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Maurice S. Lee
Herman Melville

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Best known as the author of Moby-Dick (1851), Herman Melville is one of America's greatest writers. His achievements range from popular novels and experimental fiction to powerful poetry. His works are tr…

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Edwin Williamson
Miguel de Cervantes

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Very Short Introductions : Brilliant, Sharp, InspiringMiguel de Cervantes is one of the world's greatest writers. His masterpiece, Don Quixote , is generally regarded as the first modern novel. Its global…

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John H. Arnold
History

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Very Short Introductions : Brilliant, Sharp, InspiringHistory is the business of telling 'true stories', in which both elements - the attempt to be truthful, the need to narrate - are always in productive…

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Mandy Treagus
The Pacific Tale

Maritime Literature and Culture

This book offers a genealogy of short fiction in English set in the Pacific and written by British, American, and Australian writers. Through its analysis of texts by non-Islander authors such as Robert L…

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Marco Giugni, Maria Grasso
Protest

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Very Short Introductions : Brilliant, Sharp, InspiringFrom mass demonstrations that bring cities to a standstill to individual acts of resistance, political protest seems ubiquitous in contemporary societ…

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Julian V. Roberts
Criminal Justice

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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring The criminal justice system is diverse and complex and raises questions about the use of imprisonment, the effects of capital punishment, the purposes…

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Max Molchan
Acceptance and Resistance in American Immigrant Short Fiction

This book analyzes short stories by U.S. immigrant authors that capture the experience of acculturation. Chapters focus on stories by first- and second-generation Asian American and Latin American immigra…

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Patricia Daley, Ian Klinke
Human Geography

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, InspiringHuman geography offers answers to some of the most important challenges of our time. To understand contemporary struggles over global economic inequali…

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Robert C. Allen
Global Economic History

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Very Short Introductions : Brilliant, Sharp, InspiringWhy are some countries rich, and some poor? Does this status persist throughout time, and if so, why? How can a country escape poverty?In this Very Sh…

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Julian D. Richards
The Vikings

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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, InspiringThe Vikings are of huge popular and academic interest, but 'Viking' is a nebulous concept: in different contexts, Vikings have been marauders, merchant…

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Rozie Kelly
Kingfisher

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2026 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONAn electrifying debut novel about grief, power and desire-and the tangles in between that make up a life.When a creative writing academic becomes infatuat…

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Tara Menon
Under Water

A BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICKBBC CULTURE 'BOOKS TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2026'A VOGUE BEST DEBUT 2026'Profoundly moving' Elif Shafak'The horrors of 2004 are told with verve in this debut about a woman haunted by…

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Mark J Rozell, Clyde Wilcox
Federalism

Very Short Introductions : Brilliant, Sharp, InspiringThe focus of political observers on politics and government in the United States, and in many other nations, is the executive branch of the national g…

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R. B. Bernstein
Alexander Hamilton

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This is a brief introduction to the life, thought, work, and legacy of Alexander Hamilton (1755-1804), but it is not a traditional biography. Public curiosity about Hamilton, his life, and his work has sw…

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Madeline Y. Hsu
Asian American History

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Very Short Introductions : Brilliant, Sharp, InspiringAsians have migrated to North America for centuries, in search of opportunities and conveyed by increasingly dense, international circuits of trade, l…

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Dashiell Hammett,
Fly Paper: A Short Story

A ravishingly illustrated version of Dashiell Hammett's Fly Paper--his first truly hard-boiled story--with over two hundred water-based monochromes, that reimagine and recreate in unexpected ways the unse…

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Die Lautlosen - Der perfekte Coup (Blu-ray)

Als die Finanzkrise 2008 die Welt erschüttert, schmiedet eine kleine Gruppe wagemutiger Krimineller einen außergewöhnlichen Plan. Angeführt vom Amateur-Boxer Kaspar und dem brillanten marokkanischen Strat…

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Tara Menon
Under Water

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE 2026A BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICKA VOGUE BEST DEBUT 2026'Profoundly moving' Elif Shafak'Stunning' Sunday Times'A wonderfully heartfelt debut' Marie-Clair…

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Robert J. Patterson
Black Narratives of Slavery

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Very Short Introductions : Brilliant, Sharp, InspiringThis Very Short Introduction brings together a wide range of narratives of slavery across a broad historical period to understand how Black people--en…

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Neal Shusterman
Mindworks (Signed Deluxe Edition)

This limited deluxe edition features a decorative slip-case and a ribbon marker and is signed by the author!From the incomparable mind of award winner Neal Shusterman, New York Times bestselling author of…

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