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

Books added in March
Chris ElliottNeedles from the Nile : obelisks and the past as property
Robert Boyle ; edited by Edward B. Davis, Michael HunterA free enquiry into the vulgarly received notion of nature
Moudhy Al-RashidBetween two rivers : ancient Mesopotamia and the birth of history [On Display]
Colin DexterLast seen wearing
Colin DexterLast bus to Woodstock
Edmund Crispin ; introduced by Val McDermidThe long divorce
Edmund CrispinThe case of the gilded fly
Christopher SomervilleWalking the bones of Britain : a journey from the Outer Hebrides to the Thames Estuary
Diane WattGod’s own gentlewoman : the life of Margaret Paston [On Display]
Dorothy Whipple ; with a new afterword by Celia BrayfieldThey were sisters
Dodie Smith ; with illustrations by Ruth Steed ; with an afterword by Anna SouthI capture the castle
Marlen Haushofer ; mit einem Nachwort von Klaus AntesDie Wand : Roman
Alan Bogg, Hugh Collins, A. C. L. Davies, Virginia MantouvalouHuman rights at work : reimagining employment law
Monika Maron ; translated from the German by Brigitte GoldsteinPavel’s letters
Philip KnoxThe Romance of the rose and the making of fourteenth-century English literature
Margaret AtwoodMaddAddam
Margaret AtwoodOryx and Crake
Margaret AtwoodThe year of the flood
Connie WillisDoomsday book
Benjamin MyersCuddy
Richard Huscroft (ed.)English episcopal acta. 47, Bath and Wells 1275-1302
Dan HooperParticle cosmology and astrophysics
Ivan G. MarcusHow the West became antisemitic : Jews and the formation of Europe, 800-1500
Books added in February
Marlene L DautThe first and last king of Haiti : the rise and fall of Henry Christophe
Timothy MortonThe ecological thought
Benjamin MyersUnder the rock : the poetry of a place
John CooperThe lost chapel of Westminster : how a royal chapel became the House of Commons
Alice OswaldThe thing in the gap-stone stile
Daisy HildyardEmergency
Daisy HildyardHunters in the snow
Ted HughesRemains of Elmet : a Pennine sequence
Margaret AtwoodSurfacing
Richard ReidThe African revolution : a history of the long nineteenth century [On Display]
John M. BowersTolkien’s lost Chaucer
Isaac Stanley-BeckerEurope without borders : a history [On Display]
Richard A. BillowsThe spear, the scroll, and the pebble : how the Greek city-state developed as a male warrior-citizen collective
David TorranceThe wild men : the remarkable story of Britain’s first Labour government
Ben AnsellWhy politics fails : the five traps of the modern world and how to escape them [On Display]
Jamaica KincaidAt the bottom of the river
James Carton (ed.)Oxford handbook of pathology (3rd edn)
Polly PullarA scurry of squirrels : nurturing the wild
Luigi BarziniMystery Cults, Theatre and Athenian Politics : A Reading of Euripides’ Bacchae and Aristophanes’ Frogs
Andrew JaniakThe Enlightenment’s most dangerous woman : Émilie du Châtelet and the making of modern philosophy [On Display]
Robert GildeaWhat is history for?
Edward C. KlattRobbins and Cotran atlas of pathology (4th edn)
Philippa Hoskin (ed.), OSEnglish episcopal acta. 46, Rochester 1235-1318 [On Display]
Owen O’KaneAddicted to anxiety
Scott Nethersole, Per RumbergMichelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael : Florence, c. 1504
Eleanor Jackson & Julian Harrison (eds.)Medieval women : voices & visions
Chantry WestwellMaidens or monsters? : tales of Amazons, goddesses, queens & temptresses in medieval manuscripts [On Display]
P. McGurk and D.A. Woodman (eds./trans.)The chronicle of John of Worcester. Volume 4. Chronicula
Heath Rose, Jim McKinley and Jessica Briggs Baffoe-DjanData collection research methods in applied linguistics
W. G. SebaldSilent catastrophes : essays in Austrian literature
Nancy Shatzman SteinhardtYuan : Chinese architecture in a Mongol empire [On Display]
Maggie HummThe Bloomsbury photographs [On Display]
Dirk Van Hulle & Mark NixonWrite cut rewrite : the cutting-room floor of modern literature
Stephen M. StahlStahl’s essential psychopharmacology : neuroscientific basis and practical applications (5th edn)
Rae YangSpider eaters : a memoir
Agnes CallardOpen Socrates : the case for philosophical life [On Display]
Patrick Maguire & Gabriel PogrundGet in : the inside story of Labour under Starmer
Crystal L. DowningSubversive : Christ, culture, and the shocking Dorothy L. Sayers
Charlotte Lennox ; edited by Susan Kubica HowardEuphemia
Cristina S. Martinez, Cynthia E. Roman (eds.)Female printmakers, printsellers and print publishers in the eighteenth century : the imprint of women, c.1700-1830
Sarah NevilleEarly modern herbals and the book trade : English stationers and the commodification of botany
Roger D. WoodardAeolic and Aeolians : origins of an ancient Greek language and its community of speakers
Francesca OrsiniEast of Delhi : multilingual literary culture and world literature
Jean-Pierre Hansen, Ian R. McDonaldTheory of simple liquids : with applications to soft matter (4th edn)
Heather Bortfeld, Silvia A. BungeFundamentals of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
Thomas Andrew WaighThe physics of bacteria : from cells to biofilms [On Display]
John H. Maindonald, W. John Braun, Jeffrey L. AndrewsA practical guide to data analysis using R : an example-based approach
Ed RegisStarbound : interstellar travel and the limits of the possible [On Display]
Frank CloseCharge : why does gravity rule?
