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September 2023
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FIFTH EDITION
Edited by JULIA HARDING, JANCIS ROBINSON, and TARA Q. THOMASThe whole world of wine in one essential volume!
The Oxford Companion to Wine is a uniquely comprehensive and in-depth A–Z reference book on every aspect of wine: more than 4,000 entries covering topics from history through geography, geology, soil science, viticulture, winemaking, packaging, labelling, academia, technology, and regulations, to people and places, tasting, writing, and the language of wine. The system of cross-references takes the reader from one entry to another, showing how all these topics are interconnected in the fascinating story of wine in its most traditional and modern forms.
This new fifth edition, which benefits from the knowledge and experience of over one hundred new contributors, all experts in their field or geographical region, is expanded by 264 new entries, and every existing entry has been reviewed, updated, and polished. The text is more international than ever, written for wine lovers of every persuasion, including those who love wine but want to know more in order to increase their enjoyment of this endlessly fascinating liquid, and those who are intent on studying wine, professionally or privately.
“No one interested in wine, whether in the trade of growing, making or selling wine, should be without it. The book is also just as interesting to the layman who drinks the odd glass or two ... And for anyone building up their own cellar—it is indispensable.”
Joan Williamson, Reference Reviews, 30 (4), 2016
JULIA HARDING MW, editor of The Oxford Companion to Wine, studied modern languages at Cambridge before becoming a freelance book editor. She is Senior Editor at JancisRobinson.com, where she has been a member of the team since 2005.
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EMILY COCKAYNE
Accusatory, libellous, or just bizarre, Penning Poison unveils the history of anonymous letter-writing.
’er at number 14 is dirty
Receiving an unexpected and unsigned note is a disconcerting experience. In Penning Poison, Emily Cockayne traces the stories of such letters to all corners of English society over the period 1760-1939. She uncovers scandal, deception, class enmity, personal tragedy, and great loneliness. Some messages were accusatory, some libellous, others bizarre. Technology, new postal networks, forensic techniques, and the emergence of professional police all influence the phenomenon of poison letter campaigns. This book puts the letters back into their local and psychology context, extending the work of detectives, to discover who may have written them and why.
Emily Cockayne explores the reasons and motivations for the creation and delivery of these missives and the effect on recipients—with some blasé, others driven to madness. Small communities hit by letter campaigns became places of suspicion and paranoia. By examining the ways in which these letters spread anxiety in the past Penning Poison grapples with the question of how nasty messages can turn into an epidemic. The book recovers many lost stories about how we used to write to one another, finding that perhaps the anxieties of our internet age are not as new as we think.
“Emily Cockayne, one of the leading social historians of our times, has written a truly original history of anonymous letter writing. With her unparalleled skills of exploration and empathy, she has provided a brilliant and beautifully written account of neglected phenomenon in all its social complexity.”
Emma
Griffin,President of the Royal Historical Society and UEA, Norwich
EMILY COCKAYNE is Associate Professor in Early Modern History at the University of East Anglia. The author of several well-known books, including Hubbub, Cheek by Jowl. A History of Neighbours, and Rummage.
September 2023
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November 2023
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PHILIP GOFF
What are we doing here? What’s the point of existence? Philip Goff offers a new answer, which lies between God and atheism
Why are we here? What’s the point of existence? Most of us have wondered about these questions. For some, God represents an answer. For those who are unsatisfied by traditional religion, and also by the lack of an answer to these questions in atheism, Philip Goff offers a way between the two. Through an exploration of contemporary cosmology, as well as cutting-edge philosophical research on the nature of consciousness, he argues for cosmic purpose: the idea that the universe is directed towards certain goals, such as the emergence of intelligent life.
In contrast to religious thinkers, Goff argues that the traditional God is a bad explanation of cosmic purpose. He explores a range of alternative possibilities for accounting for cosmic purpose: perhaps our universe was created by an evil or morally indifferent designer, or a designer with limited abilities. Perhaps we live in a computer simulation. Maybe cosmic purpose is rooted not in a conscious mind but in natural tendencies towards the good, or laws of nature with purposes built into them. Or maybe the universe is itself a conscious mind which directs itself towards certain goals. Goff scrutinises these options with analytic rigour, opening up a new avenue of philosophical enquiry into the middle ground between God and atheism. The final chapter outlines a way of living in hope that cosmic purpose is still unfolding, involving political engagement and a nonliteralist interpretation of traditional religion.
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“Future generations looking back will find it hard to understand how we ignored for so long what was starting us in the face: the clear and overwhelming evidence in support of cosmic purpose.”
PHILIP GOFF’s main research focus is consciousness, but he is interested in many questions about the nature of reality. He is most known for defending panpsychism, the view that consciousness is a fundamental and ubiquitous feature of the physical world.
ALSO BY PHILIP GOFF Consciousness and Fundamental Reality
“[an] elegant, superbly compiled book”
• Up-to-date scholarship based on the newest research
The Oxford History of the First World War brings together in one volume many of the most distinguished historians of the conflict, in an account that matches the scale of the events. From its causes to its consequences, from the Western Front to the Eastern, from the strategy of the politicians to the tactics of the generals, they chart the course of the war and assess its profound political and human consequences. Chapters on economic mobilization, the impact on women, the role of propaganda, and the rise of socialism establish the wider context of the fighting at sea and in the air, and which ranged on land from the trenches of Flanders to the mountains of the Balkans and the deserts of the Middle East.
Part of The Oxford History of... series
This new concise history by one of Britain’s leading military historians explores the British army from the creation of a permanent standing army in the seventeenth century to the present. It sets the institutional development of the British army, and its often ambiguous relationship with state and society, as well as the army’s wider political, social, economic, and cultural role within international, imperial, national, regional, and local contexts.
