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India in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know
$16.95 Add to cartAccording to current projections, India will overtake China to become the most populous country on Earth by 2050. Its 1.6 billion people will live in the world’s second-largest economy, after China bu… [more below]
- Series: What Everyone Needs to Know
- Author: Kamdar, Mira
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0199973598
- Language: English
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American Maelstrom: The 1968 Election and the Politics of Division
$34.99 Add to cartIn his presidential inaugural address of January 1965, Lyndon B. Johnson offered an uplifting vision for America, one that would end poverty and racial injustice. Elected in a landslide over the conse
- Series: Pivotal Moments in World History
- Author: Cohen, Michael A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 18 2016
- ISBN10: 019977756X
- Language: English
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The Conquest of Plassans
$14.95 Add to cart‘Abbe Faujas has arrived!’
The arrival of Abbe Faujas in the provincial town of Plassans has profound consequences for the community, and for the family of Fran?is Mouret in particular. Faujas and his- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Zola, ?mile
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0199664781
- Language: English
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Spirituality: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartIt is a striking aspect of contemporary western culture that, alongside a decline in traditional religious affiliations, there has been a growing interest in spirituality and the use of the word in a … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Sheldrake, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: December 14 2012
- ISBN10: 0199588759
- Language: English
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Greek Lyric Poetry
$13.95 Add to cartThe Greek lyric, elegiac, and iambic poets of the two centuries from 650 to 450 B.C.–greats such as Sappho, Anacreon, and Simonides–produced some of the finest poetry of antiquity. Their poetry was … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: West, M. L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 15 2008
- ISBN10: 019954039X
- Language: English
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The Oxford History of the Biblical World
$23.99 Add to cartIn this impressive volume, leading scholars offer compelling glimpses into the biblical world, the world in which prophets, poets, sages, and historians created one of our most important texts–the Bi… [more below]
- Author: Coogan, Michael D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 508
- Publish Date: June 07 2001
- ISBN10: 0195139372
- Language: English
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Heidegger: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartMartin Heidegger, considered by some to be the greatest charlatan ever to claim the title of “philosopher,” by some as an apologist for Nazism, and by others as an acknowledged leader in continental p… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Inwood, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: March 24 2019
- ISBN10: 0198828667
- Language: English
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Understanding Body Dysmorphic Disorder
$21.99 Add to cartIn a world obsessed with appearance, it is not surprising that body dysmorphic disorder, or BDD — an emotionally painful obsession with perceived flaws in one’s appearance — has manifested itself as… [more below]
- Author: Phillips, Katharine A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 20 2009
- ISBN10: 0195379403
- Language: English
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Lincoln: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartBeneath the surface of the apparently untutored and deceptively frank Abraham Lincoln ran private tunnels of self-taught study, a restless philosophical curiosity, and a profound grasp of the fundamen… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Guelzo, Allen C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 05 2009
- ISBN10: 0195367804
- Language: English
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Decision at Sea: Five Naval Battles That Shaped American History
$21.99 Add to cartFrom thunderous broadsides traded between wooden sailing ships on Lake Erie, to the carrier battles of World War II, to the devastating high-tech action in the Persian Gulf, here is a gripping history… [more below]
- Author: Symonds, Craig L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 23 2006
- ISBN10: 0195312112
- Language: English
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Voodoo Science: The Road from Foolishness to Fraud
$23.99 Add to cartIn a time of dazzling scientific progress, how can we separate genuine breakthroughs from the noisy gaggle of false claims? From Deepak Chopra’s “quantum alternative to growing old” to unwarranted hyp… [more below]
- Author: Park, Robert L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 15 2001
- ISBN10: 0195147103
- Language: English
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The Sacred Depths of Nature
$23.99 Add to cartFor many of us, the great scientific discoveries of the modern age–the Big Bang, evolution, quantum physics, relativity–point to an existence that is bleak, devoid of meaning, pointless. But in The … [more below]
- Author: Goodenough, Ursula
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 15 2000
- ISBN10: 0195136292
- Language: English
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Heinrich Himmler
$37.99 Add to cartHeinrich Himmler was an unremarkable looking man. Yet he was Hitler’s top enforcer, in charge of the Gestapo, the SS, and the so-called Final Solution. We can only wonder, as biographer Peter Longeric… [more below]
- Author: Longerich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1072
- Publish Date: February 07 2013
- ISBN10: 0199651744
- Language: English
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Stars: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartEvery atom of our bodies has been part of a star. In this lively and compact introduction, astrophysicist Andrew King reveals how the laws of physics force stars to evolve, driving them through succes… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions #322
- Author: King, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: September 07 2012
- ISBN10: 0199602921
- Language: English
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Black Holes: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartBlack holes are a constant source of fascination to many due to their mysterious nature. This Very Short Introduction, addresses a variety of questions, including what a black hole actually is, how th… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Blundell, Katherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0199602662
- Language: English
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Reality: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartIs matter real? Are persons real? Is time real? This Very Short Introduction discusses what, if anything, is “real” by looking at a variety of arguments from philosophy, physics, and cognitive science… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Westerhoff, Jan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: January 13 2012
- ISBN10: 0199594414
- Language: English
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The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
$14.95 Add to cartIn The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (1912), Emile Durkheim sets himself the task of discovering the enduring source of human social identity. He investigates what he considered to be the simples… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Durkheim, ?mile
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540128
- Language: English
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Studies in the History of the Renaissance
$11.95 Add to cartThrough his highly idiosyncratic readings of some of the finest paintings, sculptures, and poems of the French and Italian Renaissance, Walter Pater in Studies in the History of the Renaissance redefi… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Pater, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 15 2010
- ISBN10: 0199535078
- Language: English
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Snow and Steel: The Battle of the Bulge, 1944-45
$40.99 Add to cartBetween December 16, 1944 and January 15, 1945, American forces found themselves entrenched in the heavily forested Ardennes region of Belgium, France, and Luxembourg defending against an advancing Ge… [more below]
- Author: Caddick-Adams, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 928
- Publish Date: November 28 2014
- ISBN10: 0199335141
- Language: English
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Statistics: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartStatistical ideas and methods underlie just about every aspect of modern life. From randomized clinical trials in medical research, to statistical models of risk in banking and hedge fund industries, … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions #196
- Author: Hand, David J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: December 15 2008
- ISBN10: 019923356X
- Language: English