Nina AuerbachOur vampires, ourselves
Tim Rood, Carol Atack and Tom PhilipsAnachronism and antiquity
Nancy S. KollmannVisualizing Russia in early modern Europe [On Display]
Roger CrowleySpice : the 16th-century contest that shaped the modern world
Gioia Mori and Furio Rinaldi ; with Alison de Lima Greene and Laura L. Camerlengo ; with a text by Françoise Gilot ; and a preface by Barbra StreisandTamara de Lempicka
Claudia SwanRarities of these lands : art, trade, and diplomacy in the Dutch Republic [On Display]
Vera Adian and Frank AlthausRussian made clear
Vernon L. ScarboroughThe flow of power : ancient water systems and landscapes
Toby WilkinsonThe last dynasty : ancient Egypt from Alexander the Great to Cleopatra
Owen ReesThe far edges of the known world : a new history of the ancient past
Tim CoulsonThe universal history of us : a 13.8 billion year tale from the Big Bang to you
David J.E. Marsh, David Ellis, and Viraf M. MehtaDark matter : evidence, theory, and constraints
Antonio Torralba, Phillip Isola, and William T. FreemanFoundations of computer vision
Helen FryWomen in intelligence : the hidden history of two world wars
Monika KosteraThe university of hope
Emma Rutherford and Ellie Smith (eds.); includes essay by Essaka Joshua, OS“Without hands” : the art of Sarah Biffin [On Display]
Eleanor MedhurstUnsuitable : a history of lesbian fashion
Robert HillenbrandThe Great Mongol Shahnama
James HannamThe globe : how the Earth became round [On Display]
Dava SobelThe elements of Marie Curie : how the glow of radium lit a path for women in science
Linsey Young (ed.)Women in revolt! : art and activism in the UK 1970-90
Robert DarntonPirating and publishing : the book trade in the Age of Enlightenment [On Display]
Barbara BrendTreasures of Herat : two manuscripts of the Khamsah of Nizami in the British Library
Cornelia HomburgVan Gogh : poets & lovers
Nancy-Lou Patterson ; editors, Emily E. Auger and Janet Brennan CroftDetecting Wimsey : papers on Dorothy L. Sayers’s detective fiction [On Display; DLS OS]
Robert Bell ; with essays by Christine Dixon, Helena Hammond, Michelle Potter and Debbie WardBallets Russes : the art of costume
Helen CharmanMother state : a political history of motherhood [On Display]
J. Murphy McCalebEmbodied knowledge in ensemble performance
Bruno LeipoldCitizen Marx : republicanism and the formation of Karl Marx’s social and political thought
Anneka LenssenBeautiful agitation : modern painting and politics in Syria [On Display]
Andrea CucchiarelliA commentary on Virgil’s Eclogues
Matthew TownendTranslating Europe in Ælfric’s Lives of saints
Matthew TownendThe Victorians and English dialect : philology, fiction, and folklore
Vladlen Loginov ; translated from the Russian by Lewis White, edited by Geoffrey SwainVladimir Lenin : how to become a leader
Tobin SiebersDisability aesthetics
Barbara J. HarrisEnglish aristocratic women and the fabric of piety, 1450-1550
Anne Varichon ; translated by Kate DeimlingColor charts : a history
Pamela Farvolden (ed.)Lydgate’s Fabula duorum mercatorum and Guy of Warwyk
Clover StroudThe giant on the skyline : on home, belonging and learning to let go
Nancy CampbellThunderstone : finding shelter from the storm
Alastair HumphreysLocal : a search for nearby nature and wildness
Peter Parker (ed.)Some men in London (2 vols.)
Sayaka Murata ; translated from the Japanese by Ginny Tapley TakemoriConvenience store woman
Sayaka Murata ; translated from the Japanese by Ginny Tapley TakemoriLife ceremony : stories
Vladimir NabokovAda or ardor : a family chronicle
Patricia Owens (FS), Katharina Rietzler, Kimberly Hutchings, Sarah C. Dunstan (eds.); several OS authors includedWomen’s international thought : towards a new canon
Graham ZankerFate and the hero in Virgil’s Aeneid : Stoic world fate and human responsibility
Patricia Owens, FSEconomy of force : counterinsurgency and the historical rise of the social [On Display]
R.E. BatchelorUsing Spanish synonyms (2nd edn)
Philoponus ; translated by Sarah Broadie, OSOn Aristotle Physics 4.10-14 [On Display]
Thomas Wallgren (ed.); E. Anscombe, OSThe creation of Wittgenstein : understanding the roles of Rush Rhees, Elizabeth Anscombe and Georg Henrik von Wright [On Display]
Ben McFarlane and Steven Elliott (eds.)Equity today : 150 years after the judicature reforms
Miles Glendinning and Aonghus MacKechnieScotch baronial : architecture and national identity in Scotland
Siân EvansMaiden voyages : women and the golden age of transatlantic travel
An Van CampBruegel to Rubens : great Flemish drawings
Benoy K. BehlThe Ajanta Caves : ancient Buddhist paintings of India
Marie Vandenbeusch (ed.)Pharaoh : art and power in ancient Egypt
Gilbert McCarragherProspect Cottage : Derek Jarman’s house
Jill BurkeHow to be a Renaissance woman : the untold history of beauty and female creativity
Leah R. ClarkCourtly mediators : transcultural objects between Renaissance Italy and the Islamic world
Edmund Stump ; with illustrations by Marlene Hill DonnellyOtherworldly Antarctica : ice, rock, and wind at the Polar extreme
Yuval Noah HarariNexus : a brief history of information networks from the Stone Age to AI
Todd Longstaffe-GowanLost gardens of London
Olivia LaingThe garden against time : in search of a common paradise
Devika SinghInternational departures : art in India after independence
Yannis HadjinicolaouThe art of medieval falconry
Jonathan ElphickFerdinand Bauer’s remarkable birds [On Display]
Lee PhillipsEinstein’s tutor : the story of Emmy Noether and the invention of modern physics [On Display]
Ashley JacksonOxford’s war, 1939-1945 [On Display]
Mary L. ShannonBilly Waters is dancing : or, how a black sailor found fame in Regency Britain [On Display]
Sue Brunning, Luk Yu-ping, Elisabeth R. O’Connell and Tim WilliamsSilk Roads [On Display]
Bradley DaviesPropagandopolis : a century of propaganda from around the world [On Display]
Ruby LalVagabond Princess : the great adventures of Gulbadan [On Display]
Jonathan E. RobinsOil palm : a global history [On Display]
Tushaar ShahTaming the anarchy : groundwater governance in South Asia
Michael PotterThe rise of analytic philosophy, 1879-1930 : from Frege to Ramsey [On Display]
Steven M. Cahn, Stephanie Ross, and Sandra Shapshay (eds.)Aesthetics : a comprehensive anthology (2nd edn)
