-Titulo Original : 100 Carols For Choirs-Fabricante : Oxford University Press-Descripcion Original: This is a selection of the best-loved carols and hymns for Advent, Christmas, Epiphany, and Easter: 74 of the most popular titles from Carols for Choirs 1, 2 and 3, plus 26 titles new to the series. There are carols suitable for both sacred and secular occasions, and both accompanied andunaccompanied material. The Order of Service for a Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols is included. About the Author David Willcocks is a former Kings College Chapel Director of Music, London, and is conductor of the Bach Choir. John Rutter is an OUP composer...

-Titulo Original : 100 Carols For Choirs Spiral Bound Edition (. . . For Choirs Collections)-Fabricante : Oxford University Press-Descripcion Original: 74 of the most popular items from Carols for Choirs 1, 2 and 3 in one volume, plus 26 pieces new to the series. The volume contains both accompanied and unaccompanied items, and the Order of Service for a Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols. Orchestral and brass ensemble accompaniments formany of the items are available on hire...

-Titulo Original : Fiddle Time Sprinters CD: A Third Book Of Pieces For Violin-Fabricante : Oxford University Press-Descripcion Original: The FiddleTime method is a complete beginning method for the violin. Developed for children, but useful for adults as well, the method goes slow and includes everything needed by the developing player scales, tuning tracks, piano or CD accompaniment (with acoustic instrumental accompaniment), and more.Published by Oxford University Press. Includes accompaniment CD.Difficulty: A1 (Apprentice Rating...

-Titulo Original : Creating Black Americans African-american History And Its Meanings, 1619 To The Present-Fabricante : Oxford University Press-Descripcion Original: Here is a magnificent account of a past rich in beauty and creativity, but also in tragedy and trauma. Eminent historian Nell Irvin Painter blends a vivid narrative based on the latest research with a wonderful array of artwork by African American artists, works which add a new depth to our understanding of black history. Painter offers a history written for a new generation of African Americans, stretching from life in Africa before slavery to todays hip-hop culture. The book describes the staggering number of Africans--over ten million--forcibly transported to the New World, most doomed to brutal servitude in Brazil and the Caribbean. Painter looks at the free black population, numbering close to half a million by 1860 (compared to almost four million slaves), and provides a gripping account of the horrible conditions of slavery itself. The book examines the Civil War, revealing that it only slowly became a war to end slavery, and shows how Reconstruction, after a promising start, was shut down by terrorism by white supremacists. Painter traces how through the long Jim Crow decades, blacks succeeded against enormous odds, creating schools and businesses and laying the foundations of our popular culture. We read about the glorious outburst of artistic creativity of the Harlem Renaissance, the courageous struggles for Civil Rights in the 1960s, the rise and fall of Black Power, the modern hip-hop movement, and two black Secretaries of State. Painter concludes that African Americans today are wealthier and better educated, but the disadvantaged are as vulnerable as ever. Painter deeply enriches her narrative with a series of striking works of art--more than 150 in total, most in full color--works that profoundly engage with black history and that add a vital dimension to the story, a new form of witness that testifies to the passion and creativity of the African-American experience. * Among the dozens of artists featured are Romare Bearden, Elizabeth Catlett, Beauford Delaney, Jacob Lawrence, and Kara Walker * Filled with sharp portraits of important African Americans, from Olaudah Equiano (one of the first African slaves to leave a record of his captivity) and Toussaint LOuverture (who led the Haitian revolution), to Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth, to Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X Review Nell Irvin Painters Creating Black Americans is destined to become one of the most beautiful history textbooks in recent memory, with roughly 150 creative representations of the African-American experience ranging from painting and sculpture to graffiti art and quilts. Most of the images are in stunning color, some of them filling an entire page.--Ron Hogan, Beatrice ...incorporates a sweeping, historic narrative with the emotional expression of more than 150 works of African-American art.-- Ebony, February 2006 Nell Irvin Painter brings her considerable skills and insight to Creating Black Americans. Her excellent introduction to the black American experience will serve any interested reader well....History, the author notes, exists in both the past and present. And Painters compelling use of black art...emphasizes this point to great effect....Through word and image, [she] has produced a narrative of African-American history that will profit its readers.--Kenneth R. Janken, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, in the New York Post About the Author Nell Irvin Painter is the Edward Professor of American History at Princeton. A former Director of Princetons Program in African-American Studies, she is the author of Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol and Standing at Armageddon: The United States 1877-1919...

-Titulo Original : The Musicians Way A Guide To Practice, Performance, And Wellness-Fabricante : Oxford University Press-Descripcion Original: In The Musicians Way, veteran performer and educator Gerald Klickstein combines the latest research with his 30 years of professional experience to provide aspiring musicians with a roadmap to artistic excellence. Part I, Artful Practice, describes strategies to interpret and memorize compositions, fuel motivation, collaborate, and more. Part II, Fearless Performance, lifts the lid on the hidden causes of nervousness and shows how musicians can become confident performers. Part III, Lifelong Creativity, surveys tactics to prevent music-related injuries and equips musicians to tap their own innate creativity. Written in a conversational style, The Musicians Way presents an inclusive system for all instrumentalists and vocalists to advance their musical abilities and succeed as performing artists. Review One of the most important books on musicianship in recent decades. --Joseph Docksey, Director, Lamont School of Music, University of Denver I predict that The Musicians Way will be an instant classic. It is the most useful, comprehensive book I have ever read on developing the skills of a successful performer. Every music lover--student, professional, amateur, and teacher alike--should own this book. --Jeffrey Solow, Professor of Cello, Temple University; President, American String Teachers Association The entire music profession has received a great and much-needed gift from Gerald Klickstein. The Musicians Way is a landmark and essential guide for every serious musician.--Barbara Lister-Sink, Professor of Piano, Salem College; author, Freeing the Caged Bird DVD The Musicians Way is the brainchild of an experienced and insightful teacher who has thought long and hard about how musicians can maximize their artistic success while coping with the stresses of music making. In clear and engaging language, the author leads us down the complex pathways navigated by musicians and provides sound directions at every turn. --Alice G. Brandfonbrener, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine and Founding Director, Medical Program for Performing Artists, Northwestern University Medical School You owe it to yourself to read this book. -- The Classical Guitar Blog A wonderful tool for all aspiring musicians. -- Music Ed Magic A rare example of clear, concise and useable information on music practice...If I read a better book on practice this year Ill be surprised!! -- HowtoPractice The relationship of learning, practice, and mastery in the case of musicianship is explored thoroughly in Gerald Klicksteins The Musicians Way: A Guide to Practice, Performance, and Wellness. Written for especially classical and jazz instrumentalists and vocalists at the university level, the book nevertheless provides important lessons for musicians of widely diverse levels and backgrounds. --John Warren, Juans World Mr. Klickstein presents so much helpful information that you will be itching to sit at the piano with his book beside you while you practice....A tremendous resource that would benefit any music teacher. --MusicMattersBlog The Musicians Way is strongly recommended for its focus on mental imagery and the role of the mind in effective practice...A holistic approach to teaching, The Musicians Way should be on the shelf of every aspiring professional musician and every serious music educator. -- Clavier Companion Klickstein covers the gamut of issues, tips, and ideas that make up the world of the serious musician....Students hunger for this kind of knowledge. -- Notes Klickstein takes a common-sense approach and works his way through techniques for improving every aspect of a performers life, from ways to memorise a piece to dealing with performance anxiety. . . . Its all very well thought through and an interesting read. -- The Strad A comprehensive guidebook from an experienced, insightful musician....You must read this book. -- Stringendo Wonderfully tho...

