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Silent Film: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartEncompassing the thirty-five year span between the initial development of film technology in the mid-1890s and the adoption of synchronized sound in the late 1920s, the cinema’s silent era is both one… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Kornhaber, Donna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: October 21 2020
- ISBN10: 0190852526
- Language: English
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Oxford Spanish Mini Dictionary
$7.95 Add to cartThis is the reissued Oxford Spanish Mini Dictionary – now in an attractive new format.
This small dictionary offers the most accurate and up-to-date coverage of essential, everyday vocabulary with ove- Author: Oxford Languages
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: December 02 2012
- ISBN10: 0199692696
- Language: English
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The Winter’s Tale: The Oxford Shakespearethe Winter’s Tale
$10.95 Add to cartThe Winter’s Tale is Shakespeare’s most fully realized tragicomedy, noted for the richness and complexity of its poetry. Though the title may suggest an escapist fantasy, recent criticism has seen in … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199535914
- Language: English
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African American Religion
$12.99 Add to cartSince the first African American denomination was established in Philadelphia in 1818, churches have gone beyond their role as spiritual guides in African American communities and have served as civic… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions #397
- Author: Glaude Jr, Eddie S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 24 2014
- ISBN10: 0195182898
- Language: English
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Catiline’s Conspiracy, the Jugurthine War, Histories
$15.95 Add to cartSallust was one of the first classical historians to move beyond a dry recitation of fact to paint sharp-edged portraits of the moral and political degeneration of the Roman Republic. Sallust’s abrupt… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Sallust
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 06 2010
- ISBN10: 0192823450
- Language: English
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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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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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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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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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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
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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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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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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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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
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The Homeric Hymns
$12.95 Add to cartMost people are familiar, at least by repute, with Homer’s two great epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey, but few are aware that other poems survive that were attributed to Homer in ancient times. The Ho… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Crudden, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 188
- Publish Date: October 19 2009
- ISBN10: 0199554757
- Language: English
