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Cover of Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction
by Jeff Prucher
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2007

The first historical dictionary devoted to science fiction, Brave New Words:The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction shows exactly how science-fictional words and their associated concepts have developed over time, with full citations and bibliographic information. It's a window on a whole genre of...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017

In recent decades, dance has become a vehicle for querying assumptions about what it means to be embodied, in turn illuminating intersections among the political, the social, the aesthetical, and the phenomenological. The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Politics edited by internationally lauded scholars...
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by R. B. Bernstein
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015

The Founding Fathers is a concise, accessible overview of the brilliant, flawed, and quarrelsome group of lawyers, politicians, merchants, military men, and clergy known as "the Founding Fathers"--who got as close to the ideal of the Platonic "philosopher-kings" as American or...
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by Alex Raynham
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014

A level 3 Factfiles Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Written for Learners of English by Alex Raynham. It’s an exciting life – full of fast cars, money, and travel. The names of Formula One champions are known all over...
Cover of The Glorious Cause:The American Revolution, 1763-1789

The Glorious Cause:The American Revolution, 1763-1789

The American Revolution, 1763-1789

by Robert Middlekauff
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2005

The first book to appear in the illustrious Oxford History of the United States, this critically acclaimed volume--a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize--offers an unsurpassed history of the Revolutionary War and the birth of the American republic. Beginning with the French and Indian War and continuing...
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by Mark Twain
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012

A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Nick Bullard. Tom Sawyer does not like school. He does not like work, and he never wants to get out of bed in the morning. But he likes swimming and fishing, and having adventures with his friends. And he has a lot...
Cover of William Osler: A Life in Medicine
by Michael Bliss
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 1999

William Osler was born in a parsonage in backwoods Canada on July 12, 1849. In a life lasting seventy years, he practiced, taught, and wrote about medicine at Canada's McGill University, America's Johns Hopkins University, and finally as Regius Professor at Oxford. At the time of his death in England...
Cover of Al Qaeda, the Islamic State, and the Global Jihadist Movement
by Daniel Byman
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2015

On the morning of September 11, 2001, the entire world was introduced to Al Qaeda and its enigmatic leader, Osama bin Laden. But the organization that changed the face of terrorism forever and unleashed a whirlwind of counterterrorism activity and two major wars had been on the scene long before that...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013

Though the wonders of ancient Roman culture continue to attract interest across the disciplines, it is difficult to find a lively, accessible collection of the full range of the era's literature in English. The Oxford Anthology of Roman Literature provides a general introduction to the literature...
Cover of The Oxford Handbook of Transcendentalism
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Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2010

The Oxford Handbook of Transcendentalism offers an ecclectic, comprehensive interdisciplinary approach to the immense cultural impact of the movement that encompassed literature, art, architecture, science, and politics.
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Freedom from Fear:The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945

The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945

by David M. Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 1999

Between 1929 and 1945, two great travails were visited upon the American people: the Great Depression and World War II. Freedom From Fear tells the story of how Americans endured, and eventually prevailed, in the face of those unprecedented calamities. The Depression was both a disaster and an opportunity....
Cover of A Midsummer Night's Dream - With Audio Level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library
by William Shakespeare
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015

A level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Written for Learners of English by William Shakespeare. There are broken hearts and kisses and then weddings, so this is a story about love. There are actors who are funny because...
Cover of The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Literature
by Cynthia Sugars
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015

The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Literature provides a broad-ranging introduction to some of the key critical fields, genres, and periods in Canadian literary studies. The essays in this volume, written by prominent theorists in the field, reflect the plurality of critical perspectives, regional and...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2005

The Oxford Handbook of Epistemology contains 19 previously unpublished chapters by today's leading figures in the field. These chapters function not only as a survey of key areas, but as original scholarship on a range of vital topics. Written accessibly for advanced undergraduates, graduate students,...
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