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(Conrad) thought of civilised and morally tolerable human life as a dangerous walk on a thin crust of barely cooled lava which at any moment might break and let the unwary sink into fiery depths' -...

Written from an evolutionary perspective, The Evolution of Sex emphasizes the idea that males and females are influenced by different biological forces that shape their strategies for maximizing the...

The day of 9 Thermidor (27 July 1794) is universally acknowledged as a major turning-point in the history of the French Revolution. At 12.00 midnight, Maximilien Robespierre, the most prominent...

Author: Thomas AsbridgePublisher: Oxford University PressPublication Date: Sep 29, 2005Number of Pages: 448 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0195189051ISBN-13: 9780195189056

The First Emperor: Selections From The Historical Records (Oxford World'S Classics)Author: Sima Qian, Raymond Dawson, K. E. BrashierPublisher: Oxford University PressPublication Date: Nov 01,...

First published as an Oxford World's Classics paperback 2017--t.p. verso.Author: H. G. WellsPublisher: Oxford University PressPublication Date: Jan 12, 2017Number of Pages: 256 pagesLanguage:...

This bold new translation with facing French text restores once banned poems to their original places and reveals the full richness and variety of the collection.Author: Charles BaudelairePublisher:...

This is a concise contribution to the 'Very Short Introductions' series which reintroduces the history that shaped the founding fathers, the history that they made, and what history has made of them...

It is I think the most radical Book that has been written in these late centuries . . . and will give pleasure and displeasure, one may expect, to almost all classes of persons.' CarlyleThomas...

With a new preface outlining the most recent critical developments, this updated edtion of The Future of the Professions predicts how technology will transform the work of doctors, teachers,...

Arthur Machen is a significant figure in supernatural and horror literature, in the genre of 'weird fiction'. This collection brings together his best horror tales with a full contextual introduction...

A surprising and surreal journey around India's lesser-known food cultures.Author: Zac O'YeahPublisher: Oxford University PressPublication Date: Jun 01, 2024Number of Pages: 338 pagesLanguage:...

Winner of the Kemper and Leila Williams Prize of the Historic New Orleans Collection and the Louisiana Historical Association. Winner of the New Orleans Public Library Foundation Choice Award for...

A new edition of Paul Fussell's literate, literary, and illuminating account of the Great War, now a classic text of literary and cultural criticism.Author: Paul FussellPublisher: Oxford University...

Author: Peter HartPublisher: Oxford University PressPublication Date: May 01, 2015Number of Pages: 544 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0190227354ISBN-13: 9780190227357

A vast system of prisons, camps, and exile settlements, the Gulag was one of the defining attributes of the Stalinist Soviet Union and one of the most heinous examples of mass incarceration in the...

The Gun Debate: What Everyone Needs to Know? by Philip J. CookAuthor: Philip J. CookPublisher: Oxford University PressPublication Date: April 16, 2020Number of Pages: 352 pagesLanguage:...

Originally published in hardcover in 2017 by Oxford University Press.Author: Donna FreitasPublisher: Oxford University PressPublication Date: September 01, 2019Number of Pages: 368 pagesLanguage:...

First published in hardback as The Hellenistic Age 2016.Author: Peter ThonemannPublisher: Oxford University PressPublication Date: Apr 22, 2018Number of Pages: 152 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

This volume collects essays by the renowned scholar and historian of religion Joseph M. Kitagawa. The collection is organized into three parts. Part one presents essays examining such topics as the...

The Holy Roman Empire: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)Author: Abel Hendy Jones GreenidgePublisher: Oxford University PressPublication Date: Oct 01, 2018Number of Pages: 176...

Why did the Cold War end when it did? Few questions have generated more heated debate over the course of the last three decades. Archie Brown, one of the foremost experts on the subject, shows why...

Increasing inequality as a key driver of this shift: more than ever before, contemporary plutocrats fund intellectuals and idea factories that generate arguments that align with their own. But, while...

Long before the United States was a nation, it was a set of ideas, projected onto the New World by European explorers with centuries of belief and thought in tow. From this foundation of expectation...

The Interpretation of Dreams (Oxford World's Classics)Author: ArtemidorusPublisher: Oxford University PressPublication Date: Mar 02, 2020Number of Pages: 416 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

In the popular mind, the mystic is seen as the supreme solitary. This image, if accurate, would make the mystical quest marginal in an era when much theology has emphasized socially responsible...

The Island of Doctor Moreau is the account of Edward Prendick, an English gentleman who finds himself shipwrecked and an unwelcomed guest on the Pacific island of one Doctor Moreau. There, Prendick...

No conflict in the world has lasted as long, generated as many news headlines, or incited as much controversy as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Yet, despite, or perhaps because of, the degree of...

The Jewish War (Oxford World'S Classics)Author: JosephusPublisher: Oxford University PressPublication Date: Apr 23, 2017Number of Pages: 528 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

The Kalevala, a Finnish epic on the scale of the Iliad and the Odyssey, presents a rare portrait of an ancient people in both peace and at war. It played a central role in the march towards Finnish...