Very Short Introductions
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Weather: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartFrom deciding the best day for a picnic, to the devastating effects of hurricanes and typhoons, the weather impacts our lives on a daily basis. Although new techniques allow us to forecast the weather… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Dunlop, Storm
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0199571317
- Language: English
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Byzantium: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartAfter surviving the fifth century fall of the Western European Roman Empire, the Byzantine Empire flourished as one of the most powerful economic, cultural, and military forces in Europe for a thousan… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Sarris, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0199236119
- Language: English
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Nothing: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThis short, smart book tells you everything you need to know about “nothing.” What remains when you take all the matter away? Can empty space–“nothing”–exist? To answer these questions, eminent scie… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Close, Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 26 2009
- ISBN10: 0199225869
- Language: English
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Calvinism: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartJohn Calvin was born only a few years before the Christian church in Europe was plunged into the chaos of the Protestant Reformation. To Calvin, the only thing that mattered was correcting God’s churc… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Balserak, Jon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0198753713
- Language: English
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Algebra: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartAlgebra marked the beginning of modern mathematics, moving it beyond arithmetic, which involves calculations featuring given numbers, to problems where some quantities are unknown. Now, it stands as a… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Higgins, Peter M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: December 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0198732821
- Language: English
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Utilitarianism: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartUtilitarianism may well be the most influential secular ethical theory in the world today. It is also one of the most controversial. It clashes, or is widely thought to clash, with many conventional m… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: de Lazari-Radek, Katarzyna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 27 2017
- ISBN10: 0198728794
- Language: English
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The English Language: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe English language is spoken by more than a billion people throughout the world. But where did English come from? And how has it evolved into the language used today?
In this Very Short Introduction- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Horobin, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: March 25 2018
- ISBN10: 0198709250
- Language: English
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The Crusades: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartWith flair and originality, Christopher Tyerman presents a clear and lively discussion of the Crusades, bringing together issues of colonialism, cultural exchange, economic exploitation, and the relat… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Tyerman, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: January 12 2006
- ISBN10: 0192806556
- Language: English
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Reconstruction: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe era known as Reconstruction is one of the unhappiest times in American history. It succeeded in reuniting the nation politically after the Civil War but in little else. Among its chief failures wa… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Guelzo, Allen C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 14 2020
- ISBN10: 0190454792
- Language: English
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Asian American History: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartA 2012 survey by the Pew Research Center reported that Asian Americans are the best-educated, highest-income, and best-assimilated racial group in the United States. Before reaching this level of econ… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Hsu, Madeline Y.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: December 07 2016
- ISBN10: 0190219769
- Language: English
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Violence: A Very Short Introduction
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Violence is part and parcel of human history and of human nature. It is one of our most distinctive traits, the one thing that all cultures a- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Dwyer, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: June 24 2022
- ISBN10: 0198831730
- Language: English
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Learning: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartWhat is learning? How does it take place? What happens when it goes wrong?
The topic of learning has been central to the development of the science of psychology since its inception. Without learning- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Haselgrove, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0199688362
- Language: English
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Governance: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe word “governance” is ubiquitous. The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund make loans conditional on “good governance.” Climate change and avian flu appear as issues of “global governance… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Bevir, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: November 25 2012
- ISBN10: 0199606412
- Language: English
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Microbiology: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartIn recent decades we have come to realize that the microbial world is hugely diverse, and can be found in the most extreme environments. Fungi, single-celled protists, bacteria, archaea, and the vast … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Money, Nicholas P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0199681686
- Language: English
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Madness: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartMadness is something that frightens and fascinates us all. It is a word with which we are universally familiar, and a condition that haunts the human imagination. In this Very Short Introduction, Andr… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Scull, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: September 02 2011
- ISBN10: 0199608032
- Language: English
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Eugenics: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartIn 1883, Francis Galton, a cousin of Charles Darwin, coined the word “eugenics” to express his dream of perfecting the human race by applying the laws of genetic heredity. Adapting Darwin’s theory of … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Levine, Philippa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: January 02 2017
- ISBN10: 0199385904
- Language: English
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Reading: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartToday many people take reading for granted, but we remain some way off from attaining literacy for the global human population. And whilst we think we know what reading is, it remains in many ways a m… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Jack, Belinda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 25 2019
- ISBN10: 0198820585
- Language: English
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Extinction: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartMost people are familiar with the dodo and the dinosaur, but extinction has occurred throughout the history of life, with the result that nearly all the species that have ever existed are now extinct…. [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Wignall, Paul B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 27 2019
- ISBN10: 0198807287
- Language: English
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Matter: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartWhat is matter? Matter is the stuff from which we and all the things in the world are made. Everything around us — from desks, to books, to our own bodies — are made of atoms, which are small enough… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Cottrell, Geoff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 28 2019
- ISBN10: 019880654X
- Language: English
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Dinosaurs: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartDinosaurs are fascinating creatures and their popularity seems never ending, fueled by films such as Jurassic Park and documentaries such as Walking with Dinosaurs. Yet dinosaurs (or more precisely no… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Norman, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: December 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0198795920
- Language: English