-Titulo Original : Nilsson The Life Of A Singer-songwriter-Fabricante : Oxford University Press-Descripcion Original: Paul McCartney and John Lennon described him as the Beatles favorite group, he won Grammy awards, wrote and recorded hit songs, and yet no figure in popular music is as much of a paradox, or as underrated, as Harry Nilsson. In this first ever full-length biography, Alyn Shipton traces Nilssons life from his Brooklyn childhood to his Los Angeles adolescence and his gradual emergence as a uniquely talented singer-songwriter. With interviews from friends, family, and associates, and material drawn from an unfinished autobiography, Shipton probes beneath the enigma to discover the real Harry Nilsson. A major celebrity at a time when huge concerts and festivals were becoming the norm, Nilsson shunned live performance. His venue was the studio, his stage the dubbing booth, his greatest triumphs masterful examples of studio craft. He was a gifted composer of songs for a wide variety of performers, including the Ronettes, the Yardbirds, and the Monkees, yet Nilssons own biggest hits were almost all written by other songwriters. He won two Grammy awards, in 1969 for Everybodys Talkin (the theme song for Midnight Cowboy), and in 1972 for Without You, had two top ten singles, numerous album successes, and wrote a number of songs--Coconut and Jump into the Fire, to name just two--that still sound remarkably fresh and original today. He was once described by his producer Richard Perry as the finest white male singer on the planet, but near the end of his life, Nilssons career was marked by voice-damaging substance abuse and the infamous deaths of both Keith Moon and Mama Cass in his London flat. Drawing on exclusive access to Nilssons papers, Alyn Shiptons biography offers readers an intimate portrait of a man who has seemed both famous and unknowable--until now. Review Shipton... balances Nilssons tragic story with exacting analysis of his talents and similarly detailed accounts of bacchanalian exploits with ex-Beatles and other bons vivants. -- Rolling Stone An amazing tale. -- Boston Globe Nilsson fans will appreciate this long awaited biography of an often neglected and underrated musician. --lBooklist An in-depth and informative book. - Below the Fold Readers of this engrossing new biography will come away with a tremendous knowledge of and respect for the man and his music. And a great sense of loss, as this delightful fellow departed far too soon. -- Pop-Culture Classics The definitive work on the man who put the lime in the coconut. - Houston Press Nilsson: The life of a singer-songwriter, is a fitting epitaph that keeps an unmatched legacy alive. Nilssons eclectic, eccentric, funny-as-hell, wistful, whimsical, childlike brilliance will be listened to by people 100 years from now. And Shiptons biography does its best to explain it all. - Goldmine Magazine Shipton, well noted as a researcher in jazz, has produced a very well-researched biography. Certainly more historical than analytical, the book is a fine read and an important addition to the literature because as emerging songwriters begin to explore songs written during a key period of songwriting, they will have no choice but to gravitate toward Nilsson. -T.R. Harrison, Jacksonville University, CHOICE Alyn Shiptons biography of singer-songwriter Harry Nilsson is a thorough, loving depiction of one of the eras most endearing and enigmatic characters.-- Pacific Rim Review of Books About the Author Alyn Shipton is the award-winning author of many books on music including A New History of Jazz, Groovin High: the Life of Dizzy Gillespie, and Hi-De-Ho: The Life of Cab Calloway. He is jazz critic for The Times in London and has presented jazz programs on BBC radio since 1989. He is also an accomplished double bassist and has played with many traditional and mainstream jazz bands...

