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Key featuresA new translation of Leroux

This book introduces readers to the state-of-the-art neuroscientific research that is revolutionizing our understanding of language.Written...

Huntington's disease is a genetically inherited condition which results in severe nerve-cell damage in the brain. The hereditary and debilitative...

The inescapable reality of death has given rise to much of literature's most profound and moving work. D. J. Enright's wonderfully eclectic...

This pocket-sized book is designed to provide up-to-date information for the general paediatrican and paediatric nephrologist, including...

An English translation with parallel Arabic text, with helpful headnotes and footnotes explaining geographical, historical and personal...

You are walking through the streets of London. It is getting dark and you want to get home quickly. You enter a narrow side-street. Everything...

18th century novel in the classic Gothic tradition.

'I concluded that I was a substance whose whole essence or nature resides only in thinking, and which, in order to exist, has no need of...

One of France

The Interesting Narrative is a first-hand account of the horrors of slavery, published on the eve of the British abolition debate in 1789....

Charity Royall yearns to escape her dull existence in the New England backwater where she lives with her guardian. When her sexual nature...

New editions with introductions, helpful notes and up-to-date bibliography.

Navigate is a brand new, six-level General English course tailored exclusively to adults. The course takes an innovative approach to reading...

The ancient civilization of Mesopotamia thrived between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates over 4,000 years ago. The myths collected here,...

Edited by John N. King. Selected narratives of religious persecution from early modern England, including the deaths of Latimer, Ridley...

'In the midst of life we are in death.' The words of the Book of Common Prayer have permeated deep into the English language all over the...

This is the first full account of the transformation of Ottoman Turkish into Modern Turkish. It is based on the author's knowledge and experience...

There's a rat running amok in Emil's house, and he's determined to capture it. But hiding the rat trap just under his father's bed probably...

American policies, the American economy, and the health of the American political system are all of crucial importance to the world - and...

Have you ever wondered: * What the Earth looks like from space? * How many continents there are? * Where Mount Everest is? Find out in your...

Accounting for Business provides a crystal clear, accessible introduction to the core accounting topics non-specialist students need to...

Maurice O'Sullivan was born on the Great Blasket in 1904, and 'Twenty Years A-Growing' tells the story of his youth and of a way of life...

Newly revised edition.

'beauty has purport and significance only for human beings, for beings at once animal and rational' In the Critique of Judgement (1790)...

This new edition of the Oxford Student Atlas includes stunning satellite images, country data, and easy-to-read colourful mapping, presented...

'To be loved to madness - such was her great desire' Eustacia Vye criss-crosses the wild Egdon Heath, eager to experience life to the full...

'The profoundest book there is, born from the innermost richness of truth, an inexhaustible well into which no bucket descends without coming...

Concise, engaging, relevant: light on quantitative techniques and packed with cases offering a real-world perspective, this text provides...

Oxford's Atlas of World History is the result of years of intensive work żeby a specialist team of scholars, editors, and cartographers....

This major new edition of the Oxford First Thesaurus in paperback has been updated to include more related words, synonyms and antonyms...

For many decades, the proponents of `artificial intelligence' have maintained that computers will soon be able to do everything that a human...

A translation of the Irish epic }Tain Bo Cuailnge{. 31 b/w brush drawings. New edition.

2nd edition. Covers all the important sites in the city between 800 BC and AD 600, with info on the culture and history of ancient Rome...

From Ancient Greek times, music has been seen as a mathematical art, and the relationship between mathematics and music has fascinated generations....

Newly revised edition.

The new edition of this bestselling and trusted dictionary has been fully revised to take account of recent developments in nursing practice...

The 'extended phenotype' is Dawkins' key contribution to the gene's eye view of evolution given in The Selfish Gene. He shows that the influence...

'All too often, Karl Marx has been regarded as a demon or a deity - or a busted flush. This fresh, provocative, and hugely enjoyable book...

Education is of relevance to everyone but it involves a specialized vocabulary and terminology which may be opaque or unfamiliar to those...

'What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.

This easy-to-use guide covers all aspects of paediatric anaesthesia, from the basics to rare and complicated procedures.

The Koran is a book apart, not only as Holy Scripture for Muslims, but as the supreme classic of Arabic literature. In its 114 Suras, or...