An army exists to fight, however, and the British army’s story cannot be separated from those wars and conflicts that have punctuated its evolution. Consequently, attention is also paid to the army’s commanders, operations, and battlefields from the Wars of the Three Kingdoms in the seventeenth century to Iraq and Afghanistan in the twenty-first.
August 2023
978-0-19-887117-0
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August 2023
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• Explores a uniquely rich archive of personal accounts of life in the Third Reich, tracing individual stories from before 1933 through to the end of the war
• Develops a new approach to understanding the conditions under which people are more likely to remain passive, and the progression, in the case of Nazi Germany and mass murder, from conformity to compliance to complicity to perpetration
• Covers German society both in peacetime and war, and explores experiences and developments in Eastern Europe (Poland, Lithuania, Latvia) and the “holocaust by bullets” on the Eastern front
The most commonly asked—and bitterly debated—question about Germans during the Nazi era is, “how much did they know?” Were they aware of what was being committed in their name? As Mary Fulbrook argues in this haunting and original new book, that’s the wrong question to ask. It’s not what people knew; it’s what they did with what they knew.
S. FREDERICK STARR, Central Asia-Caucasus Institute at The American Foreign Policy Council
• First in-depth synthetical biographical treatment of the contemporaries Biruni and Ibn Sina and their place in this history of ideas
• Explores the roots and reveals the heights of Islamic intellectual achievement
• Evokes a golden age of Islamic Enlightenment
Though scholars have long dissected the works of Ibn Sina and Biruni, S. Frederick Starr focuses also on their lives and the times in which they lived. By contextualizing their work and by making the age palpable to the reader, S. Frederick Starr gives the achievements of Ibn Sina and Biruni a holistic and unforgettably human dimension.
November 2023
978-0-19-769171-7
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November 2023
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JONATHAN I. ISRAEL, Emeritus Professor, Institute for Advanced Study
• Significantly alters our picture of the early Enlightenment in Europe, including in our understanding of the origins of modern democratic political theory, toleration, and secularism
• Presents a radical new interpretation of Spinoza’s life, thought, and early reception
Despite Spinoza’s fundamental importance in intellectual history and history of philosophy, Bible criticism, and political thought, he has been the subject of surprisingly few biographies. Jonathan I. Israel has written a biography which provides more detail and context about Spinoza’s life, family, writings, circle of friends, highly unusual career and networking, and early reception than its predecessors. Weaving the circumstances of his life and thought into a detailed biography has also led to several notable instances of nuancing or revising our notions of how to interpret certain of his assertions and philosophical claims, and how to understand the complex international reaction to his work during his lifetime and in the years immediately following his death.
OWEN DAVIES, University of Hertfordshire
• The only major study of early psychiatry, religion, and the supernatural
• Provides an original new social history of the nineteenth century
Troubled by Faith explores ideas about the supernatural across society through the prism of medical history. It is a story of how people continued to make sense of the world in supernatural terms, and how belief came to be a medical issue. This cannot be done without exploring the lives of those who found themselves in asylums because of their belief in ghosts, witches, angels, devils, and fairies, or because they though themselves in divine communication, or were haunted by modern technology. The beliefs expressed by asylum patients were not just an expression of their individual mental health, but also provide a unique reflection of society at the time--a world still steeped in the ideas and imagery of folklore and faith in a fast-changing world.
August 2023
978-0-19-885748-8
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September 2023
978-0-19-887300-6
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PAUL BEW, Emeritus Professor, Queens University Belfast, and a crossbench peer in the House of Lords
• Explores the political outworking of Catholic resentment of historic forcible dispossession in modern Ireland
• Draws on extensive fresh research to expand existing interpretations of this history
The story of Charles Stewart Parnell, one of the greatest Irish leaders of the nineteenth century and also one of the most renowned figures of the 1880s on the international stage, and John Dillon, the most celebrated, but also the most neglected, of Parnell’s lieutenants. As Paul Bew shows, the differences between the two men reflect both Ireland’s past and its future. Every time the principle of consent for a united Ireland is discussed today, we can perceive the legacy of both men. Even more profoundly, that legacy can be seen when Irish nationalism tries to transcend a tribalist outlook based on the historic Catholic nation, even when the country is no longer so very Catholic.
• Offers a fresh and original interpretation of Ireland’s engagement with the English and other European empires
• Deploys a range of historical, literary, archaeological, and material culture sources, which makes the work accessible to a range of academic disciplines and not just historians
• The current interest in empire, kindled in part by campaigns around ‘Black Lives Matter’, ‘Rhodes Must Fall’, and Brexit, and the ongoing decade of Commemorations in Ireland (2012-22), has created a general interest in Ireland’s relationship with empire
Ireland was England’s oldest colony. Making Empire revisits the history of empire in early modern Ireland to understand how this changed over time. Imperialism was about the exercise of power, violence, coercion, and expropriation, and revisiting this history can help us to better understand how it has formed the present, and how it might shape the future.
July 2023
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November 2023
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MARK GREGORY PEGG, Washington University in St Louis
• Grounds a global narrative in real life stores of individual men and women
• Supported by documents and primary sources from the period, both published and unpublished
Beatrice’s Last Smile is a sweeping narrative history of the medieval west from the beginning of the third century to the beginning of the sixteenth. The reader travels from the Mediterranean to the North Sea, from the Nile to the Volga, from north Africa to the central Asia, until finally ending in the Americas. Through a focus on slow formation of Latin Christendom over a millennium in the aftermath of the disintegration of the western Roman Empire, Beatrice’s Last Smile is a history of holiness which includes Judaism and the revelations of Muhammad.
