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Innovation: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartWhat is innovation? How is innovation used in business? How can we use it to succeed?
Innovation, the ways ideas are made valuable, plays an essential role in economic and social development, and is a- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Dodgson, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: November 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0198825048
- Language: English
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African Politics: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartAfrica is a continent of 54 countries and over a billion people. However, despite the rich diversity of the African experience, it is striking that continuations and themes seem to be reflected across… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Taylor, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: December 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0198806574
- Language: English
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Gravity: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartGravity is one of the four fundamental interactions that exist in nature. It also has the distinction of being the oldest, weakest, and most difficult force to quantize. Understanding gravity is not o… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Clifton, Timothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0198729146
- Language: English
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Alexander the Great: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartAlexander the Great became king of Macedon in 336 BC, when he was only 20 years old, and died at the age of 32, twelve years later. During his reign he conquered the Achaemenid Persian Empire, the lar… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Bowden, Hugh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0198706154
- Language: English
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The Allure of Battle: A History of How Wars Have Been Won and Lost
$40.99 Add to cartHistory has tended to measure war’s winners and losers in terms of its major engagements, battles in which the result was so clear-cut that they could be considered “decisive.” Marathon, Cannae, Tours… [more below]
- Author: Nolan, Cathal J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 728
- Publish Date: February 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0195383788
- Language: English
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American Politics: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartAmerican politics seems to grow more contentious and complicated by the day, and whether American democracy works well is hotly debated. Amidst all this roiling partisan argument and confusing claims … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Valelly, Richard M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: March 11 2013
- ISBN10: 0195373855
- Language: English
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On Monsters: An Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears
$31.99 Add to cartHailed as “a feast” (Washington Post) and “a modern-day bestiary” (The New Yorker), Stephen Asma’s On Monsters is a wide-ranging cultural and conceptual history of monsters–how they have evolved over… [more below]
- Author: Asma, Stephen T.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 14 2009
- ISBN10: 019533616X
- Language: English
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Mormonism: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartBeginning with a handful of members in 1830, the church that Joseph Smith founded has grown into a world-wide organization with over 12 million adherents, playing prominent roles in politics, sports, … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Bushman, Richard Lyman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 22 2008
- ISBN10: 0195310306
- Language: English
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The New Oxford Guide to Writing
$23.99 Add to cartMany books on writing tell you how to think more creatively, how to conjure up an idea from scratch. Many, once you have an idea, show you how to express it clearly and elegantly. And many handbooks o… [more below]
- Author: Kane, Thomas S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 27 2009
- ISBN10: 0195090594
- Language: English
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Continental Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartIn this enlightening new Very Short Introduction, Simon Critchley shows us that Continental philosophy encompasses a distinct set of philosophical traditions and practices, with a compelling range of … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions #43
- Author: Critchley, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: June 07 2001
- ISBN10: 192853597
- Language: English
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Oedipus the King: Sophocles
$11.99 Add to cartBased on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly recreate the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New T… [more below]
- Series: Greek Tragedy in New Translations (Paperback)
- Author: Sophocles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 114
- Publish Date: March 31 1988
- ISBN10: 0195054938
- Language: English
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Habermas: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartJ?gen Habermas is the most renowned living German philosopher. This book aims to give a clear and readable overview of his philosophical work. It analyzes both the theoretical underpinnings of Haberma… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Finlayson, Gordon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: August 25 2005
- ISBN10: 0192840959
- Language: English
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A History of the Vikings
$25.99 Add to cart“An utterly splendid book, quite the most brilliantly written, balanced, and explanative general work on the Vikings ever to appear in English or in any language.”– Scandinavian Studies
The subject o- Author: Jones, Gwyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 552
- Publish Date: July 19 2001
- ISBN10: 0192801341
- Language: English
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The War on Kids: How American Juvenile Justice Lost Its Way
$31.99 Add to cartIn 2003, when Terrence Graham was sixteen, he and three other teens attempted to rob a barbeque restaurant in Jacksonville, Florida. Though they left with no money, and no one was seriously injured, T… [more below]
- Author: Drinan, Cara H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0190605553
- Language: English
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Constantine the Emperor
$28.99 Add to cartNo Roman emperor had a greater impact on the modern world than did Constantine. The reason is not simply that he converted to Christianity, but that he did so in a way that brought his subjects along … [more below]
- Author: Potter, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0190231629
- Language: English
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The People’s Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited
$20.99 Add to cartFinalist for the 2015 Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism
Longlisted for the Lionel Gelber Award for the Best Non-Fiction book in the world on Foreign Affairs An Economist Book of- Author: Lim, Louisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0190227915
- Language: English
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Guide to the Lakes
$12.95 Add to cartWilliam Wordsworth’s Guide to the Lakes gives a first-hand account of his feelings about the unique countryside that was the source of his inspiration. He addresses concerns that are relevant today, s… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Wordsworth, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 20 2023
- ISBN10: 0198848099
- Language: English
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Fundamentalism and American Culture
$28.99 Add to cartFundamentalism and American Culture has long been considered a classic in religious history, and to this day remains unsurpassed. Now available in a new edition, this highly regarded analysis takes us… [more below]
- Author: Marsden, George M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0197599494
- Language: English
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Orlando
$9.99 Add to cart‘I feel the need of an escapade after these serious poetic experimental books…I want to kick up my heels & be off.’
Orlando tells the tale of an extraordinary individual who lives through centuries- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Woolf, Virginia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 31 2024
- ISBN10: 019965073X
- Language: English
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Medicare for All: A Citizen’s Guide
$23.99 Add to cartA citizen’s guide to America’s most debated policy-in-waiting
There are few issues as consequential in the lives of Americans as healthcare–and few issues more politically vexing. Every single America… [more below]- Author: El-Sayed, Abdul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0190056622
- Language: English
