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Trusted by teachers, loved by children, Let’s Go 5th Edition is packed with exciting new features and content. Now get everything you need to teach with the new edition in one special pack. On sale for a limited time on our website. Learn more

Who We Are and How We Got Here is a gripping account, from the head of a world-leading lab, of the picture of human history and ancestry emerging from the revolution in the study of ancient DNA.. New in paperback. Learn more

Thanks to all who took part in this year's Oxford Big Read. Out of hundreds of fantastic entries, 4 National Prize winners and 4 runners-up were chosen. See this year's winners and honorable mentions here.

This annual workshop series is for teachers of young learners who wish to improve their teaching skills. Bestselling authors and teacher trainers will provide practical workshops with fresh ideas to use in your classroom. In 2019, we will be visiting 12 cities around Japan. Please click here for registration and information.

The 2018 European Society for the Study of English (ESSE) Book Prize for Literature in the English Language has been awarded to Catherine Maxwell for her illuminating monograph Scents and Sensibility: Perfume in Victorian Literary Culture. Read the review on the ESSE Book Awards website.

We are pleased to announce that select Oxford Reading Tree audio tracks are now available for streaming from the end of August 2018, replacing file downloads. Streaming allows you to play media on any device with an internet connection, in real time, and without using disk space. We hope you enjoy using it. 

From Oxford Bookworms to Dominoes to Read and Discover, our latest catalogue offers a range of carefully graded titles to engage every interest and English level. Available in Japanese, click here to download the catalogue.

The VSI catalogue has been updated for the first time in one and half years, with upcoming titles added. A5, 96pp. In order to request copies, please contact us at ag.japan@oupcom including the catalogue number JP001074, your full name, shipping address, phone number and the number of copies you wish to have.

The author of Supporting Learners with Dyslexia in the ELT Classroom (Oxford University Press 2017), Michele Daloiso was awarded the 2017 Ben Warren-International House Trust Prize. This biennial award is given to the author or authors of the most outstanding work in the field of language teacher education. Daloiso teaches English and Italian language at Ca’ Foscari University in Venice and is the director of the DEAL Research Group, which investigates innovative language teaching methodologies for students with learning differences. 

What were the most popular OUP books among scholars and general readers in Japan for 2017? Check out our bestseller list, including titles on Japan and long-selling higher education textbooks. View the full list.​

Two scholars of Japanese history and culture who publish from OUP happen to be in Tokyo to give talks based on their recent books.

Akiko Hashimoto (Visiting Professor of Sociology and Asian Studies at Portland State University, and Faculty Fellow of Yale University's Center for Cultural Sociology) is invited by the Institute of Contemporary Asian Studies (ICAS) at Temple University’s Japan Campus to give a talk titled Something Dreadful Happened in the Past: Generational Memory of War and Peace in Japan in the evening of 9th November. The talk will be based on her book, The Long Defeat: Cultural Trauma, Memory and Identity in Japan, published by OUP in 2015. The book won the 2016 Scholarly Achievement Award of the North Central Sociological Association, and has recently been translated into Japanese (Nihon no Nagai Sengo, Misuzu Shobō Publishers, 2017). Details of this lecture may be found on this page of the Temple University Japan Campus website.

On the 25th of November, Helen Hardacre (Reischauer Institute Professor of Japanese Religions and Society at Harvard University) will give a special public lecture titled Current Issues in English-Language Studies of Shinto based on her book, Shinto: A History, published by OUP in 2016, during an event commemorating the 10th anniversary of the Organization for the Advancement of Research and Development at Kokugakuin University. She will also be one of the panelists in a one-day forum titled How Do We Teach About Japanese Religions?, organized by Kokugakuin’s Institute for Japanese Culture and Classics, to be held on the following day. Both events will be held at the University’s Shibuya campus. Seats are limited and pre-registration is required. Please click here for more information about the lecture and here for more information about the forum.

Richard Dawkins' The Selfish Gene, published by OUP, has been voted the most influential science book of all time in a public poll held by the Royal Society to celebrate 30 years of their book awards. Second place was awarded to Bill Bryson for A Short History of Nearly Everything, followed closely by Charles Darwin' s On the Origin of Species. For more details, please visit the Royal Society website.

The Oxford Companion to Cheese has won the 2017 James Beard Book Award for Reference and Scholarship. The Companion contains 855 A-Z entries on cheese history, culture, science, and production. This is the second year in a row OUP has won a Beard award, with last year’s The Oxford Companion to Wine winning in the Beverage category. The awards are presented by the Beard Foundation for excellence in cuisine, culinary writing, and culinary education in the United States.

