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| "The Oxford Companion to Cheese by Mateo Kehler (Hardback, 2016)" |
| "The discovery of cheese is a narrative at least 8000 years old dating back to the Neolithic era Yet after all of these thousands of years we are still finding new ways to combine the same four basic ingredients - milk bacteria salt and enzymes - into new and exciting products with vastly different shapes sizes and colors and equally complex and varied tastes textures and yes aromas In fact after a long period of industrialized processed and standardized cheese cheesemakers cheesemongers affineurs and most of all consumers are rediscovering the endless variety of cheeses across cultures The Oxford Companion to Cheese is the first major reference work dedicated to cheese containing 855 A-Z entries on cheese history culture science and production From cottage cheese to Camembert from Gorgonzola to Gruyere there are entries on all of the major cheese varieties globally but also many cheeses that are not well known outside of their region of production The concentrated whey cheeses popular in Norway brunost are covered here as are the traditional Turkish and Iranian cheeses that are ripened in casings prepared from sheep's or goat's skin There are entries on animal species whose milk is commonly (cow goat sheep) and not so commonly (think yak camel and reindeer) used in cheesemaking as well as entries on a few highly important breeds within each species such as the Nubian goat or the Holstein cow Regional entries on places with a strong history of cheese production biographies of influential cheesemakers innovative and influential cheese shops and historical entries on topics like manorial cheesemaking and cheese in children's literature round out the Companion's eclectic cultural coverage The Companion also reflects a fascination with the microbiology and chemistry of cheese featuring entries on bacteria molds yeasts cultures and coagulants used in cheesemaking and cheese maturing The blooms veins sticky surfaces gooey interiors crystals wrinkles strings and yes for some the odors of cheese are all due to microbial action and growth And today we have unprecedented insight into the microbial complexity of cheese thanks to advances in molecular biology whole-genome sequencing technologies and microbiome research The Companion is equally interested in the applied elements of cheesemaking with entries on production methodologies and the technology and equipment used in cheesemaking An astonishing 325 authors contributed entries to the Companion residing in 35 countries These experts included cheesemakers cheesemongers dairy scientists anthropologists food historians journalists archaeologists and on from backgrounds as diverse as the topics they write about Every entry is signed by the author and includes both cross references to related topics and further reading suggestions The endmatter includes a list of cheese-related museums and a thorough index Three 8-page colour inserts and well over a hundred black and white images help bring the entries to life This landmark encyclopedia is the most wide-ranging comprehensive and reliable reference work on cheese available suitable for both novices and industry insiders alike"
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| "American Political History: A Very Short Introduction by Donald Critchlow (Paperback, 2014)" |
| "The Founding Fathers who drafted the United States Constitution in 1787 distrusted political parties popular democracy centralized government and a strong executive office Yet the country's national politics have historically included all those features In American Political History A Very Short Introduction Donald Critchlow takes on this contradiction between original theory and actual practice This brief accessible book explores the nature of the two-party system key turning points in American political history representative presidential and congressional elections struggles to expand the electorate and critical social protest and third-party movements The volume emphasizes the continuity of a liberal tradition challenged by partisan divide war and periodic economic turmoil American Political History A Very Short Introduction explores the emergence of a democratic political culture within a republican form of government showing the mobilization and extension of the mass electorate over the lifespan of the country In a nation characterized by great racial ethnic and religious diversity American democracy has proven extraordinarily durable Individual parties have risen and fallen but the dominance of the two-party system persists Fierce debates over the meaning of the US Constitution have created profound divisions within the parties and among voters but a belief in the importance of constitutional order persists among political leaders and voters Americans have been deeply divided about the extent of federal power slavery the meaning of citizenship immigration policy civil rights and a range of economic financial and social policies New immigrants racial minorities and women have joined the electorate and the debates But American political history with its deep social divisions bellicose rhetoric and antagonistic partisanship provides valuable lessons about the meaning and viability of democracy in the early 21st century ABOUT THE SERIES The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly Our expert authors combine facts analysis perspective new ideas and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable"
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| "Pandemics: A Very Short Introduction by Christian W. McMillen (Paperback, 2016)" |
