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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 Novel Without A HeroOn a broad and colourful canvas, extending from urban and rural England to Waterloo and the continental haunts of exiles, Thackeray gives us one of the greatest social-satirical novels in the language-one of the most entertaining and profound, and, in the person of Becky Sharp, we have one of literature&'s most resourceful,...

On the Theory of Law and Practical ReasonIn this book Joseph Raz develops his work on some central questions in practical philosophy: legal, political and moral. The book provides a valuable overview of Raz's views on the methodology of jurisprudence; on the nature of law and its relation to morality; on the justification of authority; and on...

A leading philosopher shows how the story of Ajax and Odysseus sheds new light on the contentious issue of disproportionate rewards in contemporary society....

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'Who possesses me will possess all things,But his life will belong to        me...'Raphael de Valentin, a young aristocrat, has lost all his money in the gaming        parlours of the Palais Royal in Paris, and contemplates ending his life by throwing        himself into the Seine. He is distracted by the bizarre array of objects in...