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Featuring a traditional, grammar-based approach, A New Latin Primer offers beginning students a solid overview of Latin grammar, syntax, and vocabulary. It provides concise, straightforward grammatical explanations and illustrates them with unadapted Latin examples so that students can learn from Roman authors how to employ the syntax under discussion. Each of the thirty-six lessons contains twelve short practice sentences along with fifteen pass...

“Colonial Latin America provides a solid narrative structure, yet it does not overwhelm students with a chronology of ‘things happening.’ The book’s writing style is one of its greatest strengths: it is readable, understandable, and clear. This is the best one-volume text on the colonial period in Latin America.”

--DAVID CASTLE, Ohio State University

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The strongest foundation for students: clear, complete, contextualised.

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The strongest foundation for students: clear, complete, contextualised.

Paints a vivid picture of the English legal system, giving students the confidence to analyse, evaluate, and critique the law.

English Legal System Concentrate is written and designed to help you succeed. Accurate and reliable, Concentrate guides help focus your revision and maximise your exam performance. Each guide includes revision tips, advice on how to achieve extra marks, and a thorough and focused breakdown of the key topics and cases.

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Respected by scholars for its currency, clarity, authority, and rich visual and map program, Latin America and the Caribbean: Lands and Peoples elucidates the commonalities in this highly diverse, rapidly changing region, making it more comprehensive than ever for students and instructors. The sixth edition has been meticulously updated in order to take into account recent changes in the region and to more strongly emphasize environmental concern...

Latin America in the Modern World is the first text to situate the history of Latin America within a wider global narrative. Written by leading scholars, the book focuses on five themes: state formation; the construction of national identity through popular culture and religion; economics and commodities; race, class, and gender; and the environment. Emphasizing the distinct experiences of each of the Latin American countries, the book provides s...

Modern Latin America is a vivid interpretive history and an authoritative text in the field. Featuring stimulating, anecdotal boxes, the book uses case studies to discuss the primary countries and themes of the region over the past 200 years. For each country, Peter H. Smith, and James N. Green continue the impeccable scholarship of Thomas Skidmore, who passed away in 2016. They examine such central themes as the Iberian-New World interaction, ra...

The English Language is an essential survey of the development of the language from its Indo-European past to the present day. Now in a third edition, this text offers enhanced discussion of the socio-historical and cultural contexts of the English language, new approaches to the history of English, and an anthology of specimen texts from the four major periods of English: Old, Middle, Early Modern, and Modern.

English Legal System Concentrate is written and designed to help you succeed. Accurate and reliable, Concentrate guides help consolidate your learning, focus your revision, and maximise your exam performance. Each guide includes revision tips, advice on how to achieve extra marks, and a thorough and focused breakdown of the key topics and cases.

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• Multiple choice questions
• Questions for reflection and discussion
• Video - Navigating an Act of Parliament
• Web links

Adapted to better meet the needs of American college students, The Oxford Latin Course, College Edition, retains its trademark reading-based approach, but does so now in two companion volumes–Readings and Vocabulary and Grammar, Exercises, Context–that cover all of the topics essential to a first-year Latin course. The College Edition features a streamlined organization; additional and more robust grammar explanations; revised cartoon...

The Powhatans and the English in the Seventeenth Century Chesapeake is a module in Oxford University Press’s new series, Debating American History. This series embraces an argument-based model for teaching history and encourages students to participate in a contested, evidence-based discourse about the human past.  The series rejects the idea of history as an undisputed narrative and instead presents the past as understood through the ...

The most concise, annually updated introduction by an author active in law reform gets students involved in debates from day one of their degree.

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This book is accompanied by online resources, including: questions for reflection and discussion; multiple choice questions; a glossary; further reading materials; web links; and a link to Martin Partington's blog, which covers key developments in the English justice system. ...

The words "exploitation," "inequality," and "resistance" bind together attitudes and actions that encapsulate much of Latin America's economic, social, and political history for more than half a millennium. In this compelling text, authors Mark A. Burkholder, Lyman L. Johnson, and Monica A. Rankin tell the story of more than 500 years of Latin American history through the themes of exploitation, inequality, and resistance.

Some examples of exploi...