Oxford Reading Tree Traditional Tales are fully decodable so children can read some of the best known stories from around the world for themselves! Run, Run! is based on the traditional tale of The Gingerbread Man, about a gingerbread man who comes to life.[...]

Oxford Reading Tree Traditional Tales are fully decodable so children can read some of the best known stories from around the world for themselves! Lots of Nuts is based on the traditional tale The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse.[...]

The Oxford Reading Tree Traditional Tales series is a collection of some of the best known stories from around the world carefully adapted for children to read themselves. The King and His Wish is based on the Caribbean tale The King Who Wanted to Touch the Moon, about a king who makes demands that [...]

Oxford Reading Tree Traditional Tales are fully decodable so children can read some of the best known stories from around the world for themselves! Dick and His Cat is based on the traditional tale of Dick Whittington, about the boy who goes to London to earn his fortune.[...]

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* An emphasis on core academic skills: Academic Writing introduces core concepts used across a variety of disciplines in order to help students recognize patterns that appear in all academic reading and writing situations.
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This volume presents a many-faceted view of the Oxford philosopher R. G. Collingwood. At its centre is his Autobiography, published in 1939, which has the status of a cult classic for its compelling 'story of his thought'. Collingwood's work has enjoyed renewed attention in recent years, with new e[...]

From Michael Pollan to locavores, from Whole Foods to farmers' markets nationwide, cooks and foodies today are paying more attention than ever to the history of the food they bring into their kitchens-and especially to vegetables. Whether it's an heirloom tomato, curled cabbage, or succulent squash,[...]

One of the world's foremost experts on Assyriology, Jean Bottero has studied the religion of ancient Mesopotamia for more than fifty years. Building on these many years of research, Bottero here presents the definitive account of one of the world's oldest known religions. He shows how ancient Mesopo[...]

When the ancient Greeks looked up into the heavens, they saw not just sun and moon, stars and planets, but a complete, coherent universe, a model of the Good that could serve as a guide to a better life. How this view of the world came to be, and how we lost it (or turned away from it) on the way to[...]

Winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature J. M. G. Le Clezio here conjures the consciousness of Mexico, powerfully evoking the dreams that made and unmade an ancient culture. Le Clezio's haunting book takes us into the dream that was the religion of the Aztecs, a religion whose own apocalyptic vi[...]

Mixing fiction, history, psychoanalysis, and personal fantasy, Teresa, My Love turns a past world into a modern marvel, following Sylvia Leclercq, a French psychoanalyst, academic, and incurable insomniac, as she falls for the sixteenth-century Saint Teresa of Avila and becomes consumed with chartin[...]