If I by miracle can be This livelong minute true to thee 'Tis all that heav'n allows.'
The Earl of Rochester was England's first celebrity poet, a byword for the theatricality, licentiousness, and ... Read more
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Fully revised and updated for the new edition, the Oxford Handbook of Gastroenterology and Hepatology comprises a unique A-Z compendium of the specialty, and a dedicated section detailing 30 of the mo ... Read more
Looks at what plants are, how they grow, how we use them, and how we can look after them for the next generation
Examines how plants evolved and how they cope on dry land, including their reprodu ... Read more
A short introduction to the number world, looking at different types of numbers and how they behave
Reveals the astonishing richness and variety of numbers, including primes, imaginary and comple ... Read more
Philosophy is written in this great book which is continually open before our eyes - I mean the universe...'
Galileo's astronomical discoveries changed the way we look at the world, and our place i ... Read more
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A concise look at how the economic approach to the environment fits together
Ideal for readers interested in the world in which we live and the relationship between economic activity and the envi ... Read more
It is no good any longer having any opinion upon anything'
After the death of his wife, the handsome politician Phineas Finn returns from Ireland to the parliamentary fray. In his absence the pol ... Read more
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Selected by the man whom the Sunday Timescalled 'the greatest explorer of the past twenty years', a comprehensive and enthralling anthology of the writings of explorers through the ages
Robi ... Read more
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Includes two Nobel-prize winners: Oe and Kawabata and the acclaimed writers Tanizaki, Mishima, and Murakami
Captures the exoticism and appeal of Japanese culture
Includes many new, previously u ... Read more
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Represents 200 years of the French literary tradition
Includes well-known stories by writers such as Balzac, Maupassant, Sartre, and Camus
Features work by Francophone writers from Quebec, Afri ... Read more
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