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This book considers how and why forms and meanings of different languages at different times may resemble each other. Its distinguished authors investigate the relationship between areal diffusion and the genetic development of languages, and reveal the means of distinguishing what may cause one language to share the characteristics of another. The...

U.S. Foreign Relations since 1776The Oxford History of the United States is the most respected multi-volume history of our nation in print. The series includes three Pulitzer Prize-winners, a New York Times bestseller, and winners of prestigious Bancroft and Parkman Prizes. From Colony to Superpower is the only thematic volume commissioned for the...

White Nights; A Gentle Creature; The Dream of a Ridiculous ManIn these stories Dostoevsky explores both the figure of the dreamer divorced from reality and also his own ambiguous attitude to utopianism, themes central to many of his great novels. This new translation captures the power and lyricism of Dostoevsky's writing, while the introduction...

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Queen of the PostmodsDubbed the "e;White Queen of Soul,"e; singer Dusty Springfield became the first British soloist to break into the U.S. Top Ten music charts with her 1964 hit "e;I Only Want To Be With You"e;--a pop classic followed by many others, including "e;You Don&'t Have to Say You Love Me"e; and "e;Son of a...

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....