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Recently added books

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

Books added in November
Vittoria Colonna ; edited and annotated by Veronica Copello ; translated by Abigail Brundin ; introduction by Abigail Brundin and Veronica CopelloSelected letter, 1523-1546 : a bilingual edition
Eric R. ScerriA tale of seven elements : plus another 40 or so others
Michael Moriarty, Jeremy Jennings (eds.)The Cambridge history of French thought
John Lewis-StempelNightwalking : four journeys into Britain after dark
Euphrase Kezilahabi, translated from the Swahili by Jay Boss Rubin; foreword by Annmarie DruryRosa Mistika : a novel
Meirion Jordan, OSRegeneration white book : Regeneration red book
Rosie Lavan and Bernard O’Donoghue with Matthew Hollis (eds.)The Poems of Seamus Heaney
Ian Stewart, David TallAlgebraic number theory and Fermat’s last theorem (5th edn)
Maria Teresa GuastiLanguage acquisition : the growth of grammar (2nd edn)
Christine de Pizan ; edited and translated by Thelma S. Fenster and Christine Reno. With, A poem on man and woman / Jean Gerson ; translated from the Latin by Thomas O’Donnell ; foreword by Jocelyn Wogan-BrowneThe god of love’s letter and The tale of the rose : a bilingual edition
Nancy EdwardsLife in early medieval Wales
Michael S. Gazzaniga, Elizabeth A. Phelps, Dani S. Bassett, George R. Mangun, Richard B. IvryCognitive neuroscience : the biology of the mind (6th edn, 2 copies)
Joseph TaylorWriting the North of England in the Middle Ages : regionalism and nationalism in medieval English literature
Jon Mee, Matthew Sangster (eds.)Institutions of literature, 1700-1900 : the development of literary culture and production
Edward B. Barbier, Joanne C. BurgessEconomics for a sustainable world : an introduction to natural resource and environmental economics
Louise Gullifer and Jennifer PayneCorporate finance law : principles and policy (4th edn)
Giles TremlettEl Generalísimo Franco : power, violence and the quest for greatness
Jane HiddlestonAimé Césaire : inventor of souls
Michael ZanderThe law-making process (9th edn)
Timothy C. UrdanStatistics in plain English (5th edn)
Simone MüllerDiscourse markers in native and non-native English discourse
Mikhail ZygarThe dark side of the earth : how the Soviet Union collapsed but remained
Geertje Dekkers ; translated by Andy BrownMyriad, microscopic and marvellous : the world of Antoni van Leeuwenhoek
Michael M. Cox, Aaron A. Hoskins, Alain Viel, Judith SimcoxLehninger biochemistry : core concepts and applications
Zadie SmithDead and alive : essays [On Display]
B. Rosemary GrantOne step sideways, three steps forward : one woman’s path to becoming a biologist [On Display]
Laurie Lee ; edited by David ParkerDown in the valley : a writer’s landscape
Gabriel García Márquez ; translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean ; edited by Cristóbal PeraUntil August
Margaret AtwoodBook of lives : a memoir of sorts
Dan WangBreakneck : China’s quest to engineer the future [On Display]
Birgit Piechulla and Hans-Walter HeldtPlant biochemistry (6th edn)
Natasha A. Kelly, Olive Vassell (eds.)Mapping Black Europe : monuments, markers, memories
Penelope Gardner-Chloros, OSBilingualism [On Display]
Kersten T. HalInsulin : the crooked timber : a history from thick brown muck to Wall Street gold [On Display]
Helen GordonThe meteorites : encounters with outer space and deep time [On Display]
Lanre BakareWe were there [On Display]
Annabel SowemimoDivided : racism, medicine and why we need to decolonise healthcare [On Display]
Guy LeschzinerThe man who tasted words : inside the strange and startling world of our senses
Chinua AchebeAn image of Africa ; and, The trouble with Nigeria
Bonnie Effros (OS) and Isabel Moreira (eds.)The Oxford handbook of the Merovingian world
Joanna BourkeThe story of pain : from prayer to painkillers [On Display]
