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The Movement: The African American Struggle for Civil Rights
$20.99 Add to cartThe civil rights movement was among the most important historical developments of the twentieth century and one of the most remarkable mass movements in American history. Not only did it decisively ch… [more below]
- Author: Holt, Thomas C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 28 2021
- ISBN10: 0197525792
- Language: English
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Chemistry: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartMost people remember chemistry from their schooldays as largely incomprehensible, a subject that was fact-rich but understanding-poor, smelly, and so far removed from the real world of events and plea… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Atkins, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0199683972
- Language: English
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The Welfare State: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartWelfare states vary across nations and change over time. And the balance between markets and government; free enterprise and social protection is perennially in question. But all developed societies h… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Garland, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: June 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0199672660
- Language: English
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Liberalism: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartLiberalism is one of the most central and pervasive political theories and ideologies, yet it is subject to different interpretations as well as misappropriations. Its history carries a crucial herita… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Freeden, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0199670439
- Language: English
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Environmental Law: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartEnvironmental law is the law concerned with environmental problems. It is a vast area of law that operates from the local to the global, involving a range of different legal and regulatory techniques…. [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Fisher, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0198794185
- Language: English
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Miss Julie and Other Plays
$10.95 Add to cartThis edition embraces Strindberg’s crucial transition from Naturalism to Modernism, from his two finest achievements as a psychological realist, The Father and Miss Julie, to the three plays in which … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Strindberg, August
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199538042
- Language: English
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World Music: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe term ‘world music’ encompasses both folk and popular music across the globe, as well as the sounds of cultural encounter and diversity, sacred voices raised in worship, local sounds, and universal… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Bohlman, Philip V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0198829140
- Language: English
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The Conquistadors
$12.99 Add to cartWith startling speed, Spanish conquistadors invaded hundreds of Native American kingdoms, took over the mighty empires of the Aztecs and Incas, and initiated an unprecedented redistribution of the wor… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Restall, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 24 2012
- ISBN10: 0195392299
- Language: English
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Politics: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartIn A Very Short Introduction to Politics, Kenneth Minogue begins with a discussion of issues arising from a historical account of politics, and goes on to offer chapters dealing with the Ancient Greek… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Minogue, Kenneth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 15 2000
- ISBN10: 0192853880
- Language: English
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War and Technology: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe war instinct is part of human nature, but the means to fight war depend on technology. Alex Roland traces the co-evolution of technology and warfare from the Stone Age to the age of cyberwar, desc… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Roland, Alex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: October 03 2016
- ISBN10: 0190605383
- Language: English
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Selected Poems
$13.95 Add to cartVerlaine ranks alongside Baudelaire, Mallarmé, and Rimbaud as one of the most influential poets of late nineteenth-century France. Remarkable not only for his exquisitely crafted verse, Verlaine is a… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Verlaine, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199554013
- Language: English
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Pandemics: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe 2014 Ebola epidemic demonstrated the power of pandemics and their ability not only to destroy lives locally but also to capture the imagination and terrify the world. Christian W. McMillen provide… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: McMillen, Christian W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: December 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0199340072
- Language: English
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Topology: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartHow is a subway map different from other maps? What makes a knot knotted? What makes the Mî’Šius strip one-sided? These are questions of topology, the mathematical study of properties preserved by twi… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Earl, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: February 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0198832680
- Language: English
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Exploration: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartWe live in an age of globalization on every conceivable level, but globalization has a deeper history than politicians and pundits often allow, and nothing is more significant to its history than expl… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Weaver, Stewart A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: January 20 2015
- ISBN10: 0199946957
- Language: English
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African Religions
$12.99 Add to cartWhat are African religions? African Religions: A Very Short Introduction answers this question by examining primarily indigenous religious traditions on the African continent, as well as exploring Chr… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Olupona, Jacob K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 14 2014
- ISBN10: 0199790582
- Language: English
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The Devil: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe Devil has fascinated Christians since the time of the New Testament, and inspired many haunting works of art. This Very Short Introduction looks at the Devil in the history of ideas and in the liv… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Oldridge, Darren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: June 18 2012
- ISBN10: 0199580995
- Language: English
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Animal Rights: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThis volume provides a general overview of the basic ethical and philosophical issues of animal rights. It asks questions such as: Do animals have moral rights? If so, what does this mean? What sorts … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions #57
- Author: DeGrazia, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 16 2002
- ISBN10: 0192853600
- Language: English
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Kant: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartImmanuel Kant is arguably the most influential modern philosopher, but is also one of the most difficult. In this illuminating Very Short Introduction, Roger Scruton–a well-known and controversial ph… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions #50
- Author: Scruton, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: December 06 2001
- ISBN10: 0192801996
- Language: English
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Modern War
$12.99 Add to cartWarfare is the most dangerous threat faced by modern humanity. It is also one of the key influences that has shaped the politics, economics, and society of modern times. But what do we mean by modern … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: English, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0199607893
- Language: English
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Astrobiology: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartAstrobiology is an exciting new subject, and one, arguably, more interdisciplinary than any other. Astrobiologists seek to understand the origin and evolution of life on Earth in order to illuminate a… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Catling, David C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0199586454
- Language: English
