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The Oxford Dictionary of Music
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Category: Reference | Series: Oxford Quick Reference Ser.
Now available in paperback and with over 10,000 entries, the Oxford Dictionary of Music (previously the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music) offers broad coverage of a wide range of musical categories spanning many eras, including composers, librettists, singers, orchestras, important ballets and operas, ...Show more
The Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs by Jennifer Speake
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Category: Dictionaries | Series: Oxford Paperback Reference
This unique and authoritative dictionary contains over 1,100 of the most widely used proverbs in English, utilizing the latest research from Oxford Dictionaries to source them. This edition has been thoroughly revised and updated, broadening the cultural range of the proverbs selected, and covering sayi ...Show more
The Oxford Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms by Oxford Dictionaries , Oxford Dictionaries
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Category: Dictionaries | Series: Oxford Quick Reference Ser.
Authoritative, accessible, and completely up to date, The Oxford Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms is an invaluable guide for anyone wanting to build their vocabulary and improve their writing skills. Over 140,000 alternative and opposite words are given with the closest, most frequently used synonyms ...Show more
The Oxford Illustrated History of the Renaissance by Gordon Campbell (Editor)
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Category: History | Series: Oxford Illustrated History Ser.
The Renaissance is one of the most celebrated periods in European history. But when did it begin? When did it end? And what did it include?Traditionally regarded as a revival of classical art and learning, centred upon fifteenth-century Italy, views of the Renaissance have changed considerably in recent ...Show more
The Oxford Illustrated History of the World by Felipe Fernández-Armesto (Editor)
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Category: History | Series: Oxford Illustrated History Ser.
Imagine the planet, as if from an immense distance of time and space, as a galactic observer might see it--with the kind of objectivity that we, who are enmeshed in our history, can´t attain.The Oxford Illustrated History of the World encompasses the whole span of human history. It brings together some ...Show more
The Oxford Shakespeare: Hamlet by William Shakespeare
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
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 te ...Show more
The Oxford Shakespeare: Twelfth Night (or What You Will) by William Shakespeare
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Twelfth Night is one of the most popular of Shakespeare's plays in the modern theatre, and this edition places particular emphasis on its theatrical qualities throughout. Peopled with lovers misled either by disguises or their own natures, it combines lyrical melancholy with broad comedy. The introducti ...Show more
The Phantom of the Opera by David (TRN) Gaston; Coward Leroux
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
The Selfish Gene: 40th Anniversary Edition by Richard Dawkins
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Category: Pop Science | Series: Oxford Landmark Science Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
The million copy international bestseller, critically acclaimed and translated into over 25 languages. As influential today as when it was first published, The Selfish Gene has become a classic exposition of evolutionary thought. Professor Dawkins articulates a gene's eye view of evolution - a view gi ...Show more
The Swann Way by Marcel Proust
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'The memory of a particular image is only regret for a particular moment...' The Swann Way is the first volume of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time (1913-27), one of the most important novels of the twentieth century. The work is a portal to Proust's novel and an introduction to its unforgettable ...Show more
Tragedy of Macbeth: The Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
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 with ...Show more
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
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Category: Literary Studies | Series: Oxford World's Classics
`The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation' In 1845 Henry David Thoreau left his home town of Concord, Massachusetts to begin a new life alone, in a rough hut he built himself a mile and a half away on the north-west shore of Walden Pond. Walden is Thoreau's classic autobiographical account of thi ...Show more