Very Short Introductions
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Socialism: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartWhat is socialism? Does it have a future, or has it become an outdated ideology in the 21st century?
This Very Short Introduction considers the major theories in socialism, and explores its historical- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Newman, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: December 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0198836422
- Language: English
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American Political History: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe Founding Fathers who drafted the United States Constitution in 1787 distrusted political parties, popular democracy, centralized government, and a strong executive office. Yet the country’s nation… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Critchlow, Donald T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: February 11 2015
- ISBN10: 0199340056
- Language: English
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Kierkegaard: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartScholars have largely misunderstood Soren Kierkegaard, remembering him chiefly in connection with the development of existentialist philosophy in this century. In a short and unhappy life, he wrote ma… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions #58
- Author: Gardiner, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 16 2002
- ISBN10: 0192802569
- Language: English
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Public Administration: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartPublic administration ensures the development and delivery of the essential public services required for sustaining modern civilization. Covering areas from public safety and social welfare to transpo… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Theodoulou, Stella Z.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0198724233
- Language: English
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Prehistory: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartPrehistory covers the period of some 4 million years before the start of written history, when our earliest ancestors, the Australopithecines, existed in Africa. But this is relatively recent compared… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Gosden, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: September 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0198803516
- Language: English
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Science Fiction
$12.99 Add to cartFrankenstein, The Time Machine, Star Trek, Dune, 1984, Blade Runner–science fiction has been explained as a combination of romance, science, and prophecy; as a genre based on an imagined alternative … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Seed, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 14 2011
- ISBN10: 0199557454
- Language: English
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Miracles: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartJesus turned water into wine, Mohammad split the moon into two, and Buddha walked and spoke immediately upon birth. According to recent statistics, even in the present age of advanced science and tech… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Nagasawa, Yujin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 23 2018
- ISBN10: 0198747217
- Language: English
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Scotland: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartScotland’s past is too often seen through a film of myths and misconceptions. In this Very Short Introduction, Rab Houston explores the key themes from more than 1,000 years of Scotland’s very real an… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Houston, Rab
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 15 2009
- ISBN10: 019923079X
- Language: English
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Trigonometry: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartBorn of the desire to understand the workings of motions of the heavenly bodies, trigonometry gave the ancient Greeks the ability to predict their futures. Most of what we see of the subject in school… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Van Brummelen, Glen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 02 2020
- ISBN10: 0198814313
- Language: English
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Animal Behaviour: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartHow animals behave is crucial to their survival and reproduction. The application of new molecular tools such as DNA fingerprinting and genomics is causing a revolution in the study of animal behavior… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Wyatt, Tristram D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0198712154
- Language: English
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Emotion: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartWas love invented by European poets in the Middle Ages or is it part of human nature? Will winning the lottery really make you happy? Is it possible to build robots that have feelings?
In this Very Sh- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Evans, Dylan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: December 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0198834403
- Language: English
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Twentieth-Century Britain: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe last century has been a tumultuous one for the culture and politics of Britain. Kenneth Morgan’s Twentieth-Century Britain is a crisp analysis of the forces of consensus and conflict that have exi… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Morgan, Kenneth O.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 11 2005
- ISBN10: 019285397X
- Language: English
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Nuclear Physics: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartNuclear physics began long before the identification of fundamental particles, with J. J. Thomson’s discovery of the electron at the end of the 19th century, which implied the existence of a positive … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Close, Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 01 2015
- ISBN10: 198718632
- Language: English
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Geography: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThis Very Short Introduction answers four basic questions: what is Geography, how do geographers work, why is Geography important, and where is the discipline of Geography heading? Geography has alway… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Matthews, John A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: July 20 2008
- ISBN10: 0199211280
- Language: English
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Agnosticism: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartWhat is agnosticism? Is it a belief, or merely the absence of belief? Is it the result of too little thought about an issue–or too much? Who were the first to call themselves “agnostics”? Does agnost… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Le Poidevin, Robin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: November 19 2010
- ISBN10: 0199575266
- Language: English
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Confucianism: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartTo understand China, it is essential to understand Confucianism. First formulated in the sixth century BCE, the teachings of Confucius would come to dominate Chinese society, politics, economics, and … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Gardner, Daniel K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: August 26 2014
- ISBN10: 0195398912
- Language: English
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Hormones: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartHormones play an integral part in the balance and workings of the body. While many people are broadly aware of their existence, there are many misconceptions and few are aware of the nature and import… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Luck, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: September 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0199672873
- Language: English
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Work: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe image of a job captures our imagination from an early age, usually prompted by the question ‘What do you want to be when you grow up?’. Work — paid, unpaid, voluntary, or obligatory — is woven i… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Fineman, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: December 02 2012
- ISBN10: 0199699364
- Language: English
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Evolution: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartLess than 450 years ago, all European scholars believed that the Earth was at the center of a Universe that was at most a few million miles in extent, and that the planets, sun, and stars all rotated … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Charlesworth, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0198804369
- Language: English
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The Computer: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartWhat is the basic nature of the modern computer? How does it work? How has it been possible to squeeze so much power into increasingly smaller machines? What will the next generations of computers loo… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Ince, Darrel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: December 17 2011
- ISBN10: 0199586594
- Language: English