| "The 2014 Ebola epidemic demonstrated the power of pandemics and their ability not only to destroy lives locally but also to capture the imagination and terrify the world Christian W McMillen provides a concise yet comprehensive account of pandemics throughout human history illustrating how pandemic disease has shaped history and at the same time social behavior has influenced pandemic disease Extremely interesting from a medical standpoint the study of pandemics also provides unexpected broader insights into culture and politics This Very Short Introduction describes history's major pandemics - plague tuberculosis malaria smallpox cholera influenza and HIVAIDS - highlighting how each disease's biological characteristics affected its pandemic development McMillen discusses state responses to pandemics such as quarantine isolation travel restrictions and other forms of social control and pays special attention to the rise of public health and the explosion of medical research in the wake of pandemics especially as the germ theory of disease emerged in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Today medicine is able to control all of these diseases yet some of them are still devastating in much of the developing world By assessing the relationship between poverty and disease and the geography of epidemics McMillen offers an outspoken and thought-provoking point of view on the necessity for global governments to learn from past experiences and proactively cooperate to prevent any future epidemic"
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| "Military Strategy: A Very Short Introduction by Antulio J. Echevarria (Paperback, 2017)" |
| "Since ancient times poets historians and philosophers have contemplated warlords' exploits in battle and praised their ability to lead armies toward victory as the art of the general Today this quality is designated military strategy Military strategy plays a vital role in every conflict because as the United States' involvement in the Vietnam conflict showed when the overarching strategy is weak it is possible to win every battle but still lose a war Taking inspiration from the greatest military theoreticians of history such as Sun Tzu Niccolo Machiavelli and Carl von Clausewitz this Very Short Introduction highlights the dynamic relationship between the principal components of strategy purpose method and means Drawing on paradigmatic examples from Hannibal's war against Rome to Napoleon's victory at Austerlitz from the Allies' campaign to overwhelm Hitler's fortress to the terror attacks of September 11 Antulio J Echevarria II vividly illustrates the factors contributing to the success or failure of military strategy Echevarria describes the major types of military strategy and their advantages and disadvantages annihilation and dislocation; attrition and exhaustion; deterrence and coercion; terror and terrorism; targeted killing; and cyber power He also explores the emerging nano- and bio-genetic technologies and explains how they are affecting today's military strategy Clear and engaging this book shows that military strategy is essential for understanding major events of the past and becomes even more critical today in a world increasingly threatened by weapons of mass destruction terrorist attacks and new dimensions of conflict such as cyberwar and space"
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| "Decolonization: A Very Short Introduction by Professor Dane Kennedy (Paperback, 2016)" |
| "Millions of Africans Asians and other peoples were the subjects of colonial rule by overseas empires through the mid-twentieth century By the end of the century however nearly all of these peoples had become citizens of independent nation-states The United Nations grew from 51 member states at its founding in 1945 to 193 today Its nearly four-fold increase is one measure of the historic shift in international relations that has occurred over the past half-century Decolonization is the term commonly used to refer to this transition from a world of colonial empires to a world of nation-states in the years after World War II Both ex-imperial states and post-colonial regimes have promoted a selective and sanitized version of decolonization that casts their own conduct in a positive light characterizing the process as negotiated and the outcome as inevitable This book draws on recent scholarship to challenge that view demonstrating that considerable violence and instability accompanied the end of empire and that the outcome was often up for grabs This book highlights three themes The first is that global war between empires precipitated decolonization creating the economic and political crises that gave colonial subjects the opportunity to seek independence The second theme is that nation-state was not the only option pursued by anti-colonial activists Many of them sought pan- and trans-national polities instead but a combination of international and institutional pressures made the nation-state the standard template The third theme is that the struggle to escape imperial subjugation and create nation-states generated widespread violence and produced huge refugee populations leading to political problems that persist to the present day By focusing on these crucial points Dane Kennedy reminds us how the tumultuous even tragic changes caused by the decolonization profoundly shaped the world we live in"
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| "The Real North Korea: Life and Politics in the Failed Stalinist Utopia by Andrei Lankov (Paperback, 2014)" |
