Are men cleverer than women? Is a poor man cleverer than a rich man? And what about teachers? Are they always cleverer than their students? The people in these six well-known folk tales from around the world all want to be clever... Zobraziť viac
The Oxford Advanced American Dictionary helps students understand the meanings of words and how to use them correctly. It includes 145,000 words, phrases and meanings and 85,500 examples to show how words are used. .. Zobraziť viac
Waders are spectacular members of our avifauna. They are especially prevalent along coasts and in wetlands during the spring and autumn migration periods, when members of several species may perform dramatic flocks that wheel and turn in flight... Zobraziť viac
Rhyme's Challenge offers a concise, pithy primer to hip-hop poetics while presenting a spirited defense of rhyme in contemporary American poetry. David Caplan's stylish study examines hip-hop's central but supposedly outmoded verbal technique: rhyme... Zobraziť viac
The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Theater brings together genres, aesthetics, cultural practices, and historical movements that provide insight into humanist concerns at the crossroads of dance and theater, broadening... Zobraziť viac
OUP Oxford: Life on earth will come to an end. It's just a matter of when. In this Very Short Introduction, Bill McGuire... Zobraziť viac
This book provides an overview of phonological typology: the study of how sounds are distributed across the languages of the world and why they display these distributions and patterns. It examines major phonological phenomena ... Zobraziť viac
This textbook covers virtually every aspect of intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring during Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) surgery beginning with what is an electron to how to decide whether a given trajectory ... Zobraziť viac
This second edition of the Oxford Handbook of Key Clinical Evidence provides an alternative to the growing volumes of trial data for students, trainees and researchers looking for the key evidence affecting medical practice... Zobraziť viac
Dominoes is a full-colour, interactive readers series that offers students a fun reading experience while building their language skills. With integrated activities, and exciting, fully dramatized audio for every story... Zobraziť viac
Prehistory covers the period of some 4 million years before the start of written history, when our earliest ancestors, the Australopithecines, existed in Africa. But this is relatively recent compared to whole history of the ... Zobraziť viac
Mammals are the so-called "pinnacle" group of vertebrates, successfully colonising virtually all terrestrial environments as well as the air (bats) and sea (especially pinnipeds and cetaceans). How mammals function and survive in these diverse... Zobraziť viac
The Monk (1796) is a sensational story of temptation and depravity, a masterpiece of Gothic fiction and the first horror novel in English literature. The respected monk Ambrosio, the Abbot of a Capuchin monastery in Madrid, ... Zobraziť viac
Little Mary Lennox is a bad-tempered, disagreeable child. When her parents die in India, she is sent back to England to live... Zobraziť viac
Sherlock Holmes is the greatest detective of them all. He sits in his room, and smokes his pipe. He listens, and watches, and thinks. He listens to the steps coming up the stairs; he watches the door opening ... Zobraziť viac
The third edition of Cassese's International Criminal Law provides a clear account of the main substantive and procedural aspects of international criminal law. Adopting a combination of the classic ... Zobraziť viac
Oxford University Press: 'If you want a really good book about organic chemistry get "Organic Chemistry" by Clayden,... Zobraziť viac
This work provides detailed coverage of the current state of international treaty law in respect of copyright issues relating to the Internet and E-commerce... Zobraziť viac
The Indian Constitution is one of the world`s most important and longest political texts. This short introduction presents an illuminating tour of the text, explaining not only what the Constitution says but also ... Zobraziť viac
In this timely study of the different approaches of America and Europe to the problems of domestic inequality and poverty, the authors describe just how different the two continents are in the level of State engagement in the redistribution of income... Zobraziť viac
