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Recently added books

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

Books added in October
Tim Ecott ; illustrations by Jessica Ecott
Eva and the island : life at the loneliest farmhouse in the world
Maria Tatar
Arachnomania : spiders and the cultural work they do for us [On Display]
Conor O’Brien
The rise of Christian kingship in the early medieval West
Anton Jager
Hyperpolitics : extreme politicization without political consequences [On Display]
Andrew Baldwin (ed.)
Oxford handbook of clinical specialties (12th edn)
Sara Seager
Exoplanet atmospheres : physical processes
S.D. Church (ed.)
Anglo-Norman studies XLVI : proceedings of the Battle Conference ; 2023
Patrick McGuinness (ed.)
The Penguin book of French short stories. Volume 2
Patrick McGuinness (ed.)
The Penguin book of French short stories. Volume 1
Mark Jobling, Brenna Henn, Edward Hollox, Toomas Kivisild, Luca Pagani, and Chris Tyler-Smith
Human evolutionary genetics (3rd edn)
Zeshan Qureshi, Mehrunisha Suleman (eds.)
Anti-racist medicine : an essential guide to advancing equity in medical education, research, technology, policy, and practice
Martin Dixon
Modern land law (14th edn)
Davide Risso and Gabriella Morini ; translated by Elettra Pauletto
On taste : in humans and other animals [On Display]
Guyda Armstrong, Rhiannon Daniels, Catherine Keen (eds.); contrib. by Manuele Gragnolati, FFS
A history of poetry in Italy : 1200-1600 [On Display]
Sophia Smith Galer
How to kill a language : power, resistance and the race to save our words
Bradley Efron
To think like a statistician
Anne Hrychuk Kontokosta
The Roman arch : architecture, politics, and the commemoration of victory in Rome (196 BCE to 43 CE) [On Display]
James Howard-Johnston
Byzantine historical writing [On Display]
Dan Coxon (ed.); includes contribution by Daisy Johnson, OS
Unhallowed gifts [On Display]
Victoria Bateman
Economica : a global history of women, wealth and power
John Lister-Kaye ; illustrated by James Roberts
Osprey : the fishing king
John Baylis, Steve Smith, Patricia Owens, FS (eds.)
The globalization of world politics : an introduction to international relations (10th edn)
Estomih Mtui, Gregory Gruener, Peter Dockery
Fitzgerald’s clinical neuroanatomy and neuroscience (9th edn)
William Shakespeare ; with an introduction by Harry Newman ; edited by Terri Bourus
The winter’s tale
William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, and others ; with an introduction by Kavita Mudan Finn ; text edited by Rory Loughnane
Henry VI. Part II
Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Nashe and Anonymous ; adapted by William Shakespeare ; with an introduction by Amy Lidster ; text edited by Sarah Neville
Henry VI. Part I
Natalie Zemon Davies
Trickster travels : a sixteenth-century Muslim between worlds
Caroline Burt & Richard Partington
Arise, England : six kings and the making of the English state
Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor
End times fascism : and the fight for the living world [On Display]
Alexandra Kollontai ; translated by Élise Hendrick ; foreword by Juliana Gleeson and Faeza Yuldasheva
The social basis of the female question
Alan Jacobs
Dorothy L. Sayers [OS] : works and days
Peter Bance; Catherine and Bamba Duleep Singh both OS
The last royals of Lahore : the Duleep Singhs [On Display]
Christopher S. Celenza
The evolution of Western thought : a new history, from antiquity to the early modern era
Alexandra Kollontai ; translated and introduced by Cathy Porter ; afterword by Sheila Rowbotham
Love of worker bees, and ; A great love
John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, and Nathan Field ; edited by Michael M. Wagoner
Beggars’ bush
Kate McLoughlin, OS (ed.)
Silence please : a poem for every kind of quiet [On Display]
Valerie Eliot and John Haffenden (eds.)
The letters of T.S. Eliot. Vol. 5: 1930-1
Aristotle ; translated with an introduction and commentary by Robin Smith
On sophistical refutations
Emma Louth Als
Focus : how to study in an increasingly distracted world
Anonymous and William Shakespeare ; with an introduction by Iman Sheeha ; text edited by Terri Bourus, Gary Taylor
Arden of Faversham
Janice Brown
The seven deadly sins in the work of Dorothy L. Sayers (OS) [On Display]
Paul Engel, edited by Richard Bowater
Enzymes, volume 2 : enzymes at work
Uma Narayan & Sandra Harding (eds.); chapter by Susan Moller Okin, OS
Decentering the center : philosophy for a multicultural, postcolonial, and feminist world [On Display]
JJ Child, AP Simester, J Stanton-Ife, F Stark and GJ Virgo
Simester and Sullivan’s criminal law : theory and doctrine (9th edn; 4 copies, 1 confined)
Tom Griffiths
The laws of thought : the quest for a mathematical theory of the mind
Leon Trotsky ; new introduction by Ralph Schoenman ; translated by Anya Bostock
1905
A W Bradley, K D Ewing, C J S Knight
Constitutional & administrative law (19th edn; 1 of 4 copies ordered)
Larry Siedentop
Tocqueville
Gretchen Schultz
The gendered lyric : subjectivity and difference in nineteenth-century French poetry
Mouloud Feraoun
Le fils du pauvre : roman (4 copies)
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)