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• Tri Delta Announces Partnership with Oxford University Press to Print Manuals for Reflections: Sorority Body Image Program

  - 2008-06-26

  ARLINGTON, Texas -- Delta Delta Delta, a leader among social Greek organizations, is proud to announce its partnership with Oxford University Press to print 20,000 participant manuals for Reflections: Sorority Body Image Program. Tri Delta co-developed Reflections with Carolyn Becker, Ph.D., FAED, of Trinity University, and the local sororities on...

  Tags: Delta, FINANCE, Leadership, partnership, University of Oxford, women

• Easeful Death: Is There a Case for Assisted Dying?

  - 2008-06-22

  Warnock, Mary & Elisabeth Macdonald. Easeful Death: Is There a Case for Assisted Dying? New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 2008; 800-451-7556. In the British Parliament there were three attempts in 2003, 2004, and 2005, to legalize assisted death for those who request it and who are terminally ill....

  Tags: Leadership, suicide, University of Oxford

• Essinger, James. Jacquard's web; how a hand loom led to the birth of the Information Age

  - 2007-11-01

  ESSINGER, James. Jacquard's web; how a hand loom led to the birth of the Information Age. Oxford University Press. 302p. illus. bibliog, index, c2004. 978-0-19-280578-2. $16.95. A This piquantly titled book indeed speaks to a great truth unknown to nearly everyone except the super-techies of the computer world: the...

  Tags: computer, Leadership, Manufacturing, MARKETING, PRODUCTIVITY, University of Oxford, Web

• Books received.(Bibliography)

  - 2007-07-01

  Artha: Meaning. By Jonardon Ganeri. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. ix + 258. Hardcover Rs 920.00. Buddhism in the Public Square: Reorienting Global Interdependence. By Peter D. Hershock. London and New York: Routledge, 2006. Pp. x + 229. Price not...

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• Prominent NUS members back Jon Cruddas for Deputy Leader.

  - 2007-06-07

  LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM, Jun 7, 2007 CCNMatthews via COMTEX -- Prominent education activists have signed a letter backing Jon Cruddas for Deputy Leader. The list includes Gemma Tumelty, NUS President, who has lent her personal support to Jon, and Fiona Millar, the education expert....

  Tags: Chair, education, leader, Leadership, officer, University of Oxford

• Cameron 'smoked cannabis' claim DRUGS: NEW ALLEGATIONS DRUGS: NEW

  - 2007-02-11

  DAVID CAMERON is facing fresh allegations of drugtaking after reports emerged he smoked cannabis when studying at Eton. A Sunday newspaper has reported today that school authorities called in police after suspicions that pupils had smoked the drug. Cameron, then 15, was confined to school grounds...

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• Oxonica Receives Double Honors at Small Times "Best of Small Tech" Awards

  - 2006-09-29

  OXFORD, England -- Oxonica plc (AIM:OXN), a leading international nanotechnology group, today announced that is has been honored in two categories of the Small Times Magazine Best of Small Tech Awards, conferred today at the NanoCon conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. Michael Natan, Ph.D., President of Oxonica Inc., was named...

  Tags: CEO, leader, Leadership, Nanotechnology, president, technology, University of Oxford

• Roger Williams

  - 2006-03-22

  Roger Williams. By Edwin S. Gaustad. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. 150 pp. Over one hundred years before the American Constitution, the First Amendment, Thomas Jefferson or James Madison, and long before Jefferson coined the phrase, "wall of separation between church and state," Roger Williams pioneered...

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• Books received

  - 2005-12-18

  Heirs of the Fisherman: Behind the Scenes of Papal Death and Succession by John Peter-Pham, New York, Oxford University press, 368 pp 2004 Unfortunately the timing of this book was less than serendipitous. Nevertheless Pham gives us a Vatican insider's look at papal succession-and papal politics. Mary Magdalene: A...

  Tags: Books, church, Leadership, Strategy, succession, University of Oxford

• Defending the faith

  - 2005-11-01

  In Defence of Christianity. Brian Hebblethwaite. Oxford University Press. [pounds sterling]16.99. x + 183 pages. ISBN 0-19-27679-X. Reason is not the basis of faith, says the author, but his aim is 'to set out some of the reasoning that can be used in support of the Christian faith'. This...

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