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The Flowers of Evil, which T. S. Eliot called the greatest example of modern poetry in any language, shocked the literary world of nineteenth...

A global bestseller, now available in paperback. Includes an extensive new introduction commentating on the changes in economic climate...

'How I wish that you had invited me to that most attractive feast on the Ides of March!' Cicero lived through some of the most turbulent...

'Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul?' Jude Fawley, poor and working-class, longs to study...

'Little Matters they are to be sure, but highly important.' Letter-writing was something of an addiction for young women of Jane Austen's...

Clear, authoritative and comprehensive; Competition Law is the stand-alone resource on competition law for students and practitioners, written...

Richard Swinburne presents a substantially rewritten and updated edition of his most celebrated book. No other work has made a more powerful...

The Three Musketeers (1844) is one of the most famous historical novels ever written. It is also one of the world

Alexander Pope (1688-1744) is regarded as the most important poet of the early eighteenth century. An invalid from infancy, Pope devoted...

The human brain has some capabilities that the brains of other animals lack. It is to these distinctive capabilities that our species owes...

Published in 1913, this harrowing, autobiographical

'He's spoilt my life,- he's spoilt it for as long as iver I live on this earth' The compelling story of an ordinary girl's tragic passion...

Samuel Johnson was a poet, essayist, dramatist, and pioneering lexicographer, but his continuing reputation depends less on his literary...

In 1836 the 23-year-old Dickens was invited żeby his publishers to write 'a monthly something

This edition is the first to present the text as it originally appeared, indicating the changes Carlyle made to later editions. Appendices...

'She sees, coming up a second time, Earth from the ocean, eternally green; the waterfalls plunge, an eagle soars above them, over the mountain...

The original 'self-instructor' of the Boy Scout Movement, Scouting for Boys (1908) is probably the most influential manual for youth ever...

It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it. George Orwell was one of the...

"The greatest historian that ever lived." Such was Macaulay

How do we explain the breakthrough market success of businesses like Nike, Starbucks, Ben & Jerry's, and Jack Daniel's? Conventional models...

'Mr Slope flattered himself that he could out-manoeuvre the lady...he did not doubt of ultimate triumph.' Barchester Towers (1857) was the...

The biological world operates on a multitude of scales - from molecules to cells to tissues to organisms to ecosystems. Throughout all these...

Derek Parfit presents the third volume of On What Matters, his landmark work of moral philosophy. Parfit develops further his influential...

Quantum mechanics is an extraordinarily successful scientific theory. But it is also completely mad. Although the theory quite obviously...

'So you're the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war!' These words, said to have been uttered żeby Abraham Lincoln,...

30 of her best essays, discussing the art of writing and reading.

The bestselling title in the Oxford Quick Reference series Over 4,900 clear and concise definitions, including more than 120 new entries...

Politics in the Twentieth Century was dominated żeby a single question: how much of our collective life should be determined żeby the state,...

'Yet each man kills the thing he loves, by each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word, The coward...

This book is designed to make mathematics accessible, interesting and entertaining to the non-expert: it will appeal to interested lay readers,...

Who are we, and how do we relate to each other? Luciano Floridi argues that the explosive developments in Information and Communication...

'the ideal reading...for the hours after midnight' Thus Henry James described the style of supernatural tale of which Sheridan Le Fanu was...

'She was the golden beast, an unconscious force, the very scent of her could bring the world to ruin.' Nana, daughter of a drunk and a laundress,...

'You said I killed you - haunt me, then ' Wuthering Heights is one of the most famous love stories in the English language. It is also one...

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Third edition of this most authentic complete works of Chaucer available, at a special introductory price of $19.99. After 3 months, the...

'Who is going to marry Eugenie Grandet?' This is the question that fills the minds of the inhabitants of Saumur, the setting for Eugenie...

The vigorous and fast-moving classic of French literature.

Whitman is today regarded as America

In The War of the Worlds H. G. Wells invented the myth of invasion from outer space. Martians land near London, conquering all before them,...

A new theory is taking hold in neuroscience. It is the theory that the brain is essentially a hypothesis-testing mechanism, one that attempts...

Twenty-two translated short stories take the reader on a journey around Paris żeby metro. From the 15th-century account of Saint Genevieve,...

Thomas Carlyle's history of the French Revolution, originally published in 1837, opens with the death of Louis XV in 1774 and ends in 1795...

