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Giovanni Boccaccio, Guido Waldman,
The Decameron

The Decameron (c. 1351) was written in the wake of the Black Death, a shattering epidemic which had shaken Florence's confident entrepreneurial society to its core. In a country villa outside the city, te…

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Edwin G Burrows, Mike Wallace
Gotham

In this epic, Pulitzer Prize-winning work, Burrows and Wallace have produced a monumental history of New York City--ranging from the Indian tribes that settled the island of Manna-hatta to the consolidati…

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David Canter
Forensic Psychology

Lie detection, offender profiling, insanity in the law, the minds of serial killers, and many other topics that fill news and fiction are all aspects of the rapidly developing area of Forensic Psychology.…

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Joseph Conrad,
Nostromo

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One of the greatest political novels in any language, Nostromo enacts the establishment of modern capitalism in a remote South American province locked between the Andes and the Pacific. This edition offe…

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Confraternity of Christian Doctrine
The New American Bible Revised Edition

The NABRE Compact Edition is a light and portable version of Oxford's popular Catholic Bible. Durable binding, compact size, and supremely affordable value make this a perfect edition for school and churc…

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Joshua W Hamilton
Potions

Here is an illuminating look at toxicology by a leading expert, exploring some of the common myths in our society about the chemicals we call drugs and toxins. Covering topics such as the placebo effect a…

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Sara Jones
Jones, S: Television, Cult and the Fantastic

Examines their genres, themes, textual and marketing strategies, relating these to wider debates about audiences and consumers, the culture industry, technologies and storytelling

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Bill Kirchner
Oxford Companion to Jazz

Jazz and its colorful, expansive history resonate in this unique collection of 60 essays specially-commissioned from today's top jazz performers, writers, and scholars. For the true afficionado.

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Jeff Mcmahan
Killing in War

Killing a person is in general among the most seriously wrongful forms of action, yet most of us accept that it can be permissible to kill people on a large scale in war. Does morality become more permiss…

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Plato,
Symposium

Oxford World's Classics

In his celebrated masterpiece, Symposium, Plato imagines a high-society dinner-party in Athens in 416 BC at which the guests - including the comic poet Aristophanes and, of course, Plato's mentor Socrates…

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Plutarch, Robin Waterfield,
Greek Lives

The nine lives in this selection include those of Lycurgus, Pericles, Solon, Nicias, Themistocles, Alcibiades, Cimon, Agesilaus, and Alexander. Portraying virtues to be emulated and vices to be avoided, P…

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Rawson
The Oxford Dictionary of American Quotations

With nearly 6,000 quotations arranged historically and annotated extensively, you'll know not just who said what, but get the full story behind the quote. Follow any of the more than five hundred topics (…

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Giovanni Sambin
Positive Topology

Aimed at researchers in mathematics, philosophy and logic, this book provides the first organic exposition of dynamic constructivism and the mathematics ensuing in practice, including discussion of the te…

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Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Major Works

Oxford World's Classics

This major new edition, originally commissioned for the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode, brings together a unique combination of Shelley's poetry and prose - …

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Mark Slobin
Folk Music

This stimulating Very Short Introduction throws open the doors on a remarkably diverse musical genre, with a world-wide reach that goes far beyond America's shores to discuss folk music of every possible …

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Arnold Toynbee,
A Study of History

Contained in two volumes, D.C. Somervell's abridgement of Arnold Toynbee's 'A Study of History' preserves the method, atmosphere, texture, and, in many instances, the very words of the original. This volu…

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Dmitri Tymoczko
Geometry of Music

In this groundbreaking book, Tymoczko uses contemporary geometry to provide a new framework for thinking about music, one that emphasizes the commonalities among styles from Medieval polyphony to contempo…

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John Waller
Breeding

Presents a historical backdrop to current debates about heredity, sex and race.

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The Studio Recordings of the Miles Davis Quintet, 1965-68

The Studio Recordings of the Miles Davis Quintet , 1965-68 provides an important analytical study of the Miles Davis quintet studio recordings of 1965-68, including the albums E.S.P., Miles Smiles, Sorcer…

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