| "Andrei Lankov has gone where few outsiders have ever been A native of the former Soviet Union he lived as an exchange student in North Korea in the 1980s He has studied it for his entire career using his fluency in Korean and personal contacts to build a rich nuanced understanding In The Real North Korea Lankov substitutes cold clear analysis for the overheated rhetoric surrounding this opaque police state After providing an accessible history of the nation he turns his focus to what North Korea is what its leadership thinks and how its people cope with living in such an oppressive and poor place He argues that North Korea is not irrational and nothing shows this better than its continuing survival against all odds A living political fossil it clings to existence in the face of limited resources and a zombie economy manipulating great powers despite its weakness Its leaders are not ideological zealots or madmen but perhaps the best practitioners of Machiavellian politics that can be found in the modern world Even though they preside over a failed state they have successfully used diplomacy-including nuclear threats-to extract support from other nations But while the people in charge have been ruthless and successful in holding on to power Lankov goes on to argue that this cannot continue forever since the old system is slowly falling apart In the long run with or without reform the regime is unsustainable Lankov contends that reforms if attempted will trigger a dramatic implosion of the regime They will not prolong its existence Based on vast expertise this book reveals how average North Koreans live how their leaders rule and how both survive"
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| "The Meaning of Life: A Very Short Introduction by Terry Eagleton (Paperback, 2008)" |
| "'Philosophers have an infuriating habit of analysing questions rather than answering them' writes Terry Eagleton who in these pages asks the most important question any of us ever ask and attempts to answer it So what is the meaning of life? In this witty spirited and stimulating inquiry Eagleton shows how centuries of thinkers - from Shakespeare and Schopenhauer to Marx Sartre and Beckett - have tackled the question Refusing to settle for the bland and boring Eagleton reveals with a mixture of humour and intellectual rigour how the question has become particularly problematic in modern times Instead of addressing it head-on we take refuge from the feelings of 'meaninglessness' in our lives by filling them with a multitude of different things from football and sex to New Age religions and fundamentalism 'Many of the readers of this book are likely to be as sceptical of the phrase the meaning of life as they are of Santa Claus' he writes But Eagleton contends that in a world where we need to find common meanings it is important that we set about answering the question of all questions; and in conclusion he suggests his own answer ABOUT THE SERIES The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly Our expert authors combine facts analysis perspective new ideas and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable"
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| "Pocket Oxford Dictionary and Thesaurus by Oxford Dictionaries," |
| "Featuring a dictionary and thesaurus combined the Pocket Oxford Dictionary and Thesaurus provides the essential language reference help you need in a single portable volume The second edition of this reference book has been completely redesigned so that it is easier to use The thesaurus entry for a word now immediately follows the dictionary entry so that you do not need to hunt around the page for this information We have also made the text more open and accessible so that you can find the word you are looking for quickly and easily New words and new meanings have been added to the text so you can be sure that you are using a reference book that is up-to-date and reflects the developments of the English langauge With over 90000 words phrases and definitions and 115000 synonyms and antonyms the Pocket Oxford Dictionary and Thesaurus provides all the everday language help you need This edition also contains new Word Link features helping you find words that are closely associated with each other For example the Word Link at environment tells you that the study of the natural world is called ecology and the Word Link at cave informs you that the exploration of caves is known as speleology or potholing The new centre section of the dictionary and thesaurus contains encyclopedic information such as lists of countries capitals and kings and queens helping you to broaden your knowledge and to find solutions for quizzes and puzzles The Pocket Oxford Dictionary and Thesaurus is an invaluable tool for anyone who wants a portable quick reference tool useful both for general ready reference and for quizzes and crossword puzzles"
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| "Compact Oxford English Dictionary of Current English by Oxford Dictionaries (Hardback, 2008)" |
| "Its excellent coverage of essential English vocabulary and clear accessible style make this revised edition of the Compact Oxford English Dictionary of Current English ideal for general everyday use Straightforward definitions are accompanied by plenty of example sentences to show how words behave in the language Usage notes on tricky parts of English help you distinguish between commonly confused words such as complementary and complimentary orforbear and forebear as well as giving advice on grammar The Effective English section in the centre of the dictionary is packed with advice on how to use English in a variety of situations such as writing CVs or letters of complaint This revised edition has been completely redesigned and now contains even more practical help with correspondence The clear layout and attractive two-colour design enable you to find the infromation you want quickly and easily and the uncomplicated definitions give you the most accurate picture of the language possible Find out more about our living language using oxforddictionariescom Oxford's home for dictionaries and language reference"
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| "Little Oxford Dictionary and Thesaurus by Oxford Dictionaries (Hardback, 2008)" |
