Oxford University Press
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Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing
$34.99 Add to cartThe scope of criminal justice surveillance has expanded rapidly in recent decades. At the same time, the use of big data has spread across a range of fields, including finance, politics, healthcare, a… [more below]
- Author: Brayne, Sarah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 02 2020
- ISBN10: 0190684097
- Language: English
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Infectious Disease: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
Infectious disease is a moving target: new diseases emerge every year, old diseases evolve into new forms, and ecological and socioeconomic upheav- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Wayne, Marta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 25 2024
- ISBN10: 0192858513
- Language: English
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Physical Chemistry
$12.99 Add to cartWith the development of a variety of exciting new areas of research involving computational chemistry, nano- and smart materials, and applications of the recently discovered graphene, there can be no … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Atkins, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: May 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0199689091
- Language: English
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The Oxford Illustrated History of Modern China
$44.99 Add to cartThis lavishly illustrated volume explores the history of China during a period of dramatic shifts and surprising transformations, from the founding of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1912) through to the prese… [more below]
- Series: Oxford Illustrated History
- Author: Wasserstrom, Jeffrey N.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0199683751
- Language: English
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Mao
$12.99 Add to cartA giant of 20th century history, Mao Zedong played many roles: peasant revolutionary, patriotic leader against the Japanese occupation, Marxist theoretician, modernizer, and visionary despot. This Ver… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Davin, Delia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: June 10 2013
- ISBN10: 019958866X
- Language: English
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Blood: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartBlood is vital to most animals. In mammals it transports oxygen and food, carries away waste, and contains the white cells that attack invading microbes. Playing a central role in life, it has had pro… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Cooper, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0199581452
- Language: English
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Socrates: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartSocrates has a unique position in the history of philosophy; it is no exaggeration to say that had it not been for his influence on Plato, the whole development of Western philosophy might have been u… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Taylor, C. C. W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0198835981
- Language: English
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Waves: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartWe live in a world of waves. The Earth shakes to its foundations, the seas and oceans tremble incessantly, sounds reverberate through land, sea, and air. Beneath the skin, our brains and bodies are aw… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Goldsmith, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0198803788
- Language: English
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Navigation: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartFrom the Bronze Age mariners of the Mediterranean to contemporary sailors using satellite-based technologies, the history of navigation at sea, the art of finding a position and setting a course, is f… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Bennett, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0198733712
- Language: English
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Roman Britain: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartFor four centuries Britain was an integral part of the Roman Empire, a political system stretching from Turkey to Portugal and from the Red Sea to the Tyne and beyond. Its involvement with Rome starte… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Salway, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0198712162
- Language: English
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Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women’s Rights Movement
$20.99 Add to cartIn the quiet town of Seneca Falls, New York, over the course of two days in July, 1848, a small group of women and men, led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, held a convention that would la… [more below]
- Series: Pivotal Moments in American History
- Author: McMillen, Sally
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 322
- Publish Date: September 08 2009
- ISBN10: 0195393333
- Language: English
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The Complete Euripides: Volume II: Iphigenia in Tauris and Other Plays
$15.99 Add to cartBased on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can best re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Tran… [more below]
- Series: Greek Tragedy in New Translations (Paperback)
- Author: Burian, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 30 2010
- ISBN10: 0195388690
- Language: English
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The Complete Sophocles, Volume II: Electra and Other Plays
$15.99 Add to cartBased on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New … [more below]
- Series: Greek Tragedy in New Translations (Paperback)
- Author: Sophocles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 20 2009
- ISBN10: 0195373308
- Language: English
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The Hidden Cost of Being African American: How Wealth Perpetuates Inequality
$23.99 Add to cartOver the past three decades, racial prejudice in America has declined significantly and many African American families have seen a steady rise in employment and annual income. But alongside these enco… [more below]
- Author: Shapiro, Thomas M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: January 27 2005
- ISBN10: 0195181387
- Language: English
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To Make Our World Anew: Volume I: A History of African Americans to 1880
$22.99 Add to cartThe two volumes of Kelley and Lewis’s To Make Our World Anew integrate the work of eleven leading historians into the most up-to-date and comprehensive account available of African American history, f… [more below]
- Author: Kelley, Robin D. G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 28 2005
- ISBN10: 0195181344
- Language: English
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The Devil’s Dictionary
$21.99 Add to cartHistory, n. an account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools. Marriage, n. The state or condition of a community consis… [more below]
- Author: Bierce, Ambrose
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 07 1999
- ISBN10: 0195126270
- Language: English
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The Broken Mirror: Understanding and Treating Body Dysmorphic Disorder
$42.99 Add to cartIn a world obsessed with appearances, it is not surprising that body dysmorphic disorder, or BDD, has manifested itself as a troubling and relatively common problem for many individuals. In The Broken… [more below]
- Author: Phillips, Katharine A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 02 2005
- ISBN10: 0195167198
- Language: English
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The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartMore than ever before, the Renaissance stands out as one of the defining moments in world history. Between 1400 and 1600, European perceptions of society, culture, politics and even humanity itself em… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Brotton, Jerry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 15 2006
- ISBN10: 0192801635
- Language: English
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The Founding Fathers: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe Founding Fathers is a concise, accessible overview of the brilliant, flawed, and quarrelsome group of lawyers, politicians, merchants, military men, and clergy known as “the Founding Fathers”–who… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Bernstein, R. B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: December 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0190273518
- Language: English
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Churchill’s American Arsenal: The Partnership Behind the Innovations That Won World War Two
$34.99 Add to cartChurchill’s American Arsenal reveals how the technology, know-how, and production power behind the victorious Allied partnership during World War II extended beyond the battlefront and onto the home-f… [more below]
- Author: Ferreiro, Larrie D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 03 2022
- ISBN10: 0197554016
- Language: English
