'The degradations, the wrongs, the vices, that grow out of slavery, are more than I can describe.' Harriet Jacobs was born a slave in the American South and went on to write one of the most...
Marina Warner guides us through the rich world of fairy tale, from Cinderella and Hansel and Gretel to Snow White and Pan's Labyrinth. Exploring pervasive themes of folklore, myth, the...
John Palmer develops and defends a modal interpretation of Parmenides, according to which he was the first philosopher to distinguish in a rigorous manner the fundamental modalities of necessary...
'I see Troy in flames years from now - because Paris brings disasterto us,' Queen Hecuba says about her son. Paris's father, King Priam,wants to kills him. But Paris lives, and later...
This Handbook provides in one volume an authoritative and independent treatment of the UN's seventy-year history, written by an international cast of more than 50 distinguished scholars,...
Recent archaeological discoveries from China and central Asia have changed our understanding of how human civilization developed in the period of some 4 million years before the start of written...
English level: IntermediateEnglish for the Hotel and Catering IndustryA new level of this highly communicative course for trainees in the hospitality and catering industry.Highly Recommended 2...
A family from Switzerland is shipwrecked on a deserted island. They discover that the island is filled with plants and animals they've never seen before. Unfortunately, not all of the creatures...
Young Explorers 2 is the fourth book in an exciting new six-level course that brings real-world English into the classroom. Explorers helps children learn English aby encouraging them to explore...
'Intellectual freedom depends on material things. Poetry depends on intellectual freedom. And women have always been poor...' In these two classic essays of feminist literature, Woolf...
A fancy-dress fun run, badly-behaved furniture, a doctor in disguise, and being a magical lollipop lady. Get ready for four crazy Winnie and Wilbur adventures!
Ideal for new learners of English looking to improve and practisetheir English. The book is filled with useful vocabulary that iscarefully graded and easy to understand, it also comes with audio,...
This new edition of Tom Hutchinson's bestselling course combines all the aspects that students and teachers loved from the previous edition with exiting new digital components, extra resources...
A great age of poetry speaks for itself in Christopher Ricks's celebrated anthology: the variety and power of Victorian verse, the innovation and creativity with which poets resisted the bad...
For 300 years the greatest power in Eastern Europe was the union between the kingdom of Poland and the grand duchy of Lithuania, one of the longest-lasting political unions in European history....
Combining history and anthropology in a global examination of families and power, this book connects medieval kings and queens to contemporary family business empires. Its sweeping overview of five...
New in the }VSI{ series, this examines the origins of the Druids and the evidence for their beliefs and practices. Also considers the cult revivals of Druidism.
This is an entry-level book on Bayesian statistics written in a casual, and conversational tone. The authors walk a reader through many sample problems step-by-step to provide those with little...
How do we measure time? Why do people write poems? Where does energy come from? Oxford Discover uses Big Questions such as these to tap into students' natural curiosity. It enables them to ask...