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By: Patrick, Graham
Organic Chemistry: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99PaperbackAdd to cartOrganic chemistry is the chemistry of compounds of carbon. The ability of carbon to link together to form long chain molecules and ring compounds as well as bonding with many other elements has led to… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Patrick, Graham
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0198759770
- Language: English
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By: Gowers, Timothy
Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99PaperbackAdd to cartThe aim of this book is to explain, carefully but not technically, the differences between advanced, research-level mathematics, and the sort of mathematics we learn at school. The most fundamental di… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Gowers, Timothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 28 2002
- ISBN10: 0192853619
- Language: English
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By: Guy, John
The Tudors: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99PaperbackAdd to cartThe monarchs of the Tudor period are among some of the most well-known figures in British history. John Guy presents a compelling and fascinating exploration of the Tudors in the new edition of this V… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Guy, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: October 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0199674728
- Language: English
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By: McManus, Freda
Psychology: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99PaperbackAdd to cartPsychology is part of everyone’s experience: it influences the way we think about everything from education and intelligence, to relationships and emotions, advertising and criminality. People readily… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: McManus, Freda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: March 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0199670420
- Language: English
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By: Dorrik Stow
Oceans: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99PaperbackAdd to cartThe importance of the oceans to life on Earth cannot be overstated. Liquid water covers more than 70% of our planet’s surface and, in past geological time, has spread over 85%. Life on Earth began in … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Stow, Dorrik
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: October 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0199655073
- Language: English
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By: Oxford Languages
Oxford Dictionary of English
$65.00HardcoverAdd to cartThe foremost single volume authority on the English language, the Oxford Dictionary of English is at the forefront of language research, focusing on English as it is used today. It is informed by the … [more below]
- Series: Oxford Dictionary of English
- Author: Oxford Languages
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 2112
- Publish Date: October 19 2010
- ISBN10: 0199571120
- Language: English
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By: Tatius, Achilles
Leucippe and Clitophon
$13.95PaperbackAdd to cartAchilles Tatius’ Leucippe and Clitophon is the most bizarre and risqu? of the five “Greek novels” of idealized love between boy and girl that survive from the time of the Roman empire. Stretching the … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Tatius, Achilles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 28 2009
- ISBN10: 0199555478
- Language: English
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Chronicle of the Abbey of Bury St. Edmunds
$13.95PaperbackAdd to cartThis narrative of events between the years 1173 and 1202–as recorded by Jocelin of Brakelond, a monk who lived in the abbey of Bury St. Edmunds, in the region of West Suffolk–affords many unique ins… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Jocelin of Brakelond
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 31 2009
- ISBN10: 0199554935
- Language: English
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Oxford American Large Print Dictionary
$26.95PaperbackAdd to cartNow in an affordable, convenient paperback edition, The Oxford American Large Print Dictionary offers visually impaired readers a vibrant language reference of the highest quality. In addition to soli… [more below]
- Author: Oxford University Press
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1456
- Publish Date: November 13 2008
- ISBN10: 0195371259
- Language: English
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By: Haffert, John M.
The World’s Greatest Secret: How the greatest teaching of Jesus was preserved
$14.95PaperbackAdd to cartThe greatest, most controversial teaching of Jesus became the most sacred “secret” during the perilous Roman persecutions. Now the ancient catacombs shed light on how this “secret” was carefully prese
- Author: Haffert, John M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: July 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1733258116
- Language: English
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Major Works
$18.95PaperbackAdd 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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By: Bede
The Ecclesiastical History of the English People/The Greater Ch Ronicle/Bede’s Letter to Egbert
$13.95PaperbackAdd 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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Social Contract
$9.94PaperbackAdd 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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By: Eric Rauchway
The Great Depression and the New Deal: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99PaperbackAdd 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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By: Seth, Michael J.
Korea: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99PaperbackAdd 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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By: Thomas Carlyle
Past and Present
$8.94PaperbackAdd to cartThomas Carlyle’s Past and Present (1843) was a prophetic warning of impending disaster for mid-Victorian Britain that was delivered in what the author described as a ‘miraculous thunder-voice, from ou… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Carlyle, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: July 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0198841086
- Language: English
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By: Richard Toye
Rhetoric: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99PaperbackAdd to cartRhetoric was once an essential part of western education. Aristotle wrote an important treatise on it and Demosthenes remains famous to this day for his skills as a rhetorician. But skill with rhetori… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Toye, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: May 08 2013
- ISBN10: 0199651361
- Language: English
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By: Gribbin, John
Galaxies: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99PaperbackAdd to cartIn this fascinating Very Short Introduction, popular science writer John Gribben tells the story of our growing understanding of galaxies, from the days before Galileo to our present-day observations … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Gribbin, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: June 02 2008
- ISBN10: 0199234345
- Language: English
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By: Dodds, Klaus
The Arctic: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99PaperbackAdd to cartVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
The Arctic is demanding global attention. It is warming, melting, and thawing in a manner that threatens fundamental state-change. For communiti- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Dodds, Klaus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0198819285
- Language: English
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Viruses: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99PaperbackAdd to cartbVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring /b
Viruses are everywhere, and as the COVID-19 pandemic has shown, cannot be ignored. From their discovery to the unravelling of their intricate- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Crawford, Dorothy H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: January 26 2023
- ISBN10: 0192865064
- Language: English




















