Oxford University Press
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Angels
$12.99 Add to cartIn this lively and concise Very Short Introduction, David Albert Jones provides a crisp, broad-ranging survey of angels in theology, philosophy, and popular culture. Focusing on Judaism, Christianity,… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Jones, David Albert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 07 2011
- ISBN10: 0199547300
- Language: English
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Epidemiology: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartEpidemiology plays an all-important role in many areas of medicine, from discovering the relationship between tobacco smoking and lung cancer, to documenting the impact of diet, the environment, and e… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Saracci, Rodolfo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 05 2010
- ISBN10: 019954333X
- Language: English
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The Rover and Other Plays
$10.95 Add to cartAphra Behn (1640-89) was both successful and controversial in her own lifetime; her achievements are now recognized less equivocally and her plays, often revived, demonstrate wit, compassion and remar… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Behn, Aphra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540209
- Language: English
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Autism: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartWhat causes autism? Is it a genetic disorder, or due to some unknown environmental hazard? Are we facing an autism epidemic? What are the main symptoms, and how does it relate to Asperger syndrome? Ev… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions #195
- Author: Frith, Uta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199207569
- Language: English
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Analytic Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartOriginating in the pioneering work of Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell, G. E. Moore, and Ludwig Wittgenstein in the four decades around the turn of the twentieth century, analytic philosophy establishe… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Beaney, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: January 23 2018
- ISBN10: 0198778023
- Language: English
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Agriculture: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartAgriculture, one of the oldest human occupations, is practised all over the world, using techniques ranging from the profoundly traditional to the most scientifically advanced. Without it we would sta… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Brassley, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: July 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0198725965
- Language: English
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Demography: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe generation into which each person is born, the demographic composition of that cohort, and its relation to those born at the same time in other places influences not only a person’s life chances, … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Harper, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: July 24 2018
- ISBN10: 0198725736
- Language: English
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Human Anatomy: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartA vast subject that includes a strange vocabulary and an apparent mass of facts, human anatomy can at first appear confusing and off-putting. But the basic construction of the human body – the skeleto… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Klenerman, Leslie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: June 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0198707371
- Language: English
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The Complete Aeschylus: Volume II: Persians 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: Aeschylus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 17 2009
- ISBN10: 0195373286
- Language: English
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The Oxford Companion to Beer
$75.00 Add to cart1st Place Winner of the 2012 Gourmand Award for Best in the World in the Beer category.
For millennia, beer has been a favorite beverage in cultures across the globe. After water and tea, it is the mo- Series: Oxford Companion To… (Hardcover)
- Author: Oliver, Garrett
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 960
- Publish Date: October 07 2011
- ISBN10: 0195367138
- Language: English
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Indian Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartIndia has a long, rich, and diverse tradition of philosophical thought, spanning some two and a half millennia and encompassing several major religious traditions.
In this intriguing introduction to I- Series: Very Short Introductions #47
- Author: Hamilton, Sue
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: June 07 2001
- ISBN10: 0192853740
- Language: English
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Egyptian Myth
$12.99 Add to cartEgyptian myths articulated the core values of one of the longest lasting civilizations in history, and myths of deities such as Isis and Osiris influenced contemporary cultures and became part of the … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Pinch, Geraldine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 143
- Publish Date: July 08 2004
- ISBN10: 0192803468
- Language: English
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The Great War: A Combat History of the First World War
$22.99 Add to cartNamed one of the Ten Best Books of 2013 by The Economist
World War I altered the landscape of the modern world in every conceivable arena. Millions died; empires collapsed; new ideologies and politica- Author: Hart, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: May 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0190227354
- Language: English
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Anger and Forgiveness: Resentment, Generosity, Justice
$22.99 Add to cartAnger is not just ubiquitous, it is also popular. Many people think it is impossible to care sufficiently for justice without anger at injustice. Many believe that it is impossible for individuals to … [more below]
- Author: Nussbaum, Martha C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0190907266
- Language: English
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Orthodox Christianity: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartTo many in the West, Orthodoxy remains shrouded in mystery, an exotic and foreign religion that survived in the East following the Great Schism of 1054 that split the Christian world into two camps–C… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Siecienski, A. Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: July 09 2019
- ISBN10: 0190883278
- Language: English
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Reconstruction: A Concise History
$20.99 Add to cartThe era known as Reconstruction is one of the unhappiest times in American history. It succeeded in reuniting the nation politically after the Civil War but in little else. Conflict shifted from the b… [more below]
- Author: Guelzo, Allen C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0190865695
- Language: English
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Refuge: Rethinking Refugee Policy in a Changing World
$22.99 Add to cartGlobal refugee numbers are at their highest levels since the end of World War II, but the system in place to deal with them, based upon a humanitarian list of imagined “basic needs,” has changed littl… [more below]
- Author: Collier, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 06 2017
- ISBN10: 0190659157
- Language: English
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Planet Taco: A Global History of Mexican Food
$24.99 Add to cartAs late as the 1960s, tacos were virtually unknown outside Mexico and the American Southwest. Within fifty years the United States had shipped taco shells everywhere from Alaska to Australia, Morocco … [more below]
- Author: Pilcher, Jeffrey M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0190655771
- Language: English
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Creators, Conquerors, and Citizens: A History of Ancient Greece
$40.99 Add to cart“We Greeks are one in blood and one in language; we have temples to the gods and religious rites in common, and a common way of life.” So the fifth-century historian Herodotus has some Athenians decla… [more below]
- Author: Waterfield, Robin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: February 09 2018
- ISBN10: 019023430X
- Language: English
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Nanotechnology: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartWhat is Nanotechnology and how will it affect us? Nanobots, nanoprobes, nanoswarms, nanogenes the list goes on. Nanotechnology is a staple of science fiction and has a rather chequered history when it… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Moriarty, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0198841108
- Language: English