ULINKA RUBLACK, Cambridge University
• Draws readers into a journey through 150 years, and from Germany to England, as we follow the extraordinary and unexpected story of Dürer´s lost masterpiece
• Highlights Germany´s dynamic artistic culture before the Thirty Years´ War and makes a new argument about the political importance of an interest in the arts
Dürer’s Lost Masterpiece considers the celebrated German artist Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528), his time and his legacy. It tracks the history of a crucial, and often overlooked, turning point in his career, when Dürer stopped painting altarpieces after falling out with the Frankfurt merchant Jacob Heller over a commission. Dürer’s history functions as a lens through which to view the new relationship developing between art, collecting and commerce in Europe up to the Thirty Years´ War (1618-1648) when global trade and cultural exchanges were increasing. At the heart of the book is the argument that merchants, and their mentalities, were crucial for the making of Renaissance art and its legacy for modern art.
July 2023
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August 2023
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ERIK R. SCOTT, University of Kansas
• First history of defection on a global scale
• Sheds light on the motivations of individual defectors who left the USSR
• Brings together the history of the Cold War, decolonization, migration, and international law
Focusing on the borders of the Cold War, Defectors examines how the superpowers competed over those who took unauthorized flight from behind the Iron Curtain and how this movement of people in camps, border zones, around embassies, in international waters, and in the air helped create the current refugee system whose legacy and limitations remain with us to this day.
“One of the smartest, most perceptive books I’ve read in years.”
Christopher Leonard“It’s rare that one can use the term ‘instant classic’ in a book review, but Gary Gerstle’s latest economic history, The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order, warrants the praise.”
The Financial Times
In The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order, Gary Gerstle provides a sweeping re-interpretation of the entire era—from the revival of market liberalism in the 1970s to the ruin generated by the 2008 global financial crisis—that places America at the center. Gerstle contends that the largely negative conventional wisdom misses the full contours of what neoliberalism was and why its worldview exerted such persuasive hold on both right and left for so long.
October 2023
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September 2023
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HELEN THOMPSON, Cambridge University
“[Disorder is] as disturbing as it is thought-provoking.”
Martin Wolf, Financial Times, Summer Books 2022: Economics
“The best eight politics books of the year - Helen Thompson expertly joins the dots between debt, energy prices, inflation and political instability.”
Eoin O’Malley
COLIN JONES, Emeritus Professor, Queen Mary University of London
“The story of the Ninth of Thermidor has been told many times, but never so well as in Colin Joness The Fall of Robespierre.”
David A Bell, The New York Review
“A stimulating read.”
Howard Davies, Literary Review
Disorder: Hard Times in the 21st Century explains the historical origins of the political shocks of the past decade: why politics has been so difficult, why energy and debt are such a large part of these difficulties, and how two rather different kinds of democratic crises exist in Europe and the United States.
“... a thrilling blow-by-blow account of that fateful day in the summer of 1794. One can almost hear the ticking of the clock, minute by minute, second by second, counting down to the guillotine.”
Joseph Hone, Books of the Year 2021, History Today
The day of 9 Thermidor (27 July 1794) is universally acknowledged as a major turning-point in the history of the French Revolution. Maximilien Robespierre, the most prominent member of the Committee of Public Safety, was planning to destroy one of the most dangerous plots that the Revolution had faced.
October 2023
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July 2023
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MICHAEL HARDT, Duke University
• A bold reconstruction of the history of revolutionary politics in the 1970s
• One of the first books to systematically approach the political movements of the seventies within a global framework of analysis
In The Subversive Seventies, Michael Hardt sets out to show that popular understandings of the political movements of the seventies—often seen as fractious, violent, and largely unsuccessful—are not just inaccurate, but foreclose valuable lessons for the political struggles of today. Looking at a wide range of movements around the globe during the 1970s, from the United States, to Guinea Bissau, South Korea, Chile, Turkey, and Italy, Hardt argues that the movements of the 1970s identified and attempted to resolve the political problems that still face contemporary radical political thought and action.
RUBEN ANDERSSON, University Of Oxford, and DAVID KEEN, London School of Economics and Political Science
• Innovative and wide-ranging work by two leading scholars on why we find ourselves locked into so many failed and counterproductive policies
• Highly engaging, it draws on first-hand experience and comparative analysis from crises around the world, from the Mediterranean border zones to war-torn African countries to America’s war on drugs in its own cities
In Wreckonomics, Ruben Andersson and David Keen analyze why policies continue to live on when it has become apparent that they do not work. They show how the perverse outcomes we see in the fight against terror, migration, and drugs are part of the proliferation of pseudo-wars that have become a dangerous political habit and an endless source of profit. Covering a range of cases around the world, the authors expose and interrogate the incentive systems that allow destructive and failed policies to remain in effect. They also develop strategies to collectively dismantle the addiction to waging war on everything.
December 2023
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• Shows why the OPEC oil crisis changed American and European economies and their dependence on cheap migrant labor
In War, Work, and Want, Randall Hansen focuses on how the oil shock transformed not just the economy proper and the geopolitics of the Middle East region, but also the global circulation of people and capital for decades afterward. Hansen asks why, against all expectations, global migration tripled after 1970. Arguing that the OPEC oil crisis explains everything, he shows how war, migration, and the desire for ever cheaper products made by migrants led to a massive upsurge in global migration after 1973.
ANU BRADFORD, Columbia Law School
• Offers a comprehensive overview of the competing digital governance models in the US, China, and the EU
• Discusses central issues facing regulators, including antitrust, data privacy, content moderation, digital tax, and artificial intelligence
In Digital Empires, Anu Bradford examines the ideological origins, societal implications, and the relative global influence of three contrasting regulatory approaches towards the digital economy. Throughout, she compares the EU’s approach with both the US-based techno-libertarian model and China’s authoritarian approach. At a moment of time when digital societies are at an inflection point, this book lays bare the choices we face as societies and individuals, and spells out the stakes involved in making those choices.
