Very Short Introductions
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Branding: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartBranding is possibly the most powerful commercial and cultural force on the planet. Iconic names such as Coca-Cola, Nike, Manchester United, Harry Potter, and Google are known and recognized by millio… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Jones, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0198749910
- Language: English
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Choice Theory: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartWe make choices all the time–about how to spend our money, about how to spend our time, about what to do with our lives. And we are also constantly judging the decisions other people make as rational… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions #71
- Author: Allingham, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 28 2002
- ISBN10: 0192803034
- Language: English
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Development: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartWhat do we mean by development? How can citizens, governments, and the international community foster development?
The process by which nations escape poverty and achieve economic and social progress- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Goldin, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: May 22 2018
- ISBN10: 0198736258
- Language: English
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Human Resource Management: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe way in which organizations manage their people has always been pivotal to their performance, long before formal human resource management coalesced into a definable and somewhat fashionable discip… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Wilkinson, Adrian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: May 24 2022
- ISBN10: 0198714734
- Language: English
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Native American Literature: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartNorth American indigenous literature began over thirty thousand years ago when indigenous people began telling stories of emergence and creation, journey and quest, and heroism and trickery. By settin… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Teuton, Sean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 19 2018
- ISBN10: 0199944520
- Language: English
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Homer: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartHomer’s mythological tales of war and homecoming, the Iliad and the Odyssey, are widely considered to be two of the most influential works in the history of western literature. Yet their author, ‘the … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Graziosi, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 28 2019
- ISBN10: 0199589941
- Language: English
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English Literature: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartA renowned critic, biographer, and Shakespeare scholar, Jonathan Bate provides in this Very Short Introduction a lively and engaging overview of the literature that Jorge Luis Borges called “the riche… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Bate, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 28 2010
- ISBN10: 0199569266
- Language: English
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Fairy Tale: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartFrom wicked queens, beautiful princesses, elves, monsters, and goblins, to giants, glass slippers, poisoned apples, magic keys, and mirrors, the characters and images of fairy tales have cast a spell … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Warner, Marina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 01 2018
- ISBN10: 019953215X
- Language: English
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Jane Austen: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartJane Austen wrote six of the best-loved novels in the English language, as well as a smaller corpus of works unpublished in her day, including three volumes of witty, non-realist juvenilia and the inn… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Keymer, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: April 27 2022
- ISBN10: 0198725957
- Language: English
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James Joyce: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartJames Joyce is one of the greatest writers in English. His first book, A Portrait of the Artist as A Young Man laid down the template for the Coming of Age novel, while his collection of short stories… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Maccabe, Colin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: January 03 2022
- ISBN10: 0192894471
- Language: English
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Classics: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartWe are all classicists–we come into touch with the classics on a daily basis: in our culture, politics, medicine, architecture, language, and literature. What are the true roots of these influences, … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Beard, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 15 2000
- ISBN10: 0192853856
- Language: English
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The Gothic: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe Gothic is wildly diverse. It can refer to ecclesiastical architecture, supernatural fiction, cult horror films, and a distinctive style of rock music. It has influenced political theorists and soc… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Groom, Nick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: December 05 2012
- ISBN10: 0199586799
- Language: English
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Poetry: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartPoetry, arguably, has a greater range of conceptual meaning than perhaps any other term in English. At the most basic level everyone can recognize it–it is a kind of literature that uses special ling… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: O’Donoghue, Bernard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: December 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0199229112
- Language: English
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Kafka: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartFranz Kafka is among the most intriguing and influential writers of the last century. During his lifetime he worked as a civil servant and published only a handful of short stories, the best known bei… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Robertson, Ritchie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: September 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0192804553
- Language: English
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Comedy: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartTo consider comedy in its many incarnations is to raise diverse but related questions: what, for instance, is humour, and how may it be used (or abused)? When do we laugh, and why? What is it that wri… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Bevis, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: February 07 2013
- ISBN10: 0199601712
- Language: English
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Children’s Literature
$12.99 Add to cartThis Very Short Introduction provides a lively and comprehensive discussion of children’s literature–what it is, why it is interesting, how it contributes to culture, and how it is studied as literat… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Reynolds, Kimberley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: November 07 2011
- ISBN10: 0199560242
- Language: English
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The Short Story: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartWhat defines a modern short story is much more than a question of length. Despite the efforts of early pioneers like Edgar Allan Poe, the genre was originally synonymous with the anecdote or tale and … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Kahn, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0198754639
- Language: English
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Jewish Literature: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe story of Jewish literature is a kaleidoscopic one, multilingual and transnational in character, spanning the globe as well as the centuries.
In this broad, thought-provoking introduction to Jewish- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Stavans, Ilan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0190076976
- Language: English
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Modern Latin American Literature: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartIn the 1960s, Latin American literature became known worldwide as never before. Writers such as Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel Garc?a M?rquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, Carlos Fuentes, Pablo Neruda, Octavio Paz… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Gonzalez Echevarria, Roberto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: January 24 2012
- ISBN10: 0199754918
- Language: English
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Chinese Literature: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartPerhaps nowhere else has literature been as conscious a collective endeavor as in China, and China’s survival over three thousand years may owe more to its literary traditions than to its political hi… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Knight, Sabina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 03 2012
- ISBN10: 019539206X
- Language: English