-Titulo Original : The Indian World Of George Washington The First President, The First Americans, And The Birth Of The Nation-Fabricante : Oxford University Press-Descripcion Original: George Washingtons place in the foundations of the Republic remains unrivalled. His life story--from his beginnings as a surveyor and farmer, to colonial soldier in the Virginia Regiment, leader of the Patriot cause, commander of the Continental Army, and finally first president of the UnitedStates--reflects the narrative of the nation he guided into existence. There is, rightfully, no more chronicled figure.Yet American history has largely forgotten what Washington himself knew clearly: that the new Republics fate depended less on grand rhetoric of independence and self-governance and more on land--Indian land. Colin G. Calloways biography of the greatest founding father reveals in full therelationship between Washington and the Native leaders he dealt with intimately across the decades: Shingas, Tanaghrisson, Guyasuta, Attakullakulla, Bloody Fellow, Joseph Brant, Cornplanter, Red Jacket, and Little Turtle, among many others. Using the prism of Washingtons life to bring focus tothese figures and the tribes they represented--the Iroquois Confederacy, Lenape, Miami, Creek, Delaware--Calloway reveals how central their role truly was in Washingtons, and therefore the nations, foundational narrative.Calloway gives the First Americans their due, revealing the full extent and complexity of the relationships between the man who rose to become the nations most powerful figure and those whose power and dominion declined in almost equal degree during his lifetime. His book invites us to look atAmericas origins in a new light. The Indian World of George Washington is a brilliant portrait of both the most revered man in American history and those whose story during the tumultuous century in which the country was formed has, until now, been only partially told. Review In addition to his lively prose, Calloway includes a number of excellent maps, as well as a helpful list of important Native Americans, often with their English and transliterated native names. This book should prove valuable to scholars and interesting to a general audience -- Robert M. Owens,The North Carolina Historical ReviewColin Calloway demonstrates how profoundly George Washingtons life was interwoven with the Indian world of North America. This book will forever change our understanding of the first president and the very meaning of the new nation he helped to create.--David Preston, author of BraddocksDefeatCalloway has written an important and original interpretation of critical years in the formation of federal policies toward the claims and rights of Native Americans. -- Booklist An expansive history...a detailed, impressively researched history of white-Indian relations during Washingtons lifetime. Insightful and illuminating. -- Kirkus Reviews In The Indian World of George Washington, Colin Calloway thoughtfully and lucidly recovers a lost time, when Indian peoples diplomacy and resistance helped to shape the new United States. No American President had a greater impact on natives or was more affected by his interactions with them. --Alan Taylor, author of American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804 Finally, one of the best historians of colonial native America has taken up the challenge of putting one of the most important pieces of George Washingtons life and experience back into the narrative. Calloways monumental analysis helps us understand a half century of powerful and impactfulnative American history more clearly, and gives a fresh take on Washingtons own challenges, frustrations, and successes-which together helped shape the destiny of American Republic. -- Douglas Bradburn, President and CEO of George Washingtons Mount Vernon The Indian World of George Washington describes a critical moment in American history with the beginning of the collapse of what Richard White calls The Middle Ground between white settlers and Indians. Elegantly and engagingly written, Calloway makes ...

-Titulo Original : Sweet Taste Of Liberty A True Story Of Slavery And Restitution In America-Fabricante : Oxford University Press-Descripcion Original: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for HistoryThe unforgettable saga of one enslaved womans fight for justice--and reparations Born into slavery, Henrietta Wood was taken to Cincinnati and legally freed in 1848. In 1853, a Kentucky deputy sheriff named Zebulon Ward colluded with Woods employer, abducted her, and sold her back into bondage. She remained enslaved throughout the Civil War, giving birth to a son in Mississippiand never forgetting who had put her in this position. By 1869, Wood had obtained her freedom for a second time and returned to Cincinnati, where she sued Ward for damages in 1870. Astonishingly, after eight years of litigation, Wood won her case: in 1878, a Federal jury awarded her $2,500. The decision stuck on appeal. More important than the amount,though the largest ever awarded by an American court in restitution for slavery, was the fact that any money was awarded at all. By the time the case was decided, Ward had become a wealthy businessman and a pioneer of convict leasing in the South. Woods son later became a prominent Chicago lawyer,and she went on to live until 1912. McDaniels book is an epic tale of a black woman who survived slavery twice and who achieved more than merely a moral victory over one of her oppressors. Above all, Sweet Taste of Liberty is a portrait of an extraordinary individual as well as a searing reminder of the lessons of her story, whichestablish beyond question the connections between slavery and the prison system that rose in its place. Review The reader not only follows the fascinating narrative of a woman who lost her freedom, but also learns of the intricacies of slavery in a border state like Kentucky, the pain of separation from loved ones, and the ordeals of being sold down the river, surviving on a large cotton plantation, andbeing an enslaved refugee in Texas during the Civil War... It is an enlightening account from the point of view of an enslaved woman about the arduous trip and the subsequent years that many enslaved people were forced to endure by their masters to avoid their being liberated by Union armies...[McDaniel] has turned these into a captivating account of this period, revealing how the legal and economic aspects of the institution of slavery interacted in very personal and human ways with those who were kept enslaved. -- Angela Boswell, Professor of History at Henderson State University,Southwestern Historical QuarterlyAs a whole, Sweet Taste of Liberty is the fruit of excellent scholarship and a timely and significant addition to the field of U.S. racial history. -- Ken Chujo, J.F. Oberlin University, Tokyo, The Journal of Southern HistoryIn this gripping study, Rice University historian McDaniel recounts the painful but triumphant story of one enslaved womans long fight for justice... McDaniel tells this story engrossingly and accessibly. This is a valuable contribution to Reconstruction history with clear relevance to currentdebates about reparations for slavery.--Publishers WeeklySweet Taste of Liberty is a masterpiece. Using an extraordinary archival discovery, McDaniel expertly weaves a compelling, fine-grained narrative of the extraordinary life of Henrietta Wood. . . . But this is not simply a biography. It also a work of profound analysis, layered with McDaniels deepknowledge of slavery, emancipation, and the law. The book raises the most profound questions about slavery, reparations, and the debt that the United States owes to the people whose unfree labor constructed a great deal of that nation. -- Gregory P. Downs, author of The Second American Revolution:The Civil War-Era Struggle over Cuba and the Rebirth of the American RepublicAs America grapples with reparations for slavery, Caleb McDaniel unearths the astounding story of a woman who survived bondage, twice, and fought for restitution against impossible odds. In lucid and vivid prose, he brings us a chilling, inspiring, and timely exam...

-Titulo Original : Autobiography And Other Writings (oxford Worlds Classics)-Fabricante : Oxford University Press-Descripcion Original: Franklins writings span a long and distinguished career of literary, scientific, and political inquiry--the work of a man whose life lasted for nearly all of the 18th century, and whose achievements ranged from inventing the lightning rod to publishing Poor Richards Almanac to signing theDeclaration of Independence. In his own lifetime, Franklin knew prominence not only in America but also in Britain and France. Here was a cosmopolitan statesman, public servant, inventor, and editor with a distinctly Yankee sensibility; here was a moral philosopher who divided his faith between thenatural sciences and the American experiment. This volume includes Franklins reflections on such diverse issues as reason and religion, social status, electricity, Americas national character and characters, war, and the societal status of women. Also included is a new transcription of his 1726 journal, and several pieces that have onlyrecently been identified as Franklins work.About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford Worlds Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxfords commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expertintroductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more. About the Author Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America...

