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Health Inequalities in Japan brings together the expertise of Japan's leading social epidemiologists in English for the first time. Providing a balanced perspective on the determinants of wellbeing and illness, it gives a valuable insight into the epidemiological underpinnings of one of the world's healthiest populaces.

Forensic face Matching provides readers with a wide-ranging, detailed and critical overview of facial comparison and face matching, providing insights into its application, efficacy and limitations in occupational settings, and of current scientific knowledge of this task.

American English File's unique, lively and enjoyable lessons are renowned for getting students talking.

Johnson's Journey to the Western Islands and Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides form a natural pair for an OWC because both books, often read and taught alongside each other, focus on the Scottish highlands.

This book sets out a new approach to identifying and resolving corporate law's normative concerns, establishing new methodology through detailed analysis of key changes in market practice. Paterson adopts a comparative UK/US approach in analysing the process of institutional change, providing important lessons for global legal harmonisation.

This Guide provides a broad, authoritative, overview of the field of international humanitarian law. Highlighting both practice and doctrine it is written by a team of expert academics and practitioners.

The Oxford Handbook of Christian Monasticism addresses, for the first time in one volume, multiple strands of Christian monastic practice. Forty-four essays consider historical and thematic aspects of the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Protestant, and Anglican traditions, as well as contemporary 'new monasticism'.

A slimline diary available in dark blue boards with marker ribbon. Indispensable for all those connected with the University of Oxford, containing dates of degree days, dates of terms; details of university officers, departments and institutes, religious dates, national holidays, trains, airports, coaches, and much more.

This book examines the post-crisis international regulation of derivatives by bringing together the international relations literature on regime complexity and the international political economy literature on financial regulation.

In the post-Soviet era, there are only five socialist/communist regimes left in the world. However, there is little writing that considers these regime structures and the role constitutionalism plays in maintenance and development of the state and institutions of these countries. This book examines the effects of change across these constitutions.

This little hardback is full of Roald Dahl's most magical language as well as a raft of snippets of serious language facts for cheeky chiddlers. This little book is full of bewitching tips, definitions and examples from the World's No.1 storyteller.

Some Versions of Pastoral is one of the most famous books of literary criticism of the twentieth century, with chapters of unrivalled brilliance that include celebrated discussions of Shakespeare, Milton, and Lewis Carroll. This is the first edition to supply a full critical commentary, bringing the book into a new currency for a modern audience.

This volume in the 21st Century Oxford Authors series offers students an authoritative, comprehensive selection of the poetry and prose of John Dryden, the most important poet, dramatist, translator, and literary theorist of the later seventeenth century.

There is order on the internet, but how has this order emerged and what challenges will threaten and shape its future? This study shows how a legitimate order of norms has emerged online, through both national and international legal systems.

This volume brings together the fascinating and diverse 'filler' articles published in the journal Occupational Medicine. Originally included to fill the blank spaces at the end of main features, the pieces first explored the reasons why doctors chose to become occupational physicians, later expanding to include all facets of occupational medicine.

Explores the ways in which new forms of visual culture, such as such as the illustrated newspaper, the cheap caricature cartoon, the affordable illustrated book, the portrait photograph, and the advertising poster, worked to shape key Victorian aesthetic concepts.

A Revolution in Rhyme: Poetic Co-option under the Islamic Republic offers, for the first time, an original, timely examination of the pivotal role poetry plays in policy, power and political legitimacy in modern-day Iran. Through a compelling chronological and thematic framework, Shams presents fresh insights into the emerging lexicon of coercion and unrest in the modern Persian canon.

A comprehensive, practical, and evidence-based guide to radiotherapy in the management of children and young people with cancer. It explores each cancer type and the various modalities of treatment available, with over 75 colour illustrations, case histories to demonstrate the various approaches, and further reading on each topic.

The launch of China's "New Silk Road" has seen a rapid development of its higher education and research systems. In this book an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars address how academic mobility and cooperation is taking shape along the New Silk Road and what difference it will make in the global higher education landscape.

This is the first scholarly edition of William Empson's The Structure of Complex Words (1951), a classic of literary criticism and a major statement of his work. An extensive introduction and explanatory notes are included, together with a selection of related writings. It will immediately become the standard version of this celebrated text.

This little hardback book creates a moment to focus on Kindness. It introduces words to talk about feelings with confidence and in a way that feels good. The engaging art style, fun characters and picture book feel make it perfect to share and, because it is from Oxford, it is packed with educational goodness to help children develop and grow.

This little hardback book creates a moment to focus on Bravery. It introduces words to talk about feelings with confidence and in a way that feels good. The engaging art style, fun characters and picture book feel make it perfect to share and, because it is from Oxford, it is packed with educational goodness to help children develop and grow.

Now in a new format, we have gathered together Roald Dahl's most rotsome language as well as a raft of snippets of serious language facts for cheeky chiddlers. This little hardback book is full of vermicious tips, definitions and examples from the World's No.1 storyteller.

This is the first authoritative edition of the work of Dorothy Richardson, and the culmination of several decades of scholarship. Volume IV presents the first two parts of Pilgrimage, a landmark contribution to European modernism. The edition includes a full scholarly apparatus and restores Richardson to her rightful place in literary history.

Classical Studies is the eighth volume in the ten-volume Collected Works of Walter Pater. This volume presents Pater's classical studies, which offer revisionary accounts of Greek myths and undertake original interpretations of the history of Greek sculpture and tragedy.

Charts developments in literary realism between fin-de-siecle naturalism and early modernism by examining a wide range of realist novels from the Edwardian period, focusing in particular on works by Joseph Conrad, May Sinclair, Arnold Bennett, H.G. Wells, and Ford Madox Ford.

Explores the creative work of writers and theologians who used their poetic writings as a means to explore and envisage scenarios of embodiment and existence that extended to life after bodily death.

This volume in the 21st-Century Oxford Authors series offers an authoritative, comprehensive selection of the work of Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861), one of the most distinctive writers of the Victorian period. The edition is the first to place Clough's poetry alongside his critical writings, lectures, letters, and diaries.

Explores how the earliest printers moulded demand and created new markets and argues that marketing changed what was read and the place of reading in sixteenth-century readers' lives, shaping their expectations, tastes, and their practices and beliefs.

Presents essays by thirty-five leading scholars of Irish fiction that provide authoritative assessments of the breadth and achievement of Irish novelists and short story writers.