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Tibetan Buddhism: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe Tibetan Buddhist tradition has known over thirteen centuries of continuous development. During that time, it has spread among the neighboring peoples – the Mongol, Himalayan, and Siberian peoples,… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Kapstein, Matthew T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: October 25 2013
- ISBN10: 0199735123
- Language: English
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Defiance
$16.98 Add to cartThe prevailing image of European Jews during the Holocaust is one of helpless victims, but in fact many Jews struggled against the terrors of the Third Reich. In Defiance, Nechama Tec offers a riveti… [more below]
- Author: Tec, Nechama
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: December 26 2008
- ISBN10: 0195376854
- Language: English
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The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
$12.99 Add to cartThe conflict between Palestine and Israel is one of the most highly publicized and bitter struggles of modern times, a dangerous tinderbox always poised to set the Middle East aflame–and to draw the
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Bunton, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 01, 2013
- ISBN10: 0199603936
- Language: English
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Rome
$39.99 Add to cartCapital and showcase of the Roman Empire and the center of Christian Europe, the city of Rome is the largest archaeological site in the world. In the new Second Edition of her popular handbook, Amanda… [more below]
- Series: Oxford Archaeological Guides
- Author: Claridge, Amanda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: September 30 2010
- ISBN10: 0199546835
- Language: English
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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
$11.95 Add to cart‘what can be said at all can be said clearly; and of what one cannot talk, about that one must be silent’
Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, first published in German in 1921 and in Englis- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Wittgenstein, Ludwig
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0198861370
- Language: English
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Jung: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThis is the most lucid and timely introduction to the thought of Carl Gustav Jung available to date. Though he was a prolific writer and an original thinker of vast erudition, Jung lacked a gift for c… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions #40
- Author: Stevens, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 07 2001
- ISBN10: 0192854585
- Language: English
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Colonial America: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartIn the traditional narrative of American colonial history, early European settlements, as well as native peoples and African slaves, were treated in passing as unfortunate aberrations in a fundamental… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Taylor, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: November 08 2012
- ISBN10: 0199766231
- Language: English
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The Bhagavad Gita
$8.94 Read moreThe Bhagavad Gita is the most widely read Hindu religious text in the Western world and a key work for understanding Indian religions and the way Hinduism has been represented in modern India and the … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Johnson, W. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 21 2009
- ISBN10: 0199538123
- Language: English
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Cleopatra: A Biography
$20.99 Add to cartFew personalities from classical antiquity are more famous–yet more poorly understood–than Cleopatra VII, queen of Egypt. In this major biography, Duane Roller reveals that Cleopatra was in fact a l… [more below]
- Series: Women in Antiquity
- Author: Roller, Duane W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0199829969
- Language: English
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The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature
$14.95 Add to cartThe Varieties of Religious Experience is William James’s classic survey of religious belief. With psychological insight and philosophical rigor, James wrote a truly foundational text for modern belief… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: James, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: July 05 2012
- ISBN10: 0199691649
- Language: English
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Jesus
$12.99 Add to cartAward-winning religious scholar Richard Bauckham here explores the historical figure of Jesus, evaluating the sources and showing that they provide us with good historical evidence for his life and te… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Bauckham, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 11 2011
- ISBN10: 0199575274
- Language: English
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Dry Tears: The Story of a Lost Childhood
$20.99 Add to cartThis is the true story of Nechama Tec, whose family found refuge with Polish Christians during the Holocaust. Dry Tears is a dramatic tale of how an eleven-year-old child learned to “pass” in the forb… [more below]
- Series: Galaxy Book #0772
- Author: Tec, Nechama
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 01 1984
- ISBN10: 0195035003
- Language: English
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The Federalist Papers
$15.95 Add to cartThe Federalist Papers–85 essays published in the winter of 1787-8 in the New York press–are some of the most crucial and defining documents in American political history, laying out the principles t… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Hamilton, Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: December 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0192805924
- Language: English
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Microbiomes: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
The term ‘microbiomes’ encapsulates an important scientific breakthrough of recent years. This is the realization that humans, other animals, and- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Douglas, Angela E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 24 2023
- ISBN10: 019887085X
- Language: English
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English-English-Hindi Dictionary
$39.95 Add to cartAccompanying CD-ROM contains: files in Linux, Mac and Windows, that allow the user to search the A to Z dictionary in English and Hindi, and listen to the pronunciation of all English headwords in the… [more below]
- Author: Kumar, Suresh
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1536
- Publish Date: November 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0198076401
- Language: English
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Rome: Strategy of Empire
$40.99 Add to cartThe first work to lay out Roman strategic thinking from its start under Augustus until its final demise in 476 CE
From Octavian’s victory at Actium (31 bc) to its traditional endpoint in the West (476- Author: Lacey, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 01 2022
- ISBN10: 019093770X
- Language: English
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The Frontlines of Peace: An Insider’s Guide to Changing the World
$31.99 Add to cartAt turns surprising, funny, and gut-wrenching, this is the hopeful story of the ordinary yet extraordinary people who have figured out how to build lasting peace in their communities
The word “peacebu- Author: Autesserre, Severine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0197530354
- Language: English
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Genes: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
In this exploration of the concept of the gene, Jonathan Slack looks at the discovery, nature, and role of genes in both evolution and development- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Slack, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0192856707
- Language: English
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Film Music: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe rich and deeply moving sounds of film music are as old as cinema. The first projected moving images were accompanied by music through a variety of performers–from single piano players to small or… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Kalinak, Kathryn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0197628036
- Language: English
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Trust: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartTrust is indispensable to our everyday lives, yet it can be dangerous. Without trusting others, we cannot function in society, or even stay alive for very long, but being overly trustful can leave us … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Hawley, Katherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 08 2012
- ISBN10: 0199697345
- Language: English
