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Trigonometry: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartBorn of the desire to understand the workings of motions of the heavenly bodies, trigonometry gave the ancient Greeks the ability to predict their futures. Most of what we see of the subject in school… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Van Brummelen, Glen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 02 2020
- ISBN10: 0198814313
- Language: English
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The Highwayman
$15.99 Read more“The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor,
In Alfred Noyes’s thrilling poem, charged wi
And the highwayman came riding-
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The highwayman came riding, up to the old inn-door.”- Author: Noyes, Alfred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: March 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0192794426
- Language: English
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Emotion: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartWas love invented by European poets in the Middle Ages or is it part of human nature? Will winning the lottery really make you happy? Is it possible to build robots that have feelings?
In this Very Sh- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Evans, Dylan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: December 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0198834403
- Language: English
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Cecilia, or Memoirs of an Heiress
$15.95 Add to cartCecilia is an heiress, but she can only keep her fortune if her husband will consent to take her surname. Fanny Burney’s unusual love story and deft social satire was much admired on its first publica… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Burney, Frances
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1056
- Publish Date: January 15 2009
- ISBN10: 019955238X
- Language: English
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The Antiquary
$15.95 Add to cartThe Antiquary, Scott’s personal favorite among his novels, is characteristically wry and urbane. A mysterious young man calling himself ‘Lovel’ travels idly but fatefully toward the Scottish seaside t… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Scott, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: July 26 2009
- ISBN10: 0199555710
- Language: English
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Under the Greenwood Tree
$11.95 Add to cart“Miss Fancy Day; as neat a little figure of fun as ever I see, and just husband-high.”
One of the most popular of Hardy’s novels, Under the Greenwood Tree is a delightful and humorous depiction of lif- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Hardy, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 19 2013
- ISBN10: 0199697205
- Language: English
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Geography: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThis Very Short Introduction answers four basic questions: what is Geography, how do geographers work, why is Geography important, and where is the discipline of Geography heading? Geography has alway… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Matthews, John A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: July 20 2008
- ISBN10: 0199211280
- Language: English
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Ruth
$10.95 Add to cartElizabeth Gaskell’s Ruth (1853) was the first mainstream novel to make a fallen woman its eponymous heroine. It is a remarkable story of love, of the sanctuary and tyranny of the family, and of the co… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Gaskell, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 15 2011
- ISBN10: 0199581959
- Language: English
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The Odd Women
$14.95 Add to cartA novel of social realism, The Odd Women reflects the major sexual and cultural issues of the late nineteenth century. Unlike the “New Woman” novels of the era which challenged the idea that the unmar… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Gissing, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: December 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199538301
- Language: English
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Agnosticism: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartWhat is agnosticism? Is it a belief, or merely the absence of belief? Is it the result of too little thought about an issue–or too much? Who were the first to call themselves “agnostics”? Does agnost… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Le Poidevin, Robin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: November 19 2010
- ISBN10: 0199575266
- Language: English
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Work: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe image of a job captures our imagination from an early age, usually prompted by the question ‘What do you want to be when you grow up?’. Work — paid, unpaid, voluntary, or obligatory — is woven i… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Fineman, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: December 02 2012
- ISBN10: 0199699364
- Language: English
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The Computer: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartWhat is the basic nature of the modern computer? How does it work? How has it been possible to squeeze so much power into increasingly smaller machines? What will the next generations of computers loo… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Ince, Darrel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: December 17 2011
- ISBN10: 0199586594
- Language: English
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The History of King Lear: The Oxford Shakespearethe History of King Lear
$10.95 Add to cartKing Lear, widely considered Shakespeare’s most deeply moving, passionately expressed, and intellectually ambitious play, has almost always been edited from the revised version printed in the First Fo… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199535825
- Language: English
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The Trojan Women and Other Plays
$11.95 Add to cartThis volume of Euripides’ plays offers new translations of the three great war plays Trojan Women, Hecuba, and Andromache, in which the sufferings of Troy’s survivors are harrowingly depicted. With un… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Euripides
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199538816
- Language: English
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Empire Writing: An Anthology of Colonial Literature 1870-1918
$16.95 Add to cartEmpire Writing is the first anthology to gather together British imperial writing alongside native and settler literature, interweaving short stories, poems, essays, travel writing, and memoirs from t… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Boehmer, Elleke
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: September 28 2009
- ISBN10: 0199555591
- Language: English
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Paperback Oxford Large Print Dictionary
$24.95 Read moreBinding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 08/01/2007
Pages: 1294
Weight: 1.98lbs
Size: 8.52h x 5.38w x 1.98d
ISBN: 9780199216307
Language: English
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- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1294
- Publish Date: August 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0199216304
- Language: English
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Oxford Illustrated Shakespeare Dictionary
$22.99 Add to cartThe Oxford Illustrated Shakespeare Dictionary is the first of its kind, a brand new illustrated alphabetical dictionary of all the words and meanings students of Shakespeare need to know. Every word h… [more below]
- Author: Crystal, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0192737503
- Language: English
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Phaedrus
$10.95 Add to cartPhaedrus is widely recognized as one of Plato’s most profound and beautiful works. It takes the form of a dialogue between Socrates and Phaedrus and its ostensible subject is love, especially homoerot… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Plato
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 31 2009
- ISBN10: 0199554021
- Language: English
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Linguistics: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartLinguistics falls in the gap between arts and science, on the edges of which the most fascinating discoveries and the most important problems are found. Beginning at the ‘arts’ end of the subject with… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Matthews, P. H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: June 26 2003
- ISBN10: 0192801481
- Language: English
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The War of the Worlds
$9.95 Add to cartOne of the most important and influential invasion narratives ever written, The War of the Worlds (1897) describes the coming of the Martians, who land in Woking, and make their way remorselessly towa… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Wells, H. G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 10 2017
- ISBN10: 0198702647
- Language: English
