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31 unusual facts about Oxford University Press


Ann Plato

In 1988, Oxford University Press released The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers with Professor Henry Louis Gates as the general editor of the series.

Anna Flyover

Before climbing Anna Flyover (when heading in the direction towards the airport) to the left are the Oxford University Press and the U.S. Consulate, and to the right one can find the remains of the old Safire Theatre complex.

Birendra Nath Datta

One of his books, Cultural Contours of Northeast India, was published by Oxford University Press.

C. I. Scofield

Scofield's correspondence Bible study course was the basis for his Reference Bible, an annotated, and widely circulated, study Bible first published in 1909 by Oxford University Press.

Catherine Itzin

The editor of Pornography: Women, Violence and Civil Liberties, a collection of essays published by Oxford University Press which explores the impact pornography has on the perception and treatment of women.

Editio Regia

Bruce M. Metzger, Bart D. Ehrman, The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption and Restoration, Oxford University Press, 2005.

Eleanor Joanne Daley

Commissions from Europe include festivals in Norway and Germany, and England's Oxford University Press.

Fire-bellied toad

Frogs Flies and Dandelions: The Making of Species, Oxford University Press.

Free River Press

In 1999, Oxford University Press published a sampling from the first nine years of Free River Press books, An American Mosaic: Prose and Poetry by Everyday Folk.

Jahangir-Khan Sur-e-Esrafil

Mangol Bayat, Iran’s First Revolution: Shi’ism and the Constitutional Revolution of 1905–1909, Studies in Middle Eastern History, 336 p. (Oxford University Press, 1991).

Jerome Murphy-O'Connor

Oxford University Press invited him to write an archaeological guide to the Holy Land which was published in 1980.

Julia C. Collins

In 2006, William L. Andrews of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Mitch Kachun of Western Michigan University collected Collins' writings and her unfinished novel and published them, with commentary and notes through Oxford University Press.

Kali for Women

When they decided to take this step, Butalia had worked with Oxford University Press and Zed Books in Delhi, while Ritu Menon was a well known scholar.

Lynton Lamb

From 1930 he designed book jackets and bindings for the Oxford University Press, with a break for military service during World War II when he designed camouflage and in 1936 he had an exhibition of paintings at the Storran Gallery.

Marshall McLuhan bibliography

# 1989 The Global Village: Transformations in World Life and Media in the 21st Century with Bruce R. Powers; Oxford University Press ISBN 0-19-505444-X.

Max Montgelas

The previous year he and Professor Walther Schucking had edited The Outbreak of the World War - German Documents collected by Karl Kautsky (commonly known as the Kautsky Documents) which were published by the Oxford University Press.

Modern American Usage

Garner's Modern American Usage (3rd edition, 2009), a guide for careful writers of American English originally published (1st edition 1998) as A Dictionary of Modern American Usage of which an abridged form was published in 2000 by the Oxford University Press with the title The Oxford Dictionary of American Usage and Style.

Orinda Dale Evans

On May 11, 2012, Evans decided the Cambridge University Press v. Becker case, ultimately determining that Georgia State University was the prevailing party and awarding attorneys' fees to GSU from the plaintiffs (Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, and SAGE Publications).

Pauline Hopkins

In 1988, Oxford University Press released The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers with Professor Henry Louis Gates as the general editor of the series.

Popular Prakashan

In 1924, founder Ganesh R. Bhatkal, a former employee of OUP India, established the Popular Book Depot as an independent bookseller.

Receptor-ligand kinetics

D.A. Lauffenburger and J.J. Linderman (1993) Receptors: Models for Binding, Trafficking, and Signaling, Oxford University Press.

Sheizaf Rafaeli

His work on Interactivity and Virtual Community, published by MIT Press, JCMC, and Oxford University Press is widely cited in the Information, Computer-Mediated Communication, Internet and Communication Research literatures.

Sliding puzzle

Sliding Piece Puzzles (by Edward Hordern, 1986, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-853204-0) is said to be the definitive volume on this type of puzzle.

Sukanta Chaudhuri

He has authored Renaissance Pastoral and Its English Developments (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989), edited selections of Francis Bacon’s Essays and of Elizabethan poetry for OUP, and edited or co-edited several collections of essays on the Renaissance: most recently Shakespeare without English (New Delhi: Pearson Education, 2006).

The Engines of Our Ingenuity

Inventing Modern: Growing Up with X-Rays, Skyscrapers and Tailfins. NY: Oxford University Press ISBN 0-195-16032-0

How Invention Begins: Echoes of Old Voices in the Rise of New Machines. NY: Oxford University Press ISBN 0-195-34120-1

Trees of India

Sources: Common Trees of India, Pippa Mukherjee, World Wildlife Fund India/ Oxford University Press 1983, Flowering Trees and Shrubs in India, D.V. Cowen

University Press

Oxford University Press, the publishing house of the University of Oxford

Wellington House

Several of the writers agreed to write pamphlets and books that would promote the government's point of view; these were printed and published by such well-known publishers as Hodder & Stoughton, Methuen, Oxford University Press, John Murray, Macmillan and Thomas Nelson.

Wm. Stage

His photographs have appeared in multiple works, including the cover photograph on the Oxford University Press book, For the Common Good (2002).

Yoshida Doctrine

The Political Economy of South-East Asia: An Introduction. Melbourne: Oxford University Press.


