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  • Crash Course Integrated and Basic Medical Science

    For UKMLA and Medical Exams

    by Georga Longhurst, Alisa Nicholson, Brian Wang, Joana G.C. Rodrigues, Daniel Sescu, Jack Plume, Suraiya Chowdhury, Jo Cooper, Philip Xiu, David Gillott ...
    Series series CRASH COURSE
    Crash Course – your effective every-day study companion PLUS the perfect antidote for exam stress! Save time and be assured you have the essential information you need in one place to excel on your course and achieve exam success.A winning formula now for over 25 years, having sold over 1 million copies and translated in over 8 languages, each series volume has been fine-tuned and fully updated to ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Samuel Butler against the Professionals

    Rethinking Lamarckism 1860-1900

    by David Gillott ...
    In the wake of the 2009 Darwin bicentenary, Samuel Butler (1835-1902) is becoming as well known for his public attack on Darwin's character and the basis of his scientific authority as for his novels Erewhon and The Way of All Flesh. In the first monograph devoted to Butler's ideas for over twenty years, David Gillott offers a much-needed reappraisal of Butler's work and shows how Lamarckian ideas ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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  • The Well-Educated Mind

    A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had

    by Susan Wise Bauer ...
    The enduring and engaging guide to educating yourself in the classical tradition.Have you lost the art of reading for pleasure? Are there books you know you should read but haven’t because they seem too daunting? In The Well-Educated Mind, Susan Wise Bauer provides a welcome and encouraging antidote to the distractions of our age, electronic and otherwise.Newly expanded and updated to include ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Rhetoric of Fiction

    by Wayne C. Booth ...
    The first edition of The Rhetoric of Fiction transformed the criticism of fiction and soon became a classic in the field. One of the most widely used texts in fiction courses, it is a standard reference point in advanced discussions of how fictional form works, how authors make novels accessible, and how readers recreate texts, and its concepts and terms—such as "the implied author," "the ... Read more

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  • The Travels and Adventures of Serendipity

    by Robert K. Merton, Elinor Barber ...
    From the names of cruise lines and bookstores to an Australian ranch and a nudist camp outside of Atlanta, the word serendipity--that happy blend of wisdom and luck by which something is discovered not quite by accident--is today ubiquitous. This book traces the word's eventful history from its 1754 coinage into the twentieth century--chronicling along the way much of what we now call the natural ... Read more

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  • The Author

    by Andrew Bennett ...
    Series series The New Critical Idiom
    This volume investigates the changing definitions of the author, what it has meant historically to be an 'author', and the impact that this has had on literary culture. Andrew Bennett presents a clearly-structured discussion of the various theoretical debates surrounding authorship, exploring such concepts as authority, ownership, originality, and the 'death' of the author. Accessible, yet ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • A Companion to Jane Austen

    Edited by Claudia L. Johnson, Clara Tuite ...
    Series Book 172 - Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
    Reflecting the dynamic and expansive nature of Austen studies, A Companion to Jane Austen provides 42 essays from a distinguished team of literary scholars that examine the full breadth of the English novelist's works and career.Provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date array of Austen scholarshipFunctions both as a scholarly reference and as a survey of the most innovative speculative ... Read more

    $46.00 USD

  • Victorian Sensation

    The Extraordinary Publication, Reception, and Secret Authorship of Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation

    by James A. Secord ...
    Fiction or philosophy, profound knowledge or shocking heresy? When V estiges of the Natural History of Creation was published anonymously in 1844, it sparked one of the greatest sensations of the Victorian era. More than a hundred thousand readers were spellbound by its startling vision—an account of the world that extended from the formation of the solar system to the spiritual destiny of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Visions of Politics: Volume 1, Regarding Method

    by Quentin Skinner ...
    The first of three volumes of essays by Quentin Skinner, one of the world's leading intellectual historians. This collection includes some of his most important philosophical and methodological statements written over the past four decades, each carefully revised for publication in this form. In a series of seminal essays Professor Skinner sets forth the intellectual principles that inform his ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Romanticism, History, Historicism

    Essays on an Orthodoxy

    by Damian Walford Davies ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Romanticism
    The "(re)turn to history" in Romantic Studies in the 1980s marked the beginning of a critical orthodoxy that continues to condition, if not define, our sense of the Romantic period twenty-five years on. Romantic New Historicism’s revisionary engagements have played a central role in the realignment of the field and in the expansion of the Romantic canon. In this major new collection of eleven ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1830–1914

    Edited by Joanne Shattock ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The nineteenth century witnessed unprecedented expansion in the reading public and an explosive growth in the number of books and newspapers produced to meet its demands. These specially commissioned essays examine not only the full range and variety of texts that entertained and informed the Victorians, but also the boundaries of Victorian literature: the links and overlap with Romanticism in the ... Read more

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  • Thomas Hardy in Context

    Edited by Phillip Mallett ...
    Series series Literature in Context
    This collection covers the range of Thomas Hardy's works and their social and intellectual contexts, providing a comprehensive introduction to Hardy's life and times. Featuring short, lively contributions from forty-four international scholars, the volume explores the processes by which Hardy the man became Hardy the published writer; the changing critical responses to his work; his response to ... Read more

    $36.09 USD