Megan L. Cook, Elizaveta Strakhov (eds.)John Lydgate’s Dance of death and related works
Michael MalayLate light
Peter Wohlleben ; translated by Jane BillinghurstThe power of trees : how ancient forests can save us if we let them [On Display]
Katalin KarikóBreaking Through : my life in science [On Display]
Suzy Menkes (intro.)Yves Saint Laurent, haute couture : catwalk : the complete haute couture collections, 1962-2002 [On Display]
Marion Turner (ed.)Chaucer : here and now
Elizabeth Cleland and Adam Eaker ; with contributions by Marjorie E. Wieseman and Sarah BochicchioThe Tudors : art and majesty in Renaissance England [On Display]
Samuel AgbamuRestorations of empire in Africa : ancient Rome and modern Italy’s African colonies
Nemone Lethbridge, OSPostcards from Greece, and other poems [On Display]
Nemone Lethbridge, OSNemone : a young woman barrister’s battle against prejudice, class and misogyny ; her controversial marriage
Reeta Ramamurthy GuptaSavitribai Phule : her life, her relationships, her legacy
Clare Mac Cumhaill, Rachael Wiseman ; traduit de l’anglais (Royaume-Uni) par Rémi Clot-Goudard et Clotilde Meyer ; préface de Manon GarciaLe quartet d’Oxford : quand Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley et Iris Murdoch réinventaient la philosophie [trans. of Metaphysical animals]
John GribbinIn search of Schrödinger’s cat
Shannon GaykApocalyptic ecologies : from creation to doom in Middle English literature
Jonathan WhiteIn the long run : the future as a political idea
Elizabeth C. ZsigaThe sounds of language : an introduction to phonetics and phonology (2nd edn)
Judith HalberstamThe queer art of failure
Joe MulhallRebel sounds : music as resistance
Roz Morris, OSThe visual revolution guidebook : how to build the skills you need for success in the new visual economy [On Display]
Sarah Broadie, OSPlato’s sun-like good : dialectic in the Republic [On Display]
Subcultures NetworkLet’s spend the night together : sex, pop music and British youth culture, 1950s-80s [On Display]
Harris Mylonas, Maya TudorVarieties of nationalism : communities, narratives, identities
Robert ParkerCleomenes on the Acropolis and other studies in Greek religion and society
Prakash Kashwan and Aseem HasnainDecolonizing environmentalism : alternative visions and practices of environmental action
Tim PalmerThe primacy of doubt : from climate change to quantum physics, how the science of uncertainty can help predict and understand our chaotic world
Maya AngelouLetter to my daughter
Karl A. WittfogelOriental despotism : a comparative study of total power
Books added in January
Mark Elliott, Robert ThomasPublic law (5th edn; 4 copies)
Annette Kehnel ; translated by Gesche IpsenThe green ages : medieval innovations in sustainability [On Display]
Alexandra Lewis (ed.)The Brontës and the idea of the human : science, ethics, and the Victorian imagination
Rasmus C. Elling and Sune Haugbolle (eds.)The fate of Third Worldism in the Middle East : Iran, Palestine and beyond
Philippa Perry ; illustrated by Flo PerryCouch fiction : a graphic tale of psychotherapy
Jennifer Kolpacoff Deane and Anne E. Lester (eds.)Between orders and heresy : rethinking medieval religious movements [On Display]
Alexandra Hughes-Johnson, Lyndsey Jenkins (eds.)The politics of women’s suffrage : local, national and international dimensions [On Display]
Ursula K. Le GuinSteering the craft : a twenty-first century guide to sailing the sea of story
Thomas Piketty, Michael J. SandelEquality : what it means and why it matters [On Display]
Chriscinda Henry and Tim Shephard (eds.)Music and visual culture in Renaissance Italy
Ed ConwayMaterial world : a substantial story of our past and future
Daniel LevitinMusic as medicine : how we can harness its therapeutic power
Claire Hubbard-Hall; features Daphne Park, OS and former PrincipalHer secret service : the forgotten women of British intelligence [On Display]
Lucy FoulkesComing of age : how adolescence shapes us
Andrea Janelle DickensThe female mystic : great women thinkers of the Middle Ages
Joseph Conrad ; edited with an introduction and notes by Philip DavisThe end of the tether and other stories
Kathryn EcclestoneTestament of lost youth : the early life and loves of Vera Brittain
Nathan Badoud ; translated in collaboration with Jason R. HarrisThe Colossus of Rhodes : archaeology of a lost wonder
Simon J. Dadson et al. (eds.)Water science, policy, and management : a global challenge
Laura L. Knoppers (ed.); contrib. by Michelle O’Callaghan, OSSeventeenth-century British poetry [On Display]
Helge KraghThe names of science : terminology and language in the history of the natural sciences
Michelle P. BrownBede and the theory of everything
Naomi KleinDoppelganger : a trip into the mirror world
George J. Augustine, Jennifer M. Groh, Scott A. Huettel, Anthony-Samuel LaMantia, Leonard E. White (eds.)Neuroscience (7th edn)
Wendy Ayres-Bennett and Mairi McLaughlin (eds.)The Oxford handbook of the French language
Elena Cagnoli FiecconiEthics for rational animals : the moral psychology at the basis of Aristotle’s ethics [On Display]
Polly JonesGulag fiction : labour camp literature from Stalin to Putin
Brett Edward WhalenThe medieval papacy
Jeremy McInerneyCentaurs and snake-kings : hybrids and the Greek imagination [On Display]
Myra Stokes, Ad PutterMedieval love letters : a critical anthology
James Wade (ed.)Sir Torrent of Portingale
Kara L. McShane and Mark J.B. Wright (eds.)The destruction of Jerusalem, or, Titus and Vespasian
David A. WacksMedieval Iberian crusade fiction and the Mediterranean world [On Display]
Peter CossPolitics and society in mid thirteenth-century England : the troubled realm
Rosie Oliver, OSA truth beyond full [On Display]
Richard Cassidy (ed.)The great roll of the pipe for the forty-third year of the reign of King Henry III : Michaelmas 1259 (Pipe Roll 103)
Sebastian J. Langdell (ed.)Thomas Hoccleve’s collected shorter poems : a critical edition of the Huntington Holographs
Ralph HannaLooking at medieval books : learning to see
Tison PughBad Chaucer : the great poet’s greatest mistakes in the Canterbury Tales
Bernard Beatty ; introduced by Jerome McGann, edited by David Woodhouse, and concluded in conversation with Gavin HoppsReading Byron : poems, life, politics