-Titulo Original : Behind The Scenes Or, Thirty Years A Slave, And Four Years In The White House (the Schomburg Library Of Nineteenth-century Black Women Writers)-Fabricante : Oxford University Press-Descripcion Original: Part slave narrative, part memoir, and part sentimental fiction, Behind the Scenes depicts Elizabeth Keckleys years as a slave and subsequent four years in Abraham Lincolns White House during the Civil War. As public drama privately experienced, Keckleys work presents Jefferson Davis andhis wife, Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln, and even Stephen Douglas and Mrs. Senator Douglas in the foreground, with the war, and slavery as the issue that precipitated it, in the background. Through the eyes of this black woman--an ex-slave, seamstress, and dressmaker--we see a wide rangeof historical figures and events of the antebellum South, the Washington of the Civil War years, and the final stages of the war. From the Back Cover Part slave narrative, part memoir, and part sentimental fiction Behind the Scenes depicts Elizabeth Keckleys years as a salve and subsequent four years in Abraham Lincolns White House during the Civil War. Through the eyes of this black woman, we see a wide range of historical figures and events of the antebellum South, the Washington of the Civil War years, and the final stages of the war. About the Author James Olney is at Louisiana State University...

-Titulo Original : Narrative Of The Life Of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (oxford Worlds Classics)-Fabricante : Oxford University Press-Descripcion Original: I was born in Tuckahoe. I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it. By far the larger part of the slaves know as little of their ages as horses know of theirs, and it is the wish of most masters within my knowledge to keep their slaves thusignorant.So begins the now-classic personal account of Frederick Douglass (1818-1895), who was born into slavery in Maryland and after his escape to Massachusetts in 1838 became an ardent abolitionist and campaigner for womens rights. His Narrative, which was an instant bestseller upon publication in 1845,relates his experience as a slave, the cruelty he suffered at the hands of his masters, his struggle to educate himself, and his fight for freedom.Written with much passion, and with no small degree of striking biblical imagery, the Narrative came to assume epic proportions as a fundamental anti-slavery text, an accessible record in which the author had carefully crafted both his life story and his persona. The introduction and notes for thisnew edition fully examine Douglass--the man and the myth--while also considering both his complex relationship with women and the enduring power of his autobiography. Other highlights include extracts from Douglasss primary sources and examples of his writing on womens rights.About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford Worlds Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxfords commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expertintroductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more. About the Author Deborah E. McDowell is Professor of English at the University of Virginia...

-Titulo Original : Walden (oxford Worlds Classics)-Fabricante : Oxford University Press-Descripcion Original: Walden is Thoreaus classic autobiographical account of his experiment in solitary living, his refusal to play by the rules of hard work and the accumulation of wealth, and above all the freedom it gave him to adapt his living to the natural world around him. This new edition traces thesources of Thoreaus reading and thinking and considers the author in the context of his birthplace and sense of history--social, economic, and natural. An ecological appendix provides modern identifications of the myriad plants and animals to which he gave close attention as he became acclimated tohis life in the woods by Walden Pond.About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford Worlds Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxfords commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expertintroductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more. About the Author Stephen Allen Fender is Professor of American Studies and Director of the Graduate Research Centre in the Humanities, School of English and American Studies at the University of Sussex. His books include Plotting the Golden West: American Literature and the Rhetoric of the California Trail and Sea Changes: British Emigration and American Literature. Henry David Thoreau was born in Concord, Massachusetts in 1817 and is known for his extreme individualism, his preference for simple, austere living, and revolt against the demands of society and government. His other works are A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849), Civil Disobedience (1849), Excursions, (1863) and The Maine Woods (1864)...

-Titulo Original : Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl (the Schomburg Library Of Nineteenth-century Black Women Writers)-Fabricante : Oxford University Press-Descripcion Original: Not only one of the last of over one hundred slave narratives published separately before the Civil War, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) is also one of the few existing narratives written by a woman. It offers a unique perspective on the complex plight of the black woman as slaveand as writer. In a story that merges the conventions of the slave narrative with the techniques of the sentimental novel, Harriet Jacobs describes her efforts to fight off the advances of her master, her eventual liaison with another white man (the father of two of her children), and herultimately successful struggle for freedom. Jacobs account of her experiences, and her search for her own voice, prefigure the literary and ideological concerns of generations of African-American women writers to come. Review A viable alternative to male save narratives. The specific problems faced by female slaves are clearly portrayed.--Ray Doyle, West Chester Univ.My personal favorite...Jacobs confronts the contradictions inherent in the category the black woman writer. By engaging these issues and negotiating a course through them, she anticipates the literary and ideological position of subsequent generations of black women writers.--Jean Fagan Yellin,The Washington Post Book WorldA corrective to those who have identified the slave narrative primarily as a male genre....This particular edition, with its introduction by Valerie Smith, sheds new light on the choices its heroine Linda Brent makes.--The Womens Review of Books About the Author Valerie Smith is at Princeton University...

-Titulo Original : Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl (oxford Worlds Classics)-Fabricante : Oxford University Press-Descripcion Original: The degradations, the wrongs, the vices, that grow out of slavery, are more than I can describe.Harriet Jacobs was born a slave in the American South and went on to write one of the most extraordinary slave narratives. First published pseudonymously in 1861, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl describes Jacobss treatment at the hands of her owners, her eventual escape to the North, and herperilous existence evading recapture as a fugitive slave. To save herself from sexual assault and protect her children she is forced to hide for seven years in a tiny attic space, suffering terrible psychological and physical pain.Written to expose the appalling treatment of slaves in the South and the racism of the free North, and to advance the abolitionist cause, Incidents is notable for its careful construction and literary effects. Jacobss story of self-emancipation and a growing feminist consciousness is the tale ofan individual and a searing indictment of slaverys inhumanity. This edition includes the short memoir by Jacobss brother, John S. Jacobs, A True Tale of Slavery.ABOUT THE SERIES:For over 100 years Oxford Worlds Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxfords commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leadingauthorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more. About the Author R. J. Elliss publications include Harriet Wilsons Our Nig: A Cultural Biography (2003), a co-edited collection of essays, Becoming Visible: Womens Presence in Ninetenth-Century America (2010) and editions of Our Nig (2011, with Henry Louis Gates), and Charles Chesnutts The Colonels Dream(2015). He was President of the Society for the Study of American Women Writers from 2012 to 2015...

