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Rome’s Italian Wars: Books 6-10
$14.95 Add to cart“People have it in their minds that he would have been a match for Alexander, had Alexander turned his arms on Europe.”
Here is a superb new translation of Books 6 to 10 of Livy’s monumental history o- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Livy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: March 14 2013
- ISBN10: 019956485X
- Language: English
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Selected Essays
$13.95 Read moreIn his writings, David Hume set out to bridge the gap between the learned world of the academy and the marketplace of polite society. This collection, drawing largely on his Essays Mortal, Political, … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Hume, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540306
- Language: English
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Eminent Victorians
$12.95 Read moreEminent Victorians is a groundbreaking work of biography that raised the genre to the level of high art. It replaced reverence with skepticism and Strachey’s wit, iconoclasm, and narrative skill liber… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Strachey, Lytton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 15 2009
- ISBN10: 019955501X
- Language: English
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An Enemy of the People/The Wild Duck/Rosmersholm
$10.95 Add to cartTaken from the Oxford Ibsen, this collection of Ibsen’s plays includes An Enemy of the People, The Wild Duck, and Rosmersholm.
About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World’s Classics has made ava… [more below]- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Ibsen, Henrik
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 31 2009
- ISBN10: 0199539138
- Language: English
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Henry V: The Oxford Shakespeare
$10.95 Add to cartThe introduction includes an examination of the Quarto and texts, and of the relationship between them; a critical discussion of the play’s historical and literary sources; an examination of conflicti… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199536511
- Language: English
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Foxe’s Book of Martyrs: Select Narratives
$17.95 Add to cart“Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, and play the man: we shall this day light such a candle by God’s grace in England, as, I trust, shall never be put out.” Hugh Latimer’s famous words of consolation … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Foxe, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199236844
- Language: English
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Paganism: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cart“Paganism” is an evocative word that even today conjures up deep-seated emotions and prejudices. Until recently, it was primarily a derogatory term used by Christians to describe the non-Christian cul… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Davies, Owen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 26 2011
- ISBN10: 0199235163
- Language: English
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Organized Crime: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartFor many people around the world, instances of what is described as organized crime may be part of their everyday experience; in their neighborhoods, their streets, and the places they work and live. … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Antonopoulos, Georgios A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: April 22 2018
- ISBN10: 0198795548
- Language: English
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Heredity: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe concept of heredity is fundamental to how we see ourselves and others. It goes far beyond the obvious continuity of physical traits across generations. We routinely ascribe similarities in persona… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Waller, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 24 2017
- ISBN10: 0198790457
- Language: English
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Secularism: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartUntil the modern period the integration of church (or other religion) and state (or political life) had been taken for granted. The political order was always tied to an official religion in Christian… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Copson, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0198747225
- Language: English
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The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals
$34.99 Add to cartTo mark the birthday of the world’s most renowned evolutionary biologist, Oxford University Press has reissued the definitive edition of Darwin’s classic-a brilliantly entertaining and accessible expl… [more below]
- Author: Darwin, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0195392280
- Language: English
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The Oxford American Large Print Dictionary
$78.00 Add to cartThe Oxford American Large Print Dictionary is a brand new large print dictionary, offering to visually impaired readers an Oxford-quality dictionary in a large, clear font.
In addition to solid covera- Author: Oxford Languages
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1464
- Publish Date: December 22 2005
- ISBN10: 0195300785
- Language: English
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A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920
$23.99 Add to cartWith America’s current and ever-widening gap between the rich and the poor and the constant threat of the disappearance of the middle class, the Progressive Era stands out as a time when the middle cl… [more below]
- Author: McGerr, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 07 2005
- ISBN10: 0195183657
- Language: English
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Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of American National Security Policy During the Cold War
$22.99 Add to cartWhen Strategies of Containment was first published, the Soviet Union was still a superpower, Ronald Reagan was president of the United States, and the Berlin Wall was still standing. This updated edit… [more below]
- Author: Gaddis, John Lewis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: June 23 2005
- ISBN10: 019517447X
- Language: English
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When China Ruled the Seas: The Treasure Fleet of the Dragon Throne, 1405-1433 (Revised)
$23.99 Add to cartA hundred years before Columbus and his fellow Europeans began making their way to the New World, fleets of giant Chinese junks commanded by the eunuch admiral Zheng He and filled with the empire’s fi… [more below]
- Author: Levathes, Louise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 09 1997
- ISBN10: 0195112075
- Language: English
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Goddess: Myths of the Female Divine
$23.99 Add to cartAn old woman lives still among the broken slopes of the mountains in the land of the Tarahumara Indians. No one knows exactly where. She is sometimes seen standing along the highway near El Paso, haul… [more below]
- Author: Leeming, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 11 1996
- ISBN10: 0195104625
- Language: English
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James Joyce
$41.99 Add to cartRichard Ellmann has revised and expanded his definitive work on Joyce’s life to include newly discovered primary material, including details of a failed love affair, a limerick about Samuel Beckett, a… [more below]
- Series: Oxford Lives
- Author: Ellmann, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 960
- Publish Date: October 20 1983
- ISBN10: 0195033817
- Language: English
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The Qur’an: What Everyone Needs to Know(r)
$16.95 Add to cartMillions of non-Muslims know the name of the Muslim scripture, whether it is written as “Qur’an” or “Quran” or “Koran.” But for most, that is all they know. Many have fallen victim to the mass of misi… [more below]
- Series: What Everyone Needs to Know
- Author: McAuliffe, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 02 2020
- ISBN10: 0190867671
- Language: English
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The Treaty of Versailles: A Concise History
$20.99 Add to cartSigned on June 28, 1919 between Germany and the principal Allied powers, the Treaty of Versailles formally ended World War I. Problematic from the very beginning, even its contemporaries saw the treat… [more below]
- Author: Neiberg, Michael S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: August 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0190659181
- Language: English
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A Cabinet of Byzantine Curiosities: Strange Tales and Surprising Facts from History’s Most Orthodox Empire
$22.99 Add to cartWeird, decadent, degenerate, racially mixed, superstitious, theocratic, effeminate, and even hyper-literate, Byzantium has long been regarded by many as one big curiosity. According to Voltaire, it re… [more below]
- Author: Kaldellis, Anthony
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: October 02 2017
- ISBN10: 0190625945
- Language: English