John GodwinRoman verse satires : spleen and ideal
Mark GriffithThe battle of Maldon : a new critical edition
Aeschylus ; edited with a translation, introduction and commentary by Edith Hall, FFSAgamemnon [On Display]
Cicero ; edited with a translation, introduction and commentary by Gesine ManuwaldDe re publica
Andrew JotischkyThe monastic world : a 1200-year history
Susanna Fein (ed./trans.)The owl and the nightingale and the English poems of Oxford, Jesus College, MS 29 (II)
Lord Byron ; selected and introduced by Fiona Stafford, FSByron’s travels : poems, letters, and journals [On Display]
Katie Meehan, Naho Mirumachi, Alex Loftus and Majed AkhterWater : a critical introduction
Marcel EliasEnglish literature and the crusades : anxieties of holy war, 1291-1453
Janice Carruthers, Mairi McLaughlin and Olivia Walsh (edd.)Historical and sociolinguistic approaches to French [On Display]
Alan R Crossman ; illustrations by Ben CrossmanNeuroanatomy : an illustrated colour text (7th edn)
Bruce HayesIntroductory phonology
Nicholas Pullen, OSThe black hunger [On Display]
Gillian Clark, OSCommentary on Augustine City of God, Books 6-10 [On Display]
K. Dawn GrapesDowland [On Display]
Bapsi SidhwaIce-candy-man
Jeremy MynottThe story of nature : a human history
Kathy WillisGood nature : the new science of how nature improves our health [On Display]
Alister E. McGrathReformation thought : an introduction (5th edn)
Simon HornblowerHannibal and Scipio : parallel lives [On Display]
Roxanne Dunbar-OrtizAn indigenous peoples’ history of the United States
Arthur MarwickThe sixties : cultural revolution in Britain, France, Italy, and the United States, c.1958-c.1974
Gillian DooleyListening to Iris Murdoch : music, sounds, and silences [On Display]
D.C. GreethamTextual scholarship : an introduction
Janet Martin Soskice (ed.; OS)After Eve [On Display]
Edwin FrankStranger than fiction : lives of the twentieth-century novel [On Display]
Helen KingImmaculate forms : uncovering the history of women’s bodies [On Display]
Thomas Hobbes ; edited with an introduction and notes by Noel MalcolmLeviathan
Justin ; edited and translated by J.C. Yardley ; introduction and notes by Dexter HoyosEpitome of Pompeius Trogus (Loeb, 2 vols.)
Cicero ; edited and translated by Jane W. Crawford, Andrew R. DyckFragmentary speeches (Loeb)
George Southcombe (ed.; former FS)English nonconformist poetry, 1660-1700 (3 vols.)
Aaron Reeves and Sam FriedmanBorn to rule : the making and remaking of the British elite [On Display]
Sergey RadchenkoTo run the world : the Kremlin’s Cold War bid for global power [On Display]
Joseph NorthLiterary criticism : a concise political history [On Display]
Peter AtkinsConcepts in physical chemistry (2nd edn) [On Display]
Oliver SacksMusicophilia : tales of music and the brain
Robert HarrisConclave
John GuilloryProfessing criticism : essays on the organization of literary study
Charles B. FleddermannEngineering ethics
Michael HunterBoyle : between God and science
Winifred Holtby (OS)The land of green ginger [On Display]
Ato Quayson, Ankhi Mukherjee (editors)Decolonizing the English literary curriculum [On Display]
Matthew RestallSeven myths of the Spanish Conquest
Updated edition
Wolfgang Koeppen ; translated with an introduction by Michael HofmannDeath in Rome
Bruce ThompsonSchnitzler’s Vienna : image of a society
Melissa AdlerCruising the library : perversities in the organization of knowledge
Books added in December
Blake Roeber, Ernest Sosa, Matthias Steup, John Turri (eds.)Contemporary debates in epistemology (3rd edn)
Michael I. Gurr, John L. Harwood, Keith N. Frayn, Denis J. Murphy, Robert H. MichellLipids : biochemistry, biotechnology and health (6th edn)
Matthew BoyleTransparency and reflection : a study of self-knowledge and the nature of mind [On Display]
Netta Weinstein, Heather Hansen, Thuy-vy T. NguyenSolitude : the science and power of being alone
Yael van der WoudenThe safekeep : a novel
Samantha HarveyOrbital
Yomi ṢodeManorism
James CantonGrounded : a journey into the landscapes of our ancestors
Michael Shoolbred & Helen CooperWhere’s your argument? : how to present your academic argument in writing (2nd edn)
Richard A. Demers, Ann K. FarmerA linguistics workbook (2nd edn)
Aaron HalpernOn the placement and morphology of clitics
Peter Sells (ed.)Formal and empirical issues in optimality theoretic syntax
Ferdia LennonGlorious exploits
Sarah Houghton-Walker (ed.); contribution by Fiona Stafford, FSThe Cambridge companion to John Clare [On Display]
Monika Faber, Jean-Marc Dreyfus, Magdalena VukovićLa surface et la chair : Madame d’Ora, Vienne-Paris, 1907-1957
Sanaz ToossiWish you were here
Marvin M. Chun, Steven B. MostCognition [On Display]
Angela Merkel ; with Beate BaumannFreedom : memoirs 1954-2021 [On Display]
Alan M. Slater and Paul C. Quinn (edd.)Developmental psychology : revisiting the classic studies (2nd edn)
Chen ChenYour emergency contact has experienced an emergency
Chen Chen ; foreword by Jericho BrownWhen I grow up I want to be a list of further possibilities
Federico García Lorca ; edited with an introduction and notes by Christopher Maurer ; translated by Francisco Aragon, Catherine Brown, Cola Franzen, Will Kirkland, William Bryant Logan, Christopher Maurer, Jerome Rothenberg, Greg Simon, Alan S. Trueblood, John K. Walsh and Steven F. WhiteSelected poems
Ned BlackhawkThe rediscovery of America : native peoples and the unmaking of U.S. history
Diego Javier LuisThe first Asians in the Americas : a transpacific history [On Display]
Patricia Clare InghamThe medieval new : ambivalence in an age of innovation [On Display]
Brigid Allen, OSThe nut book [On Display]
Patrick J. Butler, J. Anne Brown, D. George Stephenson, John R. SpeakmanAnimal physiology : an environmental perspective
Marie T. Banich, Rebecca J. ComptonCognitive neuroscience (5th edn)
Agatha ChristieDeath on the Nile
Agatha ChristieThe mysterious affair at Styles
Agatha ChristieDeath in the clouds
Agatha ChristieCat among the pigeons
Agatha ChristieThe murder of Roger Ackroyd
Agatha ChristieAfter the funeral
Agatha ChristieMurder on the Orient Express
Edith OlivierThe love child
Theodora BensonWhich way?