THIRD EDITION
RICHARD SUSSKIND, Society for Computers and Law
• Substantially expanded to include updated subject matter on the very fast-moving world of technology
For Richard Susskind, the future of legal service is neither Grisham nor Rumpole. Instead, he predicts a world of online courts, AI-based global legal businesses, disruptive legal technologies, liberalized markets, commoditization, alternative sourcing, simulated practice on the metaverse, and many new legal jobs.
This volume is a definitive and updated introduction to this future—for aspiring lawyers, and for all who want to modernize and upgrade our legal and justice systems. It offers practical guidance for everyone intending to build careers and businesses in law.
September 2023
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September 2023
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February 2023
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DAVID STAINFORTH, London School of Economics and Political Science
• Presents a series of challenges in the study of climate change across multiple disciplines
• Explores the power and pitfalls of large scale mathematical models to model climate
Stainforth goes to the heart of the climate change problem. He describes the fundamental characteristics of climate change and shows how they undermine the application of traditional research methods, demanding new approaches to both scientific and societal questions. He argues for a rethinking of how we go about the study of climate change in the physical sciences, the social sciences, economics, and policy. The subject requires nothing less than a restructuring of academic research to enable integration of expertise across diverse disciplines and perspectives.
VACLAV SMIL, University of Manitoba
• Weaves together approaches and ideas from a wide array of fields, which, in this author’s hands, leads to revelatory conclusions
• Abounds with fascinating examples of pivotal changes in societies from around the globe, with a focus on national idiosyncracies
“Vaclav Smil is my favorite author.”
Bill Gates, GatesNotesWhat makes the modern world work? The answer to this deceptively simple question lies in four “grand transitions” of civilization—in populations, agriculture, energy, and economics—which have transformed the way we live. Now a fifth transition is underway: the environmental changes that will determine the success or eventual failure of the preceding transitions that have made the world we inhabit today.
October 2023
978-0-19-881293-7
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December 2023
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REBECCA ROACHE, University of London
• Written in a lively, funny, and accessible style that readers interested in language and contemporary culture will enjoy Swearwords have an almost magical power to shock and offend. What explains this? What can we learn when we take a close, serious look at swearwords and how they work? What do we find when we explore, for example, what exactly it is we’re doing when we swear, or why people are more tolerant of f***—when they know full well what it stands for—than they are of the swearword it refers to? Philosopher Rebecca Roache takes readers on an illuminating and entertaining search for answers to these and other puzzling questions about swearing. As she argues, swearing is uniquely powerful because unlike other etiquette breaches it is designed to offend. But that is not all that swearing can do. It has the power to bring people together, help them accept one another, and relate to one another as equals.
ELIZABETH BARNES, University of Virginia
• Barnes offers a new approach to thinking about mental and physical health and social philosophy more broadly
• Explains relevant empirical data in an accessible manner
• Engagingly written for readers from any academic background
Health is weird. Health is weird in a way that resists simple explanations or elegant theorizing. This book is a philosophical explanation of that weirdness, and an argument that grappling with the distinctive weirdness of health can give us insight into how we might approach difficult questions about social reality. After examining extant theories of health—and finding them lacking—the book explores some particularly intractable puzzles about the nature of health, places where we often feel pulled in multiple directions or have reason to say conflicting things.
November 2023
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Translated by MALCOLM DEBEVOISE, Translator of French and English, and Foreword by PHILLIP MITSIS, New York University
• A new biography of one of antiquity’s most influential and controversial thinkers
• Written accessibly for a general readership
The ancient philosopher Diogenes—nicknamed “The Dog” and decried by Plato as a “Socrates gone mad”—was widely praised and idealized as much as he was mocked and vilified. A favorite subject of sculptors and painters since the Renaissance, his notoriety is equally due to his infamously eccentric behavior, scorn of conventions, and biting aphorisms, and to the role he played in the creation of the Cynic school, which flourished from the 4th century BCE to the Christian era. In this book, Jean-Manuel Roubineau paints a new portrait of an atypical philosopher whose life left an indelible mark on the Western collective imagination and whose philosophy courses through various schools of thought well beyond antiquity.
RICHARD BARRIOS
• Offers a meticulous chronology of Marilyn Monroe’s life
• Emphasizes Monroe’s work, eschewing sensationalized rumors and speculation regarding her personal life
• Corrects misconceptions and errors about her life and work as an actress
In this lively guide, Richard Barrios looks beyond the ballyhoo and legend at Monroe’s best-known films, and some that even today remain obscure. Besides her films, it also addresses the work she did on television and the stage, as well as her underrated abilities as a vocalist. Both an informative study and a perceptive critical assessment, On Marilyn Monroe: An Opinionated Guide gives this brilliant performer the attention she desired-that of an artist whose work deserves both examination and celebration.
August 2023
978-0-19-766635-7
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July 2023
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Series editor: HELEN CONSTANTINE
• Draws together a selection of genres and literary styles
• Includes specially commissioned stories from talented young writers Dublin is one of the world’s great literary cities, immortalized in works by some of the most celebrated international authors. It is a city of warmth and character, which combines the richest of histories with a vibrant contemporary edge, and which welcomes millions of people to its streets each year. In addition to being Ireland’s capital city, Dublin is a city with a proud European identity and with long-established, dynamic links with the rest of the world. Dublin Tales comprises an exciting selection of stories from across the twentieth- and early twenty-first centuries which are illustrative of this.
Part of the City Tales series
STANLEY WELLS, Emeritus Professor, University of Birmingham, Honorary President, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
Edited by PAUL EDMONDSON, The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Stratford-Upon-Avon“Another collection poised at the intersection of theatrical practice and historical scholarship ... The essays in this collection exhibit Well’s extraordinary critical range, as well as his characteristic clarity, wisdom, and wit.”
