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A vast region stretching roughly from the Volga River to Manchuria and the northern Chinese borderlands, Central Asia has been called the "e;pivot of history,"e; a land where nomadic invaders and Silk Road traders changed the destinies of states that ringed its borders, including pre-modern Europe, the Middle East, and China. In Central...

The Ring of Words describes the unique relationship between Tolkien's creative use of the English language in his fiction and his work on the  Oxford English Dictionary. In 'word studies' the authors, themselves editors of the     OED, explore individual words Tolkien used in terms of their origins, development, and...

Lloyd Gartner presents, in chronologically-arranged chapters, the story of the        changing fortunes of the Jewish communities of the Old World (in Europe and the        Middle East and beyond) and their gradual expansion into the New World of...

A Very Short IntroductionSuperconductivity is one of the most exciting areas of research in physics today. Outlining the history of its discovery, and the race to understand its many mysterious phenomena, this     Very Short Introduction also explores the deep implications of the theory, and its potential to revolutionize the...

A Very Short IntroductionFirst published as part of the best-selling  The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, Kenneth Morgan's    Very Short Introduction to Twentieth-Century Britain is a crisp analysis of the forces of consensus and of conflict in modern Britain since the First World War....

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