Eleanor ScottWar among ladies
Angela Milne ; afterword by Simon ThomasOne year’s time
May SinclairThe tree of heaven
Monika Faber (ed.)Madame d’Ora
Makayla Lewis, Miriam SturdeeSketching in human-computer interaction : a practical guide to sketching theory and application
Stuart Hall ; edited by Paul Gilroy and Ruth Wilson GilmoreSelected writings on race and difference
John Ford ; edited by Martin White‘Tis pity she’s a whore
Mark A. WaddellMagic, science, and religion in early modern Europe
Rachel KushnerCreation lake
Phaidon PressTree : exploring the arboreal world [On Display]
Katharine JenkinsFeminist philosophy : a very short introduction
Keith DorringtonPhysick to physiology : tales from an Oxford life in medicine [On Display]
Frank M. White, Henry XueFluid mechanics (9th edn)
Grace KarskensPeople of the river : lost worlds of early Australia
David SpiegelhalterThe art of uncertainty : how to navigate chance, ignorance, risk and luck
Andrea WrightUnruly labor : a history of oil in the Arabian Sea
Catharine AbellFiction : a philosophical analysis
John W. Baynes, Marek H. DominiczakMedical biochemistry (6th edn)
Nicholas J. McBride and Roderick BagshawTort law (7th edn, 1 of 3 copies ordered, Confined)
Averil Cameron, OSTransitions : a historian’s memoir [On Display]
Jairam Ramesh, Muhammad Ali KhanLegislating for justice : the making of the 2013 land acquisition law
Samuele RoccaIn the shadow of the Caesars : Jewish life in Roman Italy
Books added in November
Walt Whitman ; with an introduction and notes by Peter RileyLeaves of grass
Stephen OrgelThe Globe in print : the book of the play in the age of Shakespeare
Amitav GhoshThe nutmeg’s curse : parables for a planet in crisis
Guy LeschzinerSeven deadly sins : the biology of being human [On Display]
Julia JoratiSlavery and race : philosophical debates in the eighteenth century [On Display]
Philip Meadows Taylor ; edited with an introduction by Kim A. WagnerConfessions of a Thug
Jane Austen ; edited with an introduction and notes by Thomas KeymerNorthanger Abbey
Sanaz ToossiEnglish
Jonathan L. Ready (ed.)The Oxford critical guide to Homer’s Iliad
Nicholas Allen, John Bartle (eds.); contrib. by Sarah Birch, OSNone past the post : Britain at the polls, 2017 [On Display]
Emma AstonBlessed Thessaly : the identities of a place and its people from the Archaic period to the Hellenistic
Abdelrahman Munif ; translated from the Arabic by Peter TherouxCities of salt
Sarah Bax Horton, OSArm of Eve : investigating the Thames torso murders [On Display]
Ben McFarlane, Nicholas Hopkins, Sarah NieldLand law : text, cases, and materials (6th edn; 2 copies, 1 confined)
Laura CummingThunderclap : a memoir of art and life & sudden death [On Display]
Liz BerryThe home child
Ruth PadelGirl
Diana EvansA house for Alice
Rose TremainAbsolutely and forever
Richard FlanaganQuestion 7
Lina Bolzoni ; translated by Sylvia GreenupA marvelous solitude : the art of reading in early modern Europe [On Display]
Lori Jones (ed.)Disease and the environment in the medieval and early modern worlds
Bernardine EvaristoMr Loverman
Tomasz JedrowskiSwimming in the dark
Haruki Murakami ; translated from the Japanese by Philip GabrielThe city and its uncertain walls [On Display]
Linda Appleby, OSThe kingdom is yours [On Display]
Jane Anstey, OSYou owe me five farthings
Jane Anstey, OSSt Martin’s summer [On Display]
Jessica Marie OtisBy the numbers : numeracy, religion, and the quantitative transformation of early modern England
Elizabeth Fisher, Sidney A. ShapiroAdministrative competence : reimagining administrative law
Ernst BlochThe utopian function of art and literature : selected essays
Roberto Mangabeira UngerThe world and us
The Short and Snarky CoxswainsThe short and snarky guide to coxing and rowing : straight talk on coxing and rowing from real coxswains
Louise BerlinerTexas Guinan : queen of the nightclubs
Emmanuelle Hénin (comp./ed.)Les querelles dramatiques à l’âge classique (XVIIe-XVIIIe siècles)
John D. Anderson, Jr.Modern compressible flow : with historical perspective (4th edn)
Laurence A. WolseyInteger programming (2nd edn) [On Display]
T. A. BrownGene cloning and DNA analysis : an introduction (8th edn)
Geoffrey R. Grimmett and David R. StirzakerOne thousand exercises in probability (3rd edn)
William D. Callister, Jr., David G. RethwischMaterials science and engineering : an introduction (10th edn)
Nick Haslam and Luke SmillieAn introduction to personality, individual differences and intelligence (3rd edn)
Stella Cottrell, OSThe study skills handbook (6th edn)
Elaine A. Moore, OSExplaining renewable energy [On Display]
Eleanor BarracloughEmbers of the hands : hidden histories of the Viking age
Richard HingleyConquering the ocean : the Roman invasion of Britain
Chris MillingtonFrance in the Second World War : collaboration, resistance, holocaust, empire
Uli Lutz, Gereon Müller, Arnim von Stechow (eds.)Wh-scope marking
Rob Phillips, Jane Kondev, Julie Theriot, Hernan G. Garcia ; illustrated by Nigel OrmePhysical biology of the cell (2nd edn, 2 copies)
Sarah E. EdwardsThe ethnobotanical : a world tour of indigenous plant knowledge
Sally RooneyConversations with friends
Olly Richards and Richard SimcottShort stories in French : read for pleasure at your level and learn French the fun way
Benjamin Todd and the 80,000 Hours team80,000 Hours : find a fulfilling career that does good
Rebecca F KuangYellowface
Agatha ChristieAnd then there were none
Rachel HengThe great reclamation
Maggie Humm (ed.)Modern feminisms : political, literary, cultural
Florian Mazel ; ouvrage dirigé par Jean-Louis BigetFéodalités, 888-1180
John TwidellRenewable energy resources (4th edn)
Daniel LewisTwelve trees : and what they tell us about our past, present and future
Susana MonsóPlaying possum : how animals understand death [On Display]
Timothy BrookThe price of collapse : the little ice age and the fall of Ming China
