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The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket and Related Tales
$10.95 Add to cartEdgar Allan Poe’s only novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket is a pivotal work in which Poe calls attention to the act of writing and to the problem of representing the truth. It is a… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Poe, Edgar Allan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540470
- Language: English
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The Essential Mòzǐ: Ethical, Political, and Dialectical Writings
$16.95 Add to cart‘The task of the benevolent person is surely to diligently seek to promote the benefit of the world and eliminate harm to the world’
The M?zi is among the founding texts of the Chinese philosophical tr… [more below]- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Mo Zi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0198848102
- Language: English
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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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Selected Poems and Songs
$17.95 Read more‘The Poetic Genius of my Country…bade me sing the loves, the joys, the rural scenes and rural pleasures of my natal Soil, in my native tongue.’
Many of the poems and songs of Robert Burns (1759-96)- Series: Oxford Worlds Classics
- Author: Burns, Robert R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: March 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0199682321
- 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-
Riding-riding-
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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But is It Art?: An Introduction to Art Theory
$18.98 Add to cartFrom Andy Warhol’s Brillo boxes to provocative dung-splattered madonnas, in today’s art world many strange, even shocking, things are put on display. This often leads exasperated viewers to exclaim–i… [more below]
- Author: Freeland, Cynthia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 04 2002
- ISBN10: 0192853678
- Language: English
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Animal Behaviour: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartHow animals behave is crucial to their survival and reproduction. The application of new molecular tools such as DNA fingerprinting and genomics is causing a revolution in the study of animal behavior… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Wyatt, Tristram D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0198712154
- Language: English
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The Bright Side of Life
$13.95 Add to cartOrphaned with a substantial inheritance at the age of ten, Pauline Quenu is taken from Paris to live with her relatives, Monsieur and Madame Chanteau and their son Lazare, in the village of Bonneville… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Zola, ?mile
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 26 2018
- ISBN10: 0198753616
- 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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Marx, Capital, and the Madness of Economic Reason
$21.99 Add to cartKarl Marx’s Capital is one of the most important texts written in the modern era. Since 1867, when the first of its three volumes was published, it has had a profound effect on politics and economics … [more below]
- Author: Harvey, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0190050799
- 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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Twentieth-Century Britain: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe last century has been a tumultuous one for the culture and politics of Britain. Kenneth Morgan’s Twentieth-Century Britain is a crisp analysis of the forces of consensus and conflict that have exi… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Morgan, Kenneth O.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 11 2005
- ISBN10: 019285397X
- Language: English
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Caterpillars in the Field and Garden: A Field Guide to the Butterfly Caterpillars of North America
$34.99 Add to cartJeffrey Glassberg’s acclaimed Butterflies through Binoculars guides have revolutionized the way we view butterflies. Now there’s a field guide in the same practical format, and with the same emphasis … [more below]
- Series: Butterflies Through Binoculars
- Author: Allen, Thomas J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 02 2005
- ISBN10: 0195149874
- 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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Fasti
$11.95 Add to cart“Times and their reasons, arranged in order through the Latin year, and constellations sunk beneath the earth and risen, I shall sing.”
Ovid’s poetical calendar of the Roman year is both a day-by-day a… [more below]- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Ovid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 06 2013
- ISBN10: 0192824112
- 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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Nuclear Physics: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartNuclear physics began long before the identification of fundamental particles, with J. J. Thomson’s discovery of the electron at the end of the 19th century, which implied the existence of a positive … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Close, Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 01 2015
- ISBN10: 198718632
- 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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A Pair of Blue Eyes
$11.95 Read moreElfride Swancourt is the daughter of the Rector of Endelstow, a remote sea-swept parish in Corwall based on St Juliot, where Hardy began A Pair of Blue Eyes during the beginning of his courtship of hi… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Hardy, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199538492
- 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
