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In Strategy: A History, Sir Lawrence Freedman, one of the world's leading authorities on war and international politics, captures the vast...

'The story I now commence is rich in vicissitudes, grim with warfare, torn by civil strife, a tale of horror even during times of peace.'...

'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...

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

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

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

'The last man! I may well describe that solitary being's feelings, feeling myself as the last relic of a beloved race, my companions extinct...

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

'It was early in a fine summer's day, near the end of the eighteenth century, when a young man, of genteel appearance, having occasion to...

'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...

'Well, a corpse is a natural thing; but this was the dreadfullest sight I ever sid...' Sheridan Le Fanu is one of the indispensable figures...

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...

"The father of history," as Cicero called him, and a writer possessed of remarkable narrative gifts, enormous scope, and considerable charm,...

5th edition. The leading guide to the archaeological sites of interest in the Holy Land.

What are neutrinos? Why does nature need them? What use are they? Neutrinos are perhaps the most enigmatic particles in the universe. Formed...

Agamemnon *Libation Bearers *Eumenides Aeschylus' Oresteia is the only trilogy to survive from Greek tragedy, and the religious and moral...

The first monograph devoted to the concept of dystopia: redefining the central concepts and chronology of the genre, and offering a theoretical...

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

'To the white men in the waterside business and to the captain of ships he was just Jim - nothing more. He had, of course, another name,...

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

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

'For if once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking...

What is a grimoire? The word has a familiar ring to many people, particularly as a consequence of such popular television dramas as Buffy...

'She wanted to swim far out, where no woman had swum before.' Kate Chopin was one of the most individual and adventurous of nineteenth-century...

'I have heard no end of tales of his strength, his audacity, his fidelity...incorruptible! It is indeed a name of honour for the Capataz...

Zoopolis offers a new agenda for the theory and practice of animal rights. Most animal rights theory focuses on the intrinsic capacities...

"Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt!" Throughout the hardships of her childhood - spent with a severe aunt and abusive cousin,...

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

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

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

'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...

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

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

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

'All over Italy men were conscripted, and weapons requisitioned; money was exacted from towns, and taken from shrines; and all the laws...

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

A comprehensive history of the Nazi persecution and murder of European Jews, paying detailed attention to an unrivalled range sources. Focusing...

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

Few individuals have shaped their country's civilization more profoundly than the Master Kong (Confucius, 551-479 BC). Compulsory reading...

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

Captain Scott's own account of his tragic race with Roald Amundsen for the South Pole thrilled the world in 1913. This new edition of his...

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...

This new translation in free verse conveys the full force of Lucan's writing and his grimly realistic view of the subject. The Introduction...

'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...

Translated aby Edmund Ryden. Encapsulates the main tenants of Daoism, upholding a way of being as well as a philosophy and religion.

'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 spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual; and, exhibited in the lives of many, it constitutes the true...

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

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

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

In his celebrated masterpiece, Symposium, Plato imagines a high-society dinner-party in Athens in 416 BC at which the guests - including...

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

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

Since Charles Darwin's masterpiece 'The origin of Species aby natural selection' was published in 1859, evolution has become an established...

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

Each year an eruption of "leaderless" social movements leaves external observers and activists perplexed. Why have the movements, which...

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

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

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

Zen Starling is a petty thief. A nobody. Destined to ride the rails to nowhere special. That is until Raven, a strange and mysterious figure,...

'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...

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

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...

Tom Jones (1749) is rightly regarded as Fielding

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

Conscious sensations ground our sense of self, but is it only humans who feel this way? Do other animals? Will future machines? Nicholas...

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

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...

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

Peter Atkins captures the heart of chemistry in this book, through an innovative, closely integrated design of images and text, and his...

'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...

A classic work of ancient literature combining prose and poetry.

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

This is a uniquely comprehensive and detailed treatment of the theoretical and observational foundations of modern cosmology, by a Nobel...

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

'no one else in our times has attempted to write a universal history' Polybius' ambitious goal was to describe how Rome conquered the Mediterranean...

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...

The Upanisads are the central scriptures of Hinduism. They represent some of the most important literary products in the history of Indian...

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

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

Bringing together the latest insights from philosophy, psychiatry and psychology, this is an entertaining and authoritative exploration...

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...

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English level: Beginner A two-year course to follow Happy House, or as a first English course for children who are ready to read and write....

The oldest Hindu textbook of erotic love.

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

'I am not a man, I am dynamite.' Ecce Homo is an autobiography like no other. Deliberately provocative, Nietzsche subverts the conventions...

Ember stands accused of murdering her own father. Joe is tasked with gaining her trust and finding out more about her crime. But as the...

How would a creature limited to two dimensions be able to grasp the possibility of a third? Edwin A. Abbott

'Some of our greatest blessings come from madness Phaedrus is widely recognized as one of Plato's most profound and beautiful works. It...

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...

Armadale tells the devastating story of the independent, murderous, and adulterous Lydia Gwilt. This traditional melodrama also considers...

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

Genetics: Genes, Genomes, and Evolution presents fundamental principles of genetics and molecular biology from an evolutionary perspective,...

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

In this scientific 'Credo', Peter Atkins considers the universal questions of origins, endings, birth, and death to which religions have...

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

This book brings together recent advances and presents a comprehensive picture of the scientific study of networks. It includes discussion...

'A man...is so in the way in the house!' A vivid and affectionate portrait of a provincial town in early Victorian England, Elizabeth Gaskell's...

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

The evolution of skeletons enabled an unprecedented array of bodies to evolve, from the tiniest seed shrimp to dinosaurs and blue whales....

'the most romantic parts of this narrative are precisely those which have a foundation in fact' Edward Waverley, a young English soldier...

'there are half a million more women than men in this unhappy country of ours... So many odd women - no making a pair with them.

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...

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

Republic is the central work of the Western world's most famous philosopher. Essentially an inquiry into morality, Republic also contains...

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

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

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

The Kalevala is the great Finnish epic, which like the Iliad and the Odyssey, grew out of a rich oral tradition with prehistoric roots....

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