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Green Tea: And Other Weird Stories
$11.95 Add to cart‘Well, a corpse is a natural thing; but this was the dreadfullest sight I ever sid…’
Sheridan Le Fanu is one of the indispensable figures in the history of Gothic and horror fiction-the most importa- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Le Fanu, J. Sheridan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: August 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0198835884
- Language: English
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The Power Elite
$23.99 Add to cartFirst published in 1956, The Power Elite stands as a contemporary classic of social science and social criticism. C. Wright Mills examines and critiques the organization of power in the United States,… [more below]
- Author: Mills, C. Wright
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 17 2000
- ISBN10: 0195133544
- Language: English
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International Relations: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartInternational relations affects everyone’s lives: their security, economic well-being, rights and freedoms, and the environment they share. Recently we have seen the transformation from a world of emp… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Reus-Smit, Christian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0198850212
- Language: English
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Letters from an American Farmer
$14.95 Add to cartWritten by an emigrant French aristocrat turned farmer, the Letters from an American Farmer (1782) posed the famous question: “What, then, is the American, this new man?”, as a new nation took shape b… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Crèvecoeur, J Hector St John de
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 31 2009
- ISBN10: 0199554749
- Language: English
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City Planning: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartCity planning is a practice and a profession. It is also a set of goals and–sometimes utopian–aspirations. Formal thought about the shaping of cities as physical spaces and social environments calls… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Abbott, Carl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: October 22 2020
- ISBN10: 019094434X
- Language: English
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The History of the World
$53.00 Read moreJ.M. Roberts’s renowned History of the World is widely considered the finest available one-volume survey of the major events, developments, and personalities of the known past, offering generations of… [more below]
- Author: Roberts, J. M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1280
- Publish Date: May 09 2013
- ISBN10: 0199936765
- Language: English
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Socialism: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartWhat is socialism? Does it have a future, or has it become an outdated ideology in the 21st century?
This Very Short Introduction considers the major theories in socialism, and explores its historical- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Newman, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: December 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0198836422
- Language: English
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American Political History: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe Founding Fathers who drafted the United States Constitution in 1787 distrusted political parties, popular democracy, centralized government, and a strong executive office. Yet the country’s nation… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Critchlow, Donald T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: February 11 2015
- ISBN10: 0199340056
- Language: English
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The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World
$23.99 Add to cartPart philosophical meditation, part cultural critique, The Body in Pain is a profoundly original study that has already stirred excitement in a wide range of intellectual circles. The book is an analy… [more below]
- Author: Scarry, Elaine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 385
- Publish Date: April 23 1987
- ISBN10: 0195049969
- Language: English
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Mirabelle Breaks the Rules: Volume 2
$6.99 Add to cartMirabelle’s mum is a witch, her dad is a fairy, and she is a bit of both. When Mirabelle goes off to witch school she promises not to cause any mischief . . . The only trouble is, causing mischief is … [more below]
- Series: Mirabelle
- Author: Muncaster, Harriet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 11 2021
- ISBN10: 0192777548
- Language: English
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Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974
$31.99 Add to cartBeginning in 1945, America rocketed through a quarter-century of extraordinary economic growth, experiencing an amazing boom that soared to unimaginable heights in the 1960s. At one point, in the late… [more below]
- Series: Oxford History of the United States V X
- Author: Patterson, James T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 848
- Publish Date: November 20 1997
- ISBN10: 0195117972
- Language: English
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The Duke’s Children Complete: Extended Edition
$16.95 Add to cartHe was alone in the world, and there was no one of whom he could ask a question.
After the sudden death of his wife, two years after he has left office as Prime Minister, the Duke of Omnium must
become- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Trollope, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: January 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0198835876
- Language: English
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The Enchanted April
$11.95 Read more‘To Those who Appreciate Wistaria and Sunshine. Small medieval castle on the shores of the Mediterranean to be let For the month of April, above a bay on the Italian Riviera.’
Four very different wome- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Von Arnim, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0198859090
- Language: English
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The Histories
$10.95 Add to cart“The father of history,” as Cicero called him, and a writer possessed of remarkable narrative gifts, enormous scope, and considerable charm, Herodotus has always been beloved by readers well-versed in… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Herodotus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 840
- Publish Date: May 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199535663
- Language: English
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The Analects
$10.95 Add to cartFew individuals have shaped their country’s civilization more profoundly than the Master Kong, better-known as Confucius (551-479 BC). His sayings and those of his disciples form the foundation of a d… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Confucius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540616
- Language: English
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
$7.95 Add to cart‘Mr Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!’
The mysterious death of Sir Charles Baskerville brings Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson to Dartmoor in the most famous of all of Arthur Conan Do- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Doyle, Arthur Conan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 09 2023
- ISBN10: 0198835221
- Language: English
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Gulliver’s Travels
$7.95 Add to cartIn Gulliver’s Travels, the narrator represents himself as a reliable reporter of the fantastic adventures he has just experienced. But how far can we rely on a narrator who has been impersonated by so… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Swift, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199536848
- Language: English
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Henry V
$11.99 Add to cartOxford School Shakespeare is an acclaimed edition especially designed for students, with accessible on-page notes and explanatory illustrations, clear background information, and rigorous-but-accessib… [more below]
- Series: Oxford School of Shakespeare
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 154
- Publish Date: May 14 2015
- ISBN10: 0198359039
- Language: English
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Exodus: How Migration Is Changing Our World
$20.99 Add to cartIt is one of the most pressing and controversial questions of our time — vehemently debated, steeped in ideology, profoundly divisive. Who should be allowed to immigrate and who not? What are the arg… [more below]
- Author: Collier, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0190231483
- Language: English
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Kierkegaard: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartScholars have largely misunderstood Soren Kierkegaard, remembering him chiefly in connection with the development of existentialist philosophy in this century. In a short and unhappy life, he wrote ma… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions #58
- Author: Gardiner, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 16 2002
- ISBN10: 0192802569
- Language: English
