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Polygamy: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartMarriage has not always meant just one man and one woman. For much of human history, over much of the globe, the most common alternative was polygamy: marriage involving more than one spouse. Polygamy… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Pearsall, Sarah M. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: May 24 2022
- ISBN10: 0197533175
- Language: English
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Our Own Worst Enemy: The Assault from Within on Modern Democracy
$28.99 Add to cartA contrarian yet highly engaging account of the spread of illiberal and anti-democratic sentiment throughout our culture that places responsibility on the citizens themselves.
Over the past three deca- Author: Nichols, Tom
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 19 2021
- ISBN10: 0197518877
- Language: English
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Breached!: Why Data Security Law Fails and How to Improve It
$31.99 Add to cartA novel account of how the law contributes to the insecurity of our data and a bold way to rethink it.
Digital connections permeate our lives-and so do data breaches. Given that we must be online for … [more below]- Author: Solove, Daniel J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0190940557
- Language: English
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The Ghetto: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartFor three hundred years the ghetto defined Jewish culture in the late medieval and early modern period in Western Europe. In the nineteenth-century it was a free-floating concept which travelled to Ea… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Cheyette, Bryan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: November 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0198809956
- Language: English
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American Business History: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartBy the early twentieth century, it became common to describe the United States as a “business civilization.” President Coolidge in 1925 said, “The chief business of the American people is business.” M… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Friedman, Walter A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0190622474
- Language: English
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Languages: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Read moreHow many languages are there? Are new languages still being discovered? Why are so many languages disappearing? In this Very Short Introduction, eminent linguist Stephen Anderson addresses such questi… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Anderson, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: September 07 2012
- ISBN10: 0199590591
- Language: English
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Apostles of Reason: The Crisis of Authority in American Evangelicalism
$31.99 Add to cartEvangelical Christianity is a paradox. Evangelicals are radically individualist, but devoted to community and family. They believe in the transformative power of a personal relationship with God, but
- Author: Worthen, Molly
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: November 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0199896461
- Language: English
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Bad Boys, Bad Men: Confronting Antisocial Personality Disorder (Sociopathy) (Revised, Updated)
$36.99 Add to cartWhether called black sheep, sociopaths, con men, or misfits, some men break all the rules. They shirk everyday responsibilities, abuse drugs and alcohol, take up criminal careers, and lash out at fami… [more below]
- Author: Black, Donald W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: March 06 2013
- ISBN10: 0199862036
- Language: English
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Causation
$12.99 Add to cartCausation is the most fundamental connection in the universe. Without it, there would be no science or technology. There would be no moral responsibility either, as none of our thoughts would be conne… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Mumford, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 01 2014
- ISBN10: 019968443X
- Language: English
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International Security: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartInternational security is never out of the headlines. War and peace, military strategy, the proliferation of nuclear weapons and revisionist states remain central to the discussion, but concerns such … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Browning, Christopher S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: December 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0199668531
- Language: English
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The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
$15.95 Add to cart‘An indescribable, aching, futile longing for myself’
The young Danish aristocrat Malte Laurids Brigge has been left rootless by the early death of his parents. Now living in Paris, Malte begins to re- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Rilke, Rainer Maria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0199646031
- Language: English
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The Napoleonic Wars: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe Napoleonic Wars have an all-important place in the history of Europe, leaving their mark on European and world societies in a variety of ways. In many European countries, they provided the stimulu… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Rapport, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 14 2013
- ISBN10: 0199590966
- Language: English
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Rivers: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartRivers have acted as cradles for civilization and agents of disaster; a river may be a barrier or a highway, it can support trade and sediment, culture and conflict. This Very Short Introduction is a … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Middleton, Nick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 04 2012
- ISBN10: 0199588678
- Language: English
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Muhammad: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartAs the founder of Islam, a religion with over one billion followers, Muhammad is beyond all doubt one of the most influential figures in world history. But learning about his life and understanding hi… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Brown, Jonathan A. C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 15 2011
- ISBN10: 0199559287
- Language: English
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Heracles and Other Plays
$10.95 Add to cartEuripides wrote about timeless themes, of friendship and enmity, hope and despair, duty and betrayal. The first three plays in this volume are imbued with an atmosphere of violence, while the fourth, … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Euripides
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199555095
- Language: English
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The Plays and Fragments
$10.95 Add to cartThe greatest writer of Greek New Comedy and the founding father of European comedy, Menander (c.341-290 BC) wrote over one hundred plays, of which only one complete play and substantial fragments of o… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Menander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 15 2008
- ISBN10: 019954073X
- Language: English
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Collected Poems
$13.95 Add to cartRimbaud is the enfant terrible of French literature, the precocious genius whose extraordinary poetry is revolutionary in its visionary, hallucinatory content and its often liberated forms. He wrote a… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Rimbaud, Arthur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 15 2010
- ISBN10: 0199538956
- Language: English
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Drugs: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe twentieth century saw a remarkable upsurge of research on drugs, with major advances in the treatment of bacterial and viral infections, heart disease, stomach ulcers, cancer, and metal illnesses…. [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Iversen, Les
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0198745796
- Language: English
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Collision Course: Ronald Reagan, the Air Traffic Controllers, and the Strike That Changed America
$23.99 Add to cartIn August 1981, the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) called an illegal strike. The new president, Ronald Reagan, fired the strikers, establishing a reputation for both decisiv… [more below]
- Author: McCartin, Joseph A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 504
- Publish Date: September 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0199325200
- Language: English
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Repetition and Philosophical Crumbs
$15.95 Add to cart“The love of repetition is in truth the only happy love.” So says Constantine Constantius on the first page of Kierkegaard’s Repetition. Life itself, according to Kierkegaard’s pseudonymous narrator, … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Kierkegaard, Soren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0199214190
- Language: English
