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Very Short Introductions

  • Год издания: 2013
The Beats
The Beats
David Sterritt
In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the writers of the Beat Generation revolutionized American litera...
  • Год издания: 2014
African American Religion
African American Religion
Eddie Glaude
Since the first African American denomination was established in Philadelphia in 1818, churches have...
  • Год издания: 2015
American Political History
American Political History
Donald Critchlow
The Founding Fathers who drafted the United States Constitution in 1787 distrusted political parties...
  • Год издания: 2013
Contemporary Fiction
Contemporary Fiction
Robert Eaglestone
Contemporary fiction is a wide and diverse field, now global in dimension, with an enormous range of...
  • Год издания: 2014
American Slavery
American Slavery
Heather Williams
Europeans, Africans, and American Indians practiced slavery long before the first purchase of a capt...
  • Год издания: 2003
Molecules
Molecules
Филип Болл
The processes in a single living cell are akin to that of a city teeming with molecular inhabitants...
  • Год издания: 2006
The Brain
The Brain
Michael O'Shea
The Brain: A Very Short Introduction provides a non-technical introduction to the main issues and fi...
  • Год издания: 2004
Free Will
Free Will
Thomas Pink
Every day we seem to make and act upon all kinds of choices: some trivial, others so consequential t...
Ethics
Ethics
Simon Blackburn
Our self-image as moral, well-behaved creatures is dogged by scepticism, relativism, hypocrisy, and...
  • Год издания: 2012
Probability
Probability
John Haigh
Making good decisions under conditions of uncertainty requires a sound appreciation of the way rando...
  • Год издания: 2012
Trust
Trust
Katherine Hawley
Trust is indispensable to our everyday lives, yet it can be dangerous. Without trusting others, we c...
  • Год издания: 2012
Languages
Languages
Stephen Anderson
How many languages are there? What differentiates one language from another? Are new languages still...
  • Год издания: 2013
The British Constitution
The British Constitution
Martin Loughlin
Beginning with the Magna Carta in 1215, a number of documents--not one single document as in the Uni...
  • Год издания: 2014
Sport: A Very Short Introduction
Sport: A Very Short Introduction
Mike Cronin
Sport is big business; international in nature and the focus of much media and cultural attention. I...
  • Год издания: 2012
Magnetism
Magnetism
Stephen Blundell
In this Very Short Introduction, Stephen J. Blundell illuminates the mysterious force of magnetism....
  • Год издания: 2012
Film
Film
Michael Wood
Film is arguably the dominant art form of the twentieth century. In this Very Short Introduction, Mi...