Very Short Introductions
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Astrobiology: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartAstrobiology is an exciting new subject, and one, arguably, more interdisciplinary than any other. Astrobiologists seek to understand the origin and evolution of life on Earth in order to illuminate a… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Catling, David C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0199586454
- Language: English
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Biography: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartHermione Lee is one of the leading literary biographers in the English-speaking world, the author of widely acclaimed lives of Edith Wharton and Virginia Woolf. Now, in this Very Short Introduction, L… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Lee, Hermione
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 31 2009
- ISBN10: 0199533547
- Language: English
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Machiavelli: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartNiccolo Machiavelli taught that political leaders must be prepared to do evil so that good may come of it, and his name has been a byword ever since for duplicity and immorality. Is his sinister reput… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Skinner, Quentin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0198837577
- Language: English
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Tides: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe tide is the greatest synchronised movement of matter on our planet. Every drop of seawater takes part in tidal motion, driven by the gravitational pull of the moon and sun. At the coast, we see th… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Bowers, David George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: February 01 2020
- ISBN10: 019882663X
- Language: English
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Aesthetics: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartAesthetics is a branch of philosophy that explores the nature of art, beauty, and taste. It doesn’t just consider traditional artistic experiences such as artworks in a museum or an opera performance,… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Nanay, Bence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0198826613
- Language: English
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Modern Architecture: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartSomewhere between 1910 and 1970, architecture changed. Now that modern architecture has become familiar (sometimes celebrated, sometimes vilified), it’s hard to imagine how novel it once seemed. Expen… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Sharr, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0198783442
- Language: English
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Postmodernism
$12.99 Add to cartPostmodernism has become the buzzword of contemporary society over the last decade. But how can it be defined? In this highly readable introduction the mysteries of this most elusive of concepts are u… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions #74
- Author: Butler, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: January 16 2003
- ISBN10: 0192802399
- Language: English
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Modern Ireland
$12.99 Add to cartThis is a book about the Irish Question, or more specifically about Irish Questions. The term has become something of a catch-all, a convenient way to encompass numerous issues and developments which … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Paseta, Senia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: June 19 2003
- ISBN10: 0192801678
- Language: English
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Geometry: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe study of geometry is at least 2500 years old, and it is within this field that the concept of mathematical proof – deductive reasoning from a set of axioms – first arose. To this day geometry rema… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Dunajski, Maciej
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 27 2022
- ISBN10: 0199683689
- Language: English
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Plague: A Very Short Introduction
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Throughout history plague has been the cause of many major catastrophes. It was responsible for the ‘Plague of Justinian’ in 542, the Black D- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Slack, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0198871112
- Language: English
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War and Religion: A Very Short Introduction
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Is religion a force for war, or a force for peace? Some of the most terrible wars in history have been caused and motivated by religion. Much of t- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Mitchell, Jolyon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0198803214
- Language: English
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Silent Film: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartEncompassing the thirty-five year span between the initial development of film technology in the mid-1890s and the adoption of synchronized sound in the late 1920s, the cinema’s silent era is both one… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Kornhaber, Donna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: October 21 2020
- ISBN10: 0190852526
- Language: English
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Identity: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartIdentity has become one of the most widely used terms today, appearing in many different contexts. Anything and everything has an identity, and identity crises have become almost equally pervasive. Ye… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Coulmas, Florian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: April 28 2019
- ISBN10: 0198828543
- Language: English
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Modern India: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartIndia is widely recognized as a new global powerhouse. It has become one of the world’s emerging powers, rivaling China in terms of global influence. Yet people still know relatively little about the … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Jeffrey, Craig
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0198769342
- Language: English
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African American Religion
$12.99 Add to cartSince the first African American denomination was established in Philadelphia in 1818, churches have gone beyond their role as spiritual guides in African American communities and have served as civic… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions #397
- Author: Glaude Jr, Eddie S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 24 2014
- ISBN10: 0195182898
- Language: English
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Tibetan Buddhism: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe Tibetan Buddhist tradition has known over thirteen centuries of continuous development. During that time, it has spread among the neighboring peoples – the Mongol, Himalayan, and Siberian peoples,… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Kapstein, Matthew T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: October 25 2013
- ISBN10: 0199735123
- Language: English
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The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
$12.99 Add to cartThe conflict between Palestine and Israel is one of the most highly publicized and bitter struggles of modern times, a dangerous tinderbox always poised to set the Middle East aflame–and to draw the
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Bunton, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 01, 2013
- ISBN10: 0199603936
- Language: English
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Jung: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThis is the most lucid and timely introduction to the thought of Carl Gustav Jung available to date. Though he was a prolific writer and an original thinker of vast erudition, Jung lacked a gift for c… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions #40
- Author: Stevens, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 07 2001
- ISBN10: 0192854585
- Language: English
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Colonial America: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartIn the traditional narrative of American colonial history, early European settlements, as well as native peoples and African slaves, were treated in passing as unfortunate aberrations in a fundamental… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Taylor, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: November 08 2012
- ISBN10: 0199766231
- Language: English
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The Roman Republic: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe rise and fall of the Roman Republic occupies a special place in the history of Western civilization. From humble beginnings on the seven hills beside the Tiber, the city of Rome grew to dominate t… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Gwynn, David M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: October 25 2012
- ISBN10: 0199595119
- Language: English