Organic Chemistry: A mechanistic approach combines a focus on core topics and themes with a mechanistic approach to the explanation of the...

The definitive English version of the stories of King Arthur, Le Morte Darthur was completed in 1469-70 żeby Sir Thomas Malory, 'knight-prisoner

The iconic paintings of the 17th century Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer have been the source of admiration and controversy ever since they...

Medical nihilism is the view that we should have little confidence in the effectiveness of medical interventions. This volume argues that...

This full-length life of John Henry Newman is the first comprehensive biography of both the man and the thinker and writer. It draws extensively...

Sociolinguistics is the study of the different ways in which different groups of people use language. This book provides a brief but comprehensive...

These ten Lives trace the history of Hellenistic Greece from the rise of Macedon and Alexander's conquest of the Persian empire to the arrival...

Whether he's teaching his pet pig to dance, being chased żeby a mad cow or wrestling a robber, Emil's adventures never stop. Hens, dogs,...

This new edition of EU Employment Law provides a complete revision and update of the leading English language text in the field. The coverage...

Pity the Nation ranks among the classic accounts of war in our time, both as historical document and as an eyewitness testament to human...

Covariant Physics: From Classical Mechanics to General Relativity and Beyond endeavours to provide undergraduate students as well as self-learners...

In his writings, David Hume set out to bridge the gap between the learned world of the academy and the marketplace of polite society. This...

An accessible introduction to behavioral epigenetics, The Developing Genome explores how experiences influence genetic activity. We develop...

'Once, a long time ago, in a town called Nazareth, a little donkey was born.' As the wonderful events of the Nativity unfold, Brian Wildsmith...

A reissue of the classic account of the fall of the Republic.

This is not a book about Winston Churchill. It is not principally about his politics, nor his rhetorical imagination, nor even about the...

In Natural Theology, William Paley set out to prove the existence of God from the evidence of the beauty and order of the natural world....

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) was one of the most versatile minds in European intellectual history, and a shaping influence in the...

'Times and their reasons, arranged in order through the Latin year, and constellations sunk beneath the earth and risen, I shall sing.'...

International Law is widely celebrated as an outstanding collection of interesting and diverse writings from the leading scholars in the...

An authoritative but accessible text on one dimensional complex manifolds or Riemann surfaces. Dealing with the main results on Riemann...

Byron was a legend in his own lifetime and the dominant influence on the Romantic movement. The most European of the English writers in...

'Even if everyone else succumbs to slavery, we must still fight for our freedom.' Admired aby many in the ancient world as the greatest...

Our hero confronts a large and varied cast, including Wackford Squeers, the fantastic ogre of a schoolmaster, and Vincent Crummles, the...

Philippa Foot has for many years been one of the most distinctive and influential thinkers in moral philosophy. Long dissatisfied with the...

Human Physiology provides clear explanations of the principles that govern the body's physiological processes and shows how these can be...

The Age of Innocence is a love story, and a minute dissection of old New York society in the 1870s. Its brilliant anatomization of the snobbery...

The most accessible first introduction to electrochemistry, which combines explanation of the fundamental concepts with practical examples...

Geert Booij's popular textbook on the structure of words has been revised and updated in a third edition. The book covers every aspect of...

'I have made a terrible discovery...I have not yet been born...I live off borrowed substance; what I have within me is not mine.' In his...

John Donne (1572-1631) is perhaps the most important poet of the seventeenth century. In his day it seemed to his admirers that Donne had...

A first and second year undergraduate organic chemistry textbook, specifically geared to British and European courses and courses offerred...

Four gray walls, and four gray towers, Overlook a space of flowers, And the silent isle imbowers The Lady of Shalott. Tennyson's romantic...

Nigel Foster provides a concise and clear explanation of EU law, covering both institutional aspects and key substantive areas, offering...

The story of human history has been inextricably entwined with the story of microbes. Combining tales of devastating epidemics with accessible...

'Whoever lives in our country, speaks our language, is brought up in our culture and takes pride in our glory is one of us.' Thus ran a...

What Maisie Knew (1897) represents one of James's finest reflections on the rites of passage from wonder to knowledge, and the question...

Paperback edition of the first, and only, critical edition of this world-famous book. }Scouting For Boys{ is the original blueprint of the...

