Oxford University Press, Manufactured by, Oxford University Press, Author Oxford University Press, USA $85 (448p) ISBN 978-0-19-521919-7
The latest revision of Oxford's highly acclaimed Atlas of the World is as up-to-date as can be in the post-September 11 world. ""Site of former World Trade Center"" says one caption on an updated map of lower Manhattan- and Baghdad has been added to
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Oxford University Press, Author Oxford University Press, USA $35 (384p) ISBN 978-0-19-910171-9
The hefty Oxford Children's Book of Famous People provides intriguing illustrated data on 1000 notables both living (Thor Heyerdahl, Joan Sutherland, Lech Walesa) and dead (Homer, H.G. Wells, Annie Besant), and provides the answers to such questions
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Oxford University Press, Author, John Onians, Editor . Oxford $150 (352p) ISBN 978-0-19-521583-0
"Archaeologists are experts in the earliest art, anthropologists in the art of modern pre-literate peoples, and art historians in the art of literate peoples," art historian Onians says in his introduction, and as such, the study of art...
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Oxford University Press, Author, Patrick K. O'Brien, Editor Oxford University Press, USA $45 (312p) ISBN 978-0-19-521921-0
This useful resource is also dangerously absorbing, allowing readers to pore over charts, maps and short articles on such subjects as the golden age of Athens, the 16th-century expansion of the Mughal Empire through India, the foreign policy of Mao...
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