Very Short Introductions
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Borders: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartFirst published in 2012, Borders: A Very Short Introduction began with the premise that “we live in a very bordered world.” The intervening decade has witnessed a flurry of events and developments tha… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Diener, Alexander C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: March 29 2024
- ISBN10: 0197549608
- Language: English
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Refugees: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartRefugees and other forced migrants are one of the great contemporary challenges the world is confronting. Throughout the world people leave their home countries to escape war, natural disasters, and c… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Loescher, Gil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: August 03 2021
- ISBN10: 0198811780
- Language: English
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Genomics: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartGenomics has transformed the biological sciences. From epidemiology and medicine to evolution and forensics, the ability to determine an organism’s complete genetic makeup has changed the way science … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Archibald, John M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 22 2018
- ISBN10: 0198786204
- Language: English
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Social Psychology: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartSocial psychology is about the people who populate our everyday lives, and how they affect our “personal universe”, defining who we are, and shaping our behavior, beliefs, attitudes, and ideology. In … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Crisp, Richard J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 01 2015
- ISBN10: 019871551X
- Language: English
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Sociology: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartDrawing on studies of social class, crime and deviance, education, work in bureaucracies and changes in religious and political organizations, this Very Short Introduction explores the tension between… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Bruce, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: November 27 2018
- ISBN10: 0198822960
- Language: English
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Journalism: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartJournalism entered the twenty-first century caught in a paradox. The world had more journalism, across a wider range of media, than at any time since the birth of the western free press in the eightee… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Hargreaves, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0199686874
- Language: English
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Romanticism: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartIn this Very Short Introduction, Michael Ferber explores Romanticism during the period of its incubation, birth, and growth, covering the years roughly from 1760 to 1860. This is the only introduction… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Ferber, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: October 17 2010
- ISBN10: 019956891X
- Language: English
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The Virtues: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartFrom the philosophy of Aristotle and Confucius, to Thomas Aquinas’Summa Theologiae, to the paintings of Raphael, Botticelli and many more, fascination with the virtues has endured and evolved to fit a… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Boyd, Craig A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0198845375
- Language: English
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The First World War: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartBy the time the First World War ended in 1918, eight million people had died in what had been perhaps the most apocalyptic episode the world had known.
This Very Short Introduction provides a concise- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Howard, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: April 09 2007
- ISBN10: 0199205590
- Language: English
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International Relations: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartInternational relations affects everyone’s lives: their security, economic well-being, rights and freedoms, and the environment they share. Recently we have seen the transformation from a world of emp… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Reus-Smit, Christian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0198850212
- Language: English
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City Planning: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartCity planning is a practice and a profession. It is also a set of goals and–sometimes utopian–aspirations. Formal thought about the shaping of cities as physical spaces and social environments calls… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Abbott, Carl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: October 22 2020
- ISBN10: 019094434X
- Language: English
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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