David SchulenbergBach [On Display]
Jennifer Altehenger and Denise Y. Ho (eds.)Material contradictions in Mao’s China [On Display]
David FarrierFootprints : in search of future fossils
Various authors, including Elizabeth Macneal, OSThe winter spirits : ghostly tales for frosty nights [On Display]
Yevgeny Zamyatin ; translated by Galya and Hugh AplinX and other stories
J. C. D. ClarkThe enlightenment : an idea and its history
Robin FlemingThe material fall of Roman Britain, 300-525 CE [On Display]
Merry Wiesner-HanksWomen and the Reformations : a global history
David N. LivingstoneThe empire of climate : a history of an idea [On Display]
John Andrews, Nick JelleyEnergy science : principles, technologies, and impacts (4th edn)
Italo CalvinoIl cavaliere inesistente
Selina ToddSnakes and ladders : the great British social mobility myth [On Display]
John Lewis-StempelEngland : a natural history
Ch’a In-p’yoŎnjen’ga uri ka kat’ŭn pyŏl ŭl para pondamyŏn
André Singer (ed.)A touch of genius : the life, work and influence of Sir Edward Evans-Pritchard
Paul Craig and Gráinne de BúrcaEU law : text, cases, and materials (8th edn; 4 copies, 1 confined)
Jeremy W. Dale, Malcolm von Schantz and Nick PlantFrom genes to genomes : concepts and applications of DNA technology (3rd edn)
Timothy Walker, FSEuphorbias [On Display]
Beth S. RabinowitzCoups, rivals, and the modern state : why rural coalitions matter in sub-Saharan Africa
John W. Creswell, Cheryl N. PothQualitative inquiry & research design : choosing among five approaches (5th edn)
Ewan McKendrickContract law : text, cases, and materials (11th edn; 3 copies, 1 confined)
Alison Liebling, Shadd Maruna, Lesley McAra (eds.)The Oxford handbook of criminology (7th edn)
Sara McLaughlin Mitchell and John A. Vasquez (eds.)What do we know about war? (rev. 3rd edn)
Tim BlanningAugustus the strong : ruler of Poland & Saxony : a study in artistic greatness and political fiasco [On Display]
Chris Fern, Tania Dickinson & Leslie Webster (eds.)The Staffordshire Hoard : an Anglo-Saxon treasure
Beate Kellner und Alexander Rudolph (Hg.)Mittelalterliche Lyrik im Kontext
Mark FisherThe weird and the eerie
Julian JacksonFrance on trial : the case of Marshal Pétain
Caroline ElkinsLegacy of violence : a history of the British empire
Ivan Franceschini and Christian Sorace (eds.)Proletarian China : a century of Chinese labour
Benjamin SavillEngland and the papacy in the early middle ages : papal privileges in European perspective, c. 680-1073
Brian Jeffrey MaxsonA short history of Florence and the Florentine republic
Uri AlonAn introduction to systems biology : design principles of biological circuits (2nd edn)
Peter FritzscheHitler’s first hundred days : when Germans embraced the Third Reich
Stephen A. HarrisCatesby’s natural history
Martin Dixon, Robert McCorquodale, Sarah WilliamsCases & materials on international law (7th edn)
Mary FulbrookBystander society : conformity and complicity in Nazi Germany and the Holocaust [On Display]
Ali SmithGliff [On Display]
Alice HuntRepublic : Britain’s revolutionary decade, 1649-1660 [On Display]
Henry ReeceThe fall : last days of the English Republic
Andrew StaufferByron : a life in ten letters
Stuart Bell, Donald McGillivray, Ole W. Pedersen, Emma Lees, Elen StokesEnvironmental law (10th edn)
Kathy CharmazConstructing grounded theory (3rd edn)
James E.G. ZetzelThe lost republic : Cicero’s De oratore and De re publica [On Display]
Michael Howlett, M. Ramesh, Anthony PerlStudying public policy : principles and processes (4th edn)
Thorlac Turville-PetreSt Erkenwald : a critical edition
Stasys JuknaExtremal combinatorics : with applications in computer science (2nd edn)
Kyle GannThe music of Conlon Nancarrow
Jieun Kiaer, Emily Lord, and Loli KimThe K-wave on-screen : in words and objects
Peter Chin-Hong, Elizabeth A. Joyce, Manjiree Karandikar, Mehrdad Matloubian, Luis Alberto Rubio, Britan S. Schwartz, Warren LevinsonLevinson’s review of medical microbiology & immunology : a guide to clinical infectious diseases (18th edn)
Anna Bonnell FreidinBirthing Romans : childbearing and its risks in Imperial Rome [On Display]
Christopher BlattmanWhy we fight : the roots of war and the paths to peace
Ruth ListerPoverty
Paul CairneyUnderstanding public policy : theories and issues
Radclyffe Hall ; with an introduction and notes by Jana Funke and Hannah RocheThe well of loneliness
Diarmaid MacCullochLower than the angels : a history of sex and Christianity [On Display]
Guy de la BédoyèreThe fall of Egypt and the rise of Rome : a history of the Ptolemies
N. A. M. RodgerThe price of victory : a naval history of Britain, 1815-1945 [On Display]
Daisy Johnson, OSThe hotel [On Display]
James RebanksThe place of tides
Carol Ann Duffy (ed.)Earth prayers : encounters in poetry with the natural world [On Display]
Stefan DerconGambling on development : why some countries win and others lose
Nasar MeerThe cruel optimism of racial justice [On Display]
Rafael Lapesa ; prólogo de Ramón Menéndez PidalHistoria de la lengua española
William ZinsserWriting to learn
Books added in October
Simeon Vilensky (ed.)Till my tale is told : women’s memoirs of the Gulag
Anne IrfanRefuge and resistance : Palestinians and the international refugee system
Marc Owen JonesPolitical repression in Bahrain
Tamara Munzner ; illustrations by Eamonn MaguireVisualization analysis & design
Lucas BraccoA world of fallacies : a guide to informal logical fallacies
Sönke AhrensHow to take smart notes : one simple technique to boost writing, learning and thinking
Eugenia Ginzburg ; translated by Ian Boland ; introduction by Heinrich BöllWithin the whirlwind
Nelly LahoudThe Bin Laden papers : how the Abbottabad raid revealed the truth about al-Qaeda, its leader and his family
Paul M. Kellstedt, Guy D. Whitten, Steven A. TuchThe fundamentals of social research
Musab YounisOn the scale of the world : the formation of Black anticolonial thought [On Display]
