Oxford University Press
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Rome: An Empire’s Story
$22.99 Add to cartRome in the archaic age was a minor satellite between the Etruscan and Greek world. This book traces the expansion of Roman influence first within Italy, then around the Mediterranean world and finall… [more below]
- Author: Woolf, Greg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 10 2021
- ISBN10: 0190687452
- Language: English
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In God’s Path: The Arab Conquests and the Creation of an Islamic Empire
$23.99 Add to cartIn just over a hundred years–from the death of the Mohammed in 632 to the beginning of the Abbasid Caliphate in 750–the followers of the Prophet swept across the whole of the Middle East, North Afri… [more below]
- Series: Ancient Warfare and Civilization
- Author: Hoyland, Robert G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0190618574
- Language: English
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The Four Ages of American Foreign Policy: Weak Power, Great Power, Superpower, Hyperpower
$40.99 Add to cartA new and unique framework for understanding the history of the foreign policy of the United States.
The United States is now nearly 250 years old. It arose from humble beginnings, as a strip of mostly… [more below]- Author: Mandelbaum, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: June 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0197621791
- Language: English
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Creativity: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
For thousands of years humanity has engaged in creative expression, allowing us to relate to other people, contribute to shared culture, build an- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Glăveanu, Vlad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 03 2021
- ISBN10: 0198842996
- Language: English
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The Movement: The African American Struggle for Civil Rights
$20.99 Add to cartThe civil rights movement was among the most important historical developments of the twentieth century and one of the most remarkable mass movements in American history. Not only did it decisively ch… [more below]
- Author: Holt, Thomas C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 28 2021
- ISBN10: 0197525792
- Language: English
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Chemistry: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartMost people remember chemistry from their schooldays as largely incomprehensible, a subject that was fact-rich but understanding-poor, smelly, and so far removed from the real world of events and plea… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Atkins, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0199683972
- Language: English
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The Welfare State: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartWelfare states vary across nations and change over time. And the balance between markets and government; free enterprise and social protection is perennially in question. But all developed societies h… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Garland, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: June 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0199672660
- Language: English
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Liberalism: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartLiberalism is one of the most central and pervasive political theories and ideologies, yet it is subject to different interpretations as well as misappropriations. Its history carries a crucial herita… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Freeden, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0199670439
- Language: English
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Oxford Essential Arabic Dictionary
$19.95 Add to cartThe Arab-speaking nations are becoming more and more important in American and world affairs, but there are few reliable language resources to help bridge the gap between languages and culture. The Ox… [more below]
- Author: Oxford Languages
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 05 2010
- ISBN10: 019956115X
- Language: English
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Collected Poems and Other Verse
$16.95 Add to cartSt?phane Mallarm? was the most radically innovative of nineteenth-century poets, and a key figure in Modernism. His writings, with their richly sensuous texture and air of slyly intangible mystery, pe… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Mallarm?, St?phane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199537925
- Language: English
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Environmental Law: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartEnvironmental law is the law concerned with environmental problems. It is a vast area of law that operates from the local to the global, involving a range of different legal and regulatory techniques…. [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Fisher, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0198794185
- Language: English
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North American Indians: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartWhen Europeans first arrived in North America, between five and eight million indigenous people were already living there. But how did they come to be here? What were their agricultural, spiritual, an… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Perdue, Theda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 16 2010
- ISBN10: 0195307542
- Language: English
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Canaan Land: A Religious History of African Americans
$17.98 Add to cartThroughout African-American history, religion has been indelibly intertwined with the fight against intolerance and racial prejudice. Martin Luther King, Jr.-America’s best-known champion of civil lib… [more below]
- Series: Religion in American Life
- Author: Raboteau, Albert J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: February 22 2001
- ISBN10: 0195145852
- Language: English
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The Ethical Algorithm: The Science of Socially Aware Algorithm Design
$28.99 Add to cartOver the course of a generation, algorithms have gone from mathematical abstractions to powerful mediators of daily life. Algorithms have made our lives more efficient, more entertaining, and, sometim… [more below]
- Author: Kearns, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: November 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0190948205
- Language: English
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World Ablaze: The Rise of Martin Luther and the Birth of the Reformation
$31.99 Add to cartOctober 2017 marks five hundred years since Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the church door in Wittenberg and launched the Protestant Reformation. At least, that’s what the legend says. But with… [more below]
- Author: Harline, Craig
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 314
- Publish Date: October 03 2017
- ISBN10: 0190275189
- Language: English
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Non-Toxic: Guide to Living Healthy in a Chemical World
$23.99 Add to cartThere is no question that our environment has changed dramatically over the past few decades. The influx of thousands of toxic chemicals that seep into every aspect of our lives wreaking havoc on our … [more below]
- Series: Dr Weil’s Healthy Living Guides
- Author: Cohen, Aly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 08 2020
- ISBN10: 0190082356
- Language: English
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Forensic Science: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartForensic science is a subject of wide fascination. What happens at a crime scene? How does DNA profiling work? How can it help solve crimes that happened 20 years ago? In forensic science, a criminal … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Fraser, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: May 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0198834411
- Language: English
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Dividing the Spoils: The War for Alexander the Great’s Empire
$22.99 Add to cartAlexander the Great conquered an enormous empire–stretching from Greece to the Indian subcontinent–and his death triggered forty bloody years of world-changing events. These were years filled with h… [more below]
- Series: Ancient Warfare and Civilization
- Author: Waterfield, Robin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0199931526
- Language: English
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Backpacking with the Saints: Wilderness Hiking as Spiritual Practice
$28.99 Add to cartCarrying only basic camping equipment and a collection of the world’s great spiritual writings, Belden C. Lane embarks on solitary spiritual treks through the Ozarks and across the American Southwest…. [more below]
- Author: Lane, Belden C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0199927812
- Language: English
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Fowler’s Dictionary of Modern English Usage
$44.99 Add to cartWhy literally shouldn’t be taken literally. Why Americans think home in on something is a mistake and Brits think hone in is. Is it OK to spell OK okay? What’s wrong with hence why? Was Alanis Morrise… [more below]
- Author: Butterfield, Jeremy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 928
- Publish Date: June 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0199661359
- Language: English