Albertoyos

As a school textbook illustrator he has worked for many publishers, both Spanish (Edelvives, Santillana, Anaya, Bruño, ESC, Almadraba, Richmond...) and international (Macmillan, Oxford University Press, Pearson Education, Kumon, Disney...).

Applied Radiochemistry

Applied Radiochemistry was an important collection of lectures by German chemist Otto Hahn published in English in 1936 by the Cornell University Press (Ithaca, New York) and simultaneously by the Oxford University Press (London).

Bible translations into Icelandic

Both the 1863 and 1866 editions were printed by the "Brit. Bible Soc." at Oxford, and this seems to be the translation in the illustrated New Testament of the Scripture Gift Mission in 1903 (London & Akureyri).

Center for Science and Culture

In 2004 Barbara Forrest and Paul R. Gross published Creationism's Trojan Horse: The Wedge of Intelligent Design documenting the history of the intelligent design movement and the DI's Center for Science and Culture as well as critiquing the ID "research"(Oxford University Press).

Central European Labour Studies Institute

Books authored or edited by CELSI researchers have been published by renowned international publishers, including Palgrave, Edward Elgar, or Springer; book chapters appeared in edited volumes published by Oxford University Press.

Chad Van Dixhoorn

Chad Van Dixhoorn, a Canadian-born Reformed theologian and historian, is the editor of the five-volume The Minutes and Papers of the Westminster Assembly: 1643-1652 published by Oxford University Press in 2012.

Christian Ziegler

He is known for a photograph of a coffee table which he took for the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and a forest in Barro Colorado Island which was used in a science book called A Magic Web, published by Oxford University Press in 2002.

Citator

Although originally distributed only as printed and bound volumes, citators are now typically on-line services such as LexisNexis's online Shepard's Citations, Justis Publishing's provider-neutral JustCite, Westlaw's KeyCite and the Oxford Law Citator of Oxford University Press.

Errors and Expectations

Mina Shaughnessy’s Errors and Expectations: A Guide for the Teacher of Basic Writing, published in 1977 by Oxford University Press, was the first book-length investigation of writing problems experienced by under-prepared college freshmen.

Facepalm

According to Oxford University Press lexicographer Susie Dent, this versatility is one of the reasons that the word has been linguistically "successful".

Harris Khalique

Khalique is a poet and writes in both Urdu and English; his poetry appears in anthologies published by University of Georgia Press, W.W. Norton and Co. and Oxford University Press and on the web.

Helen Wallace

Dame Helen Wallace serves as editor of the One Europe or Several? and New Europe series published by Palgrave Macmillan and as co-editor of the New European Politics series published by Oxford University Press.

Jennifer Dawson

Following the completion of her studies, she worked as a teacher at a convent in Laval in France and later at Oxford University Press where she made editorial contributions to a number of reference works.

Jogajog

The novel was translated by Supriya Chaudhuri (Oxford University Press, 2006) as part of the Oxford Tagore Translations.

Jonathan Steinberg

He was co-editor of The Historical Journal, Cambridge University Press, from 1990 to 2000 and his biography Bismarck: A Life was published by Oxford University Press in early April, 2011.

Julian Coolidge

L. Coolidge (1949) The Mathematics Of Great Amateurs, Oxford University Press (Dover Publications 1963).

L. Coolidge (1931) A Treatise on Algebraic Plane Curves, Oxford University Press (Dover Publications 2004).

Lenos Trigeorgis

With Michael Brennan, he edited Project Flexibility, Agency, and Competition (Oxford University Press, 1999), and, with Eduardo Schwartz, Real Options and Investment Under Uncertainty (MIT Press, 2001).

Louis Tromelin

Maude, H.E., (1968) Of Islands and Men: Studies in Pacific History, Melbourne: Oxford University Press

Malcolm Saville

Saville's writing career, from 1943 to 1982, was a diversion from his working life that began at Oxford University Press then continued as a publicist with Cassell & Co. (now part of Orion Books), Associated Press, and George Newnes.

Orin Hargraves

In addition he has contributed definitions and other material to dictionaries and other language reference works issued by Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Longman, Macmillan, HarperCollins, Chambers Harrap, Langenscheidt, Berlitz, Scholastic Corporation, and Merriam-Webster, among others.

Raymond Wacks

His major works include: The Protection of Privacy published in 1980 by Sweet & Maxwell, Personal Information: Privacy and the Law, published in 1989 by Oxford University Press, Privacy, a two-volume collection of essays published in 1993 by Dartmouth, London and New York University Press, and Privacy and Press Freedom published by Blackstone Press, London in 1995.

Richard Platt

Since then, Richard Platt has gone on to complete some 60 more books for UK publishers Oxford University Press, Kingfisher, Dorling Kindersley and Walker Books (Candlewick Press in the U.S.).

Sir Charles Willink, 2nd Baronet

His publications include an Oxford University Press edition of Orestes by Euripides with commentary, and numerous journal articles and reviews.

The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham

The series was published from 1968 until 1981 by the Athlone Press (the University of London's publishing house); and since 1983 by Oxford University Press under its Clarendon Press imprint.

While

Practical English Usage by Michael Swan (OUP), a reference book for intermediate and advanced learners of English, does not include whilst but has several sections covering the usage of while.