Oxford University Press
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Invasive Species: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartToday there is no place on Earth that does not harbour invasive exotic species. Invasive plants and animals can be found on every continent, including Antarctica, and within all waterbodies, including… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Lockwood, Julie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 22 2023
- ISBN10: 0198818289
- Language: English
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Engineering: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartEngineering is part of almost everything we do–from the buildings we live in and the roads and railways we travel on, to the telephones and computers we use to communicate and the X-ray machines that… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Blockley, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: March 24 2012
- ISBN10: 0199578699
- Language: English
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Major Works
$18.95 Add to cartSamuel Taylor Coleridge, poet, critic, and radical thinker, exerted an enormous influence over contemporaries as varied as Wordsworth, Southey and Lamb. He was also a dedicated reformer, and set out t… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: January 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199537917
- Language: English
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The Ecclesiastical History of the English People/The Greater Ch Ronicle/Bede’s Letter to Egbert
$13.95 Add to cartThe Ecclesiastical History of the English People (731 AD) is Bede’s most famous work. As well as providing the authoritative Colgrave translation of the Ecclesiastical History, this edition includes a… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Bede
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: April 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0199537232
- Language: English
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Oxford Beginner’s Japanese Dictionary
$16.95 Add to cartEach Oxford Beginner’s Bilingual Dictionary is designed to offer English speaking adult learners a comprehensive, straightforward introduction to foreign languages, covering all the vocabulary needed … [more below]
- Author: Oxford Languages
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 16 2006
- ISBN10: 0199298521
- Language: English
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Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right
$31.99 Add to cartWorshipped by her fans, denounced by her enemies, and forever shadowed by controversy and scandal, the novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand was a powerful thinker whose views on government and markets sh
- Author: Burns, Jennifer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 19 2009
- ISBN10: 0195324870
- Language: English
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Highly Irregular: Why Tough, Through, and Dough Don’t Rhyme–And Other Oddities of the English Language
$23.99 Add to cartMaybe you’ve been speaking English all your life, or maybe you learned it later on. But whether you use it just well enough to get your daily business done, or you’re an expert with a red pen who neve… [more below]
- Author: Okrent, Arika
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0197539408
- Language: English
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Postcolonialism: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartPostcolonialism explores the political, social, and cultural effects of decolonization, continuing the anti-colonial deconstruction of western dominance. This Very Short Introduction discusses both th… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Young, Robert J. C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: January 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0198856830
- Language: English
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The Oxford New Greek Dictionary: The Essential Resource, Revised and Updated
$9.99 Add to cartAn essential dictionary for the student of modern Greek language that is freshly revised and updated with the latest words and expressions.
Contains:
– More than 40,000 words and phrases
– More than- Author: Oxford University Press
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: July 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0425222438
- Language: English
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Social Contract
$9.94 Add to cartRevolutionary in its own time and controversial to this day, this work is a permanent classic of political theory and a key source of democratic belief. Rousseau’s concepts of “the general will” as a … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0199538964
- Language: English
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Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
$34.99 Add to cartA New York Times bestseller
Superintelligence asks the questions: What happens when machines surpass humans in general intelligence? Will artificial agents save or destroy us? Nick Bostrom lays the fo- Author: Bostrom, Nick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 03 2014
- ISBN10: 0199678111
- Language: English
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The Aztecs: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThis Very Short Introduction employs the disciplines of history, religious studies, and anthropology as it illuminates the complexities of Aztec life. Readers meet a people highly skilled in sculpture… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Carrasco, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: December 14 2011
- ISBN10: 0195379381
- Language: English
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Introduction to Islam
$22.99 Add to cartFrom one of the most prominent intellectuals in the Muslim world comes a timely new introduction to one of the world’s most practiced-and most misunderstood-religions. In frank, unapologetic language,… [more below]
- Author: Ramadan, Tariq
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 10 2017
- ISBN10: 0190467487
- Language: English
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The Great Depression and the New Deal: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe New Deal shaped our nation’s politics for decades, and was seen by many as tantamount to the “American Way” itself. Now, in this superb compact history, Eric Rauchway offers an informed account of… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Rauchway, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 10 2008
- ISBN10: 0195326342
- Language: English
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Atheism: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartAtheism is often considered to be a negative or pessimistic belief which is characterized by a rejection of values and purpose and a fierce opposition to religion. This Very Short Introduction sets ou… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Baggini, Julian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0198856792
- Language: English
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Korea: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartHaving spent centuries in the shadows of its neighbours China and Japan, Korea is now the object of considerable interest for radically different reasons– the South as an economic success story and f… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Seth, Michael J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 29 2020
- ISBN10: 0198830777
- Language: English
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The Enlightenment: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartA foundational moment in the history of modern European thought, the Enlightenment continues to be a reference point for philosophers, scholars and opinion-formers. To many it remains the inspiration … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Robertson, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: December 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0199591784
- Language: English
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Anthropocene: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe proposal that the impact of humanity on the planet has left a distinct footprint, even on the scale of geological time, has recently gained much ground. Global climate change, shifting global cycl… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Ellis, Erle C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 22 2018
- ISBN10: 0198792980
- Language: English
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Dictionary of African Mythology: The Mythmaker as Storyteller
$20.99 Add to cartThis collection of fascinating and revealing tales captures the sprawling diversity of African mythology. Four hundred alphabetically arranged entries touch on virtually every aspect of African religi
- Author: Scheub, Harold
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 11 2002
- ISBN10: 019512457X
- Language: English
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By the Spear: Philip II, Alexander the Great, and the Rise and Fall of the Macedonian Empire
$23.99 Add to cartAlexander the Great, arguably the most exciting figure from antiquity, waged war as a Homeric hero and lived as one, conquering native peoples and territories on a superhuman scale. From the time he i… [more below]
- Series: Ancient Warfare and Civilization
- Author: Worthington, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0190614641
- Language: English
