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War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
$29.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Published to coincide with the centenary of Tolstoy's death, here is an exciting new edition of one of the great literary works of world literature. Tolstoy's epic masterpiece captures with unprecedented immediacy the broad sweep of life during the Napoleonic wars and the brutal invasion of Russia. Ball ...Show more
What Is Mathematics? by Richard Courant
$39.95 AUD
Category: Pop Science | Series: Oxford Paperbacks Ser.
For more than two thousand years a familiarity with mathematics has been regarded as an indispensable part of the intellectual equipment of every cultured person. Today, unfortunately, the traditional place of mathematics in education is in grave danger. The teaching and learning of mathematics has dege ...Show more
What Maisie Knew by Henry James
$13.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Oxford World's Classics
What Maisie Knew (1897) represents one of James's finest reflections on the rites of passage from wonder to knowledge, and the question of their finality. The child of violently divorced parents, Maisie Farange opens her eyes on a distinctly modern world. Mothers and fathers keep changing their partners ...Show more
Why Evolution is True by Jerry A. Coyne
$20.95 AUD
Category: Pop Science | Series: Oxford Landmark Science Ser.
For all the discussion in the media about creationism and 'Intelligent Design', virtually nothing has been said about the evidence in question - the evidence for evolution by natural selection. Yet, as this succinct and important book shows, that evidence is vast, varied, and magnificent, and drawn from ...Show more
William Blake - Selected Poems by William Blake; Nicholas Shrimpton (Editor)
$17.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'To see a World in a Grain of Sand'And a Heaven in a Wild FlowerHold Infinity in the palm of your handAnd Eternity in an hour'William Blake wrote some of the most moving and memorable verse in the English language. Deeply committed to visionary and imaginative experience, yet also fiercely engaged with ...Show more
Zofloya : Or the Moor by Kim Ian (EDT) Charlotte; Michasiw Dacre
$24.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
The protagonist of Charlotte Dacre's best known novel, Zofloya, or the Moor(1806) is unique in women's Gothic and Romantic literature, and has more in common with the heroines of Sade or M.G. Lewis than with those of Ann Radcliffe, Charlotte Smith or Jane Austen. No heroine of Radcliffe or Austen could ...Show more