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Very Short Introductions

  • Год издания: 2009
  • Количество страниц: 169
Biblical Archaeology: A Very Short Introduction
Biblical Archaeology: A Very Short Introduction
Eric Cline
Public interest in biblical archaeology is at an all-time high, as television documentaries pull in...
  • Год издания: 2008
  • Количество страниц: 225
Nelson Mandela: A Very Short Introduction
Nelson Mandela: A Very Short Introduction
Elleke Boehmer
Nelson Mandela--is it possible to say who or what he is? Yes, he was one of the world's longest-deta...
  • Год издания: 2010
  • Количество страниц: 137
Tocqueville: A Very Short Introduction
Tocqueville: A Very Short Introduction
Harvey Mansfield
No one has ever described American democracy with more accurate insight or more profoundly than Alex...
  • Год издания: 2004
  • Количество страниц: 206
Dada and Surrealism: A Very Short Introduction
Dada and Surrealism: A Very Short Introduction
David Hopkins
The avant-garde movements of Dada and Surrealism continue to have a huge influence on cultural pract...
  • Год издания: 2005
  • Количество страниц: 167
Buddhist Ethics: A Very Short Introduction
Buddhist Ethics: A Very Short Introduction
Damien Keown
The latter half of the twentieth century witnessed a growing interest in Buddhism, and it continues...
  • Год издания: 2001
  • Количество страниц: 150
Gandhi: A Very Short Introduction
Gandhi: A Very Short Introduction
Bhikhu Parekh
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948) was one of the few men in history to fight simultaneously on...
  • Год издания: 2002
  • Количество страниц: 143
Democracy: A Very Short Introduction
Democracy: A Very Short Introduction
Bernard Crick
No political concept is more used, and misused, than that of democracy. Nearly every regime today cl...
  • Год издания: 2015
  • Количество страниц: 143
Ritual: A Very Short Introduction
Ritual: A Very Short Introduction
Barry Stephenson
Ritual is part of what it means to be human. Like sports, music, and drama, ritual defines and enric...
  • Год издания: 2013
Sociolinguistics: A Very Short Introduction
Sociolinguistics: A Very Short Introduction
John Edwards
Sociolinguistics deals with the social life of language, language in its sociocultural context. It i...
  • Год издания: 2004
  • Количество страниц: 149
Christian Art: A Very Short Introduction
Christian Art: A Very Short Introduction
Beth Williamson
This Very Short Introduction decodes the key themes, signs, and symbols found in Christian art: the...
  • Год издания: 2000
Logic: A Very Short Introduction
Logic: A Very Short Introduction
Graham Priest
Logic is often perceived as having little to do with the rest of philosophy, and even less to do wit...
  • Год издания: 2005
  • Количество страниц: 145
Human Evolution: A Very Short Introduction
Human Evolution: A Very Short Introduction
Bernard Wood
The recent discovery of the diminutive Homo floresiensis (nicknamed "the Hobbit") in Indonesia has s...
  • Год издания: 2001
  • Количество страниц: 177
Freud: A Very Short Introduction
Freud: A Very Short Introduction
Anthony Storr
Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, developed a totally new way of looking at human nature...
  • Год издания: 2005
Tragedy: A Very Short Introduction
Tragedy: A Very Short Introduction
Adrian Poole
To your local anchorperson, the word "tragedy" brings to mind an accidental fire at a low-income apa...
  • Год издания: 2005
  • Количество страниц: 176
The World Trade Organization: A Very Short Introduction
The World Trade Organization: A Very Short Introduction
Amrita Narlikar
The World Trade Organization (WTO) is scarcely ten years old, but it has already generated a mountai...
  • Год издания: 2009
  • Количество страниц: 161
Lincoln: A Very Short Introduction
Lincoln: A Very Short Introduction
Allen Guelzo
Beneath the surface of the apparently untutored and deceptively frank Abraham Lincoln ran private tu...