Very Short Introductions
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Chemistry: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartMost people remember chemistry from their schooldays as largely incomprehensible, a subject that was fact-rich but understanding-poor, smelly, and so far removed from the real world of events and plea… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Atkins, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0199683972
- Language: English
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The Welfare State: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartWelfare states vary across nations and change over time. And the balance between markets and government; free enterprise and social protection is perennially in question. But all developed societies h… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Garland, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: June 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0199672660
- Language: English
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Liberalism: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartLiberalism is one of the most central and pervasive political theories and ideologies, yet it is subject to different interpretations as well as misappropriations. Its history carries a crucial herita… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Freeden, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0199670439
- Language: English
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Environmental Law: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartEnvironmental law is the law concerned with environmental problems. It is a vast area of law that operates from the local to the global, involving a range of different legal and regulatory techniques…. [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Fisher, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0198794185
- Language: English
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North American Indians: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartWhen Europeans first arrived in North America, between five and eight million indigenous people were already living there. But how did they come to be here? What were their agricultural, spiritual, an… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Perdue, Theda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 16 2010
- ISBN10: 0195307542
- Language: English
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Forensic Science: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartForensic science is a subject of wide fascination. What happens at a crime scene? How does DNA profiling work? How can it help solve crimes that happened 20 years ago? In forensic science, a criminal … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Fraser, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: May 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0198834411
- Language: English
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The Ice Age: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe study of the Quaternary ice age has revolutionized ideas about Earth system change and the pace of landscape and ecosystem dynamics. The Ice Age: A Very Short Introduction looks at evidence from t… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Woodward, Jamie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: March 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0199580693
- Language: English
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Human Evolution: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThis Very Short Introduction traces the history of paleoanthropology from its beginnings in the eighteenth century to the latest fossil finds. Although concentrating on the fossil evidence for human e… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Wood, Bernard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 27 2019
- ISBN10: 0198831749
- Language: English
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World Music: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe term ‘world music’ encompasses both folk and popular music across the globe, as well as the sounds of cultural encounter and diversity, sacred voices raised in worship, local sounds, and universal… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Bohlman, Philip V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0198829140
- Language: English
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The Conquistadors
$12.99 Add to cartWith startling speed, Spanish conquistadors invaded hundreds of Native American kingdoms, took over the mighty empires of the Aztecs and Incas, and initiated an unprecedented redistribution of the wor… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Restall, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 24 2012
- ISBN10: 0195392299
- Language: English
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The Old Testament: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartEminent biblical scholar Michael D. Coogan offers here a wide-ranging and stimulating exploration of the Old Testament, illuminating its importance as history, literature, and sacred text.
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- Author: Coogan, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 28 2008
- ISBN10: 0195305051
- Language: English
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Nietzsche: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartWith his well-known idiosyncrasies and aphoristic style, Friedrich Nietzsche is always bracing and provocative, and temptingly easy to dip into. Michael Tanner’s introduction to the philosopher’s life… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions #34
- Author: Tanner, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: February 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0192854143
- Language: English
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Politics: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartIn A Very Short Introduction to Politics, Kenneth Minogue begins with a discussion of issues arising from a historical account of politics, and goes on to offer chapters dealing with the Ancient Greek… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Minogue, Kenneth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 15 2000
- ISBN10: 0192853880
- Language: English
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War and Technology: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Read moreThe war instinct is part of human nature, but the means to fight war depend on technology. Alex Roland traces the co-evolution of technology and warfare from the Stone Age to the age of cyberwar, desc… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Roland, Alex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: October 03 2016
- ISBN10: 0190605383
- Language: English
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Pandemics: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe 2014 Ebola epidemic demonstrated the power of pandemics and their ability not only to destroy lives locally but also to capture the imagination and terrify the world. Christian W. McMillen provide… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: McMillen, Christian W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: December 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0199340072
- Language: English
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Topology: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartHow is a subway map different from other maps? What makes a knot knotted? What makes the Mî’Šius strip one-sided? These are questions of topology, the mathematical study of properties preserved by twi… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Earl, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: February 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0198832680
- Language: English
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Ancient Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
The tradition of ancient philosophy is a long, rich and varied one. Julia Annas gives a succinct account of ancient Greco-Roman philosophy, emphas- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Annas, Julia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0198805888
- Language: English
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Gandhi: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartMohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948) was one of the few men in history to fight simultaneously on moral, religious, political, social, economic, and cultural fronts. During his time as a lawyer in S… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions #37
- Author: Parekh, Bhikhu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: June 07 2001
- ISBN10: 0192854577
- Language: English
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The History of Political Thought: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThinking about politics has tended to be historical in nature because of the comparisons and contrasts that can be drawn between past and present. Different periods in politics have used the past diff… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Whatmore, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0198853726
- Language: English
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Planetary Systems: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartNot long ago, the Solar System was the only example of a planetary system – a star and the bodies orbiting it – that we knew. Now, we know thousands of planetary systems, and have even been able to ob… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Pierrehumbert, Raymond T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0198841124
- Language: English
