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'Clennam rose softly, opened and closed the door without a sound, and passed from        the prison, carrying the quiet with him into the turbulent streets.'Introspective        and dreamy, Arthur Clennam returns to England from many years abroad to find a        people gripped in their self-made social and mental prisons. Against a background...

The Oxford Bible Commentary is a Bible study and reference work for 21st century        students and readers that can be read with any modern translation of the Bible. It        offers verse-by-verse explanation of every book of the Bible by the world's leading        biblical scholars. From its inception, OBC has been designed as a...

A Very Short IntroductionEinstein's theory of relativity shattered the world of physics - replacing Newtonian ideas of space and time with bizarre and counterintuitive conclusions: a world of slowing clocks and stretched space, black holes and curved space-time. This    Very Short Introduction explores and explains the theory in an accessible and...

The late 20th century saw great movement in the philosophy of language, often critical of the fathers of the subject, Gottlieb Frege and Bertrand Russell, but sometimes supportive of (or even defensive about) the work of the fathers. Howard Wettstein's sympathies lie with the critics. But he says that they have often misconceived their critical...

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In this authoritative Very Short Introduction to The Periodic Table, Eric Scerri        presents a modern and fresh exploration of this fundamental topic in the physical        sciences, considering the deeper implications of the arrangements of the table to        atomic physics and quantum mechanics....