Oxford University Press
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Do Morals Matter?: Presidents and Foreign Policy from FDR to Trump
$28.99 Add to cartA concise yet penetrating analysis of how modern American presidents have–and have not–incorporated ethics into their foreign policy.
Americans constantly make moral judgments about presidents and f- Author: Nye, Joseph S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 02 2020
- ISBN10: 0190935960
- Language: English
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Norse America: The Story of a Founding Myth
$31.99 Add to cartThe story of the Vikings in North America as both fact and fiction, from the westward expansion of the Norse across the North Atlantic in the tenth and eleventh centuries to the myths and fabrications… [more below]
- Author: Campbell, Gordon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0198861559
- Language: English
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Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future
$11.95 Add to cartNietzsche’s mature masterpiece, Beyond Good and Evil considers the origins and nature of Judeo-Christian morality; the end of philosophical dogmatism and beginning of perspectivism; the questionable v… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199537070
- Language: English
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Oxford American Desk Dictionary and Thesaurus
$20.95 Add to cartAn all-in-one reference providing convenience, value, and the authority of Oxford Languages. The Oxford American Desk Dictionary & Thesaurus Third Edition is the ideal all-in-one reference, with a dic… [more below]
- Author: Oxford
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 928
- Publish Date: September 02 2010
- ISBN10: 0199739277
- Language: English
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The Passions of the Soul and Other Late Philosophical Writings
$17.95 Add to cart‘Those most capable of being moved by passion are those capable of tasting the most sweetness in this life.’
Descartes is most often thought of as introducing a total separation of mind and body. But- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Descartes, Rene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: January 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0199684138
- Language: English
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Grace Abounding: With Other Spiritual Autobiographies
$11.95 Add to cartGrace Abounding (1666) is a classic work of spiritual autobiography–a genre which flourished in Calvinist England as anxiety over the state or destiny of one’s soul led to rigorous self-scrutiny and … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Bunyan, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199554986
- Language: English
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Troilus and Cressida: The Oxford Shakespeare
$10.95 Add to cartGiven the wealth of formal debate contained in this tragedy, Troilus and Cressida was probably written in 1602 for a performance at one of the Inns of the Court. Shakespeare’s treatment of the age-old… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199536538
- Language: English
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Letters Written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark
$16.95 Add to cartThis engaging volume was pioneering feminist Mary Wollstonecraft’s most popular book during her lifetime. Difficult to categorize, it is both an arresting travel book and a moving exploration of her p… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Wollstonecraft, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199230633
- Language: English
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Psychiatry: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartPsychiatry is an endlessly controversial endeavor, incorporating emotively-charged questions over the reality of mental illness, the medicalization of everyday life, and the role of nature versus nurt… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Burns, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: January 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0198826206
- Language: English
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My Bondage and My Freedom
$11.95 Add to cart‘It was said to me, “Better have a little of the plantation manner of speech than not; ’tis not best that you seem too learned.”‘
Appearing in 1855, My Bondage and My Freedom is the second autobiograp- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0198820712
- Language: English
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Superstition: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartDo you touch wood for luck, or avoid hotel rooms on floor thirteen? Would you cross the path of a black cat, or step under a ladder? Is breaking a mirror just an expensive waste of glass, or something… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Vyse, Stuart
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: March 02 2020
- ISBN10: 0198819250
- Language: English
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Pocket Kenkyusha Japanese Dictionary
$24.95 Add to cartThe Pocket Kenkyusha Japanese Dictionary is an essential reference for any English-speaker learning Japanese, whether they’re studying the language at school or university, or learning it on their own… [more below]
- Author: Takebayashi, Shigeru
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1041
- Publish Date: March 09 2007
- ISBN10: 0198607482
- Language: English
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Safire’s Political Dictionary
$26.99 Add to cartWhen it comes to the vagaries of language in American politics, its uses and abuses, its absurdities and ever-shifting nuances, its power to confound, obscure, and occasionally to inspire, William Saf… [more below]
- Author: Safire, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 896
- Publish Date: March 31 2008
- ISBN10: 0195340612
- Language: English
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Baseball’s Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy (Anniversary)
$23.99 Add to cartIn this gripping account of one of the most important steps in the history of American desegregation, Jules Tygiel tells the story of Jackie Robinson’s crossing of baseball’s color line. Examining the… [more below]
- Author: Tygiel, Jules
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 27 2008
- ISBN10: 0195339282
- Language: English
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To Make Our World Anew: Volume II: A History of African Americans Since 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: 400
- Publish Date: April 28 2005
- ISBN10: 0195181352
- Language: English
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The Nothing That Is: A Natural History of Zero
$17.98 Add to cartA symbol for what is not there, an emptiness that increases any number it’s added to, an inexhaustible and indispensable paradox. As we enter the year 2000, zero is once again making its presence felt… [more below]
- Author: Kaplan, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 07 2000
- ISBN10: 0195142373
- Language: English
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Writing Without Teachers
$19.98 Add to cartIn Writing Without Teachers, well-known advocate of innovative teaching methods Peter Elbow outlines a practical program for learning how to write. His approach is especially helpful to people who get… [more below]
- Author: Elbow, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 25 1998
- ISBN10: 0195120167
- Language: English
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Cosmology: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartWritten in simple and accessible language, this non-technical introduction to cosmology, or the creation and development of the universe, explains the discipline, covers its history, details the lates… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions #51
- Author: Coles, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: December 06 2001
- ISBN10: 019285416X
- Language: English
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Memory: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartMemories are an integral part of being human. They haunt us, we cherish them, and in our lives we collect more of them with each new experience. Without memory, you would not be able to maintain a rel… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Foster, Jonathan K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: December 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0192806750
- Language: English
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Feminism: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThis is a historical account of feminism that looks at the roots of feminism, voting rights, and the liberation of the sixties, and analyzes the current situation of women across Europe, in the United… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Walters, Margaret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 12 2006
- ISBN10: 019280510X
- Language: English