Kevin Curran, Studies in English Literature
1500-1900
This volume presents a winning selection of the very best essays from the long and distinguished career of Stanley Wells, one of the most well-known and respected Shakespeare scholars in the world. Its chapters are divided into themed sections, on Shakespearian influences, particular works, theatre, and text.
Edited by JANE POTTER, Oxford Brookes University
• Gives readers access to material that is only available in archives and provides insight to Owen’s life and context to his poetry
• Jane Potter expands on and adds to the notes of earlier editions, providing a modern critical guide to the letters and highlight the ongoing scholarly interest in Owen’s work
This new, select edition of Wilfred Owen’s letters provides a fresh understanding of the poet’s life in his own words. Owen’s letters reveal the man behind the cultural icon; human with all his foibles, whose 25 years were marked by great highs and lows, by emerging modernity, and the violence of war. Evocative, lyrical, and often surprisingly funny, the letters act as both autobiography and companion to the famous war poems. He was both an accomplished poet and one of the finest letter-writers of the twentieth century.
October 2023
978-0-19-285555-8
PB | 272pp | 196x129mm
TA | $27.95
Available as an Ebook
May 2023
978-0-19-888456-9
PB | 496pp | 234x156mm
AE | $35.95
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Hardback:
978-0-19-878654-2
August 2023
978-0-19-968950-7
HB | 416pp | 234x156mm
10 B&W photographs and letters
AE | $55.95
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SECOND EDITION
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Introduction by ANNE MARGARET DANIEL, New School University• The eleven stories demonstrate Fitzgerald’s talent and versatility as a writer of short fiction and his wry tone across a range of styles including one-act plays, parody, and fantasies
• Edited from the original stories and magazine copy Fitzgerald himself edited, with the author’s own comments and changes
• Featuring a new introduction and explanatory notes that detail the variety and brilliance of Fitzgerald’s writing
Tales of the Jazz Age (1922) contains some of Fitzgerald’s best short stories, including ‘May Day’ and ‘The Diamond as Big as the Ritz’, as well as ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’, a tale of a man living his life backwards. In them Fitzgerald wryly chronicles the temper of the hedonistic 1920s and displays his inventive versatility.
• This edition contains the translated verse and prose of two of major poets of sixteenth-century France—Pierre de Ronsard and Joachim du Bellay
• Contains both the modernised French poems and the English translations in one volume
• The poetry is accompanied by abundant critical material including an introduction to the texts, explanatory notes, a glossary of names and places, and an index of first lines
From the gritty realism and resentment of Du Bellay to the lyric grace and frank eroticism of Ronsard, the poems of this volume testify to the many-faceted achievement of the two poets who, as leaders of the famous ‘Pléiade’ group, were crucial to the creation of a new national literature.
September 2023
978-0-19-885608-5
PB | 304pp | 196x129mm
TD | $19.95
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August 2023
978-0-19-284799-7
PB | 192pp | 196x129mm
TD | $18.95
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• Part of a set of new, refreshed editions of all Sherlock Holmes stories
• The updated bibliography encompasses the substantial expansion of Doyle studies in recent years
The Sign of the Four has been a crucial part of the Sherlock Holmes canon since its first publication in 1890. It explores theft, betrayal, and murder in the larger context of the British Empire at a time of national upheaval, and the novel’s flashbacks to India during the ‘Mutiny’ and its aftermath call into question the consequences of that imperial venture. Caroline Reitz’s new introduction and notes draws attention to some often-overlooked context of the story, such as its original publication in Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine, its representation of imperial violence, and changing gender roles.
SECOND EDITION
• This new edition provides a fresh new examination of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, with a focus on Conan Doyle’s own medical background and its influence on the creation of the famous detective
• Complete with newly revised critical apparatus, including expansive explanatory notes on the text
• Part of a set of new, refreshed editions of all Sherlock Holmes stories
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is the series of short stories that made the fortunes of The Strand Magazine, in which they were first published, and won immense popularity for Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson. The detective is at the height of his powers and the volume is full of famous cases, including ‘The Red-Headed League’, ‘The Blue Carbuncle’, and ‘The Speckled Band’.
September 2023
978-0-19-886212-3
PB | 192pp | 196x129mm
TD | $14.95
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NEW EDITION
September 2023
978-0-19-886575-9
PB | 448pp | 196x129mm
TD | $14.95
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• Provides a new perspective on the novel in the light of Hamsun’s ‘poetry of the nerves’ by discussing not only the affective life of the narrator in this perspective but also the urban context which embodies his ‘extended mind’
• The translation reflects new changes in scholarship and provides a fresh and sharp-edged sense of the narrative voice
• Pays specific attention to the relation between the segments of text that were published earlier and the novel as it appeared in 1890
Hunger is the first-person story of a young man desperately trying to establish himself in the city as a writer, living in shabby lodgings where he can seldom afford to pay the rent, eating almost nothing, and engaging spasmodically and manically with landladies, eccentric elderly men, policemen, shopkeepers, pawnbrokers, and others on the way.
• Showcases a combination of stories from different stages of Blackwood’s career, from ghost stories, to nature Gothic, to cosmic horror
• Includes such undisputed classics as ‘The Wendigo’, ‘The Willows’, and ‘Ancient Sorceries’, as well as two superbly unsettling novellas and ten other stories, short and long, drawn from collections spanning Blackwood’s career
• Draws upon Blackwood’s own copious essays, radio talks, and TV appearances, some of which have only recently become available
The tales of Algernon Blackwood, in the view of many the greatest weird writer of them all, blur the boundaries between human and nonhuman, living and dead, beckoning the reader into strange borderlands where alien forces lurk.
