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Shelley Fisher Fishkin looks at the international impact of Mark Twain in honor the centennial of Twain’s death, the 175th anniversary of his birth, and the 125th anniversary of the U.S. publication of his most celebrated book.
In honor of the History Channel’s new series, America: The Story of Us, we have pulled some American history questions from Joy Hakim’s A History of US.
Tariq Ramadan is a very public figure, named one of Time magazine’s most important innovators of the twenty-first century, he is among the leading Islamic thinkers in the West. But he has also been a lightening rod for controversy. In his new book, What I Believe, he attempts to set the record straight, laying out the basic ideas he stands for in clear and accessible prose.
Anthony Trollope’s Palliser novels offer many fascinating parallels with today’s political scene, none more so than the fifth novel in the sequence, The Prime Minister. Nicholas Shrimpton, of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, will be editing the new edition of the novel for Oxford World’s Classics (out next year). His profile of Trollope’s fictional hero, Plantagenet Palliser, finds some uncanny resemblances between fiction and reality.
Dr Jon Lawrence, author of Electing Our Masters, on the spirit of the hustings in this year’s general election campaign.
Oxford University Press joins a large community of friends, colleagues, performers, and students in mourning the passing of Shirlee Emmons Baldwin, one of the most beloved and strongest voices in the education, nurturing, and career development of singers. Having been trained as a classical singer myself, it was with great pride that I “inherited” Shirlee’s three titles when I began work at the Press—Power Performance for Singers (1998), Prescriptions for Choral Excellence (with Constance Chase; 2006), and Researching the Song (with Wilbur Watkins Lewis; also 2006). Through these books and others, and in the hearts of all those she touched, Shirlee’s voice will continue to resound and enlighten.
An excerpt from Social Injustice and Public Health.
An interview with R. Larry Todd author of Fanny Hensel.
Jason Haslam on the Tarzan as cultural icon.
Did Eddie Cochran’s tour of the UK and death fifty years ago lead to the Beatles?
An excerpt from Integrative Body-Mind-Spirit Social Work.
Dennis Baron looks at “Gutenberg moments”.
Robert M. Geraci shares 10 ways World of Warcraft could help us survive the end of the world as we know it.
Charles R. Macedo reflects on the Tiffany v. eBay case.
When is it okay to include a child in a medical research study?
Dennis Baron looks at how we read.