Andrew BaconA philosophical introduction to higher-order logics
Mattias de Backer, Peter Hopkins, Ilse Van Liempt, Robin Finlay, Elisabeth Kirndörfer, Mieke Kox, Matthew C. Benwell and Kathrin Hörschelmann (eds.)Refugee youth : migration, justice and urban space
John KenneyI see you’ve called in dead : a novel
Georgios VarouxakisThe West : the history of an idea [On Display]
Steve Marschner, Peter ShirleyFundamentals of computer graphics (5th edn)
Michael Staunton (ed.)Herbert of Bosham : a medieval polymath
Stephen GroszLove’s labour
Stephen GroszThe examined life : how we lose and find ourselves
Andrew N. Buchanan and Ruth Lawlor (eds.)The greater Second World War : global perspectives
Wolfram von Eschenbach; nach der Ausgabe Karl Lachmanns ; revidiert und kommentiert von Eberhard Nellmann ; Übertragen von Dieter KühnParzival (2 volumes)
Mary ColwellThe gathering place : a winter pilgrimage through changing times
Louise Kenward (ed.)Moving mountains
Laurent Tillon ; translated by Jessica MooreBeing an oak : life as a tree
Julie Hotchin and Jirki Thibaut (eds.)Women and monastic reform in the Medieval West, c. 1000-1500 : debating identities, creating communities
Nigel Saul (ed.)Fourteenth century England. I

Books added in October
Nesca Robb, OSFour in exile [On Display]
Thomas C. SawyerThe making and meaning of a medieval manuscript : interpreting MS Bodley 851
Anne-Zoé Rillon-Marne and Gaël Saint-Cricq (eds.)Composers in the middle ages [On Display]
Apuleius Madaurensis ; collectae brevique adnotatione critica instructae ab Antonio Stramaglia et Aldo CorcellaOperum deperditorum reliquiae
Bridget ClarkeIris Murdoch [On Display]
Ewen BowieEssays on ancient Greek literature and culture. Vol. 2. Comedy, Herodotus, Hellenistic and Imperial Greek poetry, the novels
Serhii PlokhyThe nuclear age : an epic race for arms, power and survival [On Display]
Lee HigginsThinking community music
Andy DobsonFlaws of nature : the limits and liabilities of natural selection [On Display]
Mara GoldAncient myths & legends without men
Katharine Eisaman MausLiterary cultures of the early seventeenth century
Sophie Crawford-BrownReligious architecture and Roman expansion : temples, terracottas, and the shaping of identity, 3rd-1st c. BCE [On Display]
Rick Altman (ed.)Sound theory, sound practice
Quentin SkinnerLiberty as independence : the making and unmaking of a political ideal
Fiona Forsyth, OSDeath and the poet
Njabulo NdebeleFools : and other stories
Timothy G. BarracloughThe evolutionary biology of species
Thomas C Hayes, David Abrams ; with the assistance of Paul HorowitzLearning the art of electronics : a hands-on lab course (2nd edn)
Laura FlanniganRoyal justice and the making of the Tudor Commonwealth, 1485-1547
Jane DraycottProsthetics and assistive technology in ancient Greece and Rome
Hans-Joachim Gehrke ; translated by Raymond GeussThe Greeks and their histories : myth, history, and society
Wm. Roger LouisThe end of the British Empire in the Middle East, 1952-1971 [On Display]
Panayiotis ChristoforouImagining the Roman emperor : perceptions of rulers in the high empire
Harry MorganMusic, politics and society in Ancient Rome [On Display]
Owen WareReturn of the gods : mythology in Romantic philosophy and literature [On Display]
Richard Bellamy, Jeff King (eds.)The Cambridge handbook of constitutional theory
Jonah MillerGender and policing in early modern England
Joshua EhrlichThe East India Company and the politics of knowledge
Peter LakeOn Laudianism : piety, polemic and politics during the personal rule of Charles I
John GreenEverything is tuberculosis : the history and persistence of our deadliest infection [On Display]
F. Scott Fitzgerald ; edited with an introduction and notes by Sarah ChurchwellThe great Gatsby
David Allen (ed.)The cartulary and charters of the Priory of Saints Peter and Paul, Ipswich (2 vols.)
