Satow's diplomatic practice[Guide to diplomatic practice ][Diplomatic practice ][Oxford Public International Law. ]

Satow, Ernest Mason

Roberts, Ivor

Oxford : Oxford University Press

The cost of seriousness

Literature & Fiction

Peter Porter

History & Criticism

A Part of Speech (Oxford Poets)

BRODSKY, JOSEPH

Poetry

Colorful pop-up illustrations retell the story of God's creation of the world and everything in it.

The creation

WILDSMITH, Brian

Wuthering Heights

Brönte, Emily

From philosopher Leszek Kolakowski, one of the giants of twentieth-century intellectual history, comes this highly infuential study of Marxism. Written in exile, this 'prophetic work' presents, according to the Library of Congress, 'the most lucid and comprehensive history of the origins, structure, and posthumous development of the system of thought that had the greatest impact on the twentieth century'. Kolakowski traces the intellectual foundations of Marxist thought from Plotonius through Lenin, Lukacs, Sartre and Mao. He reveals Marxism to be 'the greatest fantasy of our century ...an idea that began in Promethean humanism and culminated in the monstrous tyranny of Stalinism'. In a brilliant coda, he examines the collapse of international Communism in light of the last tumultuous decades. Main Currents of Marxism remains the indispensable book in its field.

Main currents of Marxism: Its rise, growth, and dissolution

Ko akowski, Leszek

Lincoln College, Oxford, is in itself a small society but one which, in the varied facets of its history, may be regarded as a microcosm of the University itself. Green tells of the origins and early growth of the College, and of how, in the context of the wider scene of university and national history, it was involved in crises and problems over five centuries: in the decline of scholasticism, the impact of the Reformation, the effects of Civil War, its part in the genesis of the Methodism, and finally in university reform and revival in the 19th and 20th centuries. Much of this study is based on unpublished manuscript sources, college account books and registers, John Wesley's Oxford diaries, and the Mark Pattison papers. It is intended less as a work of pietas than as an important contribution to university and social history. Vivian Hubert Howard Green (1915 - 2005) was a Fellow and Rector of Lincoln College, a priest, author, teacher, and historian. He was also celebrated for his influence on his student John le Carré, who in 1995 acknowledged him as one of the models for George Smiley. Green was born in Middlesex; his parents owned candy stores. Green attended Bradfield College, Berkshire, then won a Goldsmith's Scholarship to Trinity Hall, Cambridge (1933), where he achieved a First in the Tripos. At Trinity Hall, he specialized in ecclesiastical history and became the Lightfoot Scholar. Postgraduate work was done on a Gladstone Scholarship to St Deiniol's Library, Hawarden. followed by a period of lecturing on ecclesiastical history at St Augustine's College, Canterbury. When asked if he had considered sitting the exams for ordination, he noted that this would pose problems as he was responsible for marking them, but he was ordained in 1939 by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Cosmo Gordon Lang. Green was the only Fellow of Lincoln to vote against the college accepting women, but remained in office after the vote in 1979.

The Commonwealth of Lincoln College, 1427-1977

Education & Teaching

Green, Vivian (1915-2005)

Schools & Teaching

Since the first sailing ships spied the Antarctic coastline in 1820, the frozen continent has captured the world's imagination. David Day's brilliant biography of Antarctica describes in fascinating detail every aspect of this vast land's history--two centuries of exploration, scientific investigation, and contentious geopolitics. Drawing from archives from around the world, Day provides a sweeping, large-scale history of Antarctica. Focusing on the dynamic personalities drawn to this unconquered land, the book offers an engaging collective biography of explorers and scientists battling the elements in the most hostile place on earth. We see intrepid sea captains picking their way past icebergs and pushing to the edge of the shifting pack ice, sanguinary sealers and whalers drawn south to exploit "the Penguin El Dorado," famed nineteenth-century explorers like Scott and Amundson in their highly publicized race to the South Pole, and aviators like Clarence Ellsworth and Richard Byrd, flying over great stretches of undiscovered land. Yet Antarctica is also the story of nations seeking to incorporate the Antarctic into their national narratives and to claim its frozen wastes as their own. As Day shows, in a place as remote as Antarctica, claiming land was not just about seeing a place for the first time, or raising a flag over it; it was about mapping and naming and, more generally, knowing its geographic and natural features. And ultimately, after a little-known decision by FDR to colonize Antarctica, claiming territory meant establishing full-time bases on the White Continent. The end of the Second World War would see one last scramble for polar territory, but the onset of the International Geophysical Year in 1957 would launch a cooperative effort to establish scientific bases across the continent. And with the Antarctic Treaty, science was in the ascendant, and cooperation rather than competition was the new watchword on the ice. Tracing history from the first sighting of land up to the present day, Antarctica is a fascinating exploration of this deeply alluring land and man's struggle to claim it.

Antarctica

Day, David (1949-)

Bayesian Philosophy of Science

How should we reason in science? Jan Sprenger and Stephan Hartmann offer a refreshing take on classical topics in philosophy of science, using a single key concept to explain and to elucidate manifold aspects of scientific reasoning. They present good arguments and good inferences as being characterized by their effect on our rational degrees of belief. Refuting the view that there is no place for subjective attitudes in 'objective science', Sprenger and Hartmann explain the value of convincing evidence in terms of a cycle of variations on the theme of representing rational degrees of belief by means of subjective probabilities (and changing them by Bayesian conditionalization). In doing so, they integrate Bayesian inference―the leading theory of rationality in social science―with the practice of 21st century science. Bayesian Philosophy of Science thereby shows how modeling such attitudes improves our understanding of causes, explanations, confirming evidence, and scientific models in general. It combines a scientifically minded and mathematically sophisticated approach with conceptual analysis and attention to methodological problems of modern science, especially in statistical inference, and is therefore a valuable resource for philosophers and scientific practitioners.

Bayesian Philosophy Of Science

Hartmann, Stephan

Sprenger, Jan

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