Oxford University Press

A comprehensive and detailed account of the history of personalism - the system of thought that maintains the primacy and uniqueness of the human or divine person, on the basis that reality only has meaning through the conscious mind.

A study based on a set of filmed interviews with Francophone women writers in Paris that explores the literary phenomenon of an unprecedented number of women from around the world who have moved to Paris and become authors of written works in French.

Worzel Gummidge is a much-loved and fondly-remembered character who is about to enjoy a new lease of life! This new edition of the classic story by Barbara Euphan Todd features a fun and colourful new cover together with energetic inside illustrations and is being published just in time for Worzel's return to our TV screens this Christmas.

McCoy examines how Greek epic, tragedy, and philosophy offer important insights into the nature of human vulnerability, especially how Greek thought extols the recognition and proper acceptance of vulnerability. Beginning with the literary works of Homer and Sophocles, she also expands her analysis to the philosophical works of Plato and Aristotle.

Wounds: biology and management presents a full appraisal of accepted knowledge in wound management, drawing on the expertise of leading specialists in all the fields concerned. The book is extensively illustrated, and provides essential, and practical information. Throughout, the emphasis is on the control of healing, particularly the recognition of adverse factors.

This book uses the metaphor of wrapping as a key to understanding Japanese and other cultures. Joy Hendry, internationally known as an expert on Japanese society, examines gift-wrapping, body-wrapping, wrapping in buildings and gardens, and politeness as wrapping for thoughts and intentions.

Wrapping in Images is the first comparative analysis of tattooing in Polynesia in its original setting, based on a comprehensive survey of both written and visual documentary sources. Drawing on modern social theory, psychoanalysis, and contemporary anthropology, Alfred Gell shows how tattooing played a key role in the social construction of the person in the main Polynesian societies, and provides a new perspective on Polynesian comparative sociology.

Write Ways is a practical, user-friendly text for both teacher education students and practising teachers. It explains how to teach students to write in all the major text types DL not only in English, but across the curriculum DL and provides clear, useful examples of classroom practice, planning and assessment.