shakespearean scholarship," The Oxford Shakespeare is the ultimate...

Historians Brooke and Highfield have produced a tastefully written and sumptuously illustrated history of the two oldest and most beautiful universities in the English-speaking world. The Golden Age...

In this tale Jemima is reluctantly shooting a TV expose--"Golden Lads and Girls"--on the exotic lifestyles of overprivileged undergraduates. Among them is Lord Saffron, the wealthy, twenty-year-old...

The University of Oxford was a medieval wonder. After its foundation in the late 12th century it made a crucial contribution to the core syllabus of all medieval universities - the study of the...

A remarkably complete compendium of modern scholarship on all aspects of Ancient Greek and Roman civilization, The Oxford Classical Dictionary includes entries on individual names, events, and places...

Thousands of texts, written over a period of three thousand years on papyri and potsherds, in Egyptian, Greek, Latin, Aramaic, Hebrew, Persian, and other languages, have transformed our knowledge of...

Spanning two thousand years of stirring religious, cultural and political events, this authoritative volume provides the most accessible history of Christianity ever published for the general reader...

Provides entries under such topics as the natural and physical world, world history, the arts, the universe, and invention and technology

"[An] ideal bedside-table book....Both the contributors and their contributions are shrewdly arranged"--The New Yorker. "Features a wide range of prose and poetry from the world's literatures dealing...

In this collection of new and revised essays Owen Chadwick, perhaps the most distinguished living historian of religion, writes on various aspects of the Oxford Movement and the English Church in the...