| "This combined dictionary and thesaurus is the smallest hardback in the Oxford range The Little Oxford Dictionary and Thesaurus is a convenient compact and portable reference book to help with studies or to solve everyday language problems and puzzles wherever you are This second edition features a brand new layout The thesaurus entry for a word sits directly alongside the dictionary entry so that you do not have to hunt around the page to find the word you are looking for A new centre section gives encyclopedic information such as lists of countries and capitals rivers and lakes kings queens and prime ministers as well as collective nouns helping you to broaden your knowledge Packed with help and information the Little Oxford Dictionary and Thesaurus is the ideal small reference book for home school or work"
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| "The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire (Paperback, 2008)" |
| "The Flowers of Evil which T S Eliot called the greatest example of modern poetry in any language shocked the literary world of nineteenth century France with its outspoken portrayal of lesbian love its linking sexuality and death its unremitting irony and its unflinching celebration of the seamy side of urban life The volume was seized by the police and Baudelaire and his published were put on trial for offence to public decency Six offending poems were banned in a conviction that was not overturned until 1949 This bold new translation which restores the banned poems to their original places and reveals the full richness and variety of the collection makes available to English speakers a powerful and original version of the world Jonathan Culler's Introduction outlines this vision stressing that Baudelaire is more than just the poet of the modern city Originally to be called 'The Lesbians' The Flowers of Evil contains the most extraordinary body of love poetry The poems also pose the question of the role of evil in our lives of whether there are not external forces working to frustrate human plans and to enlist men and women on appalling or stultifying scenarios not of their own making ABOUT THE SERIES For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study and much more"
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| "The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (Paperback, 2008)" |
| "Described variously as the greatest poem of the European Middle Ages and because of the author's evangelical purpose the 'fifth Gospel' the Divine Comedy is central to the culture of the west The poem is a spiritual autobiography in the form of a journey - the poet travels from the dark circles of the Inferno up the mountain of Purgatory where Virgil his guide leaves him to encounter Beatrice in the Earthly Paradise Dante conceived the poem as the new epic of Christendom and he creates a world in which reason and faith have transformed moral and social chaos into order Charles Sisson's blank verse translation is remarkable for its lucidity and vigour and the Introduction diagrams maps and notes by David Higgins provide the reader with invaluable guidance ABOUT THE SERIES For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study and much more"
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| "Capital: An Abridged Edition by Karl Marx (Paperback, 2008)" |
| "A classic of early modernism Capital combines vivid historical detail with economic analysis to produce a bitter denunciation of mid-Victorian capitalist society It has also proved to be the most influential work in social science in the twentieth century; Marx did for social science what Darwin had done for biology Millions of readers this century have treated Capital as a sacred text subjecting it to as many different interpretations as the bible itself No mere work of dry economics Marx's great work depicts the unfolding of industrial capitalism as a tragic drama - with a message which has lost none of its relevance today This is the only abridged edition to take account of the whole of Capital It offers virtually all of Volume 1 which Marx himself published in 1867 excerpts from a new translation of 'The Result of the Immediate Process of Production' and a selection of key chapters from Volume 3 which Engels published in 1895 ABOUT THE SERIES For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study and much more"
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| "Anthony and Cleopatra: The Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare (Paperback, 2008)" |
| "In its towering central characters vast geographical and historical sweep and its variety of style and mood Anthony and Cleopatra is perhaps the most ambitious of Shakespeare's designs Yet the degree and nature of its success remain surprisingly contentious and performances of the play have seldom matched the extravagant expectations of its admirers Michael Neill's wide-ranging introduction from a number of angles including those of gender and race He examines the sources and discusses the theatrical challenge presented by Shakespeare's technique with its extraordinary tensions between rhetoric and action A full stage history further illustrates its theatrical fortunes; both here and in the extensive commentary this edition illuminates the play's theatrical dimensions as well as the rich complexity of its poetic language ABOUT THE SERIES For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study and much more"
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| "Hamlet: The Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare (Paperback, 2009)" |
| "Hamlet's combination of violence and introspection is unusual among Shakespeare's tragedies It is also full of curious riddles and fascinating paradoxes making it one of his most widely discussed plays Professor Hibbard's illuminating and original introduction explains the process by which variant texts were fused in the eighteenth century to create the most commonly used text of today Drawing on both critical and theatrical history he shows how this gusion makes Hamlet seem a much more 'problematic' play than it was when it originally appeared in the First Folio of 1623 The Oxford Shakespeare edition presents a radically new text based on that First Folio which printed Shakespeare's own revision of an earlier version The result is a 'theatrical' and highly practical edition for students and actors alike ABOUT THE SERIES For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study and much more"
