184 results for '"Woolcott, Geoff'

Fungi play important roles in the cycling of elements in the biosphere but are frequently neglected within microbiological and geochemical research spheres. Symbiotic mycorrhizal fungi are...

Exuberantly referential poems of personal and political struggle inhabit this highly acclaimed poet's fourth collection.

While attending Princeton in the 1950s, Nathaniel Clay learns the bitter comedy of growing up in a privileged world of inherited good luck and responsibility, as he moves into the complicated,...

A riveting firsthand account of the violence in East Timor in 1999This is a book about a terrible spate of mass violence. It is also about a rare success in bringing such violence to an end. "If You...

In Psychotherapy in the Third Reich, Geoffrey Cocks focuses on a curious phenomenon which has heretofore escaped notice: even at the zenith of Nazi persecution, the profession of psychotherapy...

The beginning of the Oxford Movement in the early nineteenth century signalled a religious revival that was to have far-reaching effects on the Church of England: the continuity and catholic identity...

The classic musicals of Broadway can provide us with truly enchanted evenings. But while many of us can hum the music and even recount the plot from memory, we are often much less knowledgeable about...

The oceans exert a vital moderating influence on the Earth's climate system. They provide inertia to the global climate, essentially acting as the pacemaker of climate variability and change, and...

The word blurb derives from a pulchritudinous young lady of that fictional name who appeared on a book-cover at the turn of the century. Quarrying the Oxford English Dictionary for its evidence, this...

The fruit of a lifetime's work by one of the country's leading historians, this is history writing on a grand scale. By the 1790s Britain was constitutionally united and newly established as a major...

Looks how firearms affected the development of offensive and defensive strategy, discusses the creation of ocean-going warships, and describes how these developments gave the Western powers military...

Each page of this volume contains 9-10 lines of Greek text, exactly one-third of a page from Hude's 1912 Oxford Classical Text of Lysias I or one-third of a page from Burnet's 1903 Oxford Classical...

Wartski is a family firm of art and antique dealers, specialising in fine jewellery, gold boxes, silver and works of art by Carl Faberge. The firm was founded in Bangor, North Wales in 1865 by Morris...

How the development of legal and financial institutions transformed Britain into the world’s first capitalist countryModern capitalism emerged in England in the eighteenth century and ushered in the...