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Damp Squid: The English Language Laid Bare

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Review: What have "women and sticks" to do with "cats and dogs" ? What do "which" and "want" have in common? What is a corpus, and why does it matter ? The answers to these - and many more - questions are all to be found in this gem of a book. Jeremy Butterfield writes w....

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Wealth of Nations (Oxford World's Classics)

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Review: I can only describe this particular edition of Wealth of Nations as a useful crash course on Adam Smith's discourse, mindful of the fact that there were five editions of this historically significant work. But then that's the beauty of this condensed compendium. ....

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The Long European Reformation: Religion, Political Conflict and the Search for Conformity, 1350-1750 (European History in Perspective)

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Review: If you're studying the Open University course A200 1400-1900 (From Medieval to Modern) then this book is a set book and you'll need it to complete the course. You'll rely heavily on the book throughout the earlier modules of the course, and an understanding of Wal....

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The Companion to British History

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Review: What an amazing book this is. It covers British history from 55 B.C. (Caesar's first raid) to 1986, with a few lines to 2000; and it covers this period with about 15,000 entries; a bit like a dictionary. This sounds boring. In fact every time I look up something I ....

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The Road to Serfdom (Routledge Classics)

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Review: This is an important book. But there is a tendency to place it on some kind of pedestal, as some kind of timeless classic and I think that is not correct. It really should be placed in it's historical context. It was published in 1944. Orwell's 'Animal Farm' was f....

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The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization (Oxford Companions)

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Review: Admittedly there's no beating the OCD but this is a brilliant alternative. The entries come from the OCD itself but it excludes the bibliographies per subject - which frankly are out of date anyway. As the other reviewer here has mentioned, the entries are wide ran....

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Northern Renaissance Art (Oxford History of Art)

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History of Western Philosophy (Routledge Classics)

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Review: Being an engineering student, the closest brush I had with the formal study of philosophy was a few university courses, which I barely passed. Therefore, I decided to buy Bertrand Russell's classic work in order to refresh my knowledge. I wish I had done it earlier....

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Philosophy: The Classics

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Review: This was a good basic introduction to some of the great philosophers giving a brief biography and then some of their main ideas. I was rather disappointed that St Thomas Aqunias was missed out but it covered a wide range of thinkers e.g. Aristotle, Plato, Descarte....

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The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt

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Review: A fantastic, informative book, although lacking in religious discourse which formed much of ancient egyptian life. However, a marvellous reference book all the same. Would have been better in a larger format as difficult to read at times.....

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