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Iliad I provides the commentary and student aids lacking in larger volumes of Homer's work. It contains a full Introduction designed to...

'It will be the biggest fiasco of the year - but I don't care a damn! It will be something nobody has ever done before, and I shall have...

The Time Machine is a scientific romance that helped invent the genre of science fiction and the time travel story. This edition features...

'With fair-tressed Demeter, the sacred goddess, my song begins, With herself and her slim-ankled daughter, whom Aidoneus once Abducted...'...

'When a girl leaves her home at eighteen, she does one of two things. Either she falls into saving hands and becomes better, or she rapidly...

A beautifully illustrated, new edition of the best single-volume guide to Byzantine art, providing an introduction to the whole period and...

Did you hear the news about a boy who disappeared? No one knows what happened to him...except me. Young Karl leaves behind his unhappy life...

A tour-de-force of writing żeby Daniel Defoe, this extraordinary novel tells the vivid and racy tale of a woman

Shelley

By the dim and yellow light of the moon, as it forced its way through the window-shutters, I beheld the wretch-the miserable monster whom...

'Once, a long time ago, a little donkey was brought to Jesus.' The story of Easter is told here through the eyes of the donkey that carried...

Covers 5,000 years of Chinese art, including paintings, sculpture, porcelain, scrolls and calligraphy.

The Great Network is changing. New worlds, new alliances, new enmities. For Threnody the changes have brought great power. For Zen and Nova...

'Nowhere, beloved, can world be but within us' Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) is one of the leading poets of European Modernism, and one...

The world's best-selling English course - a perfectly-balanced syllabus with a strong grammar focus, and full support at all six levels....

Klassiker kommen nicht aus der Mode. Sie lassen sich immer wieder neu entdecken - besonders, wenn sie so ansprechend gestaltet sind wie...

The eighth edition of the leading practitioner work in EU competition law, fully updated to reflect new decisional practice, case law, legislation,...

'Listen, Stranger!' Wordsworth and Coleridge's joint collection of poems has often been singled out as the founding text of English Romanticism....

Two of the most widely used terms in medicine are 'placebo' and placebo effect, even though it is not always clear what exactly they mean....

Wilkie Collin

Category theory is a branch of abstract algebra with incredibly diverse applications. This text and reference book is aimed not only at...

'If life could write, it would write like Tolstoy.' Isaac Babel Tolstoy's epic masterpiece intertwines the lives of private and public individuals...

'I sing of knights and ladies, of love and arms, of courtly chivalry, of courageous deeds.' So begins Ariosto's Orlando Furioso (1532),...

2nd edition. With new sections on how the existence of God explains the universe, drawing on ideas such as physics and multiple universes.

'From the very beginning there was not the slightest doubt that Olga da Polga was the sort of guinea-pig who would go places.' Michael Bond's...

The legend of Faust grew up in the sixteenth century, a time of transition between medieval and modern culture in Germany. Johann Wolfgang...

The theme of the Metamorphoses is change and transformation, as illustrated in Graeco-Roman myth and legend. On this ostensibly unifying...

'a book I prize next to the Bible' Robert Burns Mackenzie's hugely popular novel of 1771 is the foremost work of the sentimental movement,...

'The sweetness of her glance - or rather, my evil star already in its ascendant and drawing me to my ruin - did not allow me to hesitate...

Fifty years on from its original publication, HLA Hart's The Concept of Law is widely recognized as the most important work of legal philosophy...

'Senneval, you see in me your sister, the girl you seduced at Nancy, the woman who murdered your son, the wife of your own father and the...

New edition.

An up-to-date and future-orientated study of modern art. Colour and halftone illustrations.

When they arrive on Seacrow Island the Melkerson family have doubts about their choice of summer vacation, their little cottage is rundown,...

Robots may one day rule the world, but what is a robot-ruled Earth like? Many think that the first truly smart robots will be brain emulations...

The only introduction to foreign policy to combine theories, actors and cases in one volume.

The stunning masterpieces of Ancient Greece and Rome are fundamental to the story of art in Western culture and to the origins of art history....

'she felt herself standing at the game of life with many eyes upon her, daring everything to win much' Gwendolen Harleth gambles her happiness...

'the fates ordained the founding of this great city and the beginning of the world's mightiest empire, second only to the power of the gods'...