-Titulo Original : Negro With A Hat The Rise And Fall Of Marcus Garvey-Fabricante : Oxford University Press-Descripcion Original: New in paperback, this groundbreaking biography captures the full sweep and epic dimensions of Marcus Garveys life, the dazzling triumphs and the dreary exile. As Grant shows, Garvey was a man of contradictions: a self-educated, poetry-writing aesthete and unabashed propagandist, an admirerof Lenin, and a dandy given to elaborate public displays. Above all, he was a shrewd promoter whose use of pageantry evoked a lost African civilization and fired the imagination of his followers. Negro With a Hat restores Garvey to his place as one of the founders of black nationalism and a keyfigure of the 20th century. A searching, vivid, and (as the title suggests) complex account of Garveys short but consequential life. --Steve Hahn, The New Republic The story of Marcus Garvey, the charismatic and tireless black leader who had a meteoric rise and fall in the late 1910s and early 20s, makes for enthralling reading, and Garvey has found an engaging and objective biographer in Colin Grant.... Grants book is not all politics, ideology, money andlawsuits. It is also an engrossing social history.... Negro With a Hat is an achievement on a scale Garvey might have appreciated. --New York Times Book Review Dazzling, definitive biography of the controversial activist who led the 1920s Back to Africa movement.... Grants learned passion for his subject shimmers on every page. A riveting and well-wrought volume that places Garvey solidly in the pantheon of important 20th-century black leaders. --Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review) This splendid book is certain to become the definitive biography. Garvey was a dreamer and a doer; Grant captures the fascination of both. --Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) Grants strength lies in his ability to re-create political moods and offer compelling sketches of colorful individuals and their organizations.... An engaging and readable introduction to a complicated and contentious historical actor who, in his time, possessed a unique capacity to inspiredevotion and hatred, adulation and fear. --Chicago Tribune A monumental, nuanced and broadly sympathetic portrait. --Financial Times From The New Yorker In 1914, on a ship between Jamaica and England, an impoverished twenty-six-year-old named Marcus Garvey had what he later called a vision of a new world of black men. Six years later, he rode through Harlem in regal robes and a plumed bicorne, and was proclaimed the Provisional President of Africa before a crowd of twenty-five thousand in Madison Square Garden. For a short, spectacular time, before his movement collapsed under the weight of its ambitions and schemes (a mail-fraud conviction resulted in exile in London), Garvey s call for a transnational union of black people electrified crowds around the world alarming J. Edgar Hoover and maddening W. E. B. Du Bois, who recoiled at Garvey s separatism and his theatrics, wondering if he was a lunatic or a traitor. (Garvey called Du Bois a lazy dependant mulatto.) Grant s biography ably captures the Garvey moment, although, perhaps wisely, he leaves the many contradictions in Garvey s character unresolved. Copyright © 2008 Click here to subscribe to The New Yorker Review In Negro With a Hat, he has produced a searching, vivid, and (as the title suggests) complex account of Garveys short but consequential life.--Steve Hahn, The New RepublicThe story of Marcus Garvey, the charismatic and tireless black leader who had a meteoric rise and fall in the late 1910s and early 20s, makes for enthralling reading, and Garvey has found an engaging and objective biographer in Colin Grant....Grants book is not all politics, ideology, money andlawsuits. It is also an engrossing social history....Negro With a Hat is an achievement on a scale Garvey might have appreciated.--New York Times Book ReviewDazzling, definitive biography of the controversial activist who led the 1920s Back to Africa movement....Gr...

-Titulo Original : Law 101 Everything You Need To Know About American Law, Fifth Edition-Fabricante : Oxford University Press-Descripcion Original: In this fifth edition of his bestselling classic, Jay Feinman provides an authoritative and up-to-date overview of the American legal system. In the years since the publication of the fourth edition, there have been many important developments on the legal front. The Supreme Court has issued important decisions on presidential powers, freedom of religion, and personal liberty. Police shootings and the rise of Black Lives Matter has impacted the court system too. The rise of arbitration at the expense of jury trials has affected the rights of consumers, and internet law remains in a state of constant change.This fully updated fifth edition of Law 101 accounts for all these developments and more, as Feinman once again provides a clear introduction to American law. The book covers all the main subjects taught in the first year of law school, and discusses every facet of the American legal tradition, including constitutional law, the litigation process, and criminal, property, and contracts law. To illustrate how the legal system works, Feinman draws from noteworthy, infamous, and even outrageous examples and cases. We learn about the case involving scalding coffee that cost McDonalds half a million dollars, the murder trial in Victorian London that gave us the legal definition of insanity, and the epochal decision of Marbury vs. Madison that gave the Supreme Court the power to declare state and federal law unconstitutional. A key to learning about the law is understanding legal vocabulary, and Feinman helps by clarifying terms like due process and equal protection, as well as by drawing distinctions between terms like murder and manslaughter.Above all, Feinman reveals to readers of all kinds that despite its complexities and quirks, the law can be understood by everyone. Perfect for students contemplating law school, journalists covering legislature, or even casual fans of court-television shows, Law 101 is a clear and accessible introduction to the American legal system. Review Praise for the previous editions:An engaging introduction to just about every aspect of law. --The American LawyerAll the benefits of that first year of law school without the tedium, the terror, and the sleep deprivation...These legal lessons are presented in a style nearly always engaging and very often humorous. --JuristAn entertaining and informative introduction to the law...For journalists, those interested in the law, and fans of television law dramas, this book should be required reading. --Library Journal A laypersons introduction to the legal subjects that assault every first-year law student. From constitutional law to contracts to Dickensian procedures that guide civil suites, the book gives an approachable overview of the cases and concepts that combine to form our legal system. --NewarkStar-LedgerThough a book is aimed at laypersons, it offers a good refresher course to update legal practitioners and paraprofessionals in areas where they do not specialize. A good read overall for those interested in the law. --BooklistLaw 101 attempts to teach you how to think like a lawyer--without requiring that you dedicate three years and tens of thousands of dollars to the task. The result? A practical book that is also a pleasure to read. --The Trenton TimesThis basic text offers nonlawyers a concise, accessible overview of topics typically introduced in the first year of law school. Feinman, a law professor at Rutgers, cites seminal cases to highlight key concepts in the fields of constitutional law, civil procedure, torts, contracts, property,criminal law and criminal procedure. He does not minimize the actual complexity of these subjects, conceding variously that contract law has tormented the most students, property law most irritates students, conflicts of law tortures students and civil procedure is the most alien.Nevertheless, he distinguishes his book from the various how-to-b...

