Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
For items in the Oxford Handbooks series, not merely any OUP title that could be called a handbook. Pages in category "Oxford Handbooks" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
The New Oxford Book of Carols; Cartesian Reflections; Catastrophe: Risk and Response; Charles Babbage: Pioneer of the Computer; Chartbreak; Oxford Chemistry Primers; The Chimera's Curse; Oxford Classical Texts; Closing the Gap: The Quest to Understand Prime Numbers; Cold Tom; Collision Course (Hinton novel) The Condition of the Working Class in ...
Upon publication of the final volume of the Oxford English Dictionary in 1928, he was among those awarded an honorary D.Litt. by the university. He was knighted in 1936. He was knighted in 1936. His elder son by his first marriage was the composer Robin Milford (1903–1959); his younger son was the racket and hockey player David Milford (1905 ...
Its first book was printed in Oxford in 1478, with the Press officially granted the legal right to print books by decree in 1586. [2] It is the second-oldest university press after Cambridge University Press, which was founded in 1534. [3] [4] [5] It is a department of the University of Oxford.
According to The Oxford Handbook of Sikh Studies, bands of young Sikhs began indiscriminately killing Hindus in response to Bhindranwale's arrest. [ 249 ] By 1982, Bhindranwale's campaign to stroke tensions among Sikhs and Hindus was underway; a particular tactic employed by Sikh militants was to throw the heads or other body parts of cows into ...
Hit Man: A Technical Manual for Independent Contractors is a book written under the pseudonym Rex Feral and published by Paladin Press in 1983. Paladin Press owner Peder Lund claimed, in an interview with 60 Minutes, that the book started life as a detailed crime novel written by a Florida housewife, and that the format was later changed to appeal to Paladin's reader base accustomed to the ...
The Oxford History of the United States book series originated in the 1950s with a plan laid out by historians C. Vann Woodward and Richard Hofstadter for a multivolume history of the United States published by Oxford University Press, modeled on the Oxford History of England, that would provide a summary of the political, social, and cultural history of the United States for a general ...
Leaderless resistance, or phantom cell structure, is a social resistance strategy in which small, independent groups (covert cells), or individuals (a solo cell is called a "lone wolf"), challenge an established institution such as a law, economic system, social order, or government.