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Tutankhamun and the Tomb That Changed the World
$29.99 Add to cartIt is often thought that the story of Tutankhamun ended when the thousands of dazzling items discovered by Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon were transported to the Egyptian Museum in Cairo and put on … [more below]
- Author: Brier, Bob
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 27 2022
- ISBN10: 0197635059
- Language: English
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Suburbs: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartWe live in the suburban era. Well over half of all Americans and two-thirds of Canadians live in suburbs. Tracts of suburban bungalows ring Sydney and Melbourne. Suburban apartments rise on the outski… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Abbott, Carl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0197599249
- Language: English
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The Spartans: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
The myths surrounding Sparta are as old as the city itself. Even in antiquity, Sparta was a unique society, and considered an enigma. The Spartan- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Bayliss, Andrew J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 26 2022
- ISBN10: 019878760X
- Language: English
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Diplomatic History: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartDiplomatic history explores the management of relations between nation-states by the process of negotiations. From the diplomacy of the American Revolution, the diplomatic origins of the Great War and… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Siracusa, Joseph M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0192893912
- Language: English
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The Gulag: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartA vast system of prisons, camps, and exile settlements, the Gulag was one of the defining attributes of the Stalinist Soviet Union and one of the most heinous examples of mass incarceration in the twe… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Barenberg, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 0197548229
- Language: English
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On Life and Death
$16.95 Add to cartMarcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC), Rome’s greatest orator, had a career of intense activity in politics, the law courts and the administration, mostly in Rome. His fortunes, however, followed those of… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Cicero
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0199644144
- Language: English
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Ritual: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartRitual is part of what it means to be human. Like sports, music, and drama, ritual defines and enriches culture, putting those who practice it in touch with sources of value and meaning larger than th… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Stephenson, Barry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 25 2015
- ISBN10: 0199943524
- Language: English
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The Trojan War
$12.99 Add to cartThe Iliad, Homer’s epic tale of the abduction of Helen and the decade-long Trojan War, has fascinated mankind for millennia. Even today, the war inspires countless articles and books, extensive archa… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Cline, Eric H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: May 10 2013
- ISBN10: 0199760276
- Language: English
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Theaetetus
$15.95 Add to cart‘What exactly is knowledge?’
The Theaetetus is a seminal text in the philosophy of knowledge, and is acknowledged as one of Plato’s finest works. Cast as a conversation between Socrates and a clever b- Series: Oxford Worlds Classics
- Author: Plato
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0199646163
- Language: English
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Humanism: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartPeople of faith often argue that without God, there can be no morality. Indeed, without religion, our lives are left without meaning and are likely to degenerate into moral chaos. In this Very Short I… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Law, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: February 11 2011
- ISBN10: 0199553645
- Language: English
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Anthony and Cleopatra: The Oxford Shakespeareanthony and Cleopatra
$10.95 Add to cartNow available in beautiful World’s Classics editions–with handsome, four-color covers and new low prices–The Oxford Shakespeare offers new and authoritative edions of Shakespeare’s plays. In each vo… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199535787
- Language: English
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Capital
$16.95 Read moreA classic of early modernism, Capital combines vivid historical detail with economic analysis to produce a bitter denunciation of mid-Victorian capitalist society. It has proved to be the most influen… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Marx, Karl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: May 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199535701
- Language: English
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Failure: Why Science Is So Successful
$29.99 Add to cartThe general public has a glorified view of the pursuit of scientific research. However, the idealized perception of science as a rule-based, methodical system for accumulating facts could not be furth… [more below]
- Author: Firestein, Stuart
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 01 2015
- ISBN10: 019939010X
- Language: English
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Circadian Rhythms: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe earth’s daily rotation affects just about every living creature. From dawn through to dusk, there are changes in light, temperature, humidity, and rainfall. However, these changes are regular, rhy… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Foster, Russell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 23 2017
- ISBN10: 0198717687
- Language: English
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The Complete Euripides: Volume I: Trojan Women 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: 400
- Publish Date: July 15 2010
- ISBN10: 0195388674
- Language: English
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The Blues: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartPraised as “suave, soulful, ebullient” (Tom Waits) and “a meticulous researcher, a graceful writer, and a committed contrarian” (New York Times Book Review), Elijah Wald is one of the leading popular … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Wald, Elijah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: August 05 2010
- ISBN10: 0195398939
- Language: English
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Kabbalah: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartIn Kabbalah: A Very Short Introduction, Joseph Dan, one of the world’s leading authorities on Jewish mysticism, offers a concise and highly accurate look at the history and character of the various sy… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Dan, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: June 04 2007
- ISBN10: 0195327055
- Language: English
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A Brief History of the Paradox: Philosophy and the Labyrinths of the Mind
$23.99 Add to cartCan God create a stone too heavy for him to lift? Can time have a beginning? Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Riddles, paradoxes, conundrums–for millennia the human mind has found such knott… [more below]
- Author: Sorensen, Roy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 20 2005
- ISBN10: 0195179862
- Language: English
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China’s Golden Age: Everyday Life in the Tang Dynasty
$23.99 Add to cartThe Tang Dynasty (618-907), traditionally regarded as the golden age of China, was a time of patricians and intellectuals, Buddhist monks and Taoist priests, poetry and music, song and dance. In China… [more below]
- Author: Benn, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 217
- Publish Date: October 28 2004
- ISBN10: 0195176650
- Language: English
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Antigone
$13.99 Add to cartOedipus, the former ruler of Thebes, has died. Now, when his young daughter Antigone defies her uncle, Kreon, the new ruler, because he has prohibited the burial of her dead brother, she and he enact … [more below]
- Series: Greek Tragedy in New Translations (Paperback)
- Author: Sophocles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 24 2007
- ISBN10: 0195143108
- Language: English