Ranjit LallMaking international institutions work : the politics of performance
Alexander ThurstonJihadists of North Africa and the Sahel : local politics and rebel groups
Ferdinand EiblSocial dictatorships : the political economy of the welfare state in the Middle East and North Africa [On Display]
Jaime Edwards and Brian LeiterMarx
Joseph HenrichThe weirdest people in the world : how the west became psychologically peculiar and particularly prosperous
Emily Alder, Jimmy Packham & Joan Passey (eds.)Our haunted shores : tales from the coasts of the British Isles
Rosalind ShorrocksWomen, men, and elections : policy supply and gendered voting behaviour in Western democracies
Sharon A. Stranford, Judith A. Owen, Jenni Punt, Patricia P. JonesKuby immunology (8th edn)
Alain Badiou ; with an afterword by Slavoj Zizek ; translated by Susan SpitzerFive lessons on Wagner
John Parker (ed.)Great kingdoms of Africa
Jacqueline RidingJacobites : a new history of the ’45 rebellion
Alan Sokal and Jean BricmontIntellectual impostures : postmodern philosophers’ abuse of science
Gary BrowningIris Murdoch and the political [On Display]
Geoffrey SampsonStructural linguistics in the 21st century
Christopher M. Bishop, Hugh BishopDeep learning : foundations and concepts [On Display]
Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe ; translated by Felicia McCarrenMusica ficta : figures of Wagner
Rana MitterChina’s good war : how World War II is shaping a new nationalism
Avi ShlaimThree worlds : memoirs of an Arab-Jew [On Display]
Howard S. BeckerTelling about society
Tom IrelandThe good virus : the mysterious microbes that rule our world, shape our health and can save our future
Jules Acton ; illustrations by Sally MollanOaklore : adventures in a world of extraordinary trees
Helen CzerskiBlue machine : how the ocean shapes our world
A S Byatt, OS ; Edited by Stephen McNeillyOn the Conjugial Angel [On Display]
Valerie Kivelson, Sergei Kozlov, Joan Neuberger (eds.)Picturing Russian empire
Dan FalkThe science of Shakespeare : a new look at the playwright’s universe
Rob EastawayMuch ado about numbers : Shakespeare’s mathematical life and times
Liam J. Revell and Luke J. HarmonPhylogenetic comparative methods in R
James HannamGod’s philosophers : how the medieval world laid the foundations of modern science
June Teufel DreyerChina’s political system : modernization and tradition
R. W. ConnellMasculinities [On Display]
Michèle Roberts, OSColette : my literary mother [On Display]
Anne MengConstraining dictatorship : from personalized rule to institutionalized regimes
Anne ApplebaumAutocracy, Inc. : the dictators who want to run the world [On Display]
Gabriel Pogrund & Patrick MaguireLeft out : the inside story of Labour under Corbyn
Richard Bourke, Niamh Gallagher (eds.)The political thought of the Irish revolution
Angela McRobbieThe uses of cultural studies : a textbook
Tom RutterShakespeare and science
James FergusonGlobal shadows : Africa in the neoliberal world order
Alan C. AcockA gentle introduction to Stata (rev. 6th edn)
Svend Juul, Morten FrydenbergAn introduction to Stata for health researchers (5th edn)
Gary GerstleThe rise and fall of the neoliberal order : America and the world in the free market era
Kay Elder, Brian DaleIn-vitro fertilization (4th edn)
Kathryn JamesEnglish paleography and manuscript culture, 1500-1800 [On Display]
David BerkmanThe Jazz harmony book : a course in adding chords to melodies
Rogers M. Smith and Desmond KingAmerica’s new racial battle lines : protect versus repair [On Display]
Alan HollinghurstOur evenings [On Display]
Catherine E. De Vries and Sara B. HoboltPolitical entrepreneurs : the rise of challenger parties in Europe
Gabrielle StoreyBerengaria of Navarre : Queen of England, Lord of Le Mans
Matthew FirthEarly English queens, 850-1000 : potestas reginae
Selva Almada ; translated by Annie McDermott, OSBrickmakers
Brenda Lozano ; translated by Annie McDermott, OSLoop [On Display]
Jonathan GruberPublic finance and public policy (7th edn, 2 copies)
Emiliano Grossman, Isabelle GuinaudeauDo elections (still) matter? : mandates, institutions, and policy in Western Europe [On Display]
Nils BerglundAn introduction to singular stochastic PDEs : Allen-Cahn equations, metastability, and regularity structures
Jesper Bøje Christensen ; translated by J. Bradford Robinson18th century continuo playing : a historical guide to the basics
John Lumley and Nigel SpringthorpeThe art of conducting : a guide to essential skills
Dale DeBakcsyA history of women in mathematics : exploring the trailblazers of STEM [On Display]
Catherine M. JacksonMolecular world : making modern chemistry
Franck Laloë ; translated by Nicole Ostrowsky, Daniel OstrowskyIntroduction to continuous symmetries : from space-time to quantum mechanics [On Display]
Peter Maxwell-Stuart (ed./trans.)The Malleus maleficarum
Naomi LevineThe burden of rhyme : Victorian poetry, formalism, and the feeling of literary history
Gilbert StrangIntroduction to linear algebra (6th edn)
T.A. BrownGenomes 5
Max S. BennettA brief history of intelligence : why the evolution of the brain holds the key to the future of AI [On Display]
John ParringtonConsciousness : how our brains turn matter into meaning
Sara J. CharlesThe medieval scriptorium : making books in the Middle Ages [On Display]
Kate MollesonSound within sound : a history of radical twentieth century composers [On Display]
Jennifer M. RamplingThe experimental fire : inventing English alchemy, 1300-1700
Paul Cartledge and Paul Christesen (eds.)The Oxford history of the archaic Greek world. Vol. I: Argos to Corcyra
Sarah ApetreiThe reformation of the heart : gender and radical theology in the English revolution [On Display]
Baudelaire ; préface d’Antoine Compagnon ; édition publiée sous la direction d’André Guyaux et Andrea Schellino ; avec, pour ce volume, la collaboration d’Aurélia Cervoni et al.Œuvres complètes (2 vols.)
