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Recently added books

Below are the books added to our collection in the current academic year.

Books added in October
Amitabh Kant, Siddharth Sinha (current DPhil)
Smarter than the storm : championing the AI-climate nexus for a truly sustainable future [On Display]
Rosa Andújar
Playing the chorus in Greek tragedy
Robert H. Crabtree
The organometallic chemistry of the transition metals (8th edn)
Robin Fiddian (ed.); incl. ch. by Xon de Ros, SCR
Jorge Luis Borges in context
Desmond Dinan
Europe recast : a history of European Union
Micheliny Verunschk ; translated by Juliana Barbassa
The jaguar’s roar
Robert Houghton
The Middle Ages in computer games : ludic approaches to the medieval and medievalism
P.A. Davidson
Turbulence : an introduction for scientists and engineers (2nd edn)
Sara B. Hobolt, James Tilley
Tribal politics : how Brexit divided Britain [On Display]
Deirdre Loughridge
Sounding human : music and machines, 1740/2020 [On Display]
John Lister-Kaye
The dun cow rib : a very natural childhood
Simon Sebag Montefiore
The cauldron : the making of the modern Middle East 1900-2026
Marlon James
The disappearers
T. P. Wiseman
The lost history of Roman theatre
Elizabeth Strout
The things we never say : a novel
Rebecca Perry
May we feed the King
Philip Goff
Why? : The purpose of the universe
Alice Oswald
Rhapsody : a manifesto [On Display]
Alysoun Owen, OS
Writers’ & artists’ guide to getting published : essential advice for aspiring authors [On Display]
M. John Harrison
The end of everything
Luke Kennard
Black bag
Helen Wallace, Mark A. Pollack, Alasdair R. Young (eds.)
Policy-making in the European Union (9th edn)
Catherine Steel, Lewis Webb (former SCR) (eds.)
Women, wealth and power in the Roman Republic [On Display]
Yogita Goyal
Runaway genres : the global afterlives of slavery [On Display]
Paul Engel, edited by Richard Bowater
Enzymes, volume 1 : nature’s chemical machines
Liesl Yamaguchi
On the colors of vowels : thinking through synesthesia
Wyl Menmuir
The spirit of stone
Stephen H. Rigby (ed.)
Historians on Robin Hood : the outlaw’s legend in the later middle ages
Michael D. J. Bintley and Pippa Salonius (eds.)
Trees as symbol and metaphor in the Middle Ages : comparative contexts
Edward H. Friedman (ed.)
A companion to the Spanish picaresque novel
Adèle Kreager
Transformation and identity in Old Norse literature : the human and beyond
Emma Nuding
Writing St Guthlac : from the medieval to the modern
Julian Luxford
Drawings in books in medieval Britain from the ninth century to the reformation
Bridget Wells-Furby
The magnate household in medieval England : lordship and service, c.1100-c.1400 [On Display]
Melanie McDonagh; incl. ch. on Elizabeth Anscombe, OS
Converts : from Oscar Wilde to Muriel Spark, why so many became Catholic in the 20th century [On Display]
Pearl S. Buck
Pavilion of women
Hannie Lawlor
Relational responses to trauma in twenty-first-century French and Spanish women’s writing [On Display]
Martin Durrell, Katrin Kohl and Claudia Kaiser
Essential German grammar (3rd edn)
Spencer Strub
Scorn, shame, and the simple reader : lay piety and literature in late medieval England
Hockley Clarke ; with a foreword by Maria Popova
Blackie & co. : blackbirds in my garden
Anne Haack Christensen, Maria Fabricius Hansen, Jesper Svenningsen, and Lisbet Tarp (eds.)
Celebrations at court : ephemeral objects, materials, and machinery in the early modern period [On Display]
Peter C. Mancall
Contested continent : the struggle for North America, c. 1000-1680
David Kynaston
Deep into the sixties : Britain, 1965-66 [On Display]
David Bates
William the Conqueror
Tayeb Salih ; translated by Denys Johnson-Davies
Season of migration to the North
Marion Gibson
Witchland : a tale of witch hunting and war in seventeenth-century Britain
Kit Chapman
The age of alchemy : how early innovators shaped modern chemistry [On Display]
Catherine Barnard and Steve Peers (eds.)
European Union law (5th edn)
Aruna Nair
Textbook on land law (20th edn)
Erin Goeres
Nineteen days in autumn : a new history of 1066
Lea K. Cline and Nathan T. Elkins (eds.)
The Oxford handbook of Roman imagery and iconography
John Colley
Humanism, English literature, and the translation of Greek, 1430-1560
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o ; a translation from Gĩkũyũ by the author
Wizard of the crow
Elise L. Amel, Britain A. Scott, and Christie M. Manning
Psychology for sustainability (6th edn)