-Titulo Original : As The Romans Did A Sourcebook In Roman Social History, 2nd Edition-Fabricante : Oxford University Press-Descripcion Original: Revised to include new selections and updated bibliographical material, the second edition of this popular sourcebook offers a rich, revealing look at everyday Roman life. It provides clear, lively translations of a fascinating array of documents drawn from Latin and Greek sourcematerial--from personal letters, farming manuals, medical texts, and recipes to poetry, graffiti, and tombstone inscriptions. Each selection has been translated into readable, contemporary English. This edition includes more than 50 additional selections that introduce new topics and expand coverageof existing topics. In addition, the commentary on all the selections has been revised to reflect the recent scholarship of social and cultural historians. Extensive annotations, abundant biographical notes, maps, appendices, cross-references to related topics, and a newly-updated bibliographyprovide readers with the historical and cultural background material necessary to appreciate the selections. Arranged thematically into chapters on family life, housing, education, entertainment, religion, and other important topics, the translations reveal the ambitions and aspirations not only of the upper class, but of the average Roman citizen as well. They tell of the success and failure of Romesgrandiose imperialist policies and also of the pleasures and hardships of everyday life. Wide-ranging and lively, the second edition of As the Romans Did offers the most lucid account available of Roman life in all its diversity. Ideal for courses in Ancient Roman History, Social History of Rome,Roman Civilization, and Classics, it will also appeal to readers interested in ancient history. Review Rich....Very much a collection for todays English-speaking investigator of the Roman world....Should find a very wide and happy audience.--New England Classical Newsletter & Journal (on the previous edition)Will be useful in college courses and high-school classrooms alike.--The Classical OutlookThe most lucid account of daily activity thus far constructed....A wonderful sourcebook of everyday life...will become a short classic of the past.--Ronald T. Marchese, University of MinnesotaA wonderful book! The best introduction to the Romans that I have seen. The Romans speak to the students in their own voices, but the clear organization, excellent introductions and cross-referencing make the book accessible and informative.--Kathryn Argetsinger, University of Rochester About the Author Jo-Ann Shelton is Professor of Classics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of several books and articles on the social and cultural history of Rome in the early imperial period, including Hercules Furens: The Madness of Hercules (1991)...

-Titulo Original : Bioethics Principles, Issues, And Cases-Fabricante : Oxford University Press-Descripcion Original: Bioethics: Principles, Issues, and Cases, Fourth Edition, explores the philosophical, medical, social, and legal aspects of key bioethical issues. Opening with a thorough introduction to ethics, bioethics, and moral reasoning, it then covers influential moral theories and the criteria forevaluating them. Integrating eighty-seven readings--ten of them new to this edition--substantive introductions to each issue, numerous classic bioethical cases, and abundant pedagogical tools, this text addresses the most provocative and controversial topics in bioethics. Review Vaughns Bioethics is the best product on the market. It offers an excellent variety of essays on a broad range of topics, provides excellent supplementary information on each of the topics, and does so at a cost about half that of its competitors.--David Paul, Western Michigan UniversityWhen I think of getting bang for the students bucks, I think of Vaughns book.--Joseph Farrell, Loyola University MarylandI have been very pleased with the student learning that Bioethics has helped facilitate. Students seem to have much better comprehension of this foundational material when using Vaughns book.--Jennifer R. Hoheisel, Camden County College About the Author Lewis Vaughn is the author or coauthor of several textbooks, including The Power of Critical Thinking, Sixth Edition (2018), Philosophy Here and Now, Third Edition (2018), Writing Philosophy, Second Edition (2018), and Living Philosophy, Second Edition (2017)...

-Titulo Original : Stealth The Secret Contest To Invent Invisible Aircraft-Fabricante : Oxford University Press-Descripcion Original: On a moonless night in January 1991, a dozen U.S. aircraft appeared in the skies over Baghdad. To the Iraqi air defenses, the planes seemed to come from nowhere. Their angular shape, making them look like flying origami, rendered them virtually undetectable. Each aircraft was more than 60 feetin length and with a wingspan of 40 feet, yet its radar footprint was the size of a ball bearing. Here was the first extensive combat application of Stealth technology. And it was devastating.Peter Westwicks new book illuminates the story behind these aircraft, the F-117A, also known as the Stealth Fighter, and their close cousin the B-2, also known as the Stealth Bomber. The development of Stealth unfolded over decades. Radar has been in use since the 1930s and was essential to theAllies in World War Two, when American investment in radar exceeded that in the Manhattan Project. The atom bomb ended the war, conventional wisdom has it, but radar won it. That experience also raised a question: could a plane be developed that was invisible to radar? That question, and theseemingly impossible feat of physics and engineering behind it, took on increasing urgency during the Cold War, when the United States searched for a way both to defend its airspace and send a plane through Soviet skies undetected. Thus started the race for Stealth.At heart, Stealth is a tale of not just two aircraft but the two aerospace companies that made them, Lockheed and Northrop, guided by contrasting philosophies and outsized personalities. Beginning in the 1970s, the two firms entered into a fierce competition, one with high financial stakes andconducted at the highest levels of secrecy in the Cold War. They approached the problem of Stealth from different perspectives, one that pitted aeronautical designers against electrical engineers, those who relied on intuition against those who pursued computer algorithms. The two differentapproaches manifested in two very different solutions to Stealth, clearly evident in the aircraft themselves: the F-117 composed of flat facets, the B-2 of curves. For all their differences, Lockheed and Northrop were located twenty miles apart in the aerospace suburbs of Los Angeles, not far fromDisneyland. This was no coincidence. The creative culture of postwar Southern California-unorthodox, ambitious, and future-oriented-played a key role in Stealth. Combining nail-biting narrative, incisive explanation of the science and technology involved, and indelible portraits of unforgettable characters, Stealth immerses readers in the story of an innovation with revolutionary implications for modern warfare. Review A lucid and lively account of the achievement of what many thought impossible and resisted - sizable attack aircraft essentially invisible to radar. Westwick writes the story of the Stealth bombers on the expansive canvas of southern California, drawing in the security-veiled iconoclasm of theregions aerospace enterprise, the strategic thinking of its post-Vietnam military patrons, the innovations enabled by both computing and technical intuition, the passionate obsession of the physicists and engineers who envisioned the aircraft, and the differences in the technological culturesbetween Lockheed and Northrop, the ferociously competitive corporations where they turned their ideas into two divergent flight-ready realities. A rich, compelling, and eye-opening book. --Daniel J. Kevles, Professor of History Emeritus, Yale University, author of The Physicists As Peter Westwick notes in his elegant Stealth: The Secret Contest to Invent Invisible Aircraft, U.S. wartime radar research was bigger than the Manhattan Project. Westwicks stated goal is to write the story of the engineers and midlevel military officers who champion new military technologieshistory from the middle (a term he borrows from the historian Paul Kennedy ). Mr. Westwick pulls it off by balancing a modest level of technical detail ...

