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The Oxford Companion to Food by Alan Davidson
$81.95 AUD
Category: Food | Series: Oxford Companions
'the best food reference work ever to appear in the English language ...read it and be dazzled' Bee Wilson, New Statesman First published in 1999, the ground-breaking Oxford Companion to Food was an immediate success and won prizes and accolades around the world. Its blend of serious food history, culin ...Show more
The Oxford Companion to Italian Food by Gillian Riley
$69.95 AUD
Category: Food | Series: Oxford Companions
A blend of cultural history, facts, practical information, and anecdote, this new companion to food, with a foreward by chef Mario Batali. This shall be the first in a series of food history companions devoted to regional cuisine. Forthcoming titles include French, Southeast Asian, and food of the Briti ...Show more
The Oxford Companion to Wine by Julia Harding
$113.95 AUD
Category: Wine | Series: Oxford Companions
Published in 1994 to worldwide acclaim, the first edition of Jancis Robinson's seminal volume immediately attained legendary status, winning every major wine book award including the Glenfiddich and Julia Child/IACP awards, as well as writer and woman of the year accolades for its editor on both sides o ...Show more
The Oxford Companion to Wine by Jancis Robinson
$76.95 AUD
Category: Wine | Series: Oxford Companions
Presents almost 4,000 entries on wine-related topics, from regions and grape varieties to the owners, connoisseurs, growers, and tasters in wine through the ages. This book is illustrated with maps of important wine regions in the world, useful charts and diagrams, and colour photographs.
The Oxford Companion to Wine by Julia Harding (ed.), Jancis Robinson (ed.), Tara Q. Thomas
$89.95 AUD
Category: Wine | Series: Oxford Companions Ser.
Everything you could possibly want to know about wine, in one fully up-to-date A-Z volume! The Oxford Companion to Wine is a uniquely comprehensive and in-depth A-Z reference book on every aspect of wine: more than 4,000 entries covering topics from history through geography, geology, soil science, viti ...Show more
The Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists by Ian Chilvers
$20.95 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Oxford Paperback Reference S.
Covering Western art from the ancient Greeks to the present day, this best-selling and authoritative dictionary is more wide-ranging than any comparable reference work. It contains over 2,500 clear and concise entries on styles and movements, materials and techniques, and museums and galleries. It also ...Show more
The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang by John Ayto
$26.95 AUD
Category: Reference | Series: Oxford Paperback Reference
From ambulance chaser to zoot suit, this is the most authoritative and up-to-date dictionary of twentieth-century slang. Drawing on the resources of the Oxford English Dictionary, and packed with illustrative quotations from John Lennon to Woody Allen, it is a comprehensive and entertaining collection o ...Show more
The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy (2nd edition 2005) by Simon Blackburn
$32.95 AUD
Category: Reference | Series: Oxford Paperback Reference
This best-selling dictionary is written by one of the most famous philosophers of our time, and widely recognised as the best dictionary of its kind. Wide-ranging and authoritative, it covers every aspect of philosophy from Aristotle to Zen, and provides lively and accessible coverage of not only Wester ...Show more
The Oxford Handbook of Music and the Brain by Michael H. Thaut (Editor); Donald A. Hodges (Editor)
$215.95 AUD
Category: Music | Series: Oxford Library of Psychology Ser.
The study of music and the brain can be traced back to the work of Gall in the 18th century, continuing with John Hughlings Jackson, August Knoblauch, Richard Wallaschek, and others. These early researchers were interested in localizing musicality in the brain and learning more about how musicis process ...Show more
The Oxford Illustrated History of Christianity by John McManners (Editor)
$48.14 AUD
Category: Mind & Body | Series: Oxford Illustrated Histories Ser.
Spanning two thousand years of stirring religious, cultural and political events, this lavishly illustrated volume provides the most authoritative and accessible history of Christianity ever published for the general reader. The impact of Christianity on world civilization is almost incalculable, and i ...Show more
The Rise of Rome: Bks. 1-5 by Livy
$22.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'the fates ordained the founding of this great city and the beginning of the world's mightiest empire, second only to the power of the gods' Romulus and Remus, the rape of Lucretia, Horatius at the bridge, the saga of Coriolanus, Cincinnatus called from his farm to save the state - these and many more a ...Show more
The Selfish Gene: 40th Anniversary Edition by Richard Dawkins
$29.95 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Oxford Landmark Science Ser.
The million copy international bestseller, critically acclaimed and translated into over 25 languages. As influential today as when it was first published, The Selfish Gene has become a classic exposition of evolutionary thought. Professor Dawkins articulates a gene's eye view of evolution - a view gi ...Show more