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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...

In many sectors, copying is more or less accepted as a business strategy. Products that look, taste, and sound suspiciously like 'originals' abound in upscale chain restaurants, fashion outlets, and...

The Landscape Of History: How Historians Map The PastAuthor: John Lewis GaddisPublisher: Oxford University PressPublication Date: Apr 08, 2004Number of Pages: 208 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

The Language HoaxAuthor: John H. McwhorterPublisher: Oxford University PressPublication Date: Jun 01, 2016Number of Pages: 208 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0190468890ISBN-13:...

The Law Code Of Manu (Oxford World'S Classics)Author: NaPublisher: Oxford University PressPublication Date: Aug 01, 2009Number of Pages: 316 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

The Letters of Giovanni Garzoni: Bolognese Humanist and Physician (1419-1505)Author: L. R. LindPublisher: Oxford University PressPublication Date: May 01, 1992Number of Pages: 676 pagesBinding:...

Had you said "What a guy!" in 17th-century England, anyone would have understood you were admiring a flaming effigy of Guy Fawkes of the Gunpowder Treason Plot. How times have changed! In America...

The available sources on Hasidic society at the turn of the twentieth century create an impression of discontented Jewish youth and panicked parents, but not inexorable crisis and decline. Though the...

For Thomas Aquinas (1224-74), the Book of Job is the authoritative teaching concerning divine providence. In his Literal Exposition on Job, Aquinas offers a line-by-line commentary on the scriptural...

In this groundbreaking and imaginative study, Dashiell Moore explores the inter-colonial other as a mirror image in contemporary Caribbean and Aboriginal Australian literature. Identifying this image...

In The Long Hangover, Shaun Walker presents a deeply reported, bottom-up explanation of Russia's resurgence under Putin. By cleverly exploiting the memory of the Soviet victory over fascism in World...

Novel.Author: ?ammur ZiyadahPublisher: Oxford University PressPublication Date: Sep 15, 2016Number of Pages: 305 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 9774167880ISBN-13: 9789774167881

A major new edition, freshly edited in many cases from manuscripts, of Shelley's poetry and prose. It contains the longer poems from Queen Mab to The Triumph of Life, including generous selections...

Psychotherapist Dorothy W. Martyn reverses the way in which psychoanalytic psychology and Christian theology have usually been related to one another. With few exceptions, priority has been granted...

Rumi, known in Iran and Central Asia as Mowlana Jalaloddin Balkhi, was born in 1207 in the province of Balkh, now the border region between Afghanistan and Tajikistan. Rumi expressed a new vision of...

Rumi, known in Iran and Central Asia as Mowlana Jalaloddin Balkhi, was born in 1207 in the province of Balkh, now the border region between Afghanistan and Tajikistan. Rumi expressed a new vision of...

First edition published 2003. First issued as an Oxford University Press paperback 2004. New edition 2018--Title page verso.Author: Simon WinchesterPublisher: Oxford University PressPublication Date:...

The New Oxford Shakespeare edition of The Merry Wives of Windsor provides a friendly yet authoritative introduction to Shakespeare's beloved comedy.Author: William Shakespeare, Callan Davies, Sarah...

For the 125th anniversary of Kafka's birth comes an astonishing new translation of his best-known stories, in a spectacular graphic package.Author: Franz KafkaPublisher: Oxford University...

The civil rights movement was among the most important historical developments of the twentieth century and one of the most remarkable mass movements in American history. In The Movement, Thomas C...

In 1144, the mutilated body of William of Norwich, a young apprentice leatherworker, was found abandoned outside the city's walls. The boy bore disturbing signs of torture, and a story spread that it...

A best-seller in its day and a potent influence on Walpole, Poe, and other writers of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Gothic horror, The Mysteries of Udolpho remains one of the most important...

Ramakrishna was a nineteenth-century Bengali devotee of Kali, the Hindu goddess of death and destruction. He assumed the demeanor and dress of a woman, acted like a monkey, a child, a madman, and a...

I was much entertained last summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person's hand.'Gilbert White's Natural History of Selborne (1789) reveals a world of wonders in nature. Over a...