Oxford University Press
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Foucault: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartBorn in 1926 in France, Foucault is one of those rare philosophers who has become a cult figure. Over the course of his life he dabbled in drugs, politics, and the Paris SM scene, all whilst striving … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Gutting, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: December 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0198830785
- Language: English
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Aurora Leigh
$13.95 Add to cartAurora Leigh, now available in the first critically edited and fully annotated edition for almost a century, is the foremost example of the mid-nineteenth century poem of contemporary life. It is an a… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199552339
- Language: English
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Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
$10.95 Add to cartIn 1859, Edward FitzGerald translated into English the short, epigrammatic poems (or “rub?iy?t”) of medieval Persian poet Omar Khayy?m. If not a true translation–his Omar seems to have read Shakespea… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Fitzgerald, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0199580502
- Language: English
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Climate Change: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
In the last few years global awareness of climate change has grown very rapidly – through the school strikes led by Greta Thunberg, groups like Ex- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Maslin, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: October 19 2021
- ISBN10: 0198867867
- Language: English
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Free Speech: What Everyone Needs to Know(r)
$18.95 Add to cartAn engaging guide to the most important free speech rules, rationales, and debates, including the strongest arguments for and against protecting the most controversial speech, such as hate speech and … [more below]
- Series: What Everyone Needs to Know
- Author: Strossen, Nadine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 0197699650
- Language: English
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King Lear: Oxford School Shakespeare
$12.99 Add to cartThis edition of King Lear is especially designed for students, with accessible on-page notes and explanatory illustrations, clear background information, and rigorous but accessible scholarly credenti… [more below]
- Series: Oxford School Shakespeare
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0198392222
- Language: English
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The Cold War: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
The Cold War dominated international life from the end of World War II to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. But how did the conflict begin? Why- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: McMahon, Robert J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: May 03 2021
- ISBN10: 0198859546
- Language: English
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Music and Technology: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartMark Katz surveys the age-old interrelationship between music and technology, from prehistoric musical instruments to today’s digital playback devices.
This Very Short Introduction takes an expansive- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Katz, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0199946981
- Language: English
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The Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories
$25.99 Add to cartWhen Latin American writers burst onto the world literary scene in the now famous “Boom” of the sixties, it seemed as if an entire literature had invented itself over night out of thin air. Not only w… [more below]
- Author: Gonzalez Echevarria, Roberto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: July 15 1999
- ISBN10: 0195130855
- Language: English
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Stoicism: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartStoicism is two things: a long past philosophical school of ancient Greece and Rome, and an enduring philosophical movement that still inspires people in the twenty-first century to re-think and re-or… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Inwood, Brad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: October 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0198786662
- Language: English
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Global Economic History
$12.99 Add to cartWhy are some countries rich and others poor? In 1500, global income differences were small, but disparities have grown dramatically since Columbus reached America. In this Very Short Introduction, Rob… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions #282
- Author: Allen, Robert C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 15 2011
- ISBN10: 0199596654
- Language: English
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The Misanthrope, Tartuffe, and Other Plays
$8.94 Add to cartThis unique volume brings together four of Moli?e’s greatest verse comedies covering the best years of his prolific writing career. Actor, director, and playwright, Moli?e (1622-73) was one of the fin… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Moli?re
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540187
- Language: English
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Four Comedies: The Braggart Soldier; The Brothers Menaechmus; The Haunted House; The Pot of Gold
$10.95 Add to cartPlautus was the single greatest influence on Western comedy. In fact, Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors and Moliere’s the Miser are two subsequent classics directly based on Plautine originals. Plautus h… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Plautus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 15 2008
- ISBN10: 019954056X
- Language: English
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Hermeneutics: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartHermeneutics is the branch of knowledge that deals with interpretation, a behaviour that is intrinsic to our daily lives. As humans, we decipher the meaning of newspaper articles, books, legal matters… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Zimmermann, Jens
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: December 15 2015
- ISBN10: 0199685355
- Language: English
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The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era
$31.99 Add to cartThe most sweeping account of how neoliberalism came to dominate American politics for nearly a half century before crashing against the forces of Trumpism on the right and a new progressivism on the l… [more below]
- Author: Gerstle, Gary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 0197519644
- Language: English
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The Caliph and the Imam: The Making of Sunnism and Shiism
$37.99 Add to cartThe authoritative account of Islam’s schism that for centuries has shaped events in the Middle East and the Islamic world.
In 632, soon after the Prophet Muhammad died, a struggle broke out among his- Author: Matthiesen, Toby
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 960
- Publish Date: March 09 2023
- ISBN10: 0190689463
- Language: English
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The Problems of Philosophy
$16.98 Add to cartBertrand Russell was one of the greatest logicians since Aristotle, and one of the most important philosophers of the past two hundred years. As we approach the 125th anniversary of the Nobel laureate… [more below]
- Author: Russell, Bertrand
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 02 1997
- ISBN10: 019511552X
- Language: English
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The Vampyre and Other Tales of the Macabre
$9.94 Add to cartJohn Polidori’s classic tale “The Vampyre”(1819), was a product of the same ghost-story competition that produced Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. The present volume selects thirteen other tales of myster… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Polidori, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 15 2008
- ISBN10: 019955241X
- Language: English
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How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America
$31.99 Add to cartNamed one of The Washington Post‘s 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction
While the North prevailed in the Civil War, ending slavery and giving the country a “new birth of freedom,” Heather Cox Richardson arg- Author: Richardson, Heather Cox
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0190900903
- Language: English
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The History of Astronomy
$12.99 Add to cartThis is a fascinating introduction to the history of Western astronomy, from prehistoric times to the origins of astrophysics in the mid-nineteenth century. Historical records are first found in Babyl… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Hoskin, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: July 31 2003
- ISBN10: 0192803069
- Language: English