-Titulo Original : Global Economic History A Very Short Introduction-Fabricante : Oxford University Press-Descripcion Original: Why are some countries rich and others poor? In 1500, global income differences were small, but disparities have grown dramatically since Columbus reached America. In this Very Short Introduction, Robert C. Allen shows how the interplay of geography, globalization, technological change, andeconomic policy has determined the wealth and poverty of nations. Allen shows how the industrial revolution was Britains path-breaking response to the challenge of globalization. Western Europe and North America joined Britain to form a club of rich nations, pursuing four polices--creating anational market by abolishing internal tariffs and investing in transportation, erecting an external tariff to protect their fledgling industries from British competition, creating banks to stabilize the currency and mobilize domestic savings for investment, and promoting mass education to preparepeople for industrial work. Together these countries pioneered new technologies that have made them ever richer. A few countries--Japan, Soviet Russia, South Korea, Taiwan, and perhaps China--have caught up with the West through creative responses to the technological challenge and with Big Pushindustrialization that has achieved rapid growth through coordinated investment. About the Author Robert C. Allen is Professor of Economic History at Oxford University. He is a fellow of the British Academy...

-Titulo Original : The Bottom Billion Why The Poorest Countries Are Failing And What Can Be Done About It-Fabricante : Oxford University Press-Descripcion Original: In the universally acclaimed and award-winning The Bottom Billion, Paul Collier reveals that fifty failed states--home to the poorest one billion people on Earth--pose the central challenge of the developing world in the twenty-first century. The book shines much-needed light on this group ofsmall nations, largely unnoticed by the industrialized West, that are dropping further and further behind the majority of the worlds people, often falling into an absolute decline in living standards. A struggle rages within each of these nations between reformers and corrupt leaders--and thecorrupt are winning. Collier analyzes the causes of failure, pointing to a set of traps that ensnare these countries, including civil war, a dependence on the extraction and export of natural resources, and bad governance. Standard solutions do not work, he writes; aid is often ineffective, andglobalization can actually make matters worse, driving development to more stable nations. What the bottom billion need, Collier argues, is a bold new plan supported by the Group of Eight industrialized nations. If failed states are ever to be helped, the G8 will have to adopt preferential tradepolicies, new laws against corruption, new international charters, and even conduct carefully calibrated military interventions. Collier has spent a lifetime working to end global poverty. In The Bottom Billion, he offers real hope for solving one of the great humanitarian crises facing the worldtoday.Set to become a classic. Crammed with statistical nuggets and common sense, his book should be compulsory reading.--The EconomistIf Sachs seems too saintly and Easterly too cynical, then Collier is the authentic old Africa hand: he knows the terrain and has a keen ear.... If youve ever found yourself on one side or the other of those arguments--and who hasnt?--then you simply must read this book.--Niall Ferguson, The New York Times Book ReviewRich in both analysis and recommendations.... Read this book. You will learn much you do not know. It will also change the way you look at the tragedy of persistent poverty in a world of plenty.--Financial Times Review An important book.--Fareed ZakariaInsightful and influential.--NewsweekAn acclaimed bestseller in 2007, and already a set text in development courses worldwide, Paul Colliers The Bottom Billion has far from exhausted its potential to change the way we think about, teach about, and legislate about global poverty...Its policy recommendations, many of which focus onempowering domestic actors, including through voluntary international standards to serve as rallying cries for reform movements, are not only pragmatic but also addressed squarely to the audience that matters most: the G8. It does not hurt its crossover appeal that The Bottom Billon is a model ofgood writing for the public understanding of social science.--Ethics & International Affairs (publication of the Carnegie Council)Excellent...his key recommendations are right on the mark, and his message should resonate in the development discourse for years to come...Highly recommended.--CHOICEThis is a path-breaking work providing penetrating insights into the largely unexplored borderland between economics and politics.--George SorosOne of the most important books on world poverty in a very long time.--Richard John Neuhaus, founder of First Things MagazineProvides a penetrating reassessment of why vast populations remain trapped in poverty, despite endless debate over foreign aid policy among wealthy countries and institutions.--Barbara McDougall, Jury Chair, The Lionel Gelber Prize, and Canadas Former Secretary of State for External AffairsWorkable development ideas are hard to find, but Professor Collier may have identified the next frontier for positive change.--Tyler Cowen, The New York TimesThis slip of a book is set to become a classic of the how to help the worlds poorest genre. Crammed with stati...

