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Tales from Africa
$15.99 Read moreDrawn from all parts of Africa, these stories convey the fierce sense of justice inherent in African peoples, their powers of patience and endurance, and their supreme ability as storytellers. A greed… [more below]
- Series: Oxford Myths and Legends
- Author: Arnott, Kathleen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 20 2000
- ISBN10: 0192750798
- Language: English
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Second Treatise of Government and a Letter Concerning Toleration
$15.95 Add to cart‘Man being born…to perfect freedom…hath by nature a power…to preserve his property, that is, his life, liberty and estate.’
Locke’s Second Treatise of Government (1689) is one of the great classi… [more below]- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Locke, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0198732449
- Language: English
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Sayings and Anecdotes: With Other Popular Moralists
$15.95 Add to cartDiogenes the Cynic is famed for walking the streets with a lamp in daylight, looking for an honest man. His biting wit and eccentric behavior were legendary, and it was by means of his renowned aphori… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Diogenes the Cynic
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 16 2012
- ISBN10: 0199589240
- Language: English
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Happiness
$12.99 Add to cartHappiness is an everyday term in our lives, and most of us strive to be happy. But defining happiness can be difficult.
In this Very Short Introduction, Dan Haybron considers the true nature of happin- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Haybron, Daniel M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: October 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0199590605
- Language: English
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Nicholas Nickleby
$7.95 Add to cartOur hero confronts a large and varied cast, including Wackford Squeers, the fantastic ogre of a schoolmaster, and Vincent Crummles, the grandiloquent ham actor, on his comic and satirical adventures u… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Dickens, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 928
- Publish Date: February 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199538220
- Language: English
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Free Will: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartEvery day we seem to make and act upon all kinds of choices: some trivial, others so consequential that they change the course of one’s life, or even the course of history. But are these choices reall… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Pink, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 132
- Publish Date: August 05 2004
- ISBN10: 0192853589
- Language: English
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A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Books
$9.94 Add to cart‘What was merry Christmas to Scrooge? Out upon merry Christmas! What good had it ever done to him?’
Ebenezer Scrooge is a bad-tempered skinflint who hates Christmas and all it stands for, but a ghostl- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Dickens, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: July 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199536309
- Language: English
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The LusÃads
$12.95 Add to cart1998 is the quincentenary of Vasca da Gama’s voyage via southern Africa to India, the voyage celebrated in this new translation of one of the greatest poems of the Renaissance. Portugal’s supreme poet… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: de Camões, LuÃs Vaz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199539960
- Language: English
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Oxford Canadian Thesaurus of Current English
$10.95 Read moreThe long-awaited companion volume to the bestselling Oxford Canadian Dictionary of Current English, the Oxford Canadian Thesaurus of Current English is the first thesaurus of its size to offer extensi… [more below]
- Author: Barber, Katherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1104
- Publish Date: October 26 2006
- ISBN10: 0195425693
- Language: English
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Agnes Grey
$9.94 Add to cartAnne Bront?’s first novel, Agnes Grey, combines an astute dissection of middle-class social behavior and class attitudes with a wonderful study of Victorian responses to young children which has paral… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Bront?, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0199296987
- Language: English
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Canadian Oxford Dictionary of Current English
$9.94 Read moreBased on the critically acclaimed best-selling Canadian Oxford Dictionary, the Canadian Oxford Dictionary of Current English offers a reliable description of Canadian spelling, pronunciation and meani… [more below]
- Author: Barber, Katherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1104
- Publish Date: July 16 2005
- ISBN10: 019542283X
- Language: English
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For F*ck’s Sake: Why Swearing Is Shocking, Rude, and Fun
$22.99 Add to cartWhy do we love to swear so much? Why do we get so offended when others do it? With wit and insight, philosopher Rebecca Roache seeks answers to these and other puzzling questions about bad language.
W… [more below]- Author: Roache, Rebecca
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0190665068
- Language: English
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Oxford Latin Desk Dictionary
$21.95 Add to cartThis is the first edition of the Oxford Latin Desk Dictionary, offering essential coverage of Latin words and grammar, as well as extra information on Roman history and culture. It takes account of th… [more below]
- Author: Morwood, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: July 28 2005
- ISBN10: 019861070X
- Language: English
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Atlas of the World: Thirty-First Edition
$95.00 Read moreThe only world atlas updated annually, Oxford’s Atlas of the World is the most authoritative atlas on the market.
Full of crisp, clear cartography of urban areas and natural landscapes around the glob- Author:
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 19 2024
- ISBN10: 0197784224
- Language: English
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Addiction: What Everyone Needs to Know(tm)
$18.98 Add to cartWhile historically a topic of great interest, controversies and general public discourse surrounding addiction have been growing rapidly, particularly in light of the rising death toll resulting from … [more below]
- Series: What Everyone Needs to Know(r)
- Author: Glasner, Suzette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: July 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0190946547
- Language: English
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Combinatorics: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartHow many possible sudoku puzzles are there? In the lottery, what is the chance that two winning balls have consecutive numbers? Who invented Pascal’s triangle? (it was not Pascal)
Combinatorics, the b- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Wilson, Robin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0198723490
- Language: English
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The Book of Common Prayer
$32.99 Add to cartThis edition of the 1979 Book of Common Prayer features imitation leather binding, and is an ideal gift for celebrating special occasions.
The Gift Edition offers all of the unique supplementary featu- Author: Episcopal Church
- Binding:
- Page Count: 1056
- Publish Date: February 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0195287797
- Language: English
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The Merchant of Venice: The Oxford Shakespearethe Merchant of Venice
$10.95 Add to cartThis edition of The Merchant of Venice, based on a fresh examination of the early editions, includes an exceptionally lucid and accessible introduction which addresses Shakespeare’s attitude toward Se… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 15 2008
- ISBN10: 019953585X
- Language: English
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The Language of Climate Politics: Fossil-Fuel Propaganda and How to Fight It
$29.99 Add to cartA groundbreaking investigation into the propaganda justifying the fossil-fuel economy, The Language of Climate Politics offers readers powerful new ways to talk about the climate crisis that will help… [more below]
- Author: Guenther, Genevieve
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: July 10 2024
- ISBN10: 0197642233
- Language: English
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On XI Jinping: How XI’s Marxist Nationalism Is Shaping China and the World
$34.99 Add to cartAn authoritative account of Xi Jinping’s worldview and how it drives Chinese behaviour both domestically and on the world stage.
In his new book, On Xi Jinping, former Australian Prime Minister Kevin R… [more below]- Author: Rudd, Kevin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 019776603X
- Language: English
