Very Short Introductions
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Knowledge: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartWhat is knowledge? How does it differ from mere belief? Do you need to be able to justify a claim in order to count as knowing it? How can we know that the outer world is real and not a dream?
Questio- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Nagel, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: November 01 2014
- ISBN10: 019966126X
- Language: English
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Nazi Germany: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartAny consideration of the 20th century would be incomplete without a discussion of Nazi Germany, an extraordinary regime which dominated European history for 12 years, and left a legacy that still echo… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Caplan, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0198706952
- Language: English
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Christian Ethics: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartChristian ethics, writes theologian D. Stephen Long, is the pursuit of God’s goodness by people “on the way” to a city not built by human hands. The cultivation of practical wisdom that comes from div… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Long, D. Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: October 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0199568863
- Language: English
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Mathematical Analysis: A Very Short Introduction
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The 17th-century calculus of Newton and Leibniz was built on shaky foundations, and it wasn’t until the 18th and 19th centuries that mathematician- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Earl, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 22 2023
- ISBN10: 019886891X
- Language: English
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Medical Ethics: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe issues of medical ethics, from moral quandaries of euthanasia and the morality of killing to political dilemmas like fair healthcare distribution, are rarely out of today’s media. This area of eth… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Hope, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: February 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0198815603
- Language: English
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The History of Medicine: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartAgainst the backdrop of unprecedented concern for the future of health care, this Very Short Introduction surveys the history of medicine from classical times, through the scholastic medieval traditio… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions #191
- Author: Bynum, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: August 24 2008
- ISBN10: 019921543X
- Language: English
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Neoliberalism: A Very Short Introduction
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Anchored in the principles of free-market economics, neoliberalism emerged in the 1990s as the world’s most dominant economic paradigm. It has bee- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Steger, Manfred B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0198849672
- Language: English
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The Abrahamic Religions: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartIn the book of Genesis, God bestows a new name upon Abram–Abraham, a father of many nations. With this name and his Covenant, Abraham would become the patriarch of three of the world’s major religion… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Cohen, Charles L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 08 2020
- ISBN10: 0190654341
- Language: English
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Negotiation: A Very Short Introduction
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Everyone negotiates. Whenever any person, company, or country needs someone else to accomplish something, they must negotiate. Negotiation is- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Menkel-Meadow, Carrie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: December 22 2022
- ISBN10: 198851405
- Language: English
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Marine Biology: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe oceans are our planet’s most distinctive and imposing natural habitat. They cover 71 percent of its surface; support a remarkably diverse and exquisitely adapted array of life forms, from microsco… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Mladenov, Philip V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 01 2020
- ISBN10: 019884171X
- Language: English
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Human Rights: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartToday it is usually not long before a problem gets expressed as a human rights issue. Indeed, human rights law continues to gain increasing attention internationally, and must move quickly in order to… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Clapham, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: February 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0198706162
- Language: English
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Samurai: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe idea of the sword-wielding samurai, beholden to a strict ethical code and trained in deadly martial arts, dominates popular conceptions of the samurai. As early as the late seventeenth century, th… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Wert, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: June 22 2021
- ISBN10: 0190685077
- Language: English
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World War II: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe enormous loss of life and physical destruction caused by the First World War led people to hope that there would never be another such catastrophe. How then did it come to be that there was a Seco… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Weinberg, Gerhard L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: December 01 2014
- ISBN10: 019968877X
- Language: English
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Economics: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartHere Partha Dasgupta, an internationally recognized authority in economics, presents readers with a solid introduction to its basic concepts, including efficiency, equity, sustainability, dynamic equi… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Dasgupta, Partha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 05 2007
- ISBN10: 0192853457
- Language: English
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The Harlem Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe Harlem Renaissance was a cultural awakening among African Americans between the two world wars. It was the cultural phase of the “New Negro” movement, a social and political phenomenon that promot… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Wall, Cheryl A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: July 05 2016
- ISBN10: 0199335559
- Language: English
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Islam: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartIslam dominates the news, often in stories filled with images of violence. Yet these disturbing images are at odds with a faith that most adherents–who now number over a billion worldwide–would rega… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Ruthven, Malise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: March 21 2012
- ISBN10: 0199642877
- Language: English
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Quantum Theory: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartQuantum Theory is the most revolutionary discovery in physics since Newton. This book gives a lucid, exciting, and accessible account of the surprising and counterintuitive ideas that shape our unders… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions #69
- Author: Polkinghorne, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 29 2002
- ISBN10: 0192802526
- Language: English
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Democracy: A Very Short Introduction
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Democracy refers to both ideal and real forms of government. The concept of democracy means that those governed — the demos — have a say in gov- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Zack, Naomi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: December 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0192845063
- Language: English
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History: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThere are many stories we can tell about the past, and we are not, perhaps, as free as we might imagine in our choice of which stories to tell, or where those stories end. John Arnold’s addition to Ox… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Arnold, John H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: June 15 2000
- ISBN10: 019285352X
- Language: English
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Zionism: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartZionism is the nationalist movement affirming Jewish people’s right to self-determination through the establishment of a Jewish national state in its ancient homeland. It is one of the most controvers… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Stanislawski, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: December 02 2016
- ISBN10: 0199766045
- Language: English
