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Looking at monuments, murals, computer games, recycling campaigns, children's books, and other visual artifacts, The Oxford Handbook of Communist Visual Cultures reassesses communism's historical and cultural legacy.

The Oxford Handbook of Adaptation Studies provides a comprehensive and forward-looking treatment of adaptation in its many guises by looking at movies based on sources other than novels, including television series and radio adaptations, comic book adaptations of literary texts, novelizations, opera librettos, popular songs, and even video games.

This book is an introduction to and overview of the languages of the Caucasus, including those of southern Russia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Armenia. This region of the world exhibits extremely high linguistic diversity, and many of the languages spoken in the Caucasus have cross-linguistically rare features that are found in few or no other languages. This handbook serves as a comprehensive overview with detailed descriptions of languages as well as theoreticallyoriented chapters.

The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Reenactment investigates new forms of choreographic dramaturgy and interpretation inherent. Joining junior and senior scholars as well as practitioners in the field, the handbook shows how the recovery of past dances has come to constitute a new branch of contemporary choreographic activity.

Aims to provide academics and students with an understanding of the phenomenon of innovation. This handbook consists of twenty-one contributions from leading academic experts within their particular field. These have been organized into four main sections, the first of which looks at the creation of innovations, with focus on firms and networks.

This volume, edited by Jeffrey Racine, Liangjun Su, and Aman Ullah, contains the latest research on nonparametric and semiparametric econometrics and statistics. Chapters by leading international econometricians and statisticians highlight the interface between econometrics and statistical methods for nonparametric and semiparametric procedures.

A landmark study which reconsiders in fresh and illuminating ways the classic themes of Scotland's history since the sixteenth century, as well as a number of new topics which are only now receiving detailed attention. Places the Scottish experience firmly in an international historical experience.

This volume offers an authoritative and accessible state-of-the-art analysis of the historical institutionalism research tradition in Political Science.

Thirty-six essays by a team of leading scholars providing a global coverage of the history of nationalism in its different aspects - its ideas, its sentiments, and its politics.

Thirty four essays by a team of leading scholars offering a broad reassessment of the cold war, calling into question orthodox ways of ordering the chronology of the period and presenting new insights into the global dimension of the conflict.

A team of 36 leading experts present the definitive guide to philosophical issues to do with truth. They survey how the concept of truth has been understood from antiquity to the present; offer critical assessments of the standard theories of truth; and explore the role of truth in logic, language, metaphysics, ethics, science, and mathematics.

This handbook synthesizes what is known and debated about science in the classical world of ancient Greece and Rome, also touching briefly on Egypt, Mesopotamia, India, and China. Each of its many essays provides a synthesis and synopsis of the concepts and models of one of the ancient natural sciences.

The Oxford Handbooks of Political Science are the essential guide to the state of political science today. With engaging contributions from 39 major international scholars, The Oxford Handbook of Political Institutions provides the key point of reference for anyone working on political institutions and beyond.

This Handbook re-examines the concept of early modern history in a European and global context. Volume II engages with philosophy, science, art and architecture, music, and the Enlightenment, and examines the military and political developments within and beyond the boundaries of Europe.

The Handbook provides an indispensable account of the ritual world of early Christianity from the beginning of the movement up to the end of the sixth century.

The variety, pace, and power of technological innovations that have emerged in the 21st Century has been breathtaking. Examining the insights of leading scholars of law, technology, and regulation, this handbook underpins the legal, ethical, and social implications of rapid technological change and the growing body of scholarship that has followed.

Accessibly presented in four comprehensive parts, this Handbook offers an important resource to critical and appreciative exploration of the person, writings, controversies, and legacy of Newman.

