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Very Short Introductions

  • Год издания: 2007
Human Rights
Human Rights
Andrew Clapham
From the controversial incarceration of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, to the brutal ethnic cleansing...
  • Год издания: 2013
Rhetoric
Rhetoric
Richard Toye
Rhetoric was once an essential part of western education. Aristotle wrote an important treatise on i...
  • Год издания: 2009
  • Количество страниц: 177
Modern Japan: A Very Short Introduction
Modern Japan: A Very Short Introduction
Christopher Goto-Jones
Japan is arguably today's most successful industrial economy, combining almost unprecedented affluen...
  • Год издания: 2017
The Habsburg Empire: A Very Short Introduction
The Habsburg Empire: A Very Short Introduction
Martyn Rady
The Habsburgs are the most famous dynasty in continental Europe. From the thirteenth to the twentiet...
  • Год издания: 2008
  • Количество страниц: 137
The New Testament as Literature: A Very Short Introduction
The New Testament as Literature: A Very Short Introduction
Kyle Keefer
The words, phrases, and stories of the New Testament permeate the English language. Indeed, this rel...
  • Год издания: 2001
  • Количество страниц: 185
Russian Literature: A Very Short Introduction
Russian Literature: A Very Short Introduction
Катриона Келли
Rather than presenting a conventional chronology of Russian literature, Russian Literature: A Very S...
  • Год издания: 2011
  • Количество страниц: 161
Science Fiction: A Very Short Introduction
Science Fiction: A Very Short Introduction
David Seed
Frankenstein, The Time Machine, Star Trek, Dune, 1984, Blade Runner--science fiction has been explai...
  • Год издания: 2008
  • Количество страниц: 170
Sexuality: A Very Short Introduction
Sexuality: A Very Short Introduction
Véronique Mottier
What shapes our sexuality? Is it a product of our genes, or of society, culture, and politics? How h...
  • Год издания: 2007
  • Количество страниц: 192
American Political Parties and Elections: A Very Short Introduction
American Political Parties and Elections: A Very Short Introduction
L. Maisel
Few Americans and even fewer citizens of other nations understand the electoral process in the Unite...
  • Год издания: 2000
  • Количество страниц: 163
Classics: A Very Short Introduction
Classics: A Very Short Introduction
Мэри Бирд
We are all classicists--we come into touch with the classics on a daily basis: in our culture, polit...
  • Год издания: 2000
  • Количество страниц: 193
Nineteenth-Century Britain: A Very Short Introduction
Nineteenth-Century Britain: A Very Short Introduction
Christopher Harvie
The nineteenth century was a time of massive growth for Britain. In 1800 it was overwhelmingly rural...
  • Год издания: 2000
  • Количество страниц: 129
Eighteenth-Century Britain: A Very Short Introduction
Eighteenth-Century Britain: A Very Short Introduction
Paul Langford
While the rest of eighteenth century Europe was embroiled in revolution and unrest, Britain embarked...
  • Год издания: 2003
  • Количество страниц: 161
Emotion: A Very Short Introduction
Emotion: A Very Short Introduction
Dylan Evans
Was love invented by European poets in the Middle Ages or is it part of human nature? Will winning t...
  • Год издания: 2011
  • Количество страниц: 161
American Immigration: A Very Short Introduction
American Immigration: A Very Short Introduction
David Gerber
Americans have come from every corner of the globe, and they have been brought together by a variety...
  • Год издания: 2011
  • Количество страниц: 167
Colonial Latin American Literature: A Very Short Introduction
Colonial Latin American Literature: A Very Short Introduction
Rolena Adorno
Colonial Latin American Literature: A Very Short Introduction provides a vivid account of the litera...
  • Год издания: 2003
  • Количество страниц: 184
Modern Ireland: A Very Short Introduction
Modern Ireland: A Very Short Introduction
Senia Paseta
This is a book about the Irish Question, or more specifically about Irish Questions. The term has be...