Modern Jazz in California, 1945-1960Over the last half century, New York's preeminence in the world of jazz has been challenged only once--during the 1950s--when California emerged with a splash on the jazz scene. "W...9999903198482Ted Gioia
Oxford University Press
sábado, 12 de octubre de 2024
From Aristotle to Zen, this is the most comprehensive, authoritative, and up-to-date dictionary of philosophy available. Ideal for students or a general readership, it provides liv...9999903198192Simon Blackburn
Oxford University Press
sábado, 12 de octubre de 2024
A NovelIn Elective Affinities Goethe conducts an experiment with the lives of people who are living badly. Charlotte and Eduard, aristocracts with little to occupy them, invite Ottilie an...9999903197492J. W. von Goethe
Oxford University Press
viernes, 11 de octubre de 2024
Spanish-English/English-SpanishDrawing on the major new edition of the highly acclaimed Oxford Spanish Dictionary published in 2003, this third edition of the Concise Oxford Spanish Dictionary contains up-to-dat...9999903196211Carol Styles Carvajal Jan...
Oxford University Press
sábado, 5 de octubre de 2024
Per a Estudiants D'AnglesA bilingual pocket dictionary for Catalan-speaking learners of English, which includes headwords and illustrations. Introductory pages contain practical help for students. Many not...9999903196051Books
Oxford University Press
sábado, 5 de octubre de 2024
Examining the transformation of English literary criticism, this book focuses on the social objectives of the pioneer critics and educationalists who established modern English stu...9999903195801Chris Baldick
Oxford University Press
sábado, 5 de octubre de 2024
Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey, Andrew Sanders notes, took shape by accident. The first writer entombed there (long before it was known by today's name) was Geoffrey Chaucer--s...9999903195696Andrew Sanders
Oxford University Press
sábado, 5 de octubre de 2024
This new edition includes three rarely reprinted ghost stories from the 1890s, 'Sir Edmund Orme', 'Owen Wingrave', and 'The Friends of the Friends', as well as relevant extracts fr...9999903193494Henry James
Oxford University Press
jueves, 3 de octubre de 2024
'Curtis Colt didn't kill that liquor store woman, and that's a fact. It's not right that he should have to ride the lightning - that's what prisoners call dying in the electric cha...9999903191704John Escott
Oxford University Press
lunes, 23 de septiembre de 2024
When ship after ship goes down in the Atlantic, Dr Pierre Aronnax and his servant, Conseil, journey from Paris to learn more. What - or who - is attacking these ships? Aronnax, Con...9999903189862Jules Verne
Oxford University Press
jueves, 19 de septiembre de 2024
When the Emperor calls every man to join the army and fight the enemy, Mulan's father is old and ill, and cannot go. Wearing men's clothes and riding a horse, Mulan leaves her fami...9999903189855Janet Hardy-Gould
Oxford University Press
jueves, 19 de septiembre de 2024
This is a love story you won't forget. Oliver Barrett meets Jenny Cavilleri. He plays sports, she plays music. He's rich, and she's poor. They argue, and they fight, and they fall ...9999903189848Erich Segal Rosemary Bord...
Oxford University Press
jueves, 19 de septiembre de 2024
You are walking through the streets of London. It is getting dark and you want to get home quickly. You enter a narrow side-street. Everything is quiet, but as you pass the door of...9999903189824Robert Louis Stevenson, R...
Oxford University Press
jueves, 19 de septiembre de 2024
In a gloomy, neglected house Miss Havisham sits, as she has sat year after year, in a wedding dress and veil that were once white, and are now faded and yellow with age. Her face i...9999903189800Charles Dickens Clare Wes...
Oxford University Press
jueves, 19 de septiembre de 2024
His MasqueradeMale, female, deft, fraudulent, constantly shifting: which of the `masquerade' of passengers on the Mississippi steamboat Fidele is `the confidence man'? The central motif of Melvi...9999903186755Herman Melville
Oxford University Press
sábado, 14 de septiembre de 2024
Dr Huxtable has a school for boys in the north of England. When the Duke of Holdernesse decides to send his young son there, that is good news for the school. The Duke is a very im...9999903186748Arthur Conan Doyle Jennif...
Oxford University Press
sábado, 14 de septiembre de 2024
This great modern classic depicts life in China at a time before the vast political and social upheavals transformed an essentially agrarian country into a world power. Nobel Prize...9999903185079Pearl S. Buck
Oxford University Press
sábado, 7 de septiembre de 2024
Rollercoasters are novels for Key Stage 3, selected by teachers, consultants and students, that really work in the classroom. The London Eye Mystery is a fast-paced thriller that w...9999903179825Siobhan Dowd
Oxford University Press
miércoles, 4 de septiembre de 2024
Its Nature and FutureThe applications of Artificial Intelligence lie all around us; in our homes, schools and offices, in our cinemas, in art galleries and - not least - on the Internet. The results of...9999903178439Margaret A. Boden
Oxford University Press
miércoles, 21 de agosto de 2024
In a landmark essay, Virginia Woolf rescued George Eliot from almost four decades of indifference and scorn when she wrote of the "searching power and reflective richness" of Eliot...9999903175049Tim Dolin
Oxford University Press
sábado, 17 de agosto de 2024
Short StoriesA young country girl comes to live and work in Dublin. Jo is determined to be modern and independent, and to have a wonderful time. But life in a big city is full of strange surpri...9999903171300Maeve Binchy
Oxford University Press
sábado, 10 de agosto de 2024
A mysterious incident at the Marabar Caves, involving Adela Quested, newly arrived from England, and Dr Aziz, an Indian doctor, leads to a drama that divides the British and Indian...9999903170372Forster, E.M.
Oxford University Press
sábado, 10 de agosto de 2024
This volume includes "The Battle of the Books" and "The Mechanical Operation of the Spirit", both which accompanied "A Tale of a Tub" on its first publication in 1704.9999903162896Jonathan Swift
Oxford University Press
sábado, 20 de julio de 2024
A RomanceSchedoni, a sinister monk, contrives to prevent the marriage of Vincentio di Vivaldi to Ellena Rosalba, at the request of Vincentio's mother.9999903158431Ann Radcliffe
Oxford University Press
jueves, 11 de julio de 2024
Chandra is looking forward to her arranged marriage - her new husband is open-minded and modern-thinking. But when he dies shortly after their wedding Chandra realizes that she is ...9999903152903Frances Mary Hendry
Oxford University Press
martes, 2 de julio de 2024
This exclusive collection of the Bard's works has been designed specifically for readers new to Shakespeare's rich literary legacy. Each of the plays is presented unabridged and in...9999903152798William Shakespeare
Oxford University Press
martes, 2 de julio de 2024
This series provides reading and learning at four language levels through a range of integrated activities designed to develop reading skills, consolidate vocabulary, and offer per...9999903152699Jack London John Escott
Oxford University Press
martes, 2 de julio de 2024
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