1086 results for '"Oxford"'

Contemporary accounts by notable figures, linked together with commentary, celebrate and recount the history of Oxford, the city and the university, illuminating a long tradition of scholarship...

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 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...

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...

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 essays, the story of the Crusades is told as never before in an engrossing and comprehensive history that ranges from the preaching of the First Crusade in 1095 to the legacy of...

This comprehensive reference provides an exhaustive guide to current scholarship on the perennial problem of Free Will--perhaps the most hotly and voluminously debated of all philosophical problems...

Details the characteristics, traits, and habitat of all the vertebrate species, excluding birds, found in Great Britain

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...