-Titulo Original : Hall Of Mirrors The Great Depression, The Great Recession, And The Uses-and Misuses-of History-Fabricante : Oxford University Press-Descripcion Original: The two great financial crises of the past century are the Great Depression of the 1930s and the Great Recession, which began in 2008. Both occurred against the backdrop of sharp credit booms, dubious banking practices, and a fragile and unstable global financial system. When markets went intocardiac arrest in 2008, policymakers invoked the lessons of the Great Depression in attempting to avert the worst. While their response prevented a financial collapse and catastrophic depression like that of the 1930s, unemployment in the U.S. and Europe still rose to excruciating high levels. Painand suffering were widespread. The question, given this, is why didnt policymakers do better? Hall of Mirrors, Barry Eichengreens monumental twinned history of the two crises, provides the farthest-reaching answer to this question to date. Alternating back and forth between the two crises and between North America and Europe,Eichengreen shows how fear of another Depression following the collapse of Lehman Brothers shaped policy responses on both continents, with both positive and negative results. Since bank failures were a prominent feature of the Great Depression, policymakers moved quickly to strengthen troubledbanks. But because derivatives markets were not important in the 1930s, they missed problems in the so-called shadow banking system. Having done too little to support spending in the 1930s, governments also ramped up public spending this time around. But the response was indiscriminate and quicklycame back to haunt overly indebted governments, particularly in Southern Europe. Moreover, because politicians overpromised, and because their measures failed to stave off a major recession, a backlash quickly developed against activist governments and central banks. Policymakers then prematurelysuccumbed to the temptation to return to normal policies before normal conditions had returned. The result has been a grindingly slow recovery in the United States and endless recession in Europe.Hall of Mirrors is both a major work of economic history and an essential exploration of how we avoided making only some of the same mistakes twice. It shows not just how the lessons of Great Depression history continue to shape societys response to contemporary economic problems, but also howthe experience of the Great Recession will permanently change how we think about the Great Depression. Review This is undoubtedly one of the best books on the history of economic policy-making to be published in the last half century... clear, compelling account of the Great Depression and the Great Recession. -- Professor Brad Bratley Bateman (Randolph College), HETP Vol.2 This important book and the ideas behind it are already entering the public policy sphere at the highest level.--2016 Alice Jones Prize Award PresentationBarry Eichengreens Hall of Mirrors: The Great Depression, the Great Recession, and the Uses - and Misuses - of History stands in contrast to contemporary mainstream economics by pointing out how much we can learn from history when attempting to understand the contemporary economic world.--Mediterranean StudiesThe Great Depression was the signal economic event of the 20th century and, we hope, the Great Recession will be the signal event of the 21st. Few people on earth can draw out the similarities and differences as well as Barry Eichengreen, who paints with equal facility in broad strokes and infascinating detail. Reading Hall of Mirrors is a joy. Keeping it on your bookshelf for future reference is a necessity.--Alan Blinder, author of After the Music StoppedHistorical analogies come cheap, but historical insight relevant to today is both rare and valuable. Barry Eichengreens Hall of Mirrors is packed with the essential insights that give the reader understanding of the macro policy mistakes of the 1930s and the 2000s, both why they occurred and howdevastating they were. A must-read. --Adam S. Po...

-Titulo Original : A Brief History Of Neoliberalism-Fabricante : Oxford University Press-Descripcion Original: Neoliberalism--the doctrine that market exchange is an ethic in itself, capable of acting as a guide for all human action--has become dominant in both thought and practice throughout much of the world since 1970 or so. Writing for a wide audience, David Harvey, author of The New Imperialismand The Condition of Postmodernity, here tells the political-economic story of where neoliberalization came from and how it proliferated on the world stage. Through critical engagement with this history, he constructs a framework, not only for analyzing the political and economic dangers that nowsurround us, but also for assessing the prospects for the more socially just alternatives being advocated by many oppositional movements. Review The most accessible and succinct overview of neoliberalism as an ideology and economic practice yet written. It lays out the origins of the idea, the devastating impact it has had on labor in both the advanced and developing world, and how it deepened crisis tendencies within the system...Harveyhas done the left a great service in laying out a clear, concise, and provocative history of neoliberalism, one that can help educate a new generation of radicals and revolutionaries.--International Socialist ReviewHarveys book is deeply insightful, rewarding and stimulating. His history of neoliberalism may indeed be brief, but the richness and profundity of this volume is without question.--Michael J. Thompson, democratiyaPresents a concise but extremely well-documented economic history of the last three decades, encompassing not only the usual G-7 countries but the entire world, with a particular emphasis on the US and capitalist China.-- Brian Holmes, Interactivist Info ExchangeDavid Harvey has done it again. He has provided us with the most lively, readable, comprehensive, and critical guide to what might be called the condition of neoliberalism, uncovering its origins, tracing its spread around the globe, and exposing its devastating effects on the vast majority ofpeople everywhere.--Leo Panitch, Canada Research Chair in Comparative Political Economy, York University, TorontoWith characteristic brilliance, David Harvey offers a razor-sharp analysis of the history and current condition of neoliberalism. In an intellectually extraordinary tour de force, he dissects the contradictions between the freedoms offered by neoliberalism and the liberties desired by the people.This book convincingly demonstrates how neoliberalism restores class power, flirts openly with authoritarianism, and undermines democratic impulses. With democracy under siege, freedoms prospect resides squarely in the struggle for new political governance. A must read if you want to know the statewe are in and how to change it.--Erik Swyngedouw, Professor of Geography, University of OxfordThis book compellingly challenges arguments praising the supposed advantages of neoliberalism. This is particularly important when the claim that there is no alternative to neoliberal restructing has been largely accepted... Harvey s assessment of the shortcomings of neoliberalism and thepractices used to distract attention from these shortcomings is indispensable to discussions of neoliberal policies.--Aaron Peron Ogletree, J.D. The Journal of Buddhist Ethics and The Electronic Journal of SociologyLeave it to David Harvey to brilliantly summarize in little more than 200 pages what has taken more than thirty years to emerge as a political-economic form of governance.--The Professional GeographerThe many strengths of A Brief History of Neoliberalism cannot be adequately conveyed in this short space, but include powerful analyses of the devastating impact of neo-liberalism on the environment and labouring conditions (especially for women), a nuanced perspective on the external and internalforces compelling states to turn towards neo-liberalism, and the ways in which Marxs concept of primitive accumulation is ...

-Titulo Original : Economics A Very Short Introduction-Fabricante : Oxford University Press-Descripcion Original: Here Partha Dasgupta, an internationally recognized authority in economics, presents readers with a solid introduction to its basic concepts, including efficiency, equity, sustainability, dynamic equilibrium, property rights, markets, and public goods. Throughout, he highlights the relevanceof economics to everyday life, providing a very human exploration of a technical subject. Dasgupta covers enduring issues such as population growth, the environment, and poverty. For example, he explores how the worlds looming population problems affect us at the local, national, and internationallevel.Economics has the capacity to offer us deep insights into some of the most formidable problems of life. Here, Dasgupta goes beyond the basics to show its innate effects on our history, culture, and lifestyles.About the Series: Combining authority with wit, accessibility, and style, Very Short Introductions offer an introduction to some of lifes most interesting topics. Written by experts for the newcomer, they demonstrate the finest contemporary thinking about the central problems and issues in hundredsof key topics, from philosophy to Freud, quantum theory to Islam. Review Engaging.--CHOICE About the Author Partha Dasgupta is Frank Ramsey Professor of Economics, University of Cambridge and Fellow of St Johns College. Among his many published books and articles is the widely acclaimed Human Well-Being and the Natural Environment...