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Memories of Socrates: Memorabilia and Apology
$12.95 Add to cart‘Who would you say knows himself?’
In 399 BCE Socrates was tried in Athens on charges of irreligion and corruption of the young, convicted, and sentenced to death. Like Plato, an almost exact contempo- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Xenophon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 23 2023
- ISBN10: 0198856091
- Language: English
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The Jungle Books
$8.94 Add to cartThe Jungle Books, regarded as classic stories told by an adult to children and best known for the “Mowgli” series, also constitutes a complex literary work of art in which the whole of Kipling’s phil… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Kipling, Rudyard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199536457
- Language: English
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Samuel Johnson: The Major Works
$16.95 Add to cartSamuel Johnson’s literary reputation rests on such a varied output that he defies easy description: poet, critic, lexicographer, travel writer, essayist, editor, and, thanks to his good friend Boswell… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Johnson, Samuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 880
- Publish Date: April 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199538336
- Language: English
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Sustainability: What Everyone Needs to Know(r)
$18.95 Add to cartWhile politicians, entrepreneurs, and even school children could tell you that sustainability is an important and nearly universal value, many of them, and many of us, may struggle to define the term,… [more below]
- Series: What Everyone Needs to Know
- Author: Thompson, Paul B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0190883235
- Language: English
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Braddock’s Defeat: The Battle of the Monongahela and the Road to Revolution
$21.99 Add to cartOn July 9, 1755, British regulars and American colonial troops under the command of General Edward Braddock, commander in chief of the British Army in North America, were attacked by French and Native… [more below]
- Series: Pivotal Moments in American History
- Author: Preston, David L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: December 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0190658517
- Language: English
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Dead Souls: A Poem
$13.95 Read moreGogol’s tale of a dismissed civil servant turned unscrupulous confidence man is the most essentially Russian of all the great novels in Russian literature. With its rich and ebullient language, ironic… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Gogol, Nikolai Vasilyevich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: August 03 2009
- ISBN10: 0199554668
- Language: English
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Moll Flanders
$10.95 Add to cartA tour-de-force of writing by Daniel Defoe, this extraordinary novel tells the vivid and racy tale of a woman’s experience in the seamy side of life in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century E… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Defoe, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 15 2011
- ISBN10: 0192805355
- Language: English
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The Changing Face of Antisemitism: From Ancient Times to the Present Day
$19.98 Add to cartFor thirty years the director of the Wiener Library in London–the leading institute for the study of anti-Semitism–Walter Laqueur here offers both a comprehensive history of anti-Semitism as well as… [more below]
- Author: Laqueur, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 30 2008
- ISBN10: 019534121X
- Language: English
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Social Psychology: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartSocial psychology is about the people who populate our everyday lives, and how they affect our “personal universe”, defining who we are, and shaping our behavior, beliefs, attitudes, and ideology. In … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Crisp, Richard J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 01 2015
- ISBN10: 019871551X
- Language: English
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The Nature of the Gods
$13.95 Add to cartCicero’s philosophical works are now exciting renewed interest and more generous appreciation, in part because they provide vital evidence of the views of the (largely lost) Greek philosophers of the … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Cicero
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540063
- Language: English
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Sociology: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartDrawing on studies of social class, crime and deviance, education, work in bureaucracies and changes in religious and political organizations, this Very Short Introduction explores the tension between… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Bruce, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: November 27 2018
- ISBN10: 0198822960
- Language: English
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Tales of the Elders of Ireland
$14.95 Add to cartTales of the Elders of Ireland is the first complete translation of the late Middle-Irish Acallam na Sen?ach, the largest literary text surviving from twelfth-century Ireland. It contains the earliest… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Dooley, Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199549850
- Language: English
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Journalism: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartJournalism entered the twenty-first century caught in a paradox. The world had more journalism, across a wider range of media, than at any time since the birth of the western free press in the eightee… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Hargreaves, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0199686874
- Language: English
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Outlines of the Philosophy of Right
$19.95 Add to cartHegel’s Outlines of the Philosophy of Right is one of the greatest works of moral, social, and political philosophy. It contains significant ideas on justice, moral responsibility, family life, econom… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Hegel, G. W. F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: August 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0192806106
- Language: English
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Notebooks
$12.95 Add to cartMost of what we know about Leonardo da Vinci, we know because of his notebooks. Some 6,000 sheets of notes and drawings survive, perhaps one-fifth of what he actually produced. With an artist’s eye an… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Leonardo Da Vinci
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 11 2008
- ISBN10: 0199299021
- Language: English
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The Belly of Paris
$12.95 Add to cartUnjustly deported to Devil’s Island following Louis-Napoleon’s coup-d’?tat in December 1851, Florent Quenu escapes and returns to Paris. He finds the city changed beyond recognition. The old March? de… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Zola, ?mile
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 28 2009
- ISBN10: 0199555842
- Language: English
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The U.S. Navy: A Concise History
$20.99 Add to cartThis fast-paced narrative traces the emergence of the United States Navy as a global power from its birth during the American Revolution through to its current superpower status. The story highlights … [more below]
- Author: Symonds, Craig L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: November 30 2015
- ISBN10: 0199394946
- Language: English
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The Kill: La Curee
$15.95 Add to cartThe Kill (La Cur馥) is the second volume in Zola’s great cycle of twenty novels, Les Rougon-Macquart, and the first to establish Paris – the capital of modernity – as the centre of Zola’s narrative w… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Zola, Émile
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199536929
- Language: English
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The Taming of the Shrew: Oxford School Shakespeare
$12.99 Add to cartThis edition of The Taming of the Shrew is especially designed for students, with accessible on-page notes and explanatory illustrations, clear background information, and rigorous but accessible scho… [more below]
- Series: Oxford School Shakespeare
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: December 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0198392230
- Language: English
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The Rise of Rome: Books One to Five
$14.95 Add to cart“The fates ordained the founding of this great city and the beginning of the world’s mightiest empire, second only to the power of the gods”
Romulus and Remus, the rape of Lucretia, Horatius at the br- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Livy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0199540047
- Language: English