Dan Zahavi engages with classical phenomenology, philosophy of mind, and a range of empirical disciplines to explore the nature of selfhood....

The three centuries which followed the conquests of Alexander are perhaps the most thrilling of all periods of ancient history. This was...

'Respectable people...What bastards!' Unjustly deported to Devil's Island following Louis-Napoleon's coup-d'etat in December 1851, Florent...

'I have heard the supreme mystery, yoga, from Krishna, from the lord of yoga himself.' Thus ends the Bhagavad Gita, the most famous episode...

The Woman in White (1859-60) is the first and greatest 'Sensation Novel

Oxford Basics are short, easy-to-use books based on communicative methodology. They provide ideas for teachers and guidance on how to handle...

The Tale of Sinuhe, from c.1875 BC, has been acclaimed as the supreme masterpiece of Ancient Egyptian poetry, a perfect fusion of monumental,...

Anger be now your song, immortal one,Akhilleus

A best-selling collection of poems about all kinds of dinosaurs, illustrated in full colour throughout aby best-selling illustrator, Korky...

'we can speak of no greater contest than Olympia' The Greek poet Pindar (c. 518-428 BC) composed victory odes for winners in the ancient...

Amongst the secret and lies, will love survive? Summer lives under a shadow, but a high-stakes mission offers an escape. Hal is a soldier,...

'It was the garden that did it - and Mary and Dickon and the creatures - and the Magic.' An orphaned girl, a grim moorland manor with hundreds...

This is one of the Primary Resource Books for Teachers series which address the needs of primary teachers, teacher trainers, and trainee...

'We are looking for the things that enable us to live a noble and happy life...and what prospects decent people will have of acquiring any...

Since their first publication in the 1830s and 1840s, Edgar Allan Poe

Cytopathology provides a wide-ranging overview of the microscopic study of normal and abnormal cells, showing how current visualization...

A new translation, with helpful notes on medieval Icelandic life, extensive maps, genealogies, illustrations and chronology.

The first paperback edition to reproduce the 1794 edition, with an introduction aby Pamela Clemit. Dark novel of paranoia and persecution,...

"Me!" cried Fanny..."Indeed you must excuse me. I could not act any thing if you were to give me the world. No, indeed, I cannot act." At...

Testosterone lies at the heart of maleness, and is involved in aggression, competitiveness, and risk-taking - all essential in our evolution....

The Emerald Planet is the tale of our worlds past - and future - as revealed aby plants. Over the immensity of geological time, plants have...

What is Life? Decades of research have resulted in the full mapping of the human genome - three billion pairs of code whose functions are...

New to the range.

Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the story of the Fall of Man, a tale of immense drama...

The Female Quixote (1752), a vivacious and ironical novel parodying the style of Cervantes, portrays the beautiful and aristocratic Arabella,...

'War, the bringer of tears...' For 2,700 years the Iliad has gripped listeners and readers with the story of Achilles' anger and Hector's...

'And low, stole o'er the stillness the heartbeats of sleep' In Chapelizod, a suburb of Dublin, an innkeeper and his family are sleeping....

One night in the depths of winter, a bizarre and sinister stranger wrapped in bandages and eccentric clothing arrives in a remote English...

This anthology brings together 29 of the greatest horror stories from the British, Irish, American, and European traditions through the...

Seventy years ago, Erwin Schrödinger posed a profound question: 'What is life, and how did it emerge from non-life?' Scientists have puzzled...

'Thou and thine, Hester Prynne, belong to me.' With these chilling words a husband claims his wife after a two-year absence. But the child...

The author of the acclaimed two volume biography, }Hitler: 1889-1936{ and }Hitler: 1936-1945{, charts the creation and growth of the personality...

Subtitled, }What Legacy Will Humans Leave In The Rocks?{. Imagines what the world will be like in 100 million years, while also explaining...

This is a new translation into contemporary English of one of the greatest poems of the English Middle Ages. Piers Plowman remains of enduring...

Histopathology describes the processes and practices that are central to the role of the histopathologist within a functioning diagnostic...

In 1872 the mistress of a neighbouring landowner threw herself under a train at a station near Tolstoy's home. This gave Tolstoy the starting...

'In the end you're tired of this antiquated world' Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918) is the most significant French poet of early modernism,...

'Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world...Sing heavenly muse'...

Cousin Bette (1846) is considered to be Balzac

Eugene Onegin is the master work of the poet whom Russians regard as the fountainhead of their literature. Set in 1820s imperial Russia,...

