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The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals
$12.95 Add to cartDorothy Wordsworth’s journals are a unique record of her life with her brother William, at the time when he was at the height of his poetic powers. Invaluable for the insight they give into the daily … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Wordsworth, Dorothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199536872
- Language: English
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Scepticism: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThroughout history scepticism and the urge to question accepted truths has been a powerful force for change and growth. Today, as we are bombarded by adverts, scientific studies praising the latest su… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Pritchard, Duncan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: December 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0198829167
- Language: English
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The Ladies’ Paradise
$13.95 Add to cartThe Ladies Paradise (Au Bonheur des Dames), now a TV series called The Paradise based on this classic novel, recounts the rise of the modern department store in late nineteenth-century Paris. The stor… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Zola, ?mile
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199536902
- Language: English
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Documentary Film: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartDocumentary film can encompass anything from Robert Flaherty’s pioneering ethnography Nanook of the North to Michael Moore’s anti-Iraq War polemic Fahrenheit 9/11, from Dziga Vertov’s artful Soviet pr… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Aufderheide, Patricia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 28 2007
- ISBN10: 0195182707
- Language: English
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Napoleon: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThis Very Short Introduction might prove disappointing to those expecting an introduction to a very short man. Dispelling the myth of Napoleon Bonaparte’s short stature, as well as the other rumors an… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Bell, David A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 09 2018
- ISBN10: 0199321663
- Language: English
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Anselm of Canterbury: The Major Works
$14.95 Add to cartAlthough utterly convinced of the truth of Christianity, Anselm of Canterbury struggled to make sense of his religion. He considered the doctrines of faith an invitation to question, to think, and to … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Anselm, St
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: July 15 2008
- ISBN10: 019954008X
- Language: English
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Discourses on Livy
$12.95 Add to cartDiscourses on Livy, written in 1531, is as essential to an understanding of Machiavelli as his famous treatise, The Prince. Equally controversial, it reveals his fundamental preference for a republica… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Machiavelli, Niccolo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199555559
- Language: English
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Federalism: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartEarly Americans were suspicious of centralized authority and executive power. Casting away the yoke of England and its king, the founding fathers shared in this distrust as they set out to pen the Con… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Rozell, Mark J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 29 2019
- ISBN10: 0190900059
- Language: English
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Antigone, Oedipus the King, Electra
$9.94 Add to cartThis volume of Antigone, Oedipus the King, Electra contains three masterpieces by the Greek playwright Sophocles, widely regarded since antiquity as the greatest of all the tragic poets. The vivid tra… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Sophocles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0199537178
- Language: English
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Selected Poetry
$11.95 Add to cartThomas Hardy is among the best-loved of the great English poets, perhaps drawing his great popularity from the elegaic tone of much of his finest verse and the universality of his subject matter: birt… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Hardy, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 25 2009
- ISBN10: 0199538506
- Language: English
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Oxford Modern English Grammar
$36.99 Add to cartWritten by Bas Aarts, one of Britain’s leading grammarians, Oxford Modern English Grammar is a brand new and definitive guide to English grammar. This indispensable handbook covers both British and Am… [more below]
- Author: Aarts, Bas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 22 2011
- ISBN10: 0199533199
- Language: English
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Jewish History: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartHow have the Jews survived? For millennia, they have defied odds by overcoming the travails of exile, persecution, and recurring plans for their annihilation. Many have attempted to explain this singu… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Myers, David N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: May 16 2017
- ISBN10: 0199730989
- Language: English
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Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartHow ought we to live? What really exists? How do we know? This Very Short Introduction discusses some of the key questions philosophy engages with. Edward Craig explores important themes in ethics, an… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Craig, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: December 01 2020
- ISBN10: 019886177X
- Language: English
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Pamela; Or, Virtue Rewarded
$9.94 Add to cartOne of the most spectacular successes of the flourishing literary marketplace of eighteenth-century London, Pamela also marked a defining moment in the emergence of the modern novel. In the words of o… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Richardson, Samuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 019953649X
- Language: English
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Nazi Germany: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartAny consideration of the 20th century would be incomplete without a discussion of Nazi Germany, an extraordinary regime which dominated European history for 12 years, and left a legacy that still echo… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Caplan, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0198706952
- Language: English
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Far from the Madding Crowd
$8.94 Add to cartGabriel Oak is only one of three suitors for the hand of the beautiful and spirited Bathsheba Everdene. He must compete with the dashing young soldier Sergeant Troy and the respectable, middle-aged Fa… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Hardy, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: October 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199537011
- Language: English
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Christian Ethics: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartChristian ethics, writes theologian D. Stephen Long, is the pursuit of God’s goodness by people “on the way” to a city not built by human hands. The cultivation of practical wisdom that comes from div… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Long, D. Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: October 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0199568863
- Language: English
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Mathematical Analysis: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, sharp, inspiring
The 17th-century calculus of Newton and Leibniz was built on shaky foundations, and it wasn’t until the 18th and 19th centuries that mathematician- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Earl, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 22 2023
- ISBN10: 019886891X
- Language: English
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Greek Lives
$13.95 Add to cart“I treat the narrative of the Lives as a kind of mirror…The experience is like nothing so much as spending time in their company and living with them: I receive and welcome each of them in turn as m… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Plutarch
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: April 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0199540055
- Language: English
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Philosophical Enquiry Sublime and Beautiful
$15.95 Add to cartPaul Guyer conducts the reader through Burke’s ‘Enquiry’, focusing on its place in the history of aesthetics and highlighting its innovations, as well as its influence on many subsequent authors from … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Burke
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 154
- Publish Date: March 01 2015
- ISBN10: 019966871X
- Language: English
