Oxford University Press

The notorious career of Sweeney Todd, the 'Demon Barber' of London's Fleet Street, and his partnership with pie-maker Mrs Lovett, has been endlessly retold in print, on stage and in film. This is an authoritative edition of the original 1846-7 story, with lively introduction on its history and reputation....

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In the 14th century BC the Hittites became the supreme political and military power in the Near East. How did they achieve their supremacy? How successful were they in maintaining it? What brought about their collapse and disappearance? This comprehensive history of the Hittite kingdom, featuring numerous translations from the original texts, seeks...

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A Very Short IntroductionChina's decade-long Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution shook the politics of China and the world between 1966 and 1976. Even as we approach the Cultural Revolution's fiftieth anniversary, the movement remains so contentious that the Chinese Communist Party still will not allow open discussion of its origins, development,...

Prelude to a Philosophy of the FutureThis superb new translation of Nietzsche's mature masterpiece, Beyond Good and        Evil, offers the most comprehensively annotated text, complemented by a lucid        introduction by one of the most eminent of Nietzsche scholars, Robert C.        Holub....