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Very Short Introductions

  • Год издания: 2013
Comedy: A Very Short Introduction
Comedy: A Very Short Introduction
Matthew Bevis
To consider comedy in its many incarnations is to raise diverse but related questions: what, for ins...
  • Год издания: 2012
The Conquistadors: A Very Short Introduction
The Conquistadors: A Very Short Introduction
Matthew Restall
With startling speed, Spanish conquistadors invaded hundreds of Native American kingdoms, took over...
  • Год издания: 2011
Nuclear Power: A Very Short Introduction
Nuclear Power: A Very Short Introduction
Maxwell Irvine
With the world desperate to find energy sources that do not emit carbon gases--a desire compounded b...
  • Год издания: 2000
The Koran: A Very Short Introduction
The Koran: A Very Short Introduction
Michael Cook
The Koran has constituted a remarkably resilient core of identity and continuity for a religious tra...
  • Год издания: 2010
Romanticism
Romanticism
Michael Ferber
In this Very Short Introduction, Michael Ferber explores Romanticism during the period of its incuba...
  • Год издания: 2013
The Napoleonic Wars
The Napoleonic Wars
Mike Rapport
The Napoleonic Wars have an all-important place in the history of Europe, leaving their mark on Euro...
  • Год издания: 2014
The Middle Ages
The Middle Ages
Miri Rubin
The Middle Ages is a term coined around 1450 to describe a thousand years of European History. In th...
  • Год издания: 2011
Cancer
Cancer
Nicholas James
Every year around 10 million people are diagnosed with cancer, around 80% of whom are destined to di...
  • Год издания: 2012
Magna Carta
Magna Carta
Nicholas Vincent
The Magna Carta is arguably the greatest constitutional document in recorded history, yet few people...
  • Год издания: 2007
Documentary Film
Documentary Film
Patricia Aufderheide
Documentary film can encompass anything from Robert Flaherty's pioneering ethnography Nanook of the...
  • Год издания: 2004
Art History: A Very Short Introduction
Art History: A Very Short Introduction
Dana Arnold
This clear and concise new introduction examines all the major debates and issues in the field of ar...
  • Год издания: 2001
Augustine: A Very Short Introduction
Augustine: A Very Short Introduction
Henry Chadwick
Augustine was arguably the greatest early Christian philosopher. His teachings had a profound effect...
  • Год издания: 2009
Biography: A Very Short Introduction
Biography: A Very Short Introduction
Hermione Lee
Hermione Lee is one of the leading literary biographers in the English-speaking world, the author of...
  • Год издания: 2001
Intelligence: A Very Short Introduction
Intelligence: A Very Short Introduction
Ian Deary
For people with little or no knowledge of the science of human intelligence, this volume takes reade...
  • Год издания: 2012
The History of Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction
The History of Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction
Jacqueline Stedall
This Very Short Introduction explores the rich historical and cultural diversity of mathematical pra...
  • Год издания: 2013
The European Union: A Very Short Introduction
The European Union: A Very Short Introduction
John Pinder
Over the past few decades, the European Union has seen many great changes. Negotiations for the acce...