'If something else can capture your attentionThen it's not love, but just a trivial passion -Love is that flame which, once it blazes up,Burns...

This new eighth edition has been fully revised and updated to reflect recent progress in the fields of biology, biophysics, and biochemistry,...

Walden is Thoreau

As relevant and influential today as when it was first published, this classic exposition of evolutionary thought, widely hailed for its...

Amartya Sen is the most respected and well-known economist of his time. This book is a synthesis of his thought, viewing economic development...

Jane Austen's letters afford a unique insight into the daily life of the novelist: intimate and gossipy, observant and informative, they...

'I, who would wish to feel close over me the protective waves of the ordinary, catch with the tail of my eye some far horizon.' Intensely...

Liddell & Scott's Greek-English Lexicon (9/e 1940) is the most comprehensive and up-to-date ancient Greek dictionary in the world. It is...

H. P. Lovecraft Is A Major Writer Of Horror Stories, In The Genre Of 'weird Fiction'. This New Edition Brings Together His Core 'classic'...

This book covers all the major components of modern evolutionary genetics including population genetics, molecular evolution, speciation,...

Cardiothoracic Surgery covers all areas of adult and paediatric, cardiac and thoracic surgery and intensive care. This new edition, with...

Contains over 6,000 clear and concise entries on all aspects of ecology, in an updated and revised 4th edition.

'An utterly splendid book, quite the most brilliantly written, balanced, and explanative general work on the Vikings ever to appear in English...

This book is the first comprehensive and systematic introduction to the linguistics of humor. Salvatore Attardo takes a broad approach to...

A lively, gorgeously illustrated story from Dynamic Duo, Reeve and McIntyre! Along with his new friends, a grumpy old albatross, a short-sighted...

Kipling portrays school as the first stage of a much larger game, a pattern-maker for the experiences of life. Implied throughout the stories...

The Oxford English-Hebrew Dictionary is a landmark in the description of modern Hebrew. Hailed żeby the Jewish chronicle as a 'tremendous...

John Archibald chronicles the revolutionary insights provided aby modern molecular biology, especially rapid DNA sequencing. These tools...

An introductory overview of the functional biology of fish and how that may be affected żeby the contrasting habitat conditions within the...

One of the foremost narrative works to emerge from medieval Europe. Translator: Cyril Edwards.

Speak Now is the first conversation course with fully integrated video to help students develop communication skills.

Packed with facts, attributions, and entertaining anecdotes about his contemporaries, Vasari's collection of biographical accounts also...

Fascinating and insightful in its coverage, this is essential reading for anyone who has ever been curious about the law. First Steps in...

Gaia, in which James Lovelock puts forward his inspirational and controversial idea that the Earth functions as a single organism, with...

This lively, accessible, and meticulously researched book is the first to explore Victorian literature through scent and perfume, presenting...

'He had become the dandy of the unpredictable.' A quest for new sensations, and an avowed desire to shock possessed the Decadent writers...

Leading archaeologist Paul Bahn explores the caves, rocks, and objects decorated aby our Ice Age ancestors, giving us a unique opportunity...

For all the discussion in the media about creationism and 'Intelligent Design', virtually nothing has been said about the evidence in question...

A biography of the composer written by a Professor of Music and Dean at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University....

Navigate is a brand new, six-level General English course tailored exclusively to adults. The course takes an innovative approach to reading...

Drive achievement in the MYP and strengthen scientific confidence. Equipping learners with the confident scientific understanding central...

'the most tragic of the poets

A new edition of the best-selling English File, improved throughout with brand new digital components to use inside and outside the classroom....

Mathematical concepts and theories underpin much of the physical sciences and engineering. Yet maths is a subject that many students find...

To get real results from innovation, businesses must open up their innovation process and finish more of what they start. This book offers...

Now with over 4,000 entries, this new eighth edition has been fully updated to reflect progress in physics and related fields. It sees expansion...

A concise but comprehensive introduction to the biology of coral reefs, providing an overview of the ecology of coral reefs and their functioning,...

'many men compete in digging and kicking but no one at all in the pursuit of human excellence.' Diogenes the Cynic is best remembered today...

Living with the Stars describes the many fascinating connections between the universe and the human body, which range from the makeup of...