In this engaging and mind-stretching book, Vlatko Vedral explores the nature of information and looks at quantum computing, discussing the...

On What Matters is a major work in moral philosophy. It is the long-awaited follow-up to Derek Parfit's 1984 book Reasons and Persons, one...

Is philosophy a unique discipline, or are its methods more like those of other sciences than many philosophers think? Timothy Williamson...

The format of those title has been updated for improved presentation. Definitions and fundamental points are now highlighted. Each topic...

A beautifully illustrated, new edition of this pioneering study of art since 1945. Focussing mainly on the relationship between American...

New Grub Street (1891), generally regarded as Gissing's finest novel, is the story of the daily lives and broken dreams of men and women...

For over a hundred years, Hart's Rules has been the authority on style, helping writers and editors prepare copy for publication. The latest...

In 1996, Alan Sokal, a Professor of Physics at New York University, wrote a paper for the cultural-studies journal Social Text, entitled...

Re-tellings of Japanese legends and fairy tales. Readership level: 9+.

Metaphysics asks questions about existence: for example, do numbers really exist? Metametaphysics asks questions about metaphysics: for...

The first-ever comprehensive biography of Heinrich Himmler, SS-Reichsführer, Nazi Interior Minister, and Chief of Police, whose name has...

'I was jealous of her writing. The only writing I have ever been jealous of.' Virginia Woolf Virginia Woolf was not the only writer to admire...

Charlotte Bronte's letters are our most direct source of information about the Brontes and the life of the novelist. Vivid and passionate,...

On What Matters is a major work in moral philosophy. It is the long-awaited follow-up to Derek Parfit's 1984 book Reasons and Persons, one...

Aristotle's Art of Rhetoric is a treatise concerning the theory and practice of the most dynamic form of discourse in Classical Greece....

A classic English work combining socialism and science fiction.

'Look, my lord! See heaven itself declares against your impious intentions!' The Castle of Otranto (1764) is the first supernatural English...

Did possessing and killing amount to the same thing deep within the dark recesses of the human beast? La Bete humaine (1890), is one of...

Of all the classical poets Gaius Valerius Catullus (c. 84-54 BC) is the most accessible to the modern reader. Presented alongside the original...

This volume covers general concepts in competition law, providing a high-level introduction to key legal principles and the development...

Turgenev

'Arms and the man I sing of Troy...' So begins one of the greatest works of literature in any language. Written by the Roman poet Virgil...

Taken from the highly acclaimed Oxford Ibsen, this collection of Ibsen's plays includes A Doll's House, Ghosts, Hedda Gabler, and The Master...

A new edition which provides a key to understanding the modern Polish crisis.

In A Sicilian Romance (1790) Radcliffe began to forge the unique mixture of the psychology of terror and poetic description that would make...

'she tried to settle that most difficult problem for women, how much was to be utterly merged in obedience to authority, and how much might...

Fully updated for its third edition, Echocardiography provides all of the essential information you need on echo acquisition, interpretation,...

Crossley-Holland--the widely acclaimed translator of Old English texts--introduces the Anglo-Saxons through their chronicles, laws, letters,...

Written in India in the early eighth century AD, Santideva

The 5th edition of geog.123 has been revised and updated to deliver both the Programme of Study for Geography at Key Stage 3 and new teaching...

The million copy international bestseller, critically acclaimed and translated into over 25 languages. As influential today as when it was...

Cicero (106-43 BC) was the greatest orator of the ancient world and a leading politician of the closing era of the Roman republic. These...

'After all that - how, you might wonder, could one not become a fatalist?' Lermontov's hero, Pechorin, is a young army officer posted to...

'Yes, what is Dionysian? - This book provides an answer - "a man who knows" speaks in it, the initiate and disciple of his god.' The Birth...

'I am making up "To the Lighthouse" - the sea is to be heard all through it' Inspired aby the lost bliss of her childhood summers in Cornwall,...

'Whoever best acquits himself, and tells The most amusing and instructive tale, Shall have a dinner, paid for żeby us all...' In Chaucer's...

A reprint of the 1611 text, with the original pictoral capital letters restored to each chapter in order to replicate the visual appeal...

Voted AdAge's Most-Recommended Marketing Book of the Summer 2013. This book provides evidence-based answers to the key questions asked aby...

'Philosophy is written in this great book which is continually open before our eyes - I mean the universe...' Galileo's astronomical discoveries...