November 2023
978-0-19-286284-6
PB | 200pp | 196x129mm
TD | $14.95
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November 2023
978-0-19-884888-2
PB | 512pp | 196x129mm
TD | $16.95
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Edited by MICHAEL NEWTON, University of Leiden
• Uses copy-text of the first published version in Britain or America of the stories in book form, or of first publication in a magazine or journal
• Includes historically informed notes and biographies of the authors, a chronology of Victorian fairy tales, and an appendix in which some of the included authors discuss the nature of fairy tale and its importance
This anthology provides a selection of science-fiction tales from the close of the ‘Romantic’ period to the end of the First World War. It gathers together classic short stories, from Edgar Allan Poe’s playful hoaxes to Gertrude Barrows Bennett’s feminist fantasy. In this way, the book shows the vitality and literary diversity of the field, and also expresses something of the potent appeal of the visionary, the fascination with science, and the allure of an imagined future that characterised this period.
SECOND EDITION
MARCEL PROUST
Edited by BRIAN NELSON, Emeritus Professor, Monash University, and ADAM WATT, University Of Exeter• An accomplished new translation by renowned translator Brian Nelson that will be of interest to readers new to Proust and those already familiar with the author and his work
• Adam Watt’s introduction offers a stimulating and informative support to all readers of Proust, together with extensive explanatory notes, a chronology, and suggested further reading
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 first-person narratorprotagonist. Immersed in themes of time, memory, identity, art, sensation, love, and jealousy, the narrator embarks on the story of his life and the paths he takes towards fulfilling his vocation as a writer.
September 2023
978-0-19-889194-9
PB | 464pp | 196x129mm
TD | $18.95
Available as an Ebook
Hardback: 978-0-19-885361-9
NEW EDITION
September 2023
978-0-19-887152-1
PB | 480pp | 196x129mm
TD | $20.95
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• Provides a glossary of persons mentioned which identifies almost every person referred to in Specimen Days and gives a brief account of their significance to Whitman
• Shares an insight into Whitman’s international reception and his own understanding of American national identity through the inclusion of the two prefaces that Whitman wrote for the British edition of Specimen Days
One of the best kept secrets of modern autobiographical literature, Whitman’s autobiography moves in brisk, episodic fashion to chronicle the life of one of the world’s best loved and most influential poets. Experimental in form, lyrical in expression, and rich in experiential content, Specimen Days still awaits a much wider readership than it has hitherto commanded.
• A collection of Peter Pan stories, showing the evolution of this enduring children’s classic
• Enriched by appendices of additional material relating to Peter Pan, including the short story The Blot on Peter Pan and the Captain Hook at Eton speech
In this collected edition, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst brings together five of the main versions of the Peter Pan story, from Peter Pan’s first appearance in The Little White Bird, to his novelisation of the story, the stage version, and unrealised silent film script. This edition contains an introduction and notes, detailed explanatory notes, original illustrations, and appendices that include Barrie’s coda to the play that was only performed once.
September 2023
978-0-19-886138-6
PB | 320pp | 196x129mm
TD | $18.95
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September 2023
978-0-19-887838-4
PB | 464pp | 196x129mm
TD | $16.95
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Hardback: 978-0-19-284743-0
SECOND EDITION
JULIA ANNAS, Regents Professor Emerita, University of Arizona
• Provides a lively, modern account of the nature and range of ancient Greco-Roman philosophy
• Focuses on the issues and debates that propelled the tradition, rather than a list of Great Thinkers
• The field is introduced thematically, around major areas of debate, rather than chronologically
This new edition of Ancient Philosophy: Very Short Introduction has been fully updated to reflect updates in the field, with new illustrations and up to date further reading to allow further exploration of the field. The text has been expanded and modernized to be more comprehensive and accessible to the general reader.
A Very Short Introduction
DAVID MACDONALD, Oxford University and Senior Research Fellow in Wildlife Conservation at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford
• Uses a range of examples, from the African lion to cycads, and the parakeets of London, to highlight the impacts of habitat loss, climate change, invasive species, and the wildlife trade
• Explores and highlights a new range of initiatives to tackle these issues
The conservation of biodiversity is one of the most important challenges facing the world today. In this Very Short Introduction, David Macdonald introduces the concept of biodiversity and the basic biological processes it involves. He considers not only the threats to biodiversity but looks at solutions for the future.
November 2023
978-0-19-880588-5
PB | 152pp | 174x111mm
TE | $18.95
Available as an Ebook
July 2023
978-0-19-959227-2
PB | 224pp | 174x111mm
10 B&W illustrations
TE | $18.95
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SECOND EDITION
MARTIN LOUGHLIN, London School of Economics and Political Science
• Explains the scope and nature of the British constitution
• Examines how this unique set of constitutional arrangements has evolved
• Reflects on the future prospects of the British constitution
In this new edition of the Very Short Introduction, Loughlin includes a discussion of the impact of developments over the decade since its first publication, examining Brexit, the Scottish independence referendum of 2014, and the settlement in Northern Ireland.
MONICA DUFFY TOFT, Tuft University
• Provides an overview of the key causes and consequences of civil wars
• Discusses how civil wars have changed and continue to change
• Highly relevant for foreign policy makers in need of a brief yet rigorous account of an ongoing challenge to international security
Monica Duffy Toft explains how the study of civil wars has evolved, from in-depth, one-off case studies, to sophisticated statistical analysis and formal modeling. Although much of the actual fighting in civil wars remains the same, other factors have changed; including the actions of the international community.
October 2023
978-0-19-289525-7
PB | 160pp | 174x111mm
TE | $18.95
Available as an Ebook
November 2023
978-0-19-757586-4
PB | 160pp | 174x111mm
10 B&W illustrations
TE | $15.95
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SECOND EDITION
SABRINA RAGONE, University of Bologna, and GUIDO SMORTO, University of Palermo
• Contains in a nutshell all basic concepts of comparative law and scholarship
• Discusses both the theoretical aspects and the practical uses of comparative law
Sabrina Ragone and Guido Smorto provide a concise introduction to the field of comparative law, explaining how it is used by legislators, judges, international organizations and scholars, and demonstrating that legal comparison challenges conventional beliefs and unquestioned assumptions about law and society.
