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The Oxford Dictionary of American Usage and Style
$27.99 Add to cartWhat’s the singular of paparazzi? Is graffiti singular or plural? What about kudos? Should I say empathic or empathetic? Is it a couple of dozen or a couple dozen? What’s the correct pronunciation of … [more below]
- Author: Garner, Bryan A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 13 2000
- ISBN10: 0195135083
- Language: English
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The Diary of Dawid Sierakowiak: Five Notebooks from the Lodz Ghetto
$23.99 Add to cart“In the evening I had to prepare food and cook supper, which exhausted me totally. In politics there’s absolutely nothing new. Again, out of impatience I feel myself beginning to fall into melancholy…. [more below]
- Author: Sierakowiak, Dawid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 14 1998
- ISBN10: 0195122852
- Language: English
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Chaos: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartChaos exists in systems all around us. Even the simplest system can be subject to chaos, denying us accurate predictions of its behavior, and sometimes giving rise to astonishing structures of large-s… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Smith, Lenny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 16 2007
- ISBN10: 0192853783
- Language: English
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The Allure of Battle: A History of How Wars Have Been Won and Lost
$25.99 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 728
- Publish Date: March 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0190931515
- Language: English
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Armies of Sand: The Past, Present, and Future of Arab Military Effectiveness
$40.99 Add to cartSince the Second World War, Arab armed forces have consistently punched below their weight. They have lost many wars that by all rights they should have won, and in their best performances only ever a… [more below]
- Author: Pollack, Kenneth M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 696
- Publish Date: January 15 2019
- ISBN10: 0190906960
- Language: English
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The Betrayal: The 1919 World Series and the Birth of Modern Baseball
$21.99 Add to cartIn the most famous scandal of sports history, eight Chicago White Sox players–including Shoeless Joe Jackson–agreed to throw the 1919 World Series to the Cincinnati Reds in exchange for the promise … [more below]
- Author: Fountain, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: October 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0190679182
- Language: English
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The Treaty of Versailles: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartSigned on June 28, 1919 between Germany and the principal Allied powers, the Treaty of Versailles formally ended World War I. Problematic from the very beginning, even its contemporaries saw the treat… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Neiberg, Michael S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 25 2019
- ISBN10: 0190644982
- Language: English
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Wounded: A New History of the Western Front in World War I
$20.99 Add to cartThe number of soldiers wounded in World War I is, in itself, devastating: over 21 million military wounded, and nearly 10 million killed. On the battlefield, the injuries were shocking, unlike anythin… [more below]
- Author: Mayhew, Emily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 01 2016
- ISBN10: 019045444X
- Language: English
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Life and Times of Frederick Douglass: Written by Himself
$12.95 Add to cart‘It will be seen in these pages that I have lived several lives in one: first, the life of slavery; secondly, the life of a fugitive from slavery; thirdly, the life of comparative freedom; fourthly, t… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: October 28 2022
- ISBN10: 0198835329
- Language: English
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Theodor W. Adorno: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartbVery Short Introductionsb: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring /b
T.W. Adorno (1903-69) was a German philosopher and social and cultural theorist. His work has come to be seen as increasingly relevant to und- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Bowie, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: August 26 2022
- ISBN10: 0198833865
- Language: English
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Navigating Life with Dementia
$23.99 Add to cartCaregiving for a loved one with Alzheimer’s disease or dementia is hard but with this book, you and your family will successfully face the challenges that these diseases present.
Dementia is a very co- Series: Brain and Life Books
- Author: Noble, James M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0190495685
- Language: English
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Education: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartSince the early Egyptians human beings have formalised the business of learning, setting up a designated environment of some form to pass knowledge and learning on to groups of students. In this secon… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Thomas, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: December 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0198859082
- Language: English
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The Fall of Robespierre: 24 Hours in Revolutionary Paris
$40.99 Add to cartThe day of 9 Thermidor (27 July 1794) is universally acknowledged as a major turning-point in the history of the French Revolution. At 12.00 midnight, Maximilien Robespierre, the most prominent member… [more below]
- Author: Jones, Colin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: November 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0198715951
- Language: English
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Philosophical Method: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartWhat are philosophers trying to achieve? How can they succeed? Does philosophy make progress? Is it in competition with science, or doing something completely different, or neither?
Timothy Williamson- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Williamson, Timothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0198810008
- Language: English
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Biogeography: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartBiogeography is the study of geographic variation in all characteristics of life – ranging from genetic, morphological and behavioural variation among regional populations of a species, to geographic … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Lomolino, Mark V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0198850069
- Language: English
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Music by Max Steiner: The Epic Life of Hollywood’s Most Influential Composer
$40.99 Add to cartDuring a seven-decade career that spanned from 19th century Vienna to 1920s Broadway to the golden age of Hollywood, three-time Academy Award winner Max Steiner did more than any other composer to int… [more below]
- Series: Cultural Biographies
- Author: Smith, Steven C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: May 14 2020
- ISBN10: 0190623276
- Language: English
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The Middle Ages: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe Middle Ages is a term coined around 1450 to describe a thousand years of European History. In this Very Short Introduction, Miri Rubin provides an exploration of the variety, change, dynamism, and… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Rubin, Miri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: December 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0199697299
- Language: English
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Medieval Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartFor many of us, the term ‘medieval philosophy’ conjures up the figure of Thomas Aquinas, and is closely intertwined with religion. In this Very Short Introduction John Marenbon shows how medieval phil… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Marenbon, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: April 01 2016
- ISBN10: 019966322X
- Language: English
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Propertius: The Poems
$12.95 Add to cartOf all the great classical love poets, Propertius (c. 50-10 BC) is surely one of those with most immediate appeal for readers today. His helpless infatuation for the sinister figure of his mistress Cy… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Propertius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 28 2009
- ISBN10: 0199555923
- Language: English
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York Mystery Plays: A Selection in Modern Spelling
$14.95 Add to cartThe York Corpus Christi cycle is the oldest and best-known of the English mystery cycles, and its depth and scope are reflected in the selection of twenty-two pageants offered in this volume. Included… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Beadle, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 31 2009
- ISBN10: 0199552533
- Language: English
