USA
-
Far from the Madding Crowd
$8.94 Add to cartGabriel Oak is only one of three suitors for the hand of the beautiful and spirited Bathsheba Everdene. He must compete with the dashing young soldier Sergeant Troy and the respectable, middle-aged Fa… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Hardy, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: October 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199537011
- Language: English
-
Christian Ethics: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartChristian ethics, writes theologian D. Stephen Long, is the pursuit of God’s goodness by people “on the way” to a city not built by human hands. The cultivation of practical wisdom that comes from div… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Long, D. Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: October 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0199568863
- Language: English
-
Mathematical Analysis: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, sharp, inspiring
The 17th-century calculus of Newton and Leibniz was built on shaky foundations, and it wasn’t until the 18th and 19th centuries that mathematician- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Earl, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 22 2023
- ISBN10: 019886891X
- Language: English
-
Greek Lives
$13.95 Add to cart“I treat the narrative of the Lives as a kind of mirror…The experience is like nothing so much as spending time in their company and living with them: I receive and welcome each of them in turn as m… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Plutarch
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: April 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0199540055
- Language: English
-
Philosophical Enquiry Sublime and Beautiful
$15.95 Add to cartPaul Guyer conducts the reader through Burke’s ‘Enquiry’, focusing on its place in the history of aesthetics and highlighting its innovations, as well as its influence on many subsequent authors from … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Burke
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 154
- Publish Date: March 01 2015
- ISBN10: 019966871X
- Language: English
-
Medical Ethics: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe issues of medical ethics, from moral quandaries of euthanasia and the morality of killing to political dilemmas like fair healthcare distribution, are rarely out of today’s media. This area of eth… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Hope, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: February 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0198815603
- Language: English
-
The History of Medicine: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartAgainst the backdrop of unprecedented concern for the future of health care, this Very Short Introduction surveys the history of medicine from classical times, through the scholastic medieval traditio… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions #191
- Author: Bynum, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: August 24 2008
- ISBN10: 019921543X
- Language: English
-
The Abrahamic Religions: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartIn the book of Genesis, God bestows a new name upon Abram–Abraham, a father of many nations. With this name and his Covenant, Abraham would become the patriarch of three of the world’s major religion… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Cohen, Charles L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 08 2020
- ISBN10: 0190654341
- Language: English
-
Marine Biology: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe oceans are our planet’s most distinctive and imposing natural habitat. They cover 71 percent of its surface; support a remarkably diverse and exquisitely adapted array of life forms, from microsco… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Mladenov, Philip V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 01 2020
- ISBN10: 019884171X
- Language: English
-
Bleak House
$11.95 Add to cartBleak House, Dickens’s most daring experiment in the narration of a complex plot, challenges the reader to make connections–between the fashionable and the outcast, the beautiful and the ugly, the po… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Dickens, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 976
- Publish Date: July 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199536317
- Language: English
-
Teenage Writings
$12.95 Add to cartThree notebooks of Jane Austen’s early writings survive. The pieces probably date from 1786 or 1787, around the time that Jane, aged 11 or 12, and her older sister and collaborator Cassandra left scho… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Austen, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 26 2017
- ISBN10: 0198737459
- Language: English
-
On Obligations: de Officiis
$13.95 Add to cartCicero wrote On Obligations (De Officiis) in late 44 BC after the assassination of Julius Caesar to provide principles of behavior for aspiring politicians. It has subsequently played a seminal role i
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Cicero
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 15, 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540713
- Language: English
-
History: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThere are many stories we can tell about the past, and we are not, perhaps, as free as we might imagine in our choice of which stories to tell, or where those stories end. John Arnold’s addition to Ox… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Arnold, John H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: June 15 2000
- ISBN10: 019285352X
- Language: English
-
Nationalism: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThroughout history, humanity has borne witness to the political and moral challenges that arise when people place national identity above allegiance to geo-political states or international communitie
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Grosby, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 03, 2005
- ISBN10: 0192840983
- Language: English
-
Bacchae and Other Plays: Iphigenia Among the Taurians; Bacchae; Iphigenia at Aulis; Rhesus
$10.95 Add to cartThe four plays newly translated for this volume are among Euripides most exciting works. Iphigenia among the Taurians is a story of escape contrasting Greek and barbarian civilization, set on the Blac… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Euripides
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540527
- Language: English
-
Troilus and Criseyde
$10.95 Add to cartChaucer’s masterpiece and one of the greatest narrative poems in English, the story of the lovers Troilus and Criseyde is renowned for its deep humanity and penetrating psychological insight. This is … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0199555079
- Language: English
-
African American History: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 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. If being “American” means living in a land of freed… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Holloway, Jonathan Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0190915153
- Language: English
-
American Foreign Relations: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartFor better or worse–be it militarily, politically, economically, technologically, or culturally–Americans have had a profound role in shaping the wider world beyond them. The United States has been … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Preston, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: May 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0199899398
- Language: English
-
Agricola and Germany
$13.95 Add to cartCornelius Tacitus, Rome’s greatest historian and the last great writer of classical Latin prose, produced his first two books in AD 98, after the assination of the Emperor Domitian ended fifteen years… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Tacitus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 15 2009
- ISBN10: 019953926X
- Language: English
-
Gorgias
$8.94 Add to cartOne of Plato’s most widely read dialogues, Gorgias treats the temptations of worldly success and the rewards of the genuinely moral life. Appealing to philosophers as a classic text of moral philosoph… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Plato
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: June 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540322
- Language: English