NAOMI ZACK, Lehman College, CUNY
• Analyzes key ideas about democracy from leading social and political thinkers, from Plato to Rawls
• Explains different forms of democratic government, and the impacts of social movements
Democracy refers to both ideal and real forms of government. The concept of democracy means that those governed— the demos—have a say in government. But different conceptions of democracy have left many out. Here, Naomi Zack takes us through key conceptions of democracy, from ancient Athens to the modern world.
SECOND EDITION
KATHRYN KALINAK, Rhode Island College
• Extends coverage to 2022, with the addition of film scores created since the first edition in 2010
• Discusses previously unknown or unacknowledged contributions by those who have traditionally lacked access to the production of music for film
This Very Short Introduction takes the reader behind the scenes to understand both the practical aspects of film music and the theories behind why it works. The updated second edition includes the music from film industries in Africa, Asia and South Asia, and Latin America, and the stories of musicians from previously under-represented groups.
December 2023
978-0-19-289339-0
PB | 160pp | 174x111mm
TE | $18.95
Available as an Ebook
September 2023
978-0-19-284506-1
PB | 176pp | 174x111mm
TE | $18.95
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September 2023
978-0-19-762803-4
PB | 176pp | 174x111mm
8 B&W photos
TE | $15.95
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DUDLEY ANDREW, Yale University
• Considers the impact of major eras in France’s recent history on French cinema
• Analyses French film’s relationship with contemporary art, literature, music, and drama
It is often claimed that the French invented cinema, and although their prominence may have been supplanted by Hollywood today, the French film industry remains both prolific and highly lauded. Exploring the entire French cinematic oeuvre, Andrew teases out the distinguishing themes, to bring the defining features of French cinema to light.
SIXTH EDITION
MANFRED B. STEGER, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa
• Includes new discussions of COVID19, new digital technologies, and new political dynamics involving great powers
• Updates on climate change and popular culture
We live today in an interconnected world with unprecedented levels of planetary integration and disruption. This phenomenon is known as globalization. The sixth edition of this Very Short Introduction provides definitions of the key terms and concepts of globalization, offers an overview of its history, and an examination of its major dimensions.
ALAN BARENBERG, Texas Tech University
• Presents a picture of the human face of suffering and survival through the stories of ordinary prisoners and exiles
• Clarifies the variety of different institutions that were part of the Gulag, including prisons, “colonies,” camps, and exile settlements
By presenting both the everyday experiences of ordinary prisoners and the overall political and economic background of the system, The Gulag: A Very Short Introduction offers a succinct and comprehensive study of the Gulag and its legacy in the former USSR.
October 2023
978-0-19-871861-1
PB | 144pp | 174x111mm
15 B&W images
TE | $16.95
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July 2023
978-0-19-288619-4
PB | 160pp | 174x111mm
39 B&W images
TE | $18.95
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December 2023
978-0-19-754822-6
PB | 160pp | 174x111mm
10 B&W halftones
TE | $15.95
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LLEWELYN MORGAN, University of Oxford
• A comprehensive yet concise introduction to the complex topic of Horace’s poetry
• Explores a topic of historical interest as Horace was a significant figure in Augustan Rome, and his poetry more recently a central feature of European culture
This book examines the career of the Roman poet Horace, one of the greatest writers in Roman literature. It introduces his poetry with illustrations from all his works, and contextualises his career in the Greek and Roman literary tradition and within the tumultuous events of his life as civil war gave way to the reign of the first emperor Augustus.
PETER ADAMSON, LMU Munich
• Makes a case that Ibn Sīnā was the most influential medieval thinker of any culture
• Analyses the relationship between Ibn Sīnā and Islamic theology
• Shows the connections between Ibn Sīnā and the history of European philosophy
In this book, Peter Adamson introduces the most important philosopher of the Islamic world, Ibn Sīnā. After describing the historical context in which he lived, what we know of the man, and his surviving works, Adamson discusses the different areas of Ibn Sīnā’s thought.
JENNIFER ANNA GOSETTI-FERENCEI, Johns Hopkins University
• Illuminates imagination from prehistoric creativity to modern technological and artistic innovation
• Engages a broad range of examples from across the arts and sciences, technological invention, and everyday life
Examining philosophical, evolutionary, and literary perspectives, this book explores imagination as a cognitive power and an essential dimension of human flourishing. It demonstrates how imagination plays multiple roles in human cognition and shapes humanity in profound ways, making possible our experience of a meaningful world.
November 2023
978-0-19-284964-9
PB | 160pp | 174x111mm
10 B&W images
TE | $18.95
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July 2023
978-0-19-284698-3
PB | 144pp | 174x111mm
7 illustrations
TE | $18.95
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October 2023
978-0-19-883002-3
PB | 160pp | 174x111mm
10 images
TE | $18.95
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SECOND EDITION
MARTA WAYNE, University of Florida, and BENJAMIN BOLKER, McMaster University
• Contains a new chapter devoted to COVID-19
• Every chapter updated with new information
• ’Looking ahead’ brought up to date with information on 2015-16 Zika epidemic
Where does disease come from? How is it transmitted from one person to another? Why are some individuals more susceptible than others? Marta Wayne and Benjamin Bolker address these questions through the lenses of ecology and evolution and illustrate why major diseases still threaten populations all over the world.