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| "The Tragedy of Macbeth: The Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare (Paperback, 2009)" |
| "Dark and violent Macbeth is also the most theatrically spectacular of Shakespeare's tragedies Indeed for 250 years - until early this century - it was performed with grand operatic additions set to baroque music In his introduction Nicholas Brooke relates the play's changing fortunes to changes within society and the theatre and investigates the sources of its enduring appeal He examines its many layers of illusion and interprets its linguistic turns and echoes arguing that the earliest surviving text is an adaptation perhaps carried out by Shakespeare himself in collaboration with Thomas Middleton This fully annotated edition reconsiders textual and staging problems appraises past and present critical views and represents a major contribution to our understanding of Macbeth ABOUT THE SERIES For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study and much more"
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| "A Midsummer Night's Dream: The Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare (Paperback, 2008)" |
| "A Midsummer Night's Dream is perhaps the best loved of Shakepeare's plays It brings together aristocrats workers and fairies in a wood outside Athens and from there the enchantment begins Simple and engaging on the surface it is none the less a highly original and sophisticated work remarkable for both its literary and its theatrical mastery It is one of the very few of Shakespeare's plays which do not draw on narrative sources which suggests that it reflects his deepest imaginative concerns to an unusual degree In his introduction Peter Holland pays particular attention to dreams and dreamers and to Shakespeare's construction of a world of night and shadows Both here and in his commentary he explores the play's extensive performance history to illustrate the wide range of interpretations of which it is capable ABOUT THE SERIES For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study and much more"
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| "Othello: The Oxford Shakespeare: The Moor of Venice by William Shakespeare (Paperback, 2008)" |
| "The Oxford Shakespeare General Editor Stanley Wells The Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed to interpret and illuminate the plays for modern readers - A new modern-spelling text collated and edited from all existing printings - Extensive introduction gives full attention to the play's bold treatment of racial themes gender and social relations - Detailed performance history designed to meet the needs of theatre professionals - On-page commentary and notes explain language word-play and staging - Appendices on music in the play and a full translation of the Italian novella from which the story derives - Illustrated with production photographs and related art - Full index to introduction and commentary - Durable sewn binding for lasting use 'not simply a better text but a new conception of Shakespeare This is a major achievement of twentieth-century scholarship' ABOUT THE SERIES For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study and much more"
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| "The Tempest: The Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare (Paperback, 2008)" |
| "Performed variously as escapist fantasy celebratory fiction and political allegory The Tempest is one of the plays in which Shakespeare's genius as a poetic dramatist found its fullest expression Significantly it was placed first when published in the First Folio of 1623 and is now generally seen as the playwright's most penetrating statement about his art Stephen Orgel's wide-ranging introduction examines changing attitudes to The Tempest and reassesses the evidence behind the various readings He focuses on key characters and their roles and relationships as well as on the dramatic historical and political context finding the play to be both more open and more historically determined than traditional views have allowed ABOUT THE SERIES For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study and much more"
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| "The Bible: Authorized King James Version by Oxford University Press (Paperback, 2008)" |
| "The Bible is the most important book in the history of Western civilization and also the most difficult to interpret It has been the vehicle of continual conflict with every interpretation reflecting passionately-held views that have affected not merely religion but politics art and even science This unique edition offers an exciting new approach to the most influential of all English biblical texts - the Authorized King James Version complete with the Apocrypha Its wide-ranging Introduction and the substantial notes to each book of the Bible guide the reader through the labyrinth of literary textual and theological issues using the most up-to-date scholarship to demonstrate how and why the Bible has affected the literature art and general culture of the English-speaking world ABOUT THE SERIES For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study and much more"
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| "The Qur'an (Oxford World's Classics) Paperback" |
