Very Short Introductions
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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
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Clinical Psychology: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Read moreClinical psychology makes a significant contribution to mental health care across the world. The essence of the discipline is the creative application of the knowledge base of psychology to the unique… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Llewelyn, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: June 14 2017
- ISBN10: 0198753896
- Language: English
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French Cinema: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartIt is often claimed that the French invented cinema. Dominating the production and distribution of cinema until World War 1, when they were supplanted by Hollywood, the French cinema industry encompas… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Andrew, Dudley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 26 2024
- ISBN10: 0198718616
- Language: English
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Criminal Justice: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe criminal justice system is wide ranging; from the crimes themselves and policing to the sentencing of offenders and prisons. In this Very Short Introduction Julian V. Roberts draws upon the latest… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Roberts, Julian V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 01 2015
- ISBN10: 198716494
- Language: English
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Buddha: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartIn this valuable introduction, Michael Carrithers guides us through the complex and sometimes conflicting information that Buddhist texts give us about the life and teaching of the Buddha. He discusse… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions #41
- Author: Carrithers, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: June 07 2001
- ISBN10: 0192854534
- Language: English
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The Industrial Revolution: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe Industrial Revolution was a pivotal point in British history that occurred between the mid-eighteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries and led to far reaching transformations of society. With the adve… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Allen, Robert C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0198706782
- Language: English
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Locke: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartJohn Locke (1632-1704) one of the greatest English philosophers of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century, argued in his masterpiece, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, that our knowl… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions #84
- Author: Dunn, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: July 31 2003
- ISBN10: 0192803948
- Language: English
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Decadence: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe history of decadent culture runs from ancient Rome to nineteenth-century Paris, Victorian London, fin de si鐵le Vienna, Weimar Berlin, and beyond. The decline of Rome provides the pattern for bot… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Weir, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 10 2018
- ISBN10: 0190610220
- Language: English
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Polygamy: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartMarriage has not always meant just one man and one woman. For much of human history, over much of the globe, the most common alternative was polygamy: marriage involving more than one spouse. Polygamy… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Pearsall, Sarah M. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: May 24 2022
- ISBN10: 0197533175
- Language: English
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The Ghetto: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartFor three hundred years the ghetto defined Jewish culture in the late medieval and early modern period in Western Europe. In the nineteenth-century it was a free-floating concept which travelled to Ea… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Cheyette, Bryan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: November 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0198809956
- Language: English
