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Very Short Introductions

  • Год издания: 2015
American Women's History: A Very Short Introduction
American Women's History: A Very Short Introduction
Susan Ware
In 1607, Powhatan teenager Pocahontas first encountered English settlers when John Smith was brought...
  • Год издания: 2011
Modern France: A Very Short Introduction
Modern France: A Very Short Introduction
Vanessa Schwartz
In this Very Short Introduction, Vanessa Schwartz argues that modern France, as both a world stage a...
  • Год издания: 2013
Entrepreneurship: A Very Short Introduction
Entrepreneurship: A Very Short Introduction
Paul Westhead
There has been an explosion of interest in entrepreneurs in the popular media, as well as in busines...
  • Год издания: 2010
Keynes: A Very Short Introduction
Keynes: A Very Short Introduction
Robert Skidelsky
ohn Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) is a central thinker of the twentieth century, not just an economic t...
  • Год издания: 2002
Philosophy of Science: A Very Short Introduction
Philosophy of Science: A Very Short Introduction
Samir Okasha
What is science? Is there a real difference between science and myth? Is science objective? Can scie...
  • Год издания: 2015
The American West: A Very Short Introduction
The American West: A Very Short Introduction
Stephen Aron
Part geographical location, part time period, and part state of mind, the American West is a concept...
  • Год издания: 2003
The Cold War: A Very Short Introduction
The Cold War: A Very Short Introduction
Robert McMahon
The massive disorder and economic ruin following the Second World War inevitably predetermined the s...
  • Год издания: 2011
Conscience: A Very Short Introduction
Conscience: A Very Short Introduction
Paul Strohm
From Cicero and Augustine through the middle ages and into the Reformation, this Very Short Introduc...
  • Год издания: 2013
Education: A Very Short Introduction
Education: A Very Short Introduction
Gary Thomas
Education is one of the hot-button issues of our time, heatedly debated by parents, teachers, local...
  • Год издания: 2001
The French Revolution: A Very Short Introduction
The French Revolution: A Very Short Introduction
William Doyle
Beginning with a discussion of familiar images of the French Revolution, garnered from Dickens, Baro...
  • Год издания: 2012
Australia: A Very Short Introduction
Australia: A Very Short Introduction
Kenneth Morgan
In this Very Short Introduction, Kenneth Morgan provides a wide-ranging thematic introduction to mod...
  • Год издания: 2005
Renaissance Art: A Very Short Introduction
Renaissance Art: A Very Short Introduction
Geraldine Johnson
Artists like Botticelli, Holbein, Leonardo, Durer, and Michelangelo and works such as the Last Suppe...
  • Год издания: 2003
Linguistics: A Very Short Introduction
Linguistics: A Very Short Introduction
P. Matthews
Linguistics falls in the gap between arts and science, on the edges of which the most fascinating di...
  • Год издания: 2008
Catholicism: A Very Short Introduction
Catholicism: A Very Short Introduction
Gerald O'Collins
Despite a long history of external threats and internal strife, the Roman Catholic Church and the br...
  • Год издания: 1998
Hinduism: A Very Short Introduction
Hinduism: A Very Short Introduction
Kim Knott
Hinduism is practiced by about 80 percent of India's population, and by about 30 million people outs...
  • Год издания: 2012
Islam: A Very Short Introduction
Islam: A Very Short Introduction
Malise Ruthven
Islam features widely in the news, often in its most militant versions. But few people in the non-Mu...