| "&39;Read! Your Lord is the Most Bountiful one who taught by the pen who taught man what he did not know&39;The Qur&39;an believed by Muslims to be the word of God was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad 1400 years ago It is the supreme authority in Islam and the living source of all Islamic teaching; it is a sacred text and a book of guidance that sets out the creed rituals ethics and laws of the Islamic religion It has been one of the most influential books in the history of literature Recognized as the greatest literary masterpiece in Arabic it has nevertheless remained difficult to understand in its English translations This new translation is written in a contemporary idiom that remains faithful to the original making it easy to read while retaining its powers of eloquence Archaisms and cryptic language are avoided and the Arabic meaning preserved by respecting the context of the discourse The message of the Qur&39;an was directly addressed to all people regardless of class gender or age and this translation is equally accessible to everyone ABOUT THE SERIES For over 100 years Oxford World&39;s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxford&39;s commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study and much more"
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| "South Sea Tales by Robert Louis Stevenson (Paperback, 2008)" |
| "The literary world was shocked when in 1889 at the height of his career Robert Louis Stevenson announced his intention to settle permanently on the Pacific island of Samoa His readers were equally shocked when he began to use the subject material offered by his new environment not to promote a romance of empire but to produce some of the most ironic and critical treatments of imperialism in nineteenth-century fiction In these stories as in his work generally Stevenson shows himself to be a virtuoso of narrative styles his Pacific fiction includes the domestic realism of 'The Beach at Falese the folktale plots of 'The Bottle Imp' and 'The Isle of Voices' and the modernist blending of naturalism and symbolism in The Ebb-Tide But beyond their generic diversity the stories are linked by their concern with representing the multiracial society of which their author had become a member In this collection - the first to bring together all his shorter Pacific fiction in one volume - Stevenson emerges as a witness both to the cross- cultural encounters of nineteenth-century imperialism and to the creation of the global culture which characterizes the post-colonial world ABOUT THE SERIES For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study and much more"
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| "Four Major Plays: (Doll's House; Ghosts; Hedda Gabler; and the Master Builder): Doll's House; Ghosts; Hedda Gabler; and the..." |
| "Taken from the highly acclaimed Oxford Ibsen this collection of Ibsen's plays includes A Doll's House Ghosts Hedda Gabler and The Master Builder ABOUT THE SERIES For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study and much more"
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| "The Library of Greek Mythology by Apollodorus (Paperback, 2008)" |
| "The only work of its kind to survive from classical antiquity the Library of Apollodorus is a unique guide to Greek mythology from the origins of the universe to the Trojan War Apollodorus' Library has been used as a source book by classicists from the time of its compilation in the 1st-2nd century BC to the present influencing writers from antiquity to Robert Graves It provides a complete history of Greek myth telling the story of each of the great families of heroic mythology and the various adventures associated with the main heroes and heroines from Jason and Perseus to Heracles and Helen of Troy As a primary source for Greek myth as a reference work and as an indication of how the Greeks themselves viewed their mythical traditions the Library is indispensable to anyone who has an interest in classical mythology Robin Hard's accessible and fluent translation is supplemented by comprehensive notes a map and full genealogical tables The introduction gives a detailed account of the Library's sources and situates it within the fascinating narrative traditions of Greek mythology ABOUT THE SERIES For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study and much more"
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| "The Major Works by William Wordsworth (Paperback, 2008)" |
| "This authoritative edition was formerly published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode It brings together a unique combination of Wordsworth's poetry and prose - all the major poems complemented by important letters prefaces and essays - to give the essence of his work and thinking William Wordsworth (1770-1850) has long been one of the best-known and best-loved English poets The Lyrical Ballads written with Coleridge is a landmark in the history of English romantic poetry His celebration of nature and of the beauty and poetry in the commonplace embody a unified and coherent vision that was profoundly innovative This volume presents the poems in their order of composition and in their earliest completed state enabling the reader to trace Wordsworth's poetic development and to share the experience of his contemporaries It includes a large sample of the finest lyrics and also longer narratives such as The Ruined Cottage Home at Grasmere Peter Bell and the autobiographical masterpiece The Prelude (1805) All the major examples of Wordsworth's prose on the subject of poetry are also included ABOUT THE SERIES For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study and much more"
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| "Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and Nobody by Friedrich Nietzsche (Paperback, 2008)" |
