Oxford University Press
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The Ice Age: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe study of the Quaternary ice age has revolutionized ideas about Earth system change and the pace of landscape and ecosystem dynamics. The Ice Age: A Very Short Introduction looks at evidence from t… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Woodward, Jamie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: March 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0199580693
- Language: English
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Miss Julie and Other Plays
$10.95 Add to cartThis edition embraces Strindberg’s crucial transition from Naturalism to Modernism, from his two finest achievements as a psychological realist, The Father and Miss Julie, to the three plays in which … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Strindberg, August
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199538042
- Language: English
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Human Evolution: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThis Very Short Introduction traces the history of paleoanthropology from its beginnings in the eighteenth century to the latest fossil finds. Although concentrating on the fossil evidence for human e… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Wood, Bernard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 27 2019
- ISBN10: 0198831749
- Language: English
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World Music: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe term ‘world music’ encompasses both folk and popular music across the globe, as well as the sounds of cultural encounter and diversity, sacred voices raised in worship, local sounds, and universal… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Bohlman, Philip V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0198829140
- Language: English
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The Conquistadors
$12.99 Add to cartWith startling speed, Spanish conquistadors invaded hundreds of Native American kingdoms, took over the mighty empires of the Aztecs and Incas, and initiated an unprecedented redistribution of the wor… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Restall, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 24 2012
- ISBN10: 0195392299
- Language: English
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The Old Testament: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartEminent biblical scholar Michael D. Coogan offers here a wide-ranging and stimulating exploration of the Old Testament, illuminating its importance as history, literature, and sacred text.
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- Author: Coogan, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 28 2008
- ISBN10: 0195305051
- Language: English
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The Oxford Grammar of Classical Greek
$21.99 Add to cartThe Oxford Grammar of Classical Greek gives clear, concise, and easily understood explanations of all the key points of Classical Greek grammar. With additional features such as a glossary of grammati… [more below]
- Author: Morwood, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 10 2003
- ISBN10: 0195218515
- Language: English
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Medea
$13.99 Add to cartThe Greek Tragedy in New Translations series is based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves, or who work in collaboration with poets, can properly re-create the celebrate… [more below]
- Series: Greek Tragedy in New Translations (Paperback)
- Author: Euripides
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 10 2006
- ISBN10: 0195145666
- Language: English
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Nietzsche: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartWith his well-known idiosyncrasies and aphoristic style, Friedrich Nietzsche is always bracing and provocative, and temptingly easy to dip into. Michael Tanner’s introduction to the philosopher’s life… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions #34
- Author: Tanner, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: February 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0192854143
- Language: English
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Politics: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartIn A Very Short Introduction to Politics, Kenneth Minogue begins with a discussion of issues arising from a historical account of politics, and goes on to offer chapters dealing with the Ancient Greek… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Minogue, Kenneth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 15 2000
- ISBN10: 0192853880
- Language: English
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On Truth
$14.99 Add to cartTruth is not just a recent topic of contention. Arguments about it have gone on for centuries. Why is the truth important? Who decides what the truth is? Is there such a thing as objective, eternal tr… [more below]
- Author: Blackburn, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 02 2018
- ISBN10: 0190867213
- Language: English
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Armies of Deliverance: A New History of the Civil War
$40.99 Add to cartLoyal Americans marched off to war in 1861 not to conquer the South but to liberate it. So argues Elizabeth R. Varon in Armies of Deliverance, a sweeping narrative of the Civil War and a bold new inte… [more below]
- Author: Varon, Elizabeth R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: March 13 2019
- ISBN10: 019086060X
- Language: English
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The War That Forged a Nation: Why the Civil War Still Matters
$16.98 Add to cartMore than 140 years ago, Mark Twain observed that the Civil War had “uprooted institutions that were centuries old, changed the politics of a people, transformed the social life of half the country, a
- Author: McPherson, James M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 01, 2017
- ISBN10: 0190658533
- Language: English
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The Happy Traveler: Unpacking the Secrets of Better Vacations
$25.99 Add to cartTravel is one of the most sought-after experiences in life. It has the singular ability to capture our imaginations, serving as a canvas onto which we project our deepest desires and needs: escape, re… [more below]
- Author: Kurtz, Jaime
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 29 2017
- ISBN10: 0190638982
- Language: English
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War and Technology: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Read moreThe war instinct is part of human nature, but the means to fight war depend on technology. Alex Roland traces the co-evolution of technology and warfare from the Stone Age to the age of cyberwar, desc… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Roland, Alex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: October 03 2016
- ISBN10: 0190605383
- Language: English
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World War II at Sea: A Global History
$40.99 Add to cartAuthor of Lincoln and His Admirals (winner of the Lincoln Prize), The Battle of Midway (Best Book of the Year, Military History Quarterly), and Operation Neptune, (winner of the Samuel Eliot Morison A… [more below]
- Author: Symonds, Craig L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 792
- Publish Date: May 02 2018
- ISBN10: 0190243678
- Language: English
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The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation
$25.99 Add to cartGeorge Washington’s place in the foundations of the Republic remains unrivalled. His life story–from his beginnings as a surveyor and farmer, to colonial soldier in the Virginia Regiment, leader of t… [more below]
- Author: Calloway, Colin G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: September 01 2019
- ISBN10: 019005669X
- Language: English
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Prophets Without Honor: The 2000 Camp David Summit and the End of the Two-State Solution
$34.99 Add to cartA high-level insider’s history of the efforts to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, from 2000 Camp David Talks to the present, that explains why successive attempts have all failed.
The clash be… [more below]- Author: Ben-Ami, Shlomo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0190060476
- Language: English
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Smashing the Liquor Machine: A Global History of Prohibition
$40.99 Add to cartThis is the history of temperance and prohibition as you’ve never read it before: redefining temperance as a progressive, global, pro-justice movement that affected virtually every significant world l… [more below]
- Author: Schrad, Mark Lawrence
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: September 10 2021
- ISBN10: 0190841575
- Language: English
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What Everyone Needs to Know about Islam
$21.95 Add to cartSince the terrorist attacks of September 11th, there has been an overwhelming demand for information about Islam, and recent events – the war in Iraq, terrorist attacks both failed and successful, deb… [more below]
- Series: What Everyone Needs to Know (Hardcover)
- Author: Esposito, John L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 13 2011
- ISBN10: 0199794138
- Language: English
