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Leaves of Grass
$11.99 Add to cart‘I spring from the pages into your arms’
Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass stands as one of the most influential and innovative literary works of the last two hundred years. Widely credited as the origin- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Whitman, Walt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: December 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0192894447
- Language: English
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J.R.R. Tolkien: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
J.R.R. Tolkien was the author of two of the most extraordinary, most original, and most popular books of the twentieth century: The Hobbit, and T- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Townend, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: December 26 2024
- ISBN10: 019288204X
- Language: English
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Feminist Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
Katharine Jenkins offers an introduction to feminist philosophy, giving the reader an idea of what it is, why it is important, and how to think abo… [more below]- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Jenkins, Katharine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 24 2025
- ISBN10: 0192858076
- Language: English
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Authoritarianism: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartAuthoritarianism is one of the buzzwords of our age. But what is it exactly? This Very Short Introduction provides a comprehensive overview of the world of authoritarian regimes, including military, s… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Loxton, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 23 2025
- ISBN10: 0192872699
- Language: English
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The Battle of Manila: Poisoned Victory in the Pacific War
$29.99 Add to cartA thrilling and in-depth look at the battle for Manila, the third-bloodiest battle of World War II and the culmination point of the war in the Pacific theater.
In 1945 the United States and Japan foug- Author: Sarantakes, Nicholas Evan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: February 03 2025
- ISBN10: 0199948852
- Language: English
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Northanger Abbey
$7.99 Add to cart‘No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be an heroine.’
Northanger Abbey is a comedy about reading and misreading-of books and the world-and about d- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Austen, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 12 2024
- ISBN10: 019884106X
- Language: English
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Sylvia Plath: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartSylvia Plath is one of the most influential and iconic American writers of the twentieth century, popular with academic and general audiences alike. Plath, who died at age 30, left behind a body of wo… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Clark, Heather
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 21 2024
- ISBN10: 0198841477
- Language: English
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Romeo and Juliet: The New Oxford Shakespeare
$8.99 Add to cart‘A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life’
This edition provides a clear and accessible introduction to Shakespeare’s enduring tale of ill-fated lovers. Hannah August pays particular attention to- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 11 2024
- ISBN10: 0192866362
- Language: English
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Social Entrepreneurship: What Everyone Needs to Know(r)
$16.95 Add to cartIn development circles, there is now widespread consensus that social entrepreneurs represent a far better mechanism to respond to needs than we have ever had before–a decentralized and emergent forc… [more below]
- Series: What Everyone Needs to Know (Paperback)
- Author: Bornstein, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 16 2010
- ISBN10: 0195396332
- Language: English
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Patriot Presidents: From George Washington to John Quincy Adams
$29.99 Add to cartA nuanced account of the early leaders who shaped the American presidency
The founding fathers of the United States created a unique institution, the presidency, as they were determined to authorize a- Author: Leuchtenburg, William E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 29 2024
- ISBN10: 0197598854
- Language: English
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The Rule of Law: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cart- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Huq, Aziz Z.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: September 04 2024
- ISBN10: 197657427
- Language: English
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Taken at the Flood: The Roman Conquest of Greece
$31.99 Add to cartIs there anyone on earth who is so narrow-minded or uninquisitive that he could fail to want to know how and thanks to what kind of political system almost the entire known world was conquered and bro… [more below]
- Series: Ancient Warfare and Civilization
- Author: Waterfield, Robin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: April 07 2014
- ISBN10: 0199916896
- Language: English
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The Religion Clauses: The Case for Separating Church and State
$28.99 Add to cartThroughout American history, views on the proper relationship between the state and religion have been deeply divided. And, with recent changes in the composition of the Supreme Court, First Amendment… [more below]
- Series: Inalienable Rights
- Author: Chemerinsky, Erwin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0190699736
- Language: English
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The Cause of Freedom: A Concise History of African Americans
$22.99 Add to cartWhat does it mean to be an American? The story of the African American past demonstrates the difficulty of answering this seemingly simple question.
What does it mean to be an American? The story of t- Author: Holloway, Jonathan Scott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 04 2021
- ISBN10: 0190915196
- Language: English
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Human Physiology: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
Physiology is the science of life, and sets out to understand how living things work and what makes them distinct from the non-living. It consider- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Davies, Jamie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: August 03 2021
- ISBN10: 0198869886
- Language: English
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The Education Debate: What Everyone Needs to Know(r)
$18.95 Add to cartA compelling overview of the major debates in contemporary education policy.
In statehouses, school boards, and communities across the US, battles are raging over the direction of education policy–fr- Series: What Everyone Needs to Knowrg
- Author: Kirp, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0197531326
- Language: English
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Oxford Companion to World Mythology
$28.99 Add to cartIn The Oxford Companion to World Mythology, David Leeming explores the role of mythology in history, revealing how the dreams of specific cultures add up to the larger collective story of humanity.
Ap- Series: Oxford Companion To… (Paperback)
- Author: Leeming, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: March 13 2009
- ISBN10: 0195387082
- Language: English
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Myth: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartWhere do myths come from? What is their function and what do they mean?
In this Very Short Introduction Robert Segal introduces the array of approaches used to understand the study of myth. These appr- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Segal, Robert A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0198724705
- Language: English
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Psychopathy: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartPsychopathy is a personality disorder that has long captured the public imagination. Newspaper column inches have been devoted to murderers with psychopathic features, and we also encounter psychopath… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Viding, Essi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: January 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0198802269
- Language: English
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Philosophy of Biology: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartOver the last forty years the philosophy of biology has emerged as an important sub-discipline of the philosophy of science. Covering some of science’s most divisive topics, such as philosophical issu… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Okasha, Samir
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: February 01 2020
- ISBN10: 019880699X
- Language: English
