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Ice people and giant heads made of stone! Discover sculptures from around the world. The fiction pair for this title is Stone Sculptures to Frozen ...

The magic key takes Biff and Anneena to ancient China. Who are the warriors? The non-fiction pair book for this title is Stone Sculptures to Frozen...

Bringing together contributions from major figures and work of Caribbean writers, this collection of short stories is pan-Caribbean, ranging beyond...

Aimed at first-year undergraduate student in physics and engineering, this textbook combines a rigorous theoretical introduction to linear algebra ...

The son of a yeoman, John Prideaux rose to occupy high office in the University of Oxford and the church - rector of Exeter College, Oxford, regius...

Providing an introduction to the roles that metals have in biological systems, this text introduces many topics: the transport and storage of metal...

Features facts and figures, insights and entertainment, wit and wisdom: from Brentford to Burscough, from Shardlow to Sharpness, from Tipton to Tod...

This accessible primer encompasses the basic concepts, theories, and applied elements of life history evolution.Publisher: Oxford University PressA...

Beginning with the death of Socrates in 399, and following the story through the centuries to more recent figures such as Bertrand Russell and Witt...

By studying a family of working-class suffragettes, Lyndsey Jenkins explores when, why and how the Kenney family got involved in militant suffrage ...

Studies the way in which status symbols operated as a key tool for defining and redefining identities, relations, and power in the hierarchical wor...

Elizabeth Stuart is one the most misrepresented - and underestimated - figures of the seventeenth century. This biography reveals the impact that s...

The quantum world obeys logic at odds with common sense intuition. This weirdness is directly displayed in recent experiments juggling with isolate...

Physico-theology celebrated the observation of nature as a way toward recognising God as Creator, demonstrating the compatibility of the biblical r...

The Criminal Process is an authoritative and highly stimulating treatment of the key issues in criminal process and procedure, authored by one of t...

The first comprehensive text to describe the breadth of available technology for conservation and to evaluate its varied applications, bringing tog...

First published in hardcover as a monumental two-volume study, and called "a brilliant and original work, and a classic" by Mavis Gallant in The Ne...

This book is about game interaction design-in other words, shaping what players can do and how they do it to make a game satisfying and memorable.P...

The Scythians were warlike nomadic horsemen who roamed the steppe of Asia in the first millennium BC. Using archaeological finds from burials and t...

What, exactly, gave Queen's songs their magical and distinct musical identity? Rock and Rhapsodies answers this question through a fascinating musi...

The Empowered Writer gives students a detailed yet widely applicable and accessible guide for developing skills in writing and research, including ...

This work argues that studying the arts is an important and valuable component of general education and of society and American culture. It confron...

Integrates the theoretical principles underlying disease transmission with the practical health considerations involved in helping wildlife profess...

Integrates the theoretical principles underlying disease transmission with the practical health considerations involved in helping wildlife profess...

Aimed at graduate students, this textbook examines the importance of data analysis to understanding biological, physical, and chemical systems, and...

First book to highlight the benefits of using palaeopathological research to answer questions about the evolution of disease and its application to...

Includes well-known writers such as Maupassant, Lorrain, Mirbeau, and Villiers as well as lesser known figures such as Leon Bloy, Jean Richepin, an...

The idea of saints and sainthood are familiar to all, irrelevant of religious faith. In this Very Short Introduction, Simon Yarrow looks at the ori...

Written by seasoned professional bassoonist and reed maker Eric Arbiter, The Way of Cane demystifies the reed-making experience for musicians of al...

Provides a handbook of ecological methods and analytical techniques pertinent to the study of animals, with an emphasis on non-microscopic animals ...

Drying kilns, corn-dryers and malting ovens are familiar features in post-Roman, Anglo-Saxon and medieval archaeology, yet few works of synthesis a...

This novel book provides the reader with the fundamentals of data collection, model construction, analyses, and interpretation across a wide repert...

The Second World War between the Axis and Allied powers saw over 20 million soldiers taken as prisoners of war. Prisoners of War uses a series of c...

Written by a leading academic and broadcaster and drawing on interviews with readers, writers, reading groups, bookshop owners, librarians, and fig...

This novel text reviews our current understanding of male mate choice and female competition, highlighting the important connections between them. ...

