Oxford University Press
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The Real North Korea: Life and Politics in the Failed Stalinist Utopia
$22.99 Add to cartAndrei Lankov has gone where few outsiders have ever been. A native of the former Soviet Union, he lived as an exchange student in North Korea in the 1980s. He has studied it for his entire career, us… [more below]
- Author: Lankov, Andrei
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 22 2014
- ISBN10: 0199390037
- Language: English
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The History of the English People 1000-1154
$14.95 Read moreHenry of Huntingdon’s narrative covers one of the most exciting and bloody periods in English history: the Norman Conquest and its aftermath. He tells of the decline of the Old English kingdom, the vi… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Henry of Huntingdon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199554803
- Language: English
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Northern Ireland: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartFrom the Plantation of Ulster in the seventeenth century to the entry into peace talks in the late twentieth century the Northern Irish people have been engaged in conflict – Catholic against Protesta… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Mulholland, Marc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: June 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0198825005
- Language: English
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Ivanhoe
$10.95 Add to cartIn Ivanhoe Scott fashioned an imperial myth of national cultural identity that has shaped the popular imagination ever since its first appearance at the end of 1819. With the secret return of King Ric… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Scott, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 622
- Publish Date: January 15 2010
- ISBN10: 0199538409
- Language: English
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The British Empire: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartFrom the eighteenth century until the 1950s, the British Empire was the largest and most far-flung political entity in the world, holding sway at one time over one fifth of the world’s population. The… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Jackson, Ashley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: July 12 2013
- ISBN10: 0199605416
- Language: English
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The Comedies
$16.95 Add to cart‘I thought you’d do what the common run of slaves normally do, cheating and tricking me because my son’s having an affair.’
Terence’s comedies have provided plots and characters for comic drama from cl… [more below]- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Terence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 11 2010
- ISBN10: 0199556032
- Language: English
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Empires and Barbarians: The Fall of Rome and the Birth of Europe
$28.99 Add to cartEmpires and Barbarians presents a fresh, provocative look at how a recognizable Europe came into being in the first millennium AD. With sharp analytic insight, Peter Heather explores the dynamics of m… [more below]
- Author: Heather, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: March 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0199892261
- Language: English
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
$10.95 Add to cartSir Gawain and the Green Knight is probably the most skillfuly told story in the whole of the English Arthurian cycle. Originating from the north-west midlands of England, it is based on two ancient C… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Harrison, Keith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540160
- Language: English
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The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians
$23.99 Add to cartThe death of the Roman Empire is one of the perennial mysteries of world history. Now, in this groundbreaking book, Peter Heather proposes a stunning new solution: Centuries of imperialism turned the … [more below]
- Author: Heather, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: June 11 2007
- ISBN10: 0195325419
- Language: English
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Oxford Hachette French Dictionary 4e
$55.00 Read moreAcclaimed by language professionals the world over, the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary has long been the market leader. Using the statistical evidence provided by vast electronic databanks of langu… [more below]
- Author: Oxford University Press
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 2080
- Publish Date: July 23 2007
- ISBN10: 0198614225
- Language: English
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The Civil War: A Concise History
$20.99 Add to cartOne hundred and fifty years after the first shots were fired on Fort Sumter, the Civil War still captures the American imagination, and its reverberations can still be felt throughout America’s social… [more below]
- Author: Masur, Louis P.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: February 10 2011
- ISBN10: 0199740488
- Language: English
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The History of Computing: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Read moreVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
This lively Very Short Introduction reviews the central events, machines, and people that feature in established accounts of the history of comput- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Swade, Doron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0198831757
- Language: English
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The Quakers: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartHere is the perfect introductory guide to the history and ideas of the Quakers, one of the world’s most fascinating and enigmatic religious groups. Emerging in England in the 1650s as a radical sect c… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Dandelion, Pink
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 20 2008
- ISBN10: 0199206791
- Language: English
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Jason and the Golden Fleece: (The Argonautica)
$13.95 Add to cartThe Argonautica is the dramatic story of Jason’s quest for the Golden Fleece and his relations with the dangerous princess Medea. The only surviving Greek epic to bridge the gap between Homer and late… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Apollonius of Rhodes
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: April 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199538727
- Language: English
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Ecology: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartUnderstanding how our living environment works is essentially a study of ecological systems. Ecology is the science of how organisms interact with each other and with their environment, and how such i… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Ghazoul, Jaboury
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0198831013
- Language: English
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Exemplary Stories
$12.95 Add to cartMore popular in their day than Don Quxixote, Cervantes’s Exemplary Stories (1613) surprise, challenge and delight. Ranging from the picaresque to the satirical, the Exemplary Stories defy the conventi… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Decervantes
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199555001
- Language: English
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The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene
$20.99 Add to cart- Author: Dawkins, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: November 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0198788916
- Language: English
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Billy Budd, Sailor and Selected Tales
$8.94 Add to cartBilly Budd is among the greatest of Melville’s works and, in its richness and ambiguity, among the most problematic. Outwardly a compelling narrative of events aboard a British man-of-war during the t… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Melville, Herman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199538913
- Language: English
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Compact Oxford Italian Dictionary
$18.95 Add to cartThe Compact Oxford Italian Dictionary covers over 90,000 words and phrases, and 120,000 translations of contemporary Italian and English. Includes all essential Italian and English words, based on fin… [more below]
- Author: Oxford Languages
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 960
- Publish Date: June 10 2013
- ISBN10: 0199663130
- Language: English
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English-English-Tamil Dictionary
$42.95 Read moreThis dictionary contains more than 50,000 entries, related phrases, idioms and more than 200 illustrations. Like our other Bilingual Dictionaries, this has been specially compiled for learners of Engl… [more below]
- Author: Murugan, V.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1664
- Publish Date: December 07 2017
- ISBN10: 0199472238
- Language: English
