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Dialogues and Natural History of Religion
$9.94 Add to cartDavid Hume is one of the most provocative philosophers to have written in English. His Dialogues ask if a belief in God can be inferred from what is known of the universe, or whether such a belief is … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Hume, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199538328
- Language: English
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The French Revolution: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe French Revolution is a time of history made familiar from Dickens, Baroness Orczy, and Tolstoy, as well as the legends of let them eat cake, and tricolours. Beginning in 1789, this period of extre… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Doyle, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: February 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0198840071
- Language: English
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Music: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
The world teems with different kinds of music–traditional, folk, classical, jazz, rock, pop–and each type of music tends to come with its own wa- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Cook, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 03 2021
- ISBN10: 019872604X
- Language: English
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The Fall of Rome: And the End of Civilization
$22.99 Add to cartWas the fall of Rome a great catastrophe that cast the West into darkness for centuries to come? Or, as scholars argue today, was there no crisis at all, but simply a peaceful blending of barbarians i… [more below]
- Author: Ward-Perkins, Bryan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 07 2006
- ISBN10: 0192807285
- Language: English
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Birds and Other Plays
$11.95 Add to cartThis new verse translation of Aristophanes’ comedies offers one of the world’s great comic dramatists in a form that is both historically faithful and theatrically vigorous. Aristophanes’ plays were p… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Aristophanes
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199555672
- Language: English
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Ancient Greece: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThis highly original introduction to ancient Greece uses the history of eleven major Greek cities to illuminate the most important and informative aspects of Greek culture. Cartledge highlights the ro… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Cartledge, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: November 10 2011
- ISBN10: 0199601348
- Language: English
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and Nobody
$14.95 Add to carthus Spake Zarathustra is a masterpiece of literature as well as philosophy. It was Nietzsche’s own favorite and has proved to be his most popular. In this book he addresses the problem of how to live … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199537097
- Language: English
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The Holy Land: An Oxford Archaeological Guide from Earliest Times to 1700
$42.99 Add to cartThe geographic heart and soul of Judaism, Islam, and Christianity, the Holy Land has immense significance for the millions of visitors it has attracted since as early as the fifth century BC. Now in a… [more below]
- Series: Oxford Archaeological Guides
- Author: Murphy-O’Connor, Jerome
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: March 20 2008
- ISBN10: 0199236666
- Language: English
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Aristotle: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe influence of Aristotle, the prince of philosophers, on the intellectual history of the West is second to none. In this book, Jonathan Barnes examines Aristotle’s scientific researches, his discove… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions #32
- Author: Barnes, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 18 2001
- ISBN10: 0192854089
- Language: English
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The Gun Debate: What Everyone Needs to Know(r)
$16.95 Add to cartNo topic is more polarizing than guns and gun control. From a gun culture that took root early in American history to the mass shootings that repeatedly bring the public discussion of gun control to a… [more below]
- Series: What Everyone Needs to Know
- Author: Cook, Philip J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 346
- Publish Date: April 16 2020
- ISBN10: 0190073454
- Language: English
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Hannah Arendt: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) was one of the major intellectual figures of the twentieth century. Born in Konigsberg to secular Jewish parents, she wa- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Villa, Dana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 26 2023
- ISBN10: 0198806981
- Language: English
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The Silk Road: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe phrase “silk road” evokes vivid scenes of merchants leading camel caravans across vast stretches to trade exotic goods in glittering Oriental bazaars, of pilgrims braving bandits and frozen mounta… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Millward, James A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: April 12 2013
- ISBN10: 0199782865
- Language: English
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A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir
$28.99 Add to cart“I am hopelessly and forever a mountaineer,” John Muir wrote. “Civilization and fever and all the morbidness that has been hooted at me has not dimmed my glacial eye, and I care to live only to entice… [more below]
- Author: Worster, Donald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: May 06 2011
- ISBN10: 0199782245
- Language: English
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Communism: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartIf now in decline since the tumultuous events of 1989, communism was without doubt the great political movement of the twentieth century–at its peak, more than a third of the world’s population lived… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Holmes, Leslie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 21 2009
- ISBN10: 0199551545
- Language: English
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The Hebrew Bible as Literature: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe Hebrew Bible, or Christian Old Testament, contains some of the finest literature that we have. This biblical literature has a place not only in the synagogue or the church but also among the class… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Linafelt, Tod
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: May 10 2016
- ISBN10: 0195300076
- Language: English
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Sand and Steel: The D-Day Invasion and the Liberation of France
$40.99 Add to cartPeter Caddick-Adams’s account of the Allied invasion of France in June 1944 matches the monumental achievement of his book on the Battle of the Bulge, Snow and Steel, which Richard Overy has called th… [more below]
- Author: Caddick-Adams, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1072
- Publish Date: May 20 2019
- ISBN10: 0190601892
- Language: English
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Cognitive Behavioural Therapy: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartbVery Short Introductionsb: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring /b
Cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) is a form of psychological therapy. It is not a unitary approach, but instead has evolved through a range o- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: McManus, Freda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: July 28 2022
- ISBN10: 0198755279
- Language: English
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Sleep: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartWhy do we need sleep? What is sleep? What happens when we don’t get enough? This Very Short Introduction addresses the biological and psychological aspects of sleep, providing a basic understanding of… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Lockley, Steven W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: March 24 2012
- ISBN10: 019958785X
- Language: English
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Revolutions
$12.99 Add to cartFrom 1789 in France to 2011 in Cairo, revolutions have shaken the world. In their pursuit of social justice, revolutionaries have taken on the assembled might of monarchies, empires, and dictatorships… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Goldstone, Jack A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: February 03 2014
- ISBN10: 0199858500
- Language: English
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Alfred Tennyson: The Major Works
$14.95 Add to cartTennyson was the chief poetic voice of his age, and he remains one of the most highly regarded masters of the music and mood of verse. This authoritative edition brings together a unique combination o… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Tennyson, Alfred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: September 28 2009
- ISBN10: 0199572763
- Language: English