SECOND EDITION
ELLEKE BOEHMER, University of Oxford
• Focuses on how the view of Mandela as an ‘icon’ has had a shaping influence on studies of Mandela
Boehmer explores the long trajectory of Mandela’s life, explaining first the historical and political context of the struggle against apartheid in South Africa, and then the post-apartheid period of difficult reconciliation, including the shifts and changes in Mandela’s reputation since the millennium. This second edition of Nelson Mandela: A Very Short Introduction focuses on a far-reaching critical look at meanings of reconciliation and Mandela’s ethic of reciprocity.
SECOND EDITION
FRANK CLOSE, Emeritus Professor, Oxford University
• A compelling and lively one-volume introduction to the fundamental particles that make up the universe
• Provides insights into how discoveries in particle physics have actually been made
• Fully updated to include the discovery of the Higgs Boson and its implications
Following the discovery of the Higgs Boson, Frank Close has produced this major revision to his classic and compelling introduction to the fundamental particles that make up the universe.
October 2023
978-0-19-285851-1
PB | 160pp | 174x111mm
5 B&W halftones
TE | $18.95
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September 2023
978-0-19-289344-4
PB | 160pp | 174x111mm
10 illustrations
TE | $18.95
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September 2023
978-0-19-287375-0
PB | 160pp | 174x111mm
Numerous line drawings & halftones
TE | $18.95
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SECOND EDITION
JACK A. GOLDSTONE, George Mason Univiersity• Includes new information on recent revolutions or regime overthrows in Afghanistan, Armenia, Burkina Faso, Sudan, Bolivia, Ukraine, Chile, Algeria, and Kyrgyzstan
This Very Short Introduction illuminates the actions of revolutionaries, their strategies, their successes and failures, and the ways in which revolutions continue to dominate world events and the popular imagination. Starting with the city-states of ancient Greece and Rome, Jack Goldstone traces the development of revolutions through the Renaissance and Reformation, the Enlightenment and liberal constitutional revolutions such as in America, and their opposite--the communist revolutions of the 20th century.
THIRD EDITION
LINDA GREENHOUSE, Former New York Times Supreme Court Correspondent
• Written by Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times Supreme Court reporter
In this concise volume, Linda Greenhouse draws on her deep knowledge of the court’s history as well as of its written and unwritten rules to show the reader how the Supreme Court really works. The third edition tracks the changes in the Court’s makeup over the past decade, including the landmark decisions of the Obama and Trump eras and the emergence of a conservative supermajority.
MARTIN HEWITT, Anglia Ruskin University
• Introduces some of the most influential figures in key areas of public life (such as politics, literature, philanthropy) to characterise and explain the particular preoccupations and moods of the various phases of the Victorian period
The Victorian period may have come to an end over 120 years ago, but the Victorians continue to be a vital presence in the modern world. In this book Martin Hewitt offers a guide through the thickets of judgement and debate which have grown around the period and its people, to offer a historical overview of the Victorians and their legacies.
December 2023
978-0-19-766630-2
PB | 160pp | 174x111mm
10 B&W illustrations
TE | $15.95
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September 2023
978-0-19768946-2
PB | 160pp | 174x111mm
10 B&W illustrations
TE | $15.95
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August 2023
978-0-19-873681-3
PB | 160pp | 174x111mm
7 B&W figures
TE | $18.95
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MATT ZWOLINSKI, and MIRANDA PERRY FLEISCHER both at University of San Diego
• Provides readers with the best arguments for and against a Universal Basic Income
• Brings together legal and philosophical expertise to provide an overview of all dimensions of the UBI debate
• Examines examples and UBI pilots globally
Universal Basic Income is one of the most talked-about ideas of the 21st century. The motivating idea is simple: give people cash and let them do whatever they want with it. But below the surface of this simplicity lurk a number of challenging questions. How much would a UBI cost? Who would be eligible to receive it? Would it discourage work? Would it contribute to inflation? This book provides an objective, expert guide to these and many other questions about UBI.
ROBERTO BUIZZA, Scuola Superiore Sant’anna
• Links the key research topics that must be dealt with to advance weather prediction (observations, numerical methods, Earth system models, science, people, supercomputers)
• Discusses the connection of chaos theory and weather prediction, why weather forecasts are affected by uncertainties, and how they can be estimated
Weather Prediction: What Everyone Needs to Know® introduces readers to the science behind numerical weather prediction and considers its increasing importance. Like the other books in the What Everyone Needs to Know® series, this book is intended for a wide audience, including policy makers, environmentalists, students, scientists in other fields, and the general public interested in weather prediction. Weather Prediction takes readers on a fascinating journey into numerical weather prediction, an activity that has been helping humans to live better.
October 2023
978-0-19-755622-1
PB | 224pp | 210x140mm
TA | $30.95
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December 2023
978-0-19-765212-1
PB | 312pp | 210x140mm
TA | $22.95
Available as an Ebook
SIXTH EDITION
SUSAN MAYHEW
• Contains more than 3,000 entries covering all aspects of physical and human geography
• Over 70 diagrams and illustrations complement the text
• Newly revised and updated to remove outdated entries, and to provide more succinct definitions for many others
This bestselling dictionary contains over 3,000 entries on both physical and human geography, covering topics such as cartography, surveying, meteorology, climatology, ecology, population, industry, and development. Over 70 diagrams complement the text, and many entries include worked examples. This edition has been fully revised and updated, and many entries are accompanied by useful web links which can be accessed on the dedicated companion website.
This A–Z reference is clear, concise, and authoritative, and is an essential companion for all students and teachers of geography.
Part of the Oxford Quick Reference series
SUSAN MAYHEW is a geography teacher and the author of Masterstudies Geography (1986). Her current research interests are in feminist and historical geography and she is dedicated to the demystification of her favourite subject.
July 2023
978-0-19-289639-1
PB | 496pp | 196x129mm
70 illustrations
TC | $28.95
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