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Clinical Psychology: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Read moreClinical psychology makes a significant contribution to mental health care across the world. The essence of the discipline is the creative application of the knowledge base of psychology to the unique… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Llewelyn, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: June 14 2017
- ISBN10: 0198753896
- Language: English
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French Cinema: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartIt is often claimed that the French invented cinema. Dominating the production and distribution of cinema until World War 1, when they were supplanted by Hollywood, the French cinema industry encompas… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Andrew, Dudley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 26 2024
- ISBN10: 0198718616
- Language: English
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Criminal Justice: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe criminal justice system is wide ranging; from the crimes themselves and policing to the sentencing of offenders and prisons. In this Very Short Introduction Julian V. Roberts draws upon the latest… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Roberts, Julian V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 01 2015
- ISBN10: 198716494
- Language: English
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Buddha: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartIn this valuable introduction, Michael Carrithers guides us through the complex and sometimes conflicting information that Buddhist texts give us about the life and teaching of the Buddha. He discusse… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions #41
- Author: Carrithers, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: June 07 2001
- ISBN10: 0192854534
- Language: English
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The Industrial Revolution: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe Industrial Revolution was a pivotal point in British history that occurred between the mid-eighteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries and led to far reaching transformations of society. With the adve… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Allen, Robert C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0198706782
- Language: English
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Abraham Lincoln
$14.99 Add to cartMarking the two-hundredth anniversary of Lincoln’s birth, this marvelous short biography by a leading historian offers an illuminating portrait of one of the giants in the American story. It is the be… [more below]
- Author: McPherson, James M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: February 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0195374525
- Language: English
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The Lost Gospel of Judas Iscariot: A New Look at Betrayer and Betrayed
$19.98 Add to cartA leading historian of the early church and the best-selling author of Misquoting Jesus, Bart Ehrman offers the first comprehensive account of the newly discovered Gospel of Judas, revealing what this… [more below]
- Author: Ehrman, Bart D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: December 16 2008
- ISBN10: 0195343514
- Language: English
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Pocket Oxford American Thesaurus, 2e
$13.95 Add to cartA superb resource for writers that packs an extraordinary amount of information in a convenient, affordable paperback format, this second edition of the Pocket Oxford American Thesaurus features a new… [more below]
- Author: Oup
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 992
- Publish Date: June 06 2008
- ISBN10: 0195301692
- Language: English
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The Oregon Trail: An American Saga
$28.99 Add to cartIn today’s world of jet airplanes and smooth highways, it is nearly impossible to imagine the hardships faced by the thousands of people who headed west along the great Oregon Trail. In this detailed … [more below]
- Author: Dary, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: December 08 2005
- ISBN10: 0195224000
- Language: English
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Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam
$19.98 Add to cartThe Battle of Antietam, fought on September 17, 1862, was the bloodiest single day in American history, with more than 6,000 soldiers killed–four times the number lost on D-Day, and twice the number … [more below]
- Series: Pivotal Moments in American History
- Author: McPherson, James M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 29 2004
- ISBN10: 0195173309
- Language: English
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The End of Time: The Next Revolution in Physics
$28.99 Add to cartRichard Feynman once quipped that “Time is what happens when nothing else does.” But Julian Barbour disagrees: if nothing happened, if nothing changed, then time would stop. For time is nothing but ch… [more below]
- Author: Barbour, Julian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 29 2001
- ISBN10: 0195145925
- Language: English
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Locke: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartJohn Locke (1632-1704) one of the greatest English philosophers of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century, argued in his masterpiece, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, that our knowl… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions #84
- Author: Dunn, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: July 31 2003
- ISBN10: 0192803948
- Language: English
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The Battle of the Atlantic: How the Allies Won the War
$26.99 Add to cart“The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril,” wrote Winston Churchill in his monumental history of World War II. His fear was shared by many. The North Atlantic … [more below]
- Author: Dimbleby, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0190905832
- Language: English
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Eclipses: What Everyone Needs to Knowr
$16.95 Add to cart“Have you ever seen a total solar eclipse?” If the question caused you to search your memory, the correct answer would have been “no.” A common response is: “Yes–I saw one, it was about 90% partial e… [more below]
- Series: What Everyone Needs to Know
- Author: Close, Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 03 2019
- ISBN10: 0190902469
- Language: English
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Jonas Salk: A Life
$21.99 Add to cartWhen a waiting world learned on April 12, 1955, that Jonas Salk had successfully created a vaccine to prevent poliomyelitis, he became a hero overnight. Born in a New York tenement, humble in manner, … [more below]
- Author: Jacobs, Charlotte Decroes
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: December 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0190679166
- Language: English
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Orca: How We Came to Know and Love the Ocean’s Greatest Predator
$34.99 Add to cartSince the release of the documentary Blackfish in 2013, millions around the world have focused on the plight of the orca, the most profitable and controversial display animal in history. Yet, until no… [more below]
- Author: Colby, Jason M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: June 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0190673095
- Language: English
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The Ideas That Made America: A Brief History
$22.99 Read moreLong before the United States was a nation, it was a set of ideas, projected onto the New World by European explorers with centuries of belief and thought in tow. From this foundation of expectation a… [more below]
- Author: Ratner-Rosenhagen, Jennifer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: February 04 2019
- ISBN10: 0190625368
- Language: English
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Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire
$25.99 Add to cartAt the end of the First World War, the Paris Peace Conference saw a battle over the future of empire. The victorious allied powers wanted to annex the Ottoman territories and German colonies they had … [more below]
- Author: Pedersen, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: December 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0190619120
- Language: English
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Decadence: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe history of decadent culture runs from ancient Rome to nineteenth-century Paris, Victorian London, fin de si鐵le Vienna, Weimar Berlin, and beyond. The decline of Rome provides the pattern for bot… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Weir, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 10 2018
- ISBN10: 0190610220
- Language: English
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The Curse of the Somers: The Secret History Behind the U.S. Navy’s Most Infamous Mutiny
$28.99 Add to cartA detailed and riveting account of the U.S. Navy’s greatest mutiny and its wide-ranging cultural and historical impact
The greatest controversy in the history of the U.S. Navy of the early American Re- Author: Delgado, James P.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0197575226
- Language: English
