http://somnewbooks.wordpress.com New books listings for the library of Somerville College, Oxford Mon, 20 May 2013 11:06:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://s2.wp.com/i/buttonw-com.png http://somnewbooks.wordpress.com http://somnewbooks.wordpress.com/2013/05/20/books-added-20th-may-2013/ http://somnewbooks.wordpress.com/2013/05/20/books-added-20th-may-2013/#comments Mon, 20 May 2013 11:06:55 +0000 mtroper http://somnewbooks.wordpress.com/?p=1177 ]]>

Egypt: 4000 years of art
by Jaromir Malek

The mystery of the Hanging Garden of Babylon: an elusive world wonder traced
by Stephanie Dalley (Senior Reseearch Fellow)

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Psychiatry: clinical cases uncovered
Peter and Nicola Byrne

Renaissance Florence: a social history
edited by Roger J. Crum and John T. Paoletti

The Bride of Lammermoor
by Sir Walter Scott

Ivanhoe
by Sir Walter Scott

J.S. Bach at his royal instrument: essays on his organ works
by Russell Stinson (On Display)

Lost modernities: China, Vietnam, Korea, and the hazards of world history
by Alexander Woodside (On Display)

The critical imagination
by James Grant (On Display)

Dialogues on Plato’s Politeia (Republic): selected papers from the ninth Symposium Platonicum
edited by Noburu Notomi and Luc Brisson (On Display)

Mammon Inc.
by Hwee Hwee Tan (Old Somervillian, On Display)

Wittgenstein
by William Child

Witchcraft and demonology in south-west England, 1640-1789
by Jonathan Barry

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The Caribbean history reader
edited by Nicola Foote

The republic of hunger and other essays
by Utsa Patnaik (Old Somervillian)

A.S. Byatt: critical storytelling
by Alexa Alfer and Amy J. Edwards de Campos (A.S. Byatt Old Somervillian, On Display)

Change and development in specialist public health practice
by Siân Griffiths, Allison Thorpe and Jenny Wright (Old Somervillian)

A translucent mirror: history and identity in Qing imperial ideology
by Pamela Kyle Crossley

The adventures of Roderick Random
by Tobias Smollett; edited with an introduction and notes by Paul-Gabriel Boucé

Learning needs analysis and evaluation
by Frances and Roland Bee (Frances Bee, Old Somervillian)

The real Jane Austen: a life in small things
by Paula Byrne (On Display)

The XX factor: how working women are creating a new society
by Alison Wolf (Old Somervillian)

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Fasti
by Ovid; translated with an introduction and notes by Anne and Peter Wiseman

The Napoleonic empire and the new European political culture
edited by Michael Broers, Peter Hicks and Agustin Guimerá (On Display)

The British constitution: a very short introduction
by Martin Loughlin

End of life care in nephrology: from advanced disease to bereavement
by Edwina Brown (Old Somervillian), E. Joanna Chambers and Celia Eggeling

Les nourritures terrestres: suivi de Les nouvelles nourritures
by André Gide

Elements of a critical theory of justice
by Gustavo Pereira (On Display)

Under the greenwood tree, or, The Mellstock Quire: a rural painting of the Dutch school
by Thomas Hardy; edited by Simon Gatrell; with an introduction and notes by Phillip Mallett

Conflicting femininities in medieval German literature
by Karina Marie Ash (On Display)

The art of Euripides: dramatic technique and social context
by Donald J. Mastronarde (On Display)

The Cambridge guide to orchestration
by Ertuğrul Sevsay (On Display)

Renal physiology (5th edn.)
by Bruce M. Koeppen and Bruce A. Stanton (3 copies)

Freedom and the construction of Europe
edited by Quentin Skinner and Martin Van Gelderen (2 vols., I On Display)

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Econometric analysis of cross section and panel data (2nd edn.)
by Jeffrey M. Wooldridge

The beggar’s opera and Polly
by John Gay; edited by Hal Gladfelder

Confessions of an English opium-eater and other writings
by Thomas de Quincey; edited with an introduction and notes by Robert Morrison

