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Through much of the twentieth century Afghanistan seemed to be a distant concern in the U.S. Afghanistanism" used to be journalistic shorthand for stories about distant places that editors dismissed...

After the Flying Saucers Came is a comprehensive account of the stories, the people, and the strange events that went into making the fascination with UFOs and aliens a worldwide phenomenon among...

Age of Wolf and Wind provides a new introduction to the Viking Age that capitalizes on recent archaeological discoveries and breakthroughs in the application of analytical techniques from the natural...

Founded as the Soviets withdrew from Afghanistan, Al Qaeda achieved a degree of international notoriety with a series of spectacular attacks in the 1990s; however, it was the dramatic assaults on the...

Alexandrian Citizenship During the Roman PrincipateAuthor: Diana DeliaPublisher: Oxford University PressPublication Date: May 01, 1991Number of Pages: 224 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

The most profound characteristic of Western Europe in the Middle Ages was its cultural and religious unity, a unity secured by a common alignment with the Pope in Rome, and a common language - Latin...

American Political History : A Very Short Introduction captures the richness of American political history, focusing primarily on national politics. It explores the nature of the two-party system,...

An Historical and Historiographical Commentary on Suetonius' Life of C. CaligulaAuthor: Donna W. HurleyPublisher: Oxford University PressPublication Date: May 01, 1993Number of Pages: 256...

An Intelligent Career' is a playbook for the modern knowledge worker, with clear guidance and support on taking charge of your own destiny, seeking continuous learning, collaborating with others,...

For people drawn to a life of contemplation, the dawning of luminous awareness in a mind full of clutter is deeply liberating. In the third of his best-selling books on Christian contemplative life,...

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Ancient Greece is often considered to be the birthplace of science and medicine, and the explanation of natural phenomena without recourse to...

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring The tradition of ancient philosophy is a long, rich and varied one. Julia Annas gives a succinct account of ancient Greco-Roman philosophy,...

To my knowledge...no one...has ever written a comprehensive book dealing with physicians through the ages and recounting their history in a coherent fashion. So wrote Syrian physician Ibn Abi...

One of the greatest novels ever written, Anna Karenina is the story of a beautiful woman whose passionate love for a handsome officer sweeps aside all other ties. This major translation conveys...

Part of the What Everyone Needs to Know® series, David Day's book on Antarctica examines the most forbidding and formidably inaccessible continent on Earth. Antarctica was first discovered by...

Antimatter explores a strange mirror world, where particles have identical yet opposite properties to those that make up the familiar matter we encounter everyday; where left becomes right, positive...

Mental health professionals often must make judgments or decisions involving vital matters. Is an individual likely to act violently? Has a child been sexually abused? Is a police officer fit to...

Author: Elizabeth R. VaronPublisher: Oxford University PressPublication Date: Apr 15, 2015Number of Pages: 320 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0190217863ISBN-13: 9780190217860

This incisive entry in the Classical Presences series explores the afterlife and influence of Apuleius' tale of Cupid and Psyche in European literature and art from 1650 to the present.Author:...

Sixteen prominent scholars offer fresh interpretations and assessments of Aristotle's metaphysical thinking: his accounts of definition and meaning; his understanding of being and the categories; his...

Aristotle on Tragic & Comic Mimesis ACS 29Author: Leon GoldenPublisher: Oxford University PressPublication Date: May 01, 1992Number of Pages: 128 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000Author: Stephen KotkinPublisher: Oxford University PressPublication Date: Nov 01, 2008Number of Pages: 280 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

The New Oxford Shakespeare edition of As You Like It provides a friendly yet authoritative introduction to Shakespeare's beloved comedy.Author: William Shakespeare, Reader in Renaissance Literature...

Over the last decade, New Atheists such as Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, and Christopher Hitchens have pushed the issue of atheism to the forefront of public discussion. Yet very few of the ensuing...

Since the early 1990s the atomic pair distribution function (PDF) analysis of powder diffraction data has undergone something of a revolution in its ability to do just that: yield important...

Aurora Leigh (Oxford World'S Classics)Author: Elizabeth Barrett BrowningPublisher: Oxford University PressPublication Date: Oct 15, 2008Number of Pages: 416 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Selected as a Financial Times Best Book of 2013 Governments today in both Europe and the United States have succeeded in casting government spending as reckless wastefulness that has made the economy...

Describes the philosopher's life from his development as a child prodigy, to his near suicide at the age of twenty-one, through his growth as a philosopher and social thinker.Author: John Stuart...

Baseball's Great Experiment tells the story of one of the most explosive and far-reaching episodes in American sports history--Jackie Robinson's breaking of baseball's color barrier in 1946--and...

Beautiful is a biography of Julian Eltinge, a female impersonator and major cultural figure who has been appropriated as, variously, a gay icon, a highly-closeted turncoat, and a emblem of an era...