| "&39;The profoundest book there is born from the innermost richness of truth an inexhaustible well into which no bucket descends without coming up with gold and goodness&39;Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1885) was Nietzsche&39;s own favourite among all his books and has proved to be his most popular having sold millions of copies in many different languages In it he addresses the problem of how to live a fulfilling life in a world without meaning in the aftermath of &39;the death of God&39; Nietzsche&39;s solution lies in the idea of eternal recurrence which he calls &39;the highest formula of affirmation that can ever be attained&39; A successful engagementwith this profoundly Dionysian idea enables us to choose clearly among the myriad possibilities that existence offers and thereby to affirm every moment of our lives with others on this &39;sacred&39; earth This translation of Zarathustra (the first new English version for over forty years) conveys the musicality of the original German and for the first time annotates the abundance of allusions to the Bible and other classic texts with which Nietzsche&39;s masterpiece is in conversation ABOUT THE SERIES For over 100 years Oxford World&39;s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxford&39;s commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study and much more"
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| "Antigone; Oedipus the King; Electra by Sophocles (Paperback, 2008)" |
| "Love and loyalty hatred and revenge fear deprivation and political ambition these are the motives which thrust the characters portrayed in these three Sophoclean masterpieces on to their collision course with catastrophe Recognized in his own day as perhaps the greatest of the Greek tragedians Sophocles' reputation has remained undimmed for two and a half thousand years His greatest innovation in the tragic medium was his development of a central tragic figure faced with a test of will and character risking obloquy and death rather than compromise his or her principles it is striking that Antigone and Electra both have a woman as their intransigent 'hero' Antigone dies rather neglect her duty to her family Oedipus' determination to save his city results in the horrific discovery that he has committed both incest and parricide and Electra's unremitting anger at her mother and her lover keeps her in servitude and despair These vivid translations combine elegance and modernity and are remarkable for their lucidity and accuracy Their sonorous diction economy and sensitivity to the varied metres and modes of the original musical delivery make them equally suitable for reading or theatrical peformance ABOUT THE SERIES For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study and much more"
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| "John Donne - The Major Works by John Donne (Paperback, 2008)" |
| "This authoritative edition was formerly published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode It brings together a unique combination of Donne's poetry and prose - all the major poems complemented by rarely published letters and extracts from Donne's sermons - to give the essence of his work and thinking John Donne (1572-1631) is today celebrated as one of the greatest of the metaphysical poets whose verse was daringly original and whose use of imagery and conceits marked a new intellectual approach to poetry His Satires Elegies and Songs and Sonnets which contain his most famous love poems were complemented by his religious writing both verse and prose He was one of the most renowned preachers of his day and this volume does equal justice to the full range of his work In addition to nearly all his English poetry this volume includes over 130 extracts from Donne's sermons as well as the full text of his last sermon 'Death's Duel' A distinguishing feature of the selection is that the works are arranged in the chronological order of their composition ABOUT THE SERIES For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study and much more"
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| "Medea and Other Plays by Euripides (Paperback, 2008)" |
| "'the most tragic of the poets' Aristotle Euripides was one of the most popular and controversial of all Greek tragedians and his plays are marked by an independence of thought ingenious dramatic devices and a subtle variety of register and mood He is also remarkable for the prominence he gave to female characters whether heroines of virtue or vice In the ethically shocking Medea the first known child-killing mother in Greek myth to perform the deed in cold blood manipulates her world in order to wreak vengeance on her treacherous husband Hippolytus sees Phaedra's confession of her passion for her stepson herald disaster while Electra's heroine helps her brother murder their mother in an act that mingles justice and sin Lastly lighter in tone the satyr drama Helen is an exploration of the impossibility of certitude as brilliantly paradoxical as the three famous tragedies This new translation does full justice to Euripides's range of tone and gift for narrative A lucid introduction provides substantial analysis of each play complete with vital explanations of the traditions and background to Euripides's world ABOUT THE SERIES For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study and much more"
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| "Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, The Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others by Oxford University Press (Paperback, 2008)" |
| "The ancient civilization of Mesopotamia thrived between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates over 4000 years ago The myths collected here originally written in cuneiform on clay tablets include parallels with the biblical stories of the Creation and the Flood and the famous Epic of Gilgamesh the tale of a man of great strength whose heroic quest for immortality is dashed through one moment of weakness Recent developments in Akkadian grammar and lexicography mean that this new translation complete with notes a glossary of deities place-names and key terms and illustrations of the mythical monsters featured in the text will replace all other versions ABOUT THE SERIES For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study and much more"
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