How to Do Research - Bok av Robert (Professor of Psychiatric Epidemiology and Clinical Informatics Stewart - Inbunden

How to Do Research - Bok av Robert (Professor of Psychiatric Epidemiology and Clinical Informatics Stewart - Inbunden

Oxford Bookworms Library: Level 2:: Sherlock Holmes: More Short Stories - Graded readers for secondary and adult learners - Bok av Sir Arthur Conan-Do

Oxford Bookworms Library: Level 2:: Sherlock Holmes: More Short Stories - Graded readers for secondary and adult learners - Bok av Sir Arthur Conan-Do

Oxford Read and Discover: Level 2: Jobs - Bok - Häftad

Read and discover all about jobs ... Where do people work in cities? What does a vet do?

Shakespeare's Sonnets - Bok av Paul ( Edmondson - Häftad

Offers an informative and helpful study of Shakespeare's Sonnets. This book considers questions often raised about them - Do they reflect Shakespeare's personal experience? Can their addressees, male and female, be identified? What do they tell us about Shakespeare's sexuality? How do they relate to the literary tradition?

Writing the History of the Global - Challenges for the Twenty-First Century - Bok - Häftad

How do we write about the history of a place, a person, an event or an idea in its context in the world? How do we do history in the current age of globalization? In this book historians engage in new dialogues outside their former specialisms to face new challenges of comparative and connective histories.

Wrong's What I Do Best : Hard Country Music and Contemporary Culture

Explanations - styles of explanation in science - Bok - Inbunden

Scientists often talk about the search for meaning, and about explanations that can make sense of the universe. But what do we mean by this, and what information do thse explanations give us? In Explanations, eminent philosophers and scientists from a wide variety of backgrounds address this problem, to provoke and inspire reflection on how and why we explain things the way we do.

'And I quote...' - A history of using other people's words - Bok av Elizabeth ( Knowles - Inbunden

How and why do we quote? And how do quotations develop and morph over time? Elizabeth Knowles draws on over twenty years' experience editing the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations to illuminate this essential part of the fabric of our language.

Conversations on Ethics - Bok av Alex (London School of Economics) Voorhoeve - Häftad

Can we trust our intuitive judgments of right and wrong? What reason do we have to do what is right and avoid doing what is wrong? Eleven outstanding contemporary thinkers discuss these and other fascinating moral questions in accessible informal conversations.

Political Theory - Methods and Approaches - Bok - Häftad

Lively introduction to the many interesting ways to do political theory in the 21st century.

Oxford Read and Discover: Level 2: Plastic Audio Pack - Bok av Louise Spilsbury - Boxset

Read and discover all about plastic. How do we make plastic? Can we recycle plastic?

Dominoes: Starter: The Happy Prince - Bok av Oscar Wilde - Häftad

The Happy Prince is a beautiful golden statue high up on a column in the city. Everyone loves him. He feels sad about the city's poor people, but what can he do? He can't leave his column. Then the swallow arrives, and helps the Happy Prince to do many good things. But what about the swallow's dream of flying to Egypt? And what does the Mayor do when the Happy Prince loses all his gold?

How to Do Public Policy - Bok av Anke (Professor of Public Policy Hassel - Häftad

This book offers a guide to students and practitioners on how to improve problem-solving with policies in a political world.

Blossoms - And the genes that make them - Bok av Maxine (Retired Singer - Inbunden

Flowers evolved to attract pollinators, so new generations of plant can form. But how do plants know when to bloom, and how do they construct their flowers? This book describes what we have learnt of the astonishing genetic and epigenetic processes behind the dazzling variety of flower shapes, colours, and scents.

The Developing Genome - An Introduction to Behavioral Epigenetics - Bok av David S. ( Moore - Häftad

An accessible introduction to behavioral epigenetics, The Developing Genome explores how experiences influence genetic activity. We develop as we do not because of the genes we have, but because of what our genes do. The Developing Genome explains this new discipline and its revolutionary implications, changing how we understand development and evolution.

The Opacity of Mind - An Integrative Theory of Self-Knowledge - Bok av Peter (University of Maryland) Carruthers - Häftad

Do we have introspective access to our own thoughts? Peter Carruthers challenges the consensus that we do: he argues that access to our own thoughts is always interpretive, grounded in perceptual awareness and sensory imagery. He proposes a bold new theory of self-knowledge, with radical implications for understanding of consciousness and agency.

Beauty and Art - 1750-2000 - Bok av Elizabeth Prettejohn - Häftad

What do we mean when we call a work of art beautiful? How do perceptions of beauty change with the passage of time? This title explores these questions, showing the vital relationship between our changing notions of beauty and specific works of art. It charts the story of western art, from eighteenth-century Germany to the late 20th century.

Oxford Bookworms Library: Level 5:: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Bok av Philip Dick - Häftad

Word count 31,300

Climate-Challenged Society - Bok av John S. (Australian Research Council Federation Fellow and Professor of Political Science Dryzek - Häftad

A short accessible introductory treatment of how climate change affects society, and how social, economic, and political systems can, do, and should respond.

Dominoes: Quick Starter: Crying Wolf and Other Tales - Bok - Häftad

'Help! A wolf is eating my sheep!'What happens when a bored shepherd boy lies to the people in his village - or when he later tells the truth?What do a man and his wife do when their goose lays golden eggs? And what can two travellers learn from a bear in the woods?These three old Greek tales teach us important truths about people today.

The Silent Child - Exploring the World of Children Who Do Not Speak - Bok av Laurent ( Danon-Boileau - Häftad

This landmark book concerns Laurent Danon-Boilea's treatment of six children who were unable for various reasons to talk. It describes their progress as they are gently guided by the author towards communication, first without language using toys and games, and then gradually to the ability to speak. All were able to begin normal schooling after treatment.

Imitating Authors - Bok av Prof Colin (Senior Research Fellow Burrow - Häftad

People learn by imitating other people. Authors do the same. This book explains how authors from the earliest stages of Western literature to the present day have imitated each other.

Divided Nations - Why global governance is failing, and what we can do about it - Bok av Ian (Professor Goldin - Inbunden

The UN, World Bank, and the IMF were all created in the radically different world of the 1940s. It is becoming increasingly apparent that our global structures are struggling to cope with the new globalized, interconnected challenges of the twenty-first century. Ian Goldin looks to the future to consider radical new approaches to our world order.

Strategic Reframing - The Oxford Scenario Planning Approach - Bok av Rafael (Fellow in Strategy and Director of the Oxford Scenarios Programme Ramirez

This bookprovides clear information and guidance on how to do scenario planning to support strategy and public policy. The book describes the Oxford Scenario Planning Approach (OSPA), an intellectually rigorous and practical methodolgy.

The Myth of Mars and Venus - Do men and women really speak different languages? - Bok av Deborah (University of Oxford) Cameron - Inbunden

In this hugely readable account Cameron cuts her way through the hype to debunk the myths about language and the sexes that have been propagated in recent popular writing. Drawing on more than 30 years of scientific research in the field of language and gender studies, she explains what the findings really say about men and women and the way they communicate. Essential reading for inhabitants of other planets.