Karin AijmerUnderstanding pragmatic markers : a variational pragmatic approach
Sanjay SubrahmanyamAcross the Green Sea : histories from the western Indian Ocean, 1440-1640
Jonathan HerringFamily law (12th edn; 2 copies)
Volker Ullrich ; translated from the German by Jefferson ChaseFateful hours : the collapse of the Weimar Republic [On Display]
Cristina Leston-Bandeira, Alexandra Meakin and Louise Thompson (eds.)Exploring parliament (2nd edn)
Glen M. MacDonaldBiogeography : introduction to space, time, and life (2nd edn)
Mark F. McClayThe Bacchic gold tablets and poetic tradition : memory and performance
Barry CunliffeDriven by the monsoons : through the Indian Ocean and the seas of China [On Display]
Ewan McKendrickContract law (16th edn)
Clare JacksonThe mirror of Great Britain : a life of James VI & I [On Display]
Michael B. CosmopoulosThe world of Homer : archaeology, social memory, and the emergence of Greek epic poetry
Lauren GawneGesture : a slim guide
Stefan Zweig ; translated from the German by Anthea BellBeware of pity [On Display]
Hualin Zhang, Nina A Mayr (eds.)Spatially fractionated, microbeam and FLASH radiation therapy : a physics and multi-disciplinary approach
David MarshCan Europe survive? : the story of a continent in a fractured world
Dambudzo MarecheraHouse of hunger : short stories
Gabriella MazzonInteractive dialogue sequences in Middle English drama
Anna Lux, Jonas BrücknerNeon / Grau : 1989 und ostdeutsche Erfahrungsräume im Pop
Peter MillerPoetry, sound, and the matter of prosody, 1800-2000 [On Display]
Steven H. SimonTopological quantum [On Display]
Phillips Payson O’BrienWar and power
Ian McEwanWhat we can know [On Display]
Benjamin StraumannThe just state : Greek and Roman theories of justice and their legacy in western thought
Richard SusskindHow to think about AI : a guide for the perplexed
Ludmila Ulitskaya ; translated from the Russian by Polly GannonThe big green tent
Léa SaljeSaying what one thinks [On Display]
Simon ArmitageNew cemetery
Juliet NicolsonThe book of revelations : women and their secrets from the 1950s to the present day [On Display]
Richard HolmesThe boundless deep : young Tennyson, science and the crisis of belief
Eileen O’NeillDisappearing ink : essays in early modern philosophy [On Display]
Justin MarozziCaptives and companions : a history of slavery and the slave trade in the Islamic world [On Display]
Sylvana TomaselliWollstonecraft : philosophy, passion, and politics [On Display]
Hugo ShakeshaftBeauty and the gods : a history from Homer to Plato
Andrew Kahn and Mark Lipovetsky (edd.)All the world on a page : a critical anthology of modern Russian poetry [On Display]
William Roberts Clark, Matt Golder, Sona Nadenichek GolderPrinciples of comparative politics (4th edn)
Sheilagh OgilvieControlling contagion : epidemics and institutions from the black death to Covid [On Display]
Sophia RosenfeldThe age of choice : a history of freedom in modern life [On Display]
Jennifer TamasAu non des femmes : libérer nos classiques du regard masculin
John E. Joseph (ed.)The Bloomsbury handbook of Saussure
Paul S. Davies, Graham VirgoEquity and trusts : text, cases, and materials (4th edn) [4 copies]
Francis Jeffry Pelletier, Ryan M. NefdtLinguistic relativity : an essential guide to past debates and future prospects
Theresa NeumaierConversation in world Englishes : turn-taking and cultural variation in Southeast Asian and Caribbean English
Manu BhagavanThe remarkable Madame Pandit : champion of India, citizen of the world [On Display]
Mary A. Kato, Ana Maria Martins, Jairo NunesThe syntax of Portuguese
Diana Bennett (ed.)Bampton vestry minutes, 1730-1858
Emily CliffordFiguring death in classical Athens : visual and literary explorations [On Display]
Durk Gorter and Jasone Cenoz (eds.)The handbook of linguistic landscapes and multilingualism