The third edition of this established textbook provides an updated and comprehensive overview of the essential background, concepts, and tools requ...

Drawing on an array of novel examples such as workplace discrimination, relationship abuse, Jim Crow, climate change, and pesticides, Nancy Krieger...

Best known for his notorious 'Rivers of Blood' speech in 1968 and his outspoken opposition to immigration, Enoch Powell was one of the most controv...

The third edition of this established textbook provides an updated and comprehensive overview of the essential background, concepts, and tools requ...

Your current and practical guide to the ethical reasoning process in business.Illustrations: 39 photos, 10 figures; 20 tables; 1 mapEditor(s): Greg...

Reducere. DescriptionJohn Henry Newman is one of the outstanding Christian figures of the 19th century. Never afraid to court controversy he lead the High-An...

Reducere. Now in its second edition, this expanded work catalogs every person, animal, ship and cannon mentioned by name in the 21 books of Patrick O'Brian's...

Over the last 20 years, there has been a huge increase in the number of scientific papers published on these remarkable creatures, and an authorita...

Over the last 20 years, there has been a huge increase in the number of scientific papers published on these remarkable creatures, and an authorita...

Charles S. Cockell argues that beyond Earth, space is especially tyranny-prone. Yet rather than consign humanity to a dim future of extraterrestria...

Illegitimacy, Family, and Stigma is the first full-length exploration of what it was like to be illegitimate in eighteenth-century England, telling...

This book is a highly accessible and up-to-date introduction to the key ideas of Sonata Theory, one of the most influential methods for analyzing t...

Provides an introduction to the topics, theories and debates in modern social theory. Fourteen chapters have been written by specialists in the fie...

Written by a leading academic and broadcaster and drawing on interviews with readers, writers, reading groups, bookshop owners, librarians, and fig...

The Third Reich's Elite Schools tells the story of the Napolas, Nazi Germany's most prominent training academies for the future elite. This deeply ...

This volume marks a change in the areas of landscape history and the history of everyday life, offering the first sustained analysis of how ordinar...

Peacey unearths and reconstructs a strange early modern dispute over a small estate in Gloucestershire that was contested over a period of 160 year...

Predator-prey interactions are ubiquitous, govern the flow of energy up trophic levels, and strongly influence the structure of ecological systems....

Since publication of John Emsley's Nature's Building Blocks in 2003 there have been a number of new developments. Fully updated for 2010, this fasc...

Civil War in Central Europe argues that Polish independence after the First World War was forged in the fires of the post-war conflicts which shoul...

Reducere. Stories about gendered social relations permeate the Qur'an, and nearly three hundred verses involve specific women or girls. The Qur'an features t...

DescriptionCurrent, comprehensive, and focused, the bestselling Oxford Handbook of Acute Medicine returns for its fourth edition. Thoroughly revise...

"A companion to be cherished, " "judicious and authoritative, " "informative and entertaining, " "an invaluable work of reference"--these are just ...

What is animal welfare? Why has it proved so difficult to find a definition that everyone can agree on? This concise and accessible guide is for an...

A proven textbook based on materials developed over the last decade to teach linear, generalized, and mixed model analysis to students of ecology, ...

Concepts from evolution, ecology, parasitology, and immunology have informed a new synthesis of host-parasite interactions. The book builds on thes...

This book examines the ideas and practices underpinning state removal of children. Early twentieth century Spanish juvenile courts were involved in...

Stripping the Veil explores the daily existence, ritual practices, and individual actions of nuns in surviving convents over time against the backd...

The Talk of the Town explores everyday communication in a sixteenth-century small town and the role it played in the circulation of information acr...

Paths out of the Apocalypse fundamentally rethinks some key debates in the scholarship on early 20th-century Central Europe, the First World War, v...

This text brings together traditional solid-state approaches from the 20th century with developments of the early part of the 21st century, to reac...

Notes for Violists offers key historical and analytical information about thirty-five of the best-known pieces written for viola. Its engaging pros...

The Guidelines are designed to provide a clear and logical framework for the assessment of damages in personal injury cases. This new edition has b...

This accessible textbook provides an ideal point of entry into the field, providing basic information on the nature of soft-sediment ecosystems, ex...

Reducere. The Society of St John the Evangelist, otherwise known as the Cowley Fathers, was the first men's religious order to be founded in the Church of En...