Limits to Globalization: The Disruptive Geographies of Capitalist Development by Eric Sheppard, Alexander von Humboldt Chair, UCLA, received the Meridian Book Award for Outstanding Scholarly Work in Geography awarded by the American Association of Geographers (AAG). The AAG awards the annual prize for a book that makes an unusually important contribution to advancing the science and art of geography, written or co-authored by a geographer published in the previous calendar year.

The Say It: Pronunciation from Oxford app has won the 2016 ESU (English Speaking Union) President's Award in the category of new technology in English language teaching. This app improves pronunciation and fluency using content from OUP's dictionaries. You can listen to 30,000 model recordings, record yourself and compare your pronunciation both by listening and by visually comparing the audio waves. This visual recognition helps students understand key sounds. Learn more about the award.

'Post-truth', an adjective defined as 'relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief' was named Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year 2016. This word appeared frequently this year in the context of the EU referendum in the UK and the presidential election in the US. Please click here for more details.

Sherlock Holmes: The Speckled Band, from the Dominoes series published by Oxford University Press, was selected as the winner of the 2016 Language Learner Literature Award in the Adolescent & Adult: Beginner Category. Every year the Extensive Reading Foundation recognizes the best new works of language learner literature in English and awards winners in 6 categories. Also selected as a finalist this year was 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, from the Oxford Bookworms Library, in the Adolescent & Adult Intermediate Category. Learn more here.

Due to a recent security release from Adobe Flash Player, all iTools products require an update to function properly. If you are currently using any iTools, please click here to download your iTools update. You will find a file to download and install on your computer as well as step-by-step instructions to help you. If you experience any issues while installing this update, or after the installation, please get in touch with us by email at eltsupport@oup.com or by phone at +44 (0)1865 910007.  We sincerely apologise for any inconvenience.

OUP was named Publisher of the Year at the annual APS (Academic, Professional and Specialist) Awards, held at Wotton House in Surrey on the 17th of March. Scott Hamilton, APS committee chairman and head of retail sales for Blackwell’s, said: "This year’s winners demonstrate the level of talent, innovation and drive that is so prevalent across our industry. And the fact that each category was such a close call—with so many nominees receiving high marks from the judges—is testament to the academic publishing sector." Please click here for more details.

A pictograph was named the Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year for the first time ever. Each year Oxford Dictionaries selects a word or expression that reflects the ethos, mood, or preoccupations of that particular year. This year Oxford University Press have partnered with leading mobile technology business SwiftKey to explore frequency and usage statistics for some of the most popular emoji across the world, and the ‘Face with Tears of Joy’ emoji was chosen because it was the most used emoji globally in 2015. Please click here for more details.

OUP was commissioned by Otsu City Board of Education in Shiga as their partner in a project to research and develop an ICT-based teaching methodology for their Foreign Language Activities classes. OUP will provide ELT materials along with a customised curriculum, lesson plans and extensive teacher training programme to enable all homeroom teachers in the city's 37 elementary schools to conduct English lessons with confidence and improve student proficiency. Please click here for more details.

Henry Widdowson, a world-renowned linguist and ELT expert, was awarded theELTons 2015 British Council Lifetime Achievement Award. This award is one of the most prestigious in English Language Teaching and awarded to an ELT professional who has made a significant contribution to the field throughout his/her career. Mr Widdowson is a former series advisor of Oxford Applied Linguistics, series editor ofOxford Introductions to Language Study and series advisor for the Oxford Bookworms Collection, as well as author of Teaching Language as Communication.

OUP author Marina Warner (Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford) has been named 2015 laureate of the Holberg Prize, the largest annual international prize awarded to outstanding researchers in the arts and humanities, social science, law, or theology. Warner, whose most recent work Once Upon a Time: A Short History of Fairy Talewas published by OUP in October, received the honour for her analysis of stories and myths and how they reflect their time and place. This title has also received the Anne Izard Storytellers' Choice Award, which highlights and promotes distinguished titles published in the field of storytelling.

Classical Studies author Robert L. Fowler (Henry Overton Wills Professor of Greek, University of Bristol) was awarded the Society for Classical Studies' highly esteemedCharles J. Goodwin Award of Merit for his 2013 book, Early Greek Mythography: Volume 2: Commentary. The work was published as the companion volume to his previous publication, Early Greek Mythography: Volume 1: Text and Introduction, which was released in 2001. According to the judging panel, the book'leaves us with a truly three-dimensional view of the landscape we have lost,' and that'it might well be the new model for reconstructive commentaries of our century'.