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Exploring the X-ray Universe
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 58.00Capturing the excitement of X-ray astronomy, this second edition textbook for undergraduate students now covers a broader range of topics. more...
Oliver Twist
Penguin Books Ltd 2007; Not AvailableThe story of the orphan Oliver, who runs away from the workhouse only to be taken in by a den of thieves, shocked readers when it was first published. Dickens's tale of childhood innocence beset by evil depicts the dark criminal underworld of a London peopled by vivid and memorable characters - the arch-villain Fagin, the artful Dodger, the menacing... more...
Spatial Planning Systems of Britain and France
Taylor and Francis 2007; US$ 165.00Spatial Planning Systems of Britain and France brings together a wide selection of comparative essays to highlight the fundamental similarities and differences between the spatial planning in Great Britain and France: two countries that are near neighbours and yet have developed very different modes of planning in terms of their structure, practical... more...
The English Language
Cambridge University Press 2009; US$ 26.00This new edition tells the story of the English language from its remote ancestry to the present day. more...
Ormond; or, The Secret Witness
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2009; US$ 17.95As it tells the story of Constantia Dudley, from her family's financial collapse to her encounters with a series of cosmopolitan revolutionaries and reactionaries, Charles Brockden Brown's Ormond; or The Secret Witness (1799) develops a sustained meditation on late-Enlightenment debates concerning political liberty, women's rights, conventions... more...
A Companion to Philosophy of Religion
Wiley 2010; US$ 218.95In 85 new and updated essays, this comprehensive volume provides an authoritative guide to the philosophy of religion. Includes contributions from established philosophers and rising stars 22 new entries have now been added, and all material from the previous edition has been updated and reorganized Broad coverage spans the areas of world religions,... more...
The Taxation of Petroleum and Minerals: Principles, Problems and Practice
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 42.95There are few areas of economic policy-making in which the returns to good decisions are so high?and the punishment of bad decisions so cruel?as in the management of natural resource wealth. Rich endowments of oil, gas and minerals have set some countries on courses of sustained and robust prosperity; but they have left others riddled with corruption... more...
Arthur Mervyn; or, Memoirs of the Year 1793
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2008; US$ 16.95Set during the epic Philadelphia yellow fever epidemic of 1793, Charles Brockden Brown's classic gothic novel Arthur Mervyn; or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 connects the outbreak with the upheavals of the revolutionary era and the murderous financial networks of Atlantic slavery. This edition of Arthur Mervyn offers selections from key contemporary... more...
Edgar Huntly; or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2006; US$ 14.50In addition to the definitive UVA text of Brown's seminal novel, this edition includes an introduction setting the work in its historical, literary, and intellectual contexts. Related texts include selections from William Godwin's Enquiry Concerning Political Justice (1793), Erasmus Darwin's Zoonomia; or, The Laws of Organic Life (1794),... more...
Wieland; or the Transformation
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2009; US$ 11.50A thrilling tale that leads from ventriloquism and mania to a family murder and emotional breakdown, Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland; or The Transformation (1798) ties revolutionary-era Gothic themes to struggles over the politics of Enlightenment on both sides of the Atlantic. This edition of Wieland includes Brown's Memoirs of Carwin the... more...