Sleep
by Prisca Middlemiss (Old Somervillian)

Comedy: a very short introduction
by Matthew Bevis

Transnationalism and contemporary global history (Past and Present Suppl. 8)
edited by Matthew Hilton and Rana Mitter

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Connections after colonialism: Europe and Latin America in the 1820s
edited by Matthew Brown and Gabriel Paquette

Creating the empress: politics and poetry in the age of Catherine II
by Vera Proskurina

Software reliability methods
by Doron A. Peled; foreword by Edmund M. Clarke

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The Roman market economy
by Peter Temin (On Display)

Rhetoric: a very short introduction
by Richard Toye

Animal studies: an introduction
by Paul Waldau

Margaret Thatcher: the authorized biography. Volume one, Not for turning
by Charles Moore (On Display)

Leviathan: the rise of Britain as a world power
by David Scott (On Display)

Darwin’s ghosts: in search of the first evolutionists
by Rebecca Stott (On Display)

The life of slang
by Julie Coleman

Manifold mirrors: the crossing paths of the arts and mathematics
by Felipe Cucker (On Display)

Natural selection and beyond: the intellectual legacy of Alfred Russel Wallace
edited by Charles H. Smith and George Beccaloni

The Cambridge history of Turkey. Vol. 2: The Ottoman Empire as a World Power, 1453-1603
edited by Suraiya N. Farooqhi and Kate Fleet (On Display)

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Evolutionary naturalism in Victorian Britain: the ‘Darwinians’ and their critics
by Bernard Lightman (On Display)

Medieval grammar and rhetoric: language arts and literary theory, AD 300-1475
edited by Rita Copeland, Ineke Sluiter

Politics among nations: the struggle for power and peace (7th edn.)
by Hans J. Morgenthau

Shakespeare’s sonnets: an original-spelling text
edited with an introduction and notes by Paul Hammond (On Display)

Multiple meanings of money: how women see microfinance
by Smita Premchander et al.

Does spelling matter?
by Simon Horobin (On Display)

External influences on English: from its beginnings to the Renaissance
by D. Gary Miller (On Display)

A career in crime: inside information from top women writers
Helen Windrath, editor; incl. chapter by Gillian Linscott, Old Somervillian

The Irish women’s history reader
edited by Alan Hayes and Diane Urquhart

Ada, the enchantress of numbers: a selection from the letters of Lord Byron’s daughter and her description of the first computer
narrated and edited by Betty A. Toole (On Display)

God and the goddesses: vision, poetry, and belief in the Middle Ages
by Barbara Newman (On Display)

Making a medical living: doctors and patients in the English market for medicine, 1720-1911
by Anne Digby (On Display)

Virtue of necessity: English women’s writing, 1649-1688
by Elaine Hobby

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The uses of Haiti (3rd edn.)
by Paul Farmer

James Anthony Froude: an intellectual biography of a Victorian prophet
by Ciaran Brady

Outline of the historical and comparative grammar of Latin
by Michael Weiss

Outlines of scepticism
by Sextus Empiricus; edited by Julia Annas and Jonathan Barnes

Principles of financial economics
by Stephen F. LeRoy and Jan Werner; foreword by Stephen A. Ross

Likelihood-based inference in cointegrated vector autoregressive models
by Søren Johansen

Workbook on cointegration
by Peter Reinhard Hansen and Søren Johansen

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The Thomas Cook rail map of Europe
editorial team–Brendan Fox et al.; cartography, Mary Spence

Studies in stoicism
by P.A. Brunt; edited by Miriam Griffin (Emeritus Fellow) and Alison Samuels, with the assistance of Michael Crawford (On Display)

The Enlightenment: a genealogy
by Dan Edelstein

Darwin’s sacred cause: race, slavery and the quest for human origins
by Adrian Desmond and James Moore

Gödel, Escher, Bach: an eternal golden braid (20th Anniversary edition)
by Douglas R. Hofstadter

The war of the worlds
by H.G. Wells

Bang!: a history of Britain in the 1980s
by Graham Stewart (On Display)

Ignorance
by Michèle Roberts (Old Somervillian, On Display)

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