How can we be sure that Pythagoras's theorem is really true? Why is the 'angle in a semicircle' always 90 degrees? And how can tangents...

'As if someone were to hold up a lamp in the dark so that those with eyes could see - in exactly the same way Gotama has made the truth...

'I doubt whether it would be possible to mention any author of note, whose personal obscurity was so complete.' James Edward Austen-Leigh's...

'Anyone who wants to gain a quick idea of how before me everything was topsy-turvy should make a start with this work. That which is called...

2nd edition. An authoritative new edition, with almost 2000 definitions of weather.

The Charterhouse of Parma (1839) is a compelling novel of passion and daring, of prisons and heroic escape, of political chicanery and sublime...

With his first glimpse of Madame Arnoux, Frederic Moreau is convinced he has found his romantic destiny, but he is caught up in the revolution...

Roxana (1724), Defoe

Smidge is used to Karlsson, the funny little man with a propeller on his back, living on the roof. They are firm friends. Now, anytime Karlsson...

Aristophanes is the only surviving representative of Greek Old Comedy, the exuberant, satirical form of festival drama which flourished...

This book discusses whether the origin of radically new kinds of organisms - new higher taxa - are the result of normal Darwinian evolution...

Luciano Floridi develops an original ethical framework for dealing with the new challenges posed żeby Information and Communication Technologies...

This is a pioneering cognitive psychological study of Ayahuasca, a plant-based Amazonian psychotropic brew. Benny Shanon presents a comprehensive...

The Oxford Specialist Handbook in Obstetric Anaesthesia returns for a second edition with updated practical management advice for medical...

An updated and extended second edition supporting the findings of its well-known predecessor which claimed that courts employ common-sense...

This bestselling dictionary contains more than 9,500 entries on all aspects of chemistry, physics, biology including human biology, earth...

The last four decades have seen a remarkable revival of interest in the virtues, which lay at the heart of ancient and medieval moral philosophy....

Crime and Punishment is one of the most important novels of the nineteenth century. It is the story of a murder committed on principle,...

'Long may the barbarians continue, I pray, if not to love us, at least to hate one another.' Cornelius Tacitus, Rome's greatest historian...

Storytelling kept alive the myths, legends and history of the Blasket Islands. In her old age, Peig Sayers, recounted her life to her son...

The fifth edition of Paediatric Dentistry is a comprehensive textbook for students and practising clinicians on theoretical and practical...

This authoritative edition was originally published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode....

Paediatric Neurology contains all the necessary guidance to investigate, diagnose and treat both common and rare neurological conditions...

For a century, economists have driven forward the cause of globalization in financial institutions, labour markets, and trade. Yet there...

An entirely new translation, looking at the genesis of fairy tales, and why they have such great imaginative power. Includes 26 stunning...

'Alas that I ever did sin! It is so merry in Heaven!' The Book of Margery Kempe (c. 1436-8) is the extraordinary account of a medieval wife,...

This fine volume manages to both provoke and stimulate }Spectator{.

It is May 1660 and the fate of nations is at stake. Mazarin plots, Louis XIV is in love, and Raoul de Bragelonne, son of Athos, is intent...

Imagine Smidge's delight when, one day, a little man with a propeller on his back appears hovering at the window! It's Karlsson and he lives...

Madness and Modernism provides a phenomenological study of schizophrenic disorders, criticizing some standard conceptions of these disorders....

'I was conscious of a most horrible smell of mould, and of a cold kind of face pressed against my own...' Considered by many to be the most...

'The pen would smoothly write the things it knew But when it came to love it split in two, A donkey stuck in mud is logic's fate - Love's...

Spotlight on the USA is a collection of high-interest reading passages about the prominent regions of the United States.

A classic of Victorian literature, and one of the earliest books written specifically for boys, Tom Brown

Set against the backdrop of peaceful south-west England, where Thomas Hardy spent much of his youth, The Mayor of Casterbridge captures...

'Pray, pray be composed,' cried Elinor, 'and do not betray what you feel to every body present. Perhaps he has not observed you yet.' For...

The Lives of the Caesars include the biographies of Julius Caesar and the eleven subsequent emperors: Augustus, Tiberius, Gaius Caligula,...

What makes us human? Richard Swinburne presents new philosophical arguments, supported by modern neuroscience, for the view that we are...