Ariel EzrachiEU competition law : an analytical guide to the leading cases (8th edn)
Richard Whish, David BaileyCompetition law (11th edn)
Adam DayThe forever crisis : adaptive global governance for an era of accelerating complexity
Paul BloomThe human mind : a brief tour of everything we know
Joe Mulholland & Tom HojnackiThe Berklee book of jazz harmony
Mark LevineThe jazz piano book
David van ReybrouckRevolusi : Indonesia and the birth of the modern world [On Display]
Micah AlpaughThe people’s revolution of 1789
Margaret AtwoodPaper boat : new and selected poems, 1961-2023
Hal R. Varian, Marc J. MelitzIntermediate microeconomics : a modern approach (10th edn, 4 copies)
Jun AbeWh-in situ licensing in questions and sluicing
Mary Alison KershawSpears of sun : selected poems [On Display]
David FullerShakespeare and the Romantics
Daniel Cook, Nicholas Seager (eds.)The Cambridge companion to Gulliver’s travels
Stephen H. Gillespie, Kathleen B. BamfordMedical microbiology and infection at a glance (5th edn)
Michael A. Box, Gail P. BoxThe science of our changing climate
Roman VershyninHigh-dimensional probability : an introduction with applications in data science
Aimé CésaireDiscours sur le colonialisme : suivi du discours sur la négritude
Raphael Woolf (ed.)Cicero’s De officiis : a critical guide
Caillan DavenportA history of the Roman equestrian order
Martin J. WainwrightHigh-dimensional statistics : a non-asymptotic viewpoint
Bénédicte Savoy ; translated by Susanne Meyer-AbichAfrica’s struggle for its art : history of a postcolonial defeat [On Display]
John Zerilli et al.A citizen’s guide to artificial intelligence [On Display]
Elizabeth AndersonHijacked : how neoliberalism turned the work ethic against workers and how workers can take it back [On Display]
Mark SideritsBuddhism as philosophy
Bruce Jacob, Spencer W. Ng, David T. Wang; with contributions by Samuel RodriguezMemory systems : cache, DRAM, disk
Steven A. LeducCracking the GRE mathematics subject test
Elizabeth Sarah ColesAnne Carson : the glass essayist
John FootThe archipelago : Italy since 1945
Sarah LeFanuDreaming of Rose : a biographer’s journal [On Display]
Jill Gardiner, OSWith Some Wild Woman : Poems 1989-2019 [On Display]
Catherine Barnard and Steve Peers (eds.)European Union law (4th edn)
Alison E. Cooley (ed.)The Senatus Consultum de Cn. Pisone Patre : text, translation, and commentary
Erin R. PinedaSeeing like an activist : civil disobedience and the civil rights movement
Vergil ; translated by Sarah Ruden ; with an introduction by Susanna Braund ; notes and glossary by Susanna Braund and Emma HilliardThe Aeneid
Toby MatthiesenThe Caliph and the Imam : the making of Sunnism and Shiism [On Display]
Ludovica Maconi, Mirco VolpiAntichi documenti dei volgari italiani
Anthony A. Barrett and J.C. YardleyEmperors and political culture in Cassius Dio’s Roman history
Caillan Davenport, Christopher Mallan (eds.)The emperor Caligula in the ancient sources
Lex PaulsonCicero and the people’s will : philosophy and power at the end of the Roman Republic [On Display]
David AbulafiaThe great sea : a human history of the Mediterranean
Pamela Zave, Jennifer RexfordThe real internet architecture : past, present, and future evolution [On Display]
Frances Hardinge, OS ; illustrated by Emily GravettThe forest of a thousand eyes [On Display]
Dermot HodsonCircle of stars : a history of the EU and the people who made it [On Display]
Elizabeth C. EconomyThe world according to China [On Display]
Kathleen JamieThe keelie hawk : poems in Scots [On Display]
David Ormerod, Karl Laird, Matthew GibsonSmith, Hogan, and Ormerod’s criminal law (17th edn; 4 copies)
Una Marson ; edited by Alison DonnellSelected poems
Mont AllenThe death of myth on Roman sarcophagi : allegory and visual narrative in the Late Empire
Julián Casanova, Carlos Gil Andrés ; translated by Martin DouchTwentieth-century Spain : a history
Jo Labanyi and Tatjana Pavlović (eds.)A companion to Spanish cinema
Catherine E. De Vries, Sara B. Hobolt, Sven-Oliver Proksch, Jonathan B. SlapinFoundations of European politics : a comparative approach
Tracy Bowell, Robert Cowan, and Gary KempCritical thinking : a concise guide (5th edn)
Clare Bucknell, Matthew Ward (eds.)Byron among the English poets : literary tradition and poetic legacy
Minouche ShafikWhat we owe each other : a new social contract
Chris van TullekenUltra-processed people : why do we all eat stuff that isn’t food … and why can’t we stop?