Books from Oxford University Press, UK
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The Portrait of a Lady
By Henry JamesThis is the masterpiece of James's middle period, and Nicola Bradbury's new introduction provides a stimulating way in to this moving novel. The text is that of the New York Edition and includes Henry James's own Preface.
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The Edge of the Union: The Ulster Loyalist Political Vision
By Steve BruceIn 1964 there was rioting in west Belfast after republican Liam McMillan (later Belfast commander of the IRA) stood in a Westminster election. But in these periods there was no great demand for a Protestant vigilante movement, because, ...
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Semantics: Primes and Universals
By Anna Wierzbicka... typewriter ribbon 271-2 rice 394 Richards, I. A. 297 right 93, 281 Rips, L. J. 63, 352 Robinson, R. 239 Romance languages 418, 423 Rosaldo, M. Z. 24 rosary beads 389 Rosch, H. E. 148, 151-2, 154, 163, 167, 245-7, 314, 320, 330, 333, ...
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Authors in Context: Oscar Wilde
By John SloanHis enthusiasm for the link between science and poetry received fresh inspiration from his reading of John Addington Symonds's Studies of the Greek Poets . The second volume of Symonds's work argued that the effort to establish morality ...
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A Commentary on Livy, Books VI-X : Volume IV: Book X: Volume IV:
By S. P. Oakley1 duint is found in B.L. Add. 47678 (olim Holkham Hall 387), and, although various other readings are found in other mss, it must be what Cicero wrote. 2 To these passages one should perhaps add Cic. Phil. x. 13 'quod di duint!
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Knots and Surfaces
By T. Porter, N. D. Gilbert- ;The main theme of this book is the mathematical theory of knots and its interaction with the theory of surfaces and of group presentations.
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Asymmetry, Developmental Stability and Evolution
By Anders Pape MØller, John P. SwaddleSwaddle, J.P. and Cuthill, I.C. 1995 Asymmetry and human facial attractiveness: symmetry may not always be beautiful. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B. 261, 111-116. Swaddle, J.P. and Witter, M.S. 1994 Food, feathers and fluctuating asymmetry.
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Plantation Silviculture in Europe
By Peter Savill, Julian Evans, Daniel AuclairHMSO, London. Wilson, C.L. (1969). Use of plant pathogens in weed control. Annnal Review of Phytopathology, 7, 41 1-34. Wilson, K. and Pyatt, D.G. (1984). An experiment in intensive cultivation of an upland heath. Forestry, 57, 1 17-41.
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Charles Dickens
By Michael SlaterEach book in the series is based upon the biographical entry from the world-famous Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. -
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The Phonology of English: A Prosodic Optimality-Theoretic Approach
By Michael HammondThe critical observation here is that the template for an acceptable name is a foot. Acceptable names must either be a (stressed) monosyllable or a disyllable with a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable.
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Virus Dynamics: Mathematical Principles of Immunology and Virology
By Martin Nowak, Robert M. MayKlenerman, P., Phillips, R. and McMichael, A. (1996b). Cytotoxic T cell antagonism in HIV. Sem. Virol. , 7, 31–9. Koenig, S., Gendleman, H. E., Orenstein, J. M., Dal Canto, M. C., Pezeshkpour, G. H., Yungbluth, M., Janotta, F., Aksamit, ...
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Globalization: A Very Short Introduction
By Manfred B. StegerManfred B. Steger. Manfred B. Steger GLOBALIZATION A Very Shon Introduction Manfred B. Steger GLOBALIZATION A Very Short Introduction OX I-'O. Front Cover.
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The Oxford Illustrated History of Western Philosophy
By Sir Anthony KennyWritten by a team of distinguished scholars, this is an authoritative and comprehensive history of Western philosophy from its earliest beginnings to the present day.
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The Swiss Family Robinson
By Johann WyssThe Swiss Family Robinson is an adventure story with a decidedly domestic centre, in which smugness and safety thoroughly outbalance the element of danger. Inspired by Rousseau's theories of education,...
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Pandora's Picnic Basket: The Potential and Hazards of Genetically Modified Foods
By Alan McHughenThis book sets out to explain, in clear and direct language, the technologies underlying so-called genetically modified food, and compares them with other "natural" methods of plant breeding and production.
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Biological Invasions: Theory and Practice
By Nanako Shigesada, Kohkichi KawasakiThis book deals with the ecological effect a species can have when it moves into an environment that it has not previously occupied (commonly referred to as an 'Invasion').
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Impossibility: The Limits of Science and the Science of Limits
By John D. BarrowSomewhat optimistically, he imagined that this formal procedure would allow all sorts of human disputes to be resolved logically. For instance, religious truths could be ... Today, the response to the super-being conceived of by Laplace ...
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Oxford Companion to World War II
By Ian Dear, M. R. D. Foot, I. C. B. DearThis book, first published in hardback in 1995 and now appearing for the first time in paperback, has established itself an authoritative reference work covering a wide breadth of topics...
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Medieval Philosophy: A New History of Western Philosophy, Volume 2
By Anthony KennySir Anthony Kenny continues his magisterial new history of Western philosophy with a fascinating guide through more than a millennium of thought from 400 AD onwards, charting the story of...
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Early Modern Women's Writing: An Anthology 1560-1700
By Paul SalzmanThe truth is that many women wrote during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and this collection will serve to introduce modern readers to the full variety of women's writing in this period - from poems, prose and fiction to prophecies ...