Latest Publications

The New Pakistani Middle Class

Dr Ammara Maqsood

Maqsood, The New Pakistani Middle Class (Harvard University Press, 2017)

Blood and Silk: Power and Conflict in Modern Southeast Asia

Dr Michael Vatikiotis (1980, Anthropology & Geography)

Blood and Silk: Power and Conflict in Modern Southeast Asia (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2017) ‘The gun is never far removed…

The Simple Physics of Energy Use

Peter Rez (1973, Metallurgy)

The Simple Physics of Energy Use (OUP, 2017) As a society we use energy for climate control and lighting in…

John Sparrow: Warden of All Souls College, Oxford

Peter Raina (1960, Modern History)

John Sparrow: Warden of All Souls College, Oxford (Peter Lang, 2017) John Sparrow, Warden of All Souls, was a notable…

Painting by Numbers: The life and art of Ferdinand Bauer

Professor David Mabberley (1967, Botany)

Painting by Numbers: The life and art of Ferdinand Bauer (NewSouth Publishing, 2017) Ferdinand Bauer is seen by many as…

An Introduction to Foreign Language Learning and Teaching

Keith Johnson (1963, English)

An Introduction to Foreign Language Learning and Teaching (Routledge, 2017) The 3rd Edition of  An Introduction to Foreign Language Learning…

The Murder Pit

Mick Finlay (1984, Human Sciences)

The Murder Pit (Harper Collins, 2019) Sherlock Holmes has once again hit the headlines, solving mysteries for the cream of…

Shakespeare’s Heir

Chris Crowcroft (1971, Law)

Shakespeare’s Heir: Last Case for Richard Palmer, Investigator (Aesop Modern, 2017) Retired investigator Richard Palmer lives in the Charterhouse, a charity…

Loving: Interracial Intimacy in America and the Threat to White Supremacy

Professor Sheryll Cashin (1984, Law)

Loving: Interracial Intimacy in America and the Threat to White Supremacy (Beacon, 2017) This book was released in conjunction with…

The Oystercatcher Girl

Gabrielle Barnby (2000, Clinical Medicine)

The Oystercatcher Girl (ThunderPoint Publishing Limited, 2017) Set amidst the spectacular scenery of the Orkney Islands, Gabrielle Barnby’s skilfully plotted first…

Bird’s Milk

Jana Bakunina (1999, Economics & Management)

Bird’s Milk (Matador, 2017) In Bird’s Milk, Jana Bakunina tells the story of her childhood in the Soviet Union from…

The Year 2017

International Relations of the Middle East

Professor Louise Fawcett

Louise Fawcett International Relations of the Middle East. 4th ed. (OUP, 2016)

Equity & Trusts

Paul S Davies and Graham Virgo

Equity & Trusts – Text, Cases and Materials (OUP, 2016) An expertly selected range of legal extracts is complemented by authoritative author…

Rehearsing the State

Dr Fiona McConnell

McConnell. Rehearsing the State: The Political Practices of the Tibetan-Government-in-Exile (RGS-IBG book series, Wiley, 2016).

Illusory inferences with quantifiers

Dr Salvador Mascarenhas

Mascarenhas & Koralus. ‘Illusory inferences with quantifiers’ (Forthcoming 2016, Thinking and Reasoning).

Improving information availability in vascular surgical clinics. A service evaluation and improvement project

Professor Ashok Handa

Hurst, Kreckler, Handa. ‘Improving information availability in vascular surgical clinics. A service evaluation and improvement project.’ (BMJ Quality Improvement Reports,…

The Gap of Time

Jeanette Winterson (1978, English)

The Gap of Time: The Winter’s Tale Retold (Hogarth Press, 2016) The first in a series of reimagined Shakespeare plays, commissioned…

How to Make Partner and Still Have a Life

Heather Townsend (1994, Engineering)

Heather Townsend and Jo Larbie outline the challenges and opportunities that lie before any professional who wants to get to…

The Death of an Owl

Piers Torday (1993, English)

The Death of an Owl (W&N, 2016) Piers Torday has published The Death of an Owl, which was the final,…

The Spanish Resurgence, 1713-1748

Christopher Storrs (1972, Modern History)

The Spanish Resurgence, 1713-1748 (Yale University press, 2016) A major reassessment of Philip V’s leadership and what it meant for…

When Morning Comes

Arushi Raina (2013, Visiting Student)

When Morning Comes (Tradewind, 2016) It s 1976 in South Africa, and four young people are living in Johannesburg and…

Clinical Chemistry

William Marshall (1963, Biochemistry)

Clinical Chemistry (Elsevier, 2016), now in its eighth edition, considers what happens to the body’s chemistry when affected by disease….

I am the Song (CD)

Bernard Hughes (1992, Music)

A CD of choral music by Bernard Hughes has been released by Signum Records. I am the Song contains choral…

The House on Bellevue Gardens

Rachel Hore (1979, Modern History)

The House on Bellevue Gardens (Simon & Schuster, 2016) Rachel Hore’s latest book tells the story of Eleven Bellevue Gardens,…

Protest in Putin’s Russia

Mischa Gabowitsch (1995, PPE)

Protest in Putin’s Russia (Polity Press, 2016) In this the first full-length study of the 2011 Russian protests, Mischa Gabowitsch…

The Road to Corbyn

Dr Rob Donovan (1967, Modern History)

The Road to Corbyn (Matador, 2016) Following the style of Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress, The Road to Corbyn begins with…

International Taxation and the Extractive Industries

Philip Daniel (1966, PPE)

International Taxation and the Extractive Industries (Routledge, 2016) This book, edited by Philip Daniel, Michael Keen, Artur Świstak and Victor Thuronyi,  includes contributions…

Schooling Selves: Autonomy, Interdependence, and Reform in Japanese Junior High Education

Dr Peter Cave (1984, English)

Peter Cave has published Schooling Selves: Autonomy, Interdependence, and Reform in Japanese Junior High Education (University of Chicago Press, 2016)….

The Penultimate Curiosity

Andrew Briggs (1968, Physics)

The Penultimate Curiosity (Oxford University Press, 2016) Professor Andrew Briggs and his co-author Roger Wagner launched their book entitled The Penultimate…