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A Very Short Introduction: Chaos by Leonard Smith
$24.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Very Short Introductions
Chaos exists in systems all around us. Even the simplest system of cause and effect can be subject to chaos, denying us accurate predictions of its behaviour, and sometimes giving rise to astonishing structures of large-scale order. Our growing understanding of Chaos Theory is having fascinating appli ...Show more
ANIMAL RIGHTS by David DeGrazia
$14.95 AUD
Category: Introducing & Short History Series | Series: Very Short Introductions
By presenting models for understanding animals' moral status and rights, and examining their mental lives and welfare, this book explores the implications for how we should treat animals in connection with our diet, zoos, and research. It offers a moral voice with a non-polemical tone.
Albert Camus: A Very Short Introduction by Oliver Gloag
$17.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Very Short Introductions
Albert Camus is one of the best known philosophers of the twentieth century, as well as a widely read novelist. This book contextualises Camus in his troubled and conflicted times, and analyses the enduring popularity of his major philosophical and literary works in connection with contemporary politica ...Show more
American History: A Very Short Introduction by Paul S. Boyer
$15.95 AUD
Category: Introducing & Short History Series | Series: Very Short Introductions | Reading Level: very good
This brief history of America will span the earliest migrations to the present, reflecting Paul S. Boyer's interests in social, intellectual, and cultural history, including popular culture and religion. It will reflect his personal view of American history, in which a sense of paradox and irony loom la ...Show more
American Politics: A Very Short Introduction by Richard M. Valelly
$13.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Very Short Introductions
This book introduces the vital elements of American politics, emphasizing how these elements have evolved into the form they take today. By using a historical-institutional approach to the various parts of American politics, Valelly communicates that the American political system is, and always has been ...Show more
American Revolution: A Very Short Introduction by Allison, Robert J.
$17.95 AUD
Category: Introducing & Short History Series | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
Here is a brisk, accessible, and vivid introduction to arguably the most important event in the history of the United States--the American Revolution. Between 1760 and 1800, the American people cast off British rule to create a new nation and a radically new form of government based on the idea that peo ...Show more
Analytic Philosophy by Michael Beaney (Contribution by)
$15.41 AUD
Category: Display & Gift | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
Originating in the pioneering work of Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell, G. E. Moore, and Ludwig Wittgenstein in the four decades around the turn of the twentieth century, analytic philosophy established itself in various forms in the 1930s. After the Second World War, it developed further inNorth America ...Show more
Ancient Greece: A very short introduction by Paul Cartledge
$18.95 AUD
Category: Introducing & Short History Series | Series: Very Short Introductions
A highly stimulating Very Short Introduction to the history of Ancient Greek civilization, from the first documented use of the Greek language in about 1400 BCE, through the glories of the Classical and Hellenistic periods, to the foundation of the Byzantine empire in about CE 330.
Ancient Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction by Julia Annas
$15.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Very Short Introductions
The tradition of ancient philosophy is a long, rich and varied one, in which a constant note is that of discussion and argument. This book aims to introduce readers to some ancient debates and to get them to engage with the ancient developments of some themes. Getting away from the presentation of ancie ...Show more
Archaeology: A Very Short Introduction by Paul Bahn
$17.95 AUD
Category: Introducing & Short History Series | Series: Very Short Introductions
This entertaining Very Short Introduction reflects the enduring popularity of archaeology - a subject which appeals as a pastime, career, and academic discipline, encompasses the whole globe, and surveys 2.5 million years. From deserts to jungles, from deep caves to mountain tops, from pebble tools to s ...Show more
Architecture (Oxford Very Short Introduction Series) by Andrew Ballantyne
$14.95 AUD
Category: Architecture and Urbanism | Series: Very Short Introductions
This original look at architecture aims to help us understand the cultural significance of the buildings that surround us. It avoids the traditional style-spotting approach in favour of giving an idea of what it is about buildings that moves us, and what it is that makes them important artistically and ...Show more
Art Theory A Very Short Introduction by Cynthia A. Freeland
$14.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Very Short Introductions
Cynthia Freeland explains why innovation and controversy are valued in the arts, weaving together philosophy, art theory, and many engrossing examples. She discusses blood, beauty, culture, money, sex, web sites, and research on the brain's role in perceiving art.