Oxford University Press
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Humour: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartHumour is a universal feature of human life. It has been discovered in every known human culture, and thinkers have discussed it for over two thousand years. In this Very Short Introduction Noel Carro… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Carroll, Noel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0199552223
- Language: English
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Molecular Biology: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartMolecular Biology is the story of the molecules of life, their relationships, and how these interactions are controlled. It is an expanding field in life sciences, and its applications are wide and gr… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Divan, Aysha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 01 2016
- ISBN10: 198723881
- Language: English
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Earth System Science: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartWhen humanity first glimpsed planet Earth from space, the unity of the system that supports humankind entered the popular consciousness. The concept of the Earth’s atmosphere, biosphere, oceans, soil,… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Lenton, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 01 2016
- ISBN10: 019871887X
- Language: English
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The Road to Oxiana
$19.98 Add to cartIn 1933, the delightfully eccentric travel writer Robert Byron set out on a journey through the Middle East via Beirut, Jerusalem, Baghdad and Teheran to Oxiana, near the border between Afghanistan an… [more below]
- Author: Byron, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 18 2007
- ISBN10: 0195325605
- Language: English
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The New Testament as Literature: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe words, phrases, and stories of the New Testament permeate the English language. Indeed, this relatively small group of twenty-seven works, written during the height of the Roman Empire, not only h… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Keefer, Kyle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: October 24 2008
- ISBN10: 0195300203
- Language: English
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Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew
$23.99 Add to cartThe early Christian Church was a chaos of contending beliefs. Some groups of Christians claimed that there was not one God but two or twelve or thirty. Some believed that the world had not been create… [more below]
- Author: Ehrman, Bart D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: September 15 2005
- ISBN10: 0195182499
- Language: English
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The Problem of Democracy: America, the Middle East, and the Rise and Fall of an Idea
$31.99 Add to cartShadi Hamid reimagines the ongoing debate on democracy’s merits and proposes an ambitious agenda for reviving the lost art of democracy promotion in the world’s most undemocratic regions.
What happens- Author: Hamid, Shadi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: October 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0197579469
- Language: English
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Stem Cells: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe topic of stem cells has a high profile in the media. We’ve made important advances in our scientific understanding, but despite this the clinical applications of stem cells are still in their infa… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Slack, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: December 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0198869290
- Language: English
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The Oxford History of Britain: 2021 Edition
$20.99 Add to cartA new edition of this best-selling history of Britain, from Roman times, now updated to cover the first decade of the 21st century.
The Oxford History of Britain tells the story of Britain and its peo- Author: Morgan, Kenneth O.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 896
- Publish Date: April 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0198841116
- Language: English
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The Maya: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe Maya forged one of the greatest societies in the history of the ancient Americas — and in all of human history. Long before contact with Europeans, Maya communities built spectacular cities with … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Restall, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: October 21 2020
- ISBN10: 0190645024
- Language: English
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Revolutions: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartIn their pursuit of social justice, revolutionaries have taken on the assembled might of monarchies, empires, and dictatorships. They have often, though not always, sparked cataclysmic violence, and h… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Goldstone, Jack A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: December 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0197666302
- Language: English
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The Masnavi, Book Three
$15.95 Add to cartRumi is the greatest mystic poet to have written in Persian, and the Masnavi is his masterpiece. Divided into six books and consisting of some 26,000 verses, the poem was designed to convey a message … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Rumi, Jalal Al-Din
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0199652031
- Language: English
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The Republic and the Laws
$12.95 Add to cartCicero’s The Republic is an impassioned plea for responsible government written just before the civil war that ended the Roman Republic in a dialogue following Plato. Drawing on Greek political theory… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Cicero
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 15 2009
- ISBN10: 019954011X
- Language: English
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American Women’s History: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartIn 1607, Powhatan teenager Pocahontas first encountered English settlers when John Smith was brought to her village as a captive. In 1920, the ratification of the 19th Amendment gave women the constit… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Ware, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0199328331
- Language: English
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Astrophysics: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartAstrophysics is the physics of the stars, and more widely the physics of the Universe. It enables us to understand the structure and evolution of planetary systems, stars, galaxies, interstellar gas, … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Binney, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: June 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0198752857
- Language: English
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The Oxford Spanish/English Dictionary
$49.95 Read moreCompiled by expert teams of Spanish and English lexicographers and boasting a beautiful two-color layout, the ran Diccionario Oxford provides the richest, most contemporary coverage of Spanish from ar… [more below]
- Author: Oup
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 2032
- Publish Date: July 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0195367499
- Language: English
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The Divine Comedy: Volume 2: Purgatorio
$23.99 Add to cartAn invaluable source of pleasure to those English readers who wish to read this great medieval classic with true understanding, Sinclair’s three-volume prose translation of Dante’s Divine Comedy provi… [more below]
- Series: Galaxy Books
- Author: Dante Alighieri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: December 31 1961
- ISBN10: 0195004132
- Language: English
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The Koran: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe Koran has constituted a remarkably resilient core of identity and continuity for a religious tradition that is now in its fifteenth century. In this Very Short Introduction, Michael Cook provides … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions #13
- Author: Cook, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 15 2000
- ISBN10: 0192853449
- Language: English
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The Celts: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartSavage and bloodthirsty, or civilized and peaceable? The Celts have long been a subject of enormous fascination, speculation, and misunderstanding. From the ancient Romans to the present day, their re… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions #94
- Author: Cunliffe, Barry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 28 2003
- ISBN10: 0192804189
- Language: English
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Spinoza
$12.99 Add to cartFather of the Enlightenment and the last guardian of the medieval world, Spinoza made a brilliant attempt to reconcile the conflicting moral and intellectual demands of his epoch and to present a visi… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Scruton, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 29 2002
- ISBN10: 0192803166
- Language: English
