Oxford University Press
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The Rise of Modern Philosophy
$22.99 Add to cartSir Anthony Kenny’s engaging new multi-volume history of Western philosophy now advances into the modern era. The Rise of Modern Philosophy captures the fascinating story of the emergence, from the ea… [more below]
- Series: New History of Western Philosophy #3
- Author: Kenny, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: August 30 2008
- ISBN10: 0198752768
- 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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Confucianism: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartTo understand China, it is essential to understand Confucianism. First formulated in the sixth century BCE, the teachings of Confucius would come to dominate Chinese society, politics, economics, and … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Gardner, Daniel K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: August 26 2014
- ISBN10: 0195398912
- Language: English
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Hormones: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartHormones play an integral part in the balance and workings of the body. While many people are broadly aware of their existence, there are many misconceptions and few are aware of the nature and import… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Luck, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: September 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0199672873
- 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 Civil War
$11.95 Add to cartThe Civil War is Caesar’s masterly account of the celebrated war between himself and his great rival Pompey, from the crossing of the Rubicon in January 49 B.C. to Pompey’s death and the start of the … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Caesar, Julius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540624
- Language: English
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The Sidney Psalter: The Psalms of Sir Philip and Mary Sidney
$18.95 Read moreAmong the most accomplished lyrics of the English Renaissance, The Sidney Psalter influenced poets from Donne and Herbert to Milton and beyond. It turned the well-known biblical psalms into sophistica… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Sidney, Sir Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 11 2009
- ISBN10: 0199217939
- Language: English
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Evolution: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartLess than 450 years ago, all European scholars believed that the Earth was at the center of a Universe that was at most a few million miles in extent, and that the planets, sun, and stars all rotated … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Charlesworth, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0198804369
- Language: English
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The Computer: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Read moreWhat 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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The Pit and the Pendulum and Other Tales
$24.95 Read moreSince their first publication in the 1830s and 1840s, Edgar Allan Poe’s extraordinary Gothic tales have established themselves as classics of horror fiction and have also created many of the conventio… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics Hardback Collection
- Author: Poe, Edgar Allan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0198827296
- Language: English
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Sir Philip Sidney: The Major Works
$18.95 Add to cartThis authoritative edition brings together a unique combination of Sidney’s poetry and prose–all the major writing, complemented by letters and elegies–that reveals the essence of his work and think… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Sidney, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199538417
- 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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The Classic Fairy Tales
$23.99 Add to cartThis volume contains twenty-four of the best known fairy tales in the English language, presented here in the exact words of their first English publication or of the earliest surviving text. Includin… [more below]
- Author: Opie, Iona
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: November 13 1980
- ISBN10: 0195202198
- 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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Hans Andersen’s Fairy Tales: A Selection
$10.95 Add to cartThis collection of twenty-six tales features reproductions of the original illustrations by Vilhelm Pedersen and Lorenz Frolich, especially photographed from the drawings in the Hans Andersen Museum a… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Andersen, Hans Christian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: July 26 2009
- ISBN10: 0199555850
- Language: English
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The Great Conversation: Nature and the Care of the Soul
$34.99 Add to cart“We are surrounded by a world that talks, but we don’t listen. We are part of a community engaged in a vast conversation, but we deny our role in it.”
In the face of climate change, species loss, and- Author: Lane, Belden C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: June 03 2019
- ISBN10: 0190842679
- Language: English