No American author of the early 19th century enjoys a larger international audience than Edgar Allan Poe. Widely translated, read, and studied, he occupies an iconic place in global culture. Such acclaim would have gratified Poe, who deliberately wrote for "the world at large" and mocked the provincialism of strictly nationalistic themes. Partly for this reason, early literary historians cast Poe as an outsider, regarding his dark fantasies as extraneous to Americanlife and experience. Only in the 20th century did Poe finally gain a prominent place in the national canon. Changing critical approaches have deepened our understanding of Poe''s complexity and revealed an author who defies easy classification. New models of interpretation have excited fresh debatesabout his essential genius, his subversive imagination, his cultural insight, and his ultimate impact, urging an expansive reconsideration of his literary achievement. Edited by leading experts J. Gerald Kennedy and Scott Peeples, this volume presents a sweeping reexamination of Poe''s work. Forty-five distinguished scholars address Poe''s troubled life and checkered career as a "magazinist," his poetry and prose, and his reviews, essays, opinions, and marginalia. The chapters provide fresh insights into Poe''s lasting impact on subsequent literature, music, art, comics, and film and illuminate his radical conception of the universe, science, and the human mind.Wide-ranging and thought-provoking, this Handbook reveals a thoroughly modern Poe, whose timeless fables of peril and loss will continue to attract new generations of readers and scholars.

Theory, Method, Sustainability, and Conflict is the first of three paperback volumes derived from the original Oxford Handbook of Applied Ethnomusicology. It offers an introduction to applied ethnomusicology, and explores the themes of peace and conflict studies, ecology, sustainability, and the theoretical and methodological considerations that accompany them.

The Oxford Handbook of Karl Marx provides an entry point for scholars and students new to Marxism. At the same time, its chapters, written by leading Marxist scholars, advance Marxist theory and research. Its coverage is more comprehensive than previous volumes on Marx in terms of both foundational concepts and state-of-the-art empirical research on contemporary social problems. It is also provides equal space to sociologists, economists and politicalscientists, with substantial contributions from philosophers, historians and geographers.

The Handbook contains eighty-nine articles by leading experts on all significant aspects of the diverse and fast-growing field of Byzantine Studies, which deals with the history and culture of the Byzantine Empire, the eastern half of the Late Roman Empire, from the fourth to the fourteenth century.

Rationality has long been a central topic in philosophy, crossing standard divisions and categories. 'The Oxford Handbook of Rationality' is a reference to the current state of play in this vital and interdisciplinary area of study.

Presents a comprehensive statement about the value and potential of economic geography. From general statements about the history and evolution of the field to statements about the crucial problems of economic geography, this book is concerned with the rival theories and perspectives that have sustained the growth of economic geography.

A comprehensive overview of the study of Buddhist ethics in the twenty-first century. This collection offers an invaluable reference resource for current and future scholars in this burgeoning field of study.

Aims to provide academics and students with a comprehensive and holistic understanding of the phenomenon of innovation. This book looks at the creation of innovations, provides an account of the systematic setting influencing innovation, and explores the diversity in the working of innovation over time and across different sectors of the economy.

Divided into four sections-History, Historiography, Political Theory, and Context and Reception-The Oxford Handbook of Thucydides provides a comprehensive introduction to Thucydides' ideas and their ancient influence. It bridges traditionally divided disciplines, and offers both solid explanation and innovative approaches.

The Oxford Handbook of French Politics provides a comprehensive and comparative overview of the French political system.

Unique among recent works, The Oxford Handbook of Mesoamerican Archaeology brings together in a single volume article-length regional syntheses and topical overviews written by active scholars in the field of Mesoamerican archaeology.

Once relegated to the private sphere, or confined to its own section of the newspaper, religion is now a major part of daily news coverage. Every journalist needs a basic knowledge of religion to cover everything from presidential elections to the war in Iraq to the ethical issues raised by latest developments in media research. The Oxford Handbook of Religion and the American News Media will be the go-to volume for both secular and religious journalists andjournalism educators, scholars in medical studies, journalism studies, religious studies, and American studies.

Thirty international scholars probe the main disputed issues in the study of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Essays engage with the lively debate continues over the archaeology and history of the site, the nature and identity of the sect, and its relation to the broader world of Second Temple Judaism and to later Jewish and Christian tradition.