"Modern Strategy" explains the permanent nature, but ever changing character, of strategy in light of the whole strategic experience of...

Tolstoy's epic masterpiece intertwines the lives of private and public individuals during the time of the Napoleonic wars and the French...

The supreme Roman epic and the greatest poem in Latin, the Aeneid has inspired many of the great European poets including Dante and Milton....

'Love...it means too much to me, far more than you can understand.' Anna Karenina is a beautiful and intelligent woman, whose passionate...

The Logic Manual is the ideal introduction to logic for beginning philosophy students. It offers a concise but complete introductory course,...

A new blank verse translation of Dante

The German Revolution of November 1918 is nowadays largely forgotten outside Germany. It is generally regarded as a failure even aby those...

Melmotte is an outsider of obscure origins and riches. A ruthless financier, he charms the rich and powerful elite into investing in dubious...

Down syndrome is a genetic condition which causes varying degrees of learning disability as well as other health problems. Nearly one baby...

Is China a rogue donor, as some media pundits suggest? Or is China helping the developing world pave a pathway out of poverty, as the Chinese...

Loosely connected with Part One and the German legend of Faust, Part Two is a dramatic epic rather than a strictly constructed drama. It...

This is the first full-length presentation of a republican alternative to the liberal and communitarian theories that have dominated political...

'Rimbaud, the poet of revolt, and the greatest' Albert Camus Rimbaud is the enfant terrible of French literature, the precocious genius...

One of the greatest novels ever written, Anna Karenina is the story of a beautiful woman whose passionate love for a handsome officer sweeps...

'Verlaine, possessed żeby the madnesses of love, brimming over with desires and prayers, the rebel railing against the complacent platitudes...

The huge expansion of new marketplaces and new retailers over the last fifty years has created a retail revolution. These large and globally...

A classic study of the beliefs and institutions of mankind, and the progress through magic and religion to scientific thought, The Golden...

'I envy no body but him, and him only, that catches more fish than I do.' A unique celebration of the English countryside and the most famous...

The Physical World offers a grand vision of the essential unity of physics that will enable the reader to see the world through the eyes...

Never has contemporary fiction been more widely discussed and passionately analysed; recent years have seen a huge growth in the number...

The story of the contest between humans and the sea, played out in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic from early prehistory until AD 1500.

Linear algebra is a fundamental area of mathematics, and is arguably the most powerful mathematical tool ever developed. It is a core topic...

'This is the saddest story I have ever heard.' Wealthy American John Dowell describes in a disarmingly casual, compellingly intimate manner...

The story of the origins of the British and the Irish peoples, from the end of the last Ice Age around 10,000BC to the eve of the Norman...

The first attempt to fully explore the concept of }Memes{, a term first applied by Richard Dawkins in }The Selfish Gene{ to human attributes...

Thérése Raquin is a clinically observed, sinister tale of adultery and murder among the lower orders in nineteenth-century Paris. Zola

Throughout history, humans have attempted to influence and control the thoughts of others. In Brainwashing, Kathleen Taylor brings the worlds...

The Barber of Seville * The Marriage of Figaro * The Guilty Mother Eighteenth-century France produced only one truly international theatre...

Lisbon has been an extraordinary city for well over a thousand years, rendering it a place of great historical and contemporary interest....

'The task of the benevolent person is surely to diligently seek to promote the benefit of the world and eliminate harm to the world' The...

A bold and challenging reassessment of medical history from its origins to the present, covering 2300 years of mistakes and malpractice....

An authoritative, well grounded guide book for students, containing glossary, vocabulary and more.

Little Women has remained enduringly popular since its publication in 1868, becoming the inspiration for a whole genre of family stories....

The greatest challenge for physics is to combine its two most successful theories: general relativity and quantum mechanics. The resulting...

A major new interpretation of a key event in the history of western civilization, which combines a lively narrative with the latest research...

'Frank has but one duty before him. He must marry money.' The squire of Greshamsbury has fallen on hard times, and it is incumbent on his...

"He talked a lot about the past and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving...

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

This refreshing new look at Medieval art conveys a very real sense of the impact of art on everyday life in Europe from 1000 to 1500. It...

An exam preparation title for teachers looking to prepare students for the Cambridge English B2 First for Schools exam in conjunction with...