Latest Publications

C-terminal propeptide is required for fibrillin-1 secretion and blocks premature assembly through linkage to domains cbEGF41-43

Professor Penny Handford

Jensen, Aspinall, Handford. ‘C-terminal propeptide is required for fibrillin-1 secretion and blocks premature assembly through linkage to domains cbEGF41-43’. (Proc…

Beats Working For a Living: My Life as a Geologist

Rob Ryan (1951, Geology)

Beats Working For a Living: My Life as a Geologist (Jabiru, 2014) This book covers his early life in Kenya,…

Stuff Matters: The Strange Stories of the Marvellous Materials that Shape Our Man-made World

Mark Miodownik (1988, Metallurgy)

Stuff Matters: The Strange Stories of the Marvellous Materials that Shape Our Man-made World (Penguin, 2014) Mark Miodownik’s book explores…

You Never Know Your Luck: Reflections of a Cockney Campaigner for Education

Fred Jarvis (1949, PPE)

You Never Know Your Luck: Reflections of a Cockney Campaigner for Education (Grosvenor House Publishing, 2014) Fred Jarvis is the…

A Giotto Triptych and Afterwords

W.D. (Bill) Jackson (1965, English)

A Giotto Triptych and Afterwords (Shoestring Press, 2014) Bill Jackson’s recent books are two further selections of poetry from the third part (provisionally…

Boris and the Dumb Skulls

Frank Hinks (1968, Law)

Boris and the Dumb Skulls (Ramion, 2014) Frank Hinks has recently published his sixteenth children’s book in the Ramion collection. …

The Joshua Files

MG Harris (1984, Biochemistry)

The Joshua Files series (Darkwater) The Joshua Files is a thriller book series which follows the story of Joshua Garcia…

Four Acres: A Natural History of Taston.

Glyn Frewer (1952, English)

Four Acres: A Natural History of Taston. (Ridgeway Press, 2014) Glyn Frewer presents his material as a diary of wildlife…

The Status of the Cat

The Status of the Cat

The Status of the Cat. (Playdead Press, 2014) Sean Elliott’s publication is a collection of poems, based on a range…

The Vagabond Spirit of Poetry

Edward Clarke (1995, English)

The Vagabond Spirit of Poetry (Iff Books, 2014) Dr Edward Clarke teaches English literature at Oxford. His latest book demonstrates…

Hazlitt the Dissenter: Religion, Philosophy, and Politics, 1766-1816

Stephen Burley (2001, English Language & Literature)

Hazlitt the Dissenter: Religion, Philosophy, and Politics, 1766-1816 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). Stephen Burley’s recent book is the first multi-disciplinary account…

Cultivating the Nile: The Everyday Politics of Water in Egypt

Jessica Barnes (1997, Geography)

Cultivating the Nile: The Everyday Politics of Water in Egypt (Duke University Press, 2014) Jessica Barnes’ recent book is an ethnographic…

Nixon, Kissinger, and the Shah: The United States and Iran in the Cold War

Roham Alvandi (2005, Politics & International Relations)

Nixon, Kissinger, and the Shah: The United States and Iran in the Cold War (OUP, 2014). Roham Alvandi’s latest book…

The Year 2014

Scaleable ultra-thin and high power density graphene supercapacitor electrodes manufactured by aqueous exfoliation and spray deposition

Professor Patrick Grant

Mendoza-Sanchez, Rasche,  Nicolosi and Grant . ‘Scaleable ultra-thin and high power density graphene supercapacitor electrodes manufactured by aqueous exfoliation and…

The Oxford Handbook of Psychology and Psychiatry

Professor Bill Fulford

Fulford, Davies, Gipps, Graham, Sadler, Stanghellini & Thornton. The Oxford Handbook of Psychology and Psychiatry (OUP, 2013)

Application of pressure-sensitive paint to low-speed flow around a U-bend of strong curvature

Professor Peter Ireland

Quinn, Gongora-Orozco, Kontis, Ireland. ‘Application of pressure-sensitive paint to low-speed flow around a U-bend of strong curvature’ (Experimental, Thermal and…

Kick and Run: Memoir with Soccer Ball

Jonathan Wilson (1974, English)

Kick and Run: Memoir with Soccer Ball, (Bloomsbury, 2013) Jonathan Wilson’s book is an account of his life, growing up…

A Glimpse of Heaven

Chris Moorey (1967, English Language & Literature)

A Glimpse of Heaven (Chris Moorey, 2013) Why do Greek priests have long hair? Why are Greek churches full of…

The Year 2013

War and Seduction in Cybele’s Garden: Contextualizing the Ballet des Polonais

Dr Ewa Kociszewska

Kociszewska. ‘War and Seduction in Cybele’s Garden: Contextualizing the Ballet des Polonais’ (Renaissance Quarterly, 2012)

Les Clauses du Contrat: Essai de Typologie

Dr Geneviève Helleringer

Helleringer, Les Clauses du Contrat: Essai de Typologie (LJDJ Lextenso editions 2012)

Travelling in Different Skins

Dúnlaith Bird (2000, English and Modern Languages)

Travelling in Different Skins: Gender Identity in European Women’s Oriental Travelogues, 1850-1950 (OUP, 2012) Original analysis of an important corpus…

The Year 2012

Modern Argentine Poetry: Exile, Displacement, Migration

Dr Ben Bollig

Bollig. Modern Argentine Poetry: Exile, Displacement, Migration. (University of Wales Press, 2011)

Major Problems in the History of the North American Borderlands

Professor Pekka Hämäläinen

Hämäläinen & Johnson. ‘Major Problems in the History of the North American Borderlands’ (Houghton Mifflin, 2011)

The Pyrgic Puzzler: Classic Conundrums

Chris Maslanka (1973, Physics)

The Pyrgic Puzzler: Classic Conundrums (Dover Recreational Math) Chris Maslanka presents eighty mind-bending problems that are loaded with chuckles and…

Running the World’s Markets: The Governance of Financial Infrastructure

Ruben Lee (1977, PPE)

Running the World’s Markets: The Governance of Financial Infrastructure (Princeton University Press, 2011) Ruben Lee’s second book analyzes efficient forms of governance,…

The Year 2011

Turning carbon dioxide into fuel

Professor Peter Edwards

Z. Jiang, T. Xiao, V. L. Kuznetsov, P. P. Edwards. ‘Turning carbon dioxide into fuel’. (Phil, Tran, R. Soc, 2010)