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'The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which...

The Get ready for... Series leads students to success in the Cambridge English Qualifications for Young Learners exams, covering all of...

'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...

Fully revised from the previous edition, the Oxford Specialist Handbook of Hand Surgery 2nd edition has a greater focus on non-surgical...

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...

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

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

A collection of short stories from contemporary and 20th century Berlin, translated by Lyn Marven. Coincides with the 20th anniversary of...

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

'I think I could be a good woman if I had five thousand a year.' Becky Sharp is sharp, calculating, and determined to succeed. Craving wealth...

Shelley

This major new edition, originally commissioned for the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode, brings...

Covers the 5 key dimensions of personality, offering readers insight into themselves and the people around them. With a questionnaire to...

Medical Law: Text, Cases, and Materials offers all of the explanation, commentary, and extracts from cases and key materials that students...

This market-leading textbook covers the essential topics of the public law module in an insightful and interesting way. The book guides...

From the first misty 'heliograph' taken by Joseph Nicephore Niepce in 1826 to the classic compositions of Cartier-Bresson and Alfred Steiglitz,...

Emma is considered żeby many to be Austen's finest and most representative novel. The story of Emma Woodhouse's matchmaking, and her awakening...

This is an essential guide to the fundamentals of psychiatry for undergraduate students, junior doctors, and mental health nursing students.

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

He that is to govern a whole nation, must read in himself, not this, or that particular man; but mankind. Leviathan is both a magnificent...

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...

In this new translation the brilliant and impassioned descriptions of Augustine's colourful early life are conveyed to the English reader...

5th edition of the high-ability French course, fully supported aby Kerboodle.

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

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

Ovid's love-poetry was typically original and innovative. His witty analysis in the Amores (Loves) of the elegiac relationship develops...

Frank Close explores the strange mirror world of antimatter, revealing that reality is even more fascinating than the sci-fi stories suggest....

In Agnes Grey Anne Bronte drew on her own experiences as a governess, trying to cope with unmanageable children with little respect from...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

Over the last twenty years phraseology has become an important field of pure and applied research in Western European and North American...

The Masterpiece is the tragic story of Claude Lantier, an ambitious and talented young artist from the provinces who has come to conquer...

A new blank verse translation of Dante

The three novels which make up The Forsyte Saga chronicle the ebbing social power of the commerical upper-middle class Forsyte family between...

"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...

Banter, chit-chat, gossip, natter, tete-a-tete: these are just a few of the terms for the varied ways in which we interact with one another...

Cousin Bette (1846) is considered to be Balzac

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

'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...

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

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

A revised and updated third edition of this landmark account of the theory and processes of translation from the time of the eighteenth...

The Oxford Classical Texts, or Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis, are renowned for their reliability and presentation. The series...

Zoo Animals: Behaviour, Management and Welfare addresses the key questions surrounding the keeping of zoo animals, and reveals how we can...

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

'A sudden passion of anxious impatience rushed through my veins and gave me such a sense of the intensity of existence as I have never felt...

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

5th edition of the high-ability French course, fully supported żeby Kerboodle.

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

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

This volume contains English translations of: Ivanov, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard, with a new Introduction...

In this, his first collection of short stories, Hardy sought to record the legends, superstitions, local customs, and lore of a Wessex that...

The Mabinogion is one of the great epics of medieval literature. Weaving together Celtic mythology and Arthurian romance, the eleven Welsh...

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

Vita Nuova (1292-94) is the first of Dante's major writings. It is a supreme work of love; thirty-one poems are linked by a lyrical prose...

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...

This book provides an intimate, highly readable tour of the sciences of complexity, which seek to explain how large-scale complex, organized,...

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

geog.atlas is an engaging atlas of accessible maps and supporting information. It features unique coverage of places likely to appear in...

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

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

It's the most simple, unassuming, innocent-looking verb: 'to be'. Yet it is jam-packed with more different meanings, forms, and uses than...

'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'...

You have half our gifts, I have the other...When English girl Sky catches a glimpse of bad boy Zed in her new American high school, she...

Henri Michaux is widely recognized as a major twentieth-century French poet and painter. Although his fascination with universal languages...

'any narrative of human action and adventure - whether we call it history or Romance - is certain to be a fragile handiwork, more easily...

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

T.J. Reed's study has long established itself as the kanon work in English on Thomas mann, and offers as comprehensive a view of Mann's...

'a world without love would be no world

The Pancatantra is the most famous collection of fables in India and was one of the earliest Indian books to be translated into Western...

'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...

'Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to live...while you have life in you, while you still can, make yourself good.' The Meditations...

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

A unique selection of Yeats

Angel's extraordinary savant ability allows her to manipulate water. Then she meets Marcus Cohen at a music festival and finds herself all...

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

Frederick C. Beiser presents a study of the pessimism that dominated German philosophy from the 1860s to c. 1900: the theory that life is...

'the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts' The greatest 'state of the nation' novel in English, Middlemarch...

The Gallic War, published on the eve of the civil war which led to the end of the Roman Republic, is an autobiographical account written...

With Britain's empire collapsing and Stalin ascendent, U.S. Officials set out to reconstruct Western Europe as a bulwark against communist...

'You are going to entrust your soul to the care of a sophist. But I should be surprised if you even know what a sophist is.' In the fifth...

The Scythians were warlike nomadic horsemen who roamed the steppe of Asia in the first millennium BC. Using archaeological finds from burials...

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

The oldest Hindu textbook of erotic love.

The story of the Roman empire, from the beginnings to the crisis of the Middle Ages: why it was so large, why it was so durable, and why...

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

Hyperspace is the run-away bestseller from one of the world's leading theoretical physicists. Are there other dimensions beyond our own?...

Aristotle's De Anima (On the Soul) is one of the great classics of philosophy. Aristotle examines the nature of the soul-sense-perception,...

'She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older - the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.'...

Lycurgus, Pericles, Solon, Nicias, Themistocles, Alcibiades, Cimon, Agesilaus, Alexander 'I treat the narrative of the Lives as a kind of...

The Dhammapada, the Pali version of one of the most popular texts of the Buddhist canon, ranks among the classics of the world

Marcus Cato Sulla Aemilius Paullus Pompey The Gracchi Marius Julius Caesar Anthony 'I treat the narrative of the Lives as a kind of mirror...The...

New title in the series, translated from the Welsh aby Sioned Davies.

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

A hilarious new quest from the award-winning creator of SUPER HAPPY MAGIC FOREST! Join the Salty Dogs as they set sail on a laugh-out-loud...

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...

The Golden Ass is a unique, entertaining, and thoroughly readable Latin novel - the only work of fiction in Latin to have survived in its...

Haematology provides a broad-ranging overview of the study of blood, from its physiology to the key pathophysiological states that can arise....

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

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

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...

One-volume edition of his poetry, with letter and journal entries, introduction, bibliography and notes.

'It was not so much his great height that marked him... It was the careless powerful look that he had, in spite of a lameness checking each...

Tom Jones (1749) is rightly regarded as Fielding

'If ever I forget your name let me forget home and heaven...But no, no, my love, I never can forget 'ee; for you was a good man, and did...

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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...