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The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartMore than ever before, the Renaissance stands out as one of the defining moments in world history. Between 1400 and 1600, European perceptions of society, culture, politics and even humanity itself em… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Brotton, Jerry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 15 2006
- ISBN10: 0192801635
- Language: English
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The Founding Fathers: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe Founding Fathers is a concise, accessible overview of the brilliant, flawed, and quarrelsome group of lawyers, politicians, merchants, military men, and clergy known as “the Founding Fathers”–who… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Bernstein, R. B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: December 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0190273518
- Language: English
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India in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know
$16.95 Add to cartAccording to current projections, India will overtake China to become the most populous country on Earth by 2050. Its 1.6 billion people will live in the world’s second-largest economy, after China bu… [more below]
- Series: What Everyone Needs to Know
- Author: Kamdar, Mira
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0199973598
- Language: English
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Greek Lyric Poetry
$13.95 Add to cartThe Greek lyric, elegiac, and iambic poets of the two centuries from 650 to 450 B.C.–greats such as Sappho, Anacreon, and Simonides–produced some of the finest poetry of antiquity. Their poetry was … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: West, M. L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 15 2008
- ISBN10: 019954039X
- Language: English
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Lincoln: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartBeneath the surface of the apparently untutored and deceptively frank Abraham Lincoln ran private tunnels of self-taught study, a restless philosophical curiosity, and a profound grasp of the fundamen… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Guelzo, Allen C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 05 2009
- ISBN10: 0195367804
- Language: English
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Stars: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartEvery atom of our bodies has been part of a star. In this lively and compact introduction, astrophysicist Andrew King reveals how the laws of physics force stars to evolve, driving them through succes… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions #322
- Author: King, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: September 07 2012
- ISBN10: 0199602921
- Language: English
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Reality: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartIs matter real? Are persons real? Is time real? This Very Short Introduction discusses what, if anything, is “real” by looking at a variety of arguments from philosophy, physics, and cognitive science… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Westerhoff, Jan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: January 13 2012
- ISBN10: 0199594414
- Language: English
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The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
$14.95 Add to cartIn The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (1912), Emile Durkheim sets himself the task of discovering the enduring source of human social identity. He investigates what he considered to be the simples… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Durkheim, ?mile
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540128
- Language: English
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Studies in the History of the Renaissance
$11.95 Add to cartThrough his highly idiosyncratic readings of some of the finest paintings, sculptures, and poems of the French and Italian Renaissance, Walter Pater in Studies in the History of the Renaissance redefi… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Pater, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 15 2010
- ISBN10: 0199535078
- Language: English
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The Holy Roman Empire: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartVoltaire’s description of the Holy Roman Empire as “neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire” is often cited to underline its worthlessness. German historians traditionally despised it because it had al… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Whaley, Joachim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0198748760
- Language: English
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The Future: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartFrom the beginning of time, humans have been driven by both a fear of the unknown and a curiosity to know. We have always yearned to know what lies ahead, whether threat or safety, scarcity or abundan… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Gidley, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: June 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0198735286
- Language: English
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Computer Science: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartOver the past sixty years, the spectacular growth of the technologies associated with the computer is visible for all to see and experience. Yet, the science underpinning this technology is less visib… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Dasgupta, Subrata
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: June 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0198733461
- Language: English
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Aristophanes: Frogs and Other Plays: A New Verse Translation, with Introduction and Notes
$13.95 Add to cartAristophanes is the only surviving representative of Greek Old Comedy, an exuberant form of festival drama which flourished in Athens during the fifth century BC. One of the most original playwrights … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Aristophanes
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0192824090
- Language: English
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The United Nations: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartAfter seven decades of existence has the UN become obsolete? Is it ripe for retirement? As Jussi Hanhim?i proves in the second edition of this Very Short Introduction, the answer is no. In the second … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Hanhim?ki, Jussi M
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 02 2015
- ISBN10: 0190222700
- Language: English
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Climate Change: What Everyone Needs to Know
$18.95 Add to cart“This is, for my money, the best single-source primer on the state of climate change.” – New York Magazine
“The right book at the right time: accessible, comprehensive, unflinching, humane.” – The Dai- Series: What Everyone Needs to Knowrg
- Author: Romm, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0197647138
- Language: English
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Radicalization to Terrorism: What Everyone Needs to Know(r)
$19.95 Add to cartTerrorism and radicalization came to the forefront of news and politics in the US after the unforgettable attacks of September 11th, 2001. When George W. Bush famously asked “Why do they hate us?,” th… [more below]
- Series: What Everyone Needs to Know
- Author: Moskalenko, Sophia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0190862580
- Language: English
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Infectious Disease: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Read moreAs doctors and biologists have learned, to their dismay, infectious disease is a moving target: new diseases emerge every year, old diseases evolve into new forms, and ecological and socioeconomic uph… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Bolker, Benjamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0199688931
- Language: English
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Structural Engineering
$12.99 Add to cartHave you ever wondered how it’s possible to build a skyscraper, a big bridge, a jumbo jet, or a cruise liner?
Everything has structure. Structure is the difference between a random pile of components- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Blockley, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0199671931
- Language: English
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John Keats: The Major Works
$18.95 Add to cartThis authoritative edition was originally published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Keats’s poetry and … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Keats, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: February 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199554889
- Language: English
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The Soviet Union: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Read moreThe Soviet Union at its height occupied one sixth of the world’s land mass, encompassed fifteen republics, and stretched across eleven different time zones. More than twice the size of the United Stat… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Lovell, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0199238480
- Language: English
