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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
Beauty - A Very Short Introduction by Roger Scruton
$26.00 AUD
Category: Introducing & Short History Series | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
Beauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane; it can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring, chilling. It can affect us in an unlimited variety of ways. Yet it is never viewed with indifference. In this Very Short Introduction the renowned philosopher Roger Scruton explores the concept of beauty, ...Show more
Catholicism (A Very Short Introduction) by Gerald O'Collins
$24.95 AUD
Category: Mythology, Spirituality & Religion | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
Despite a long history of external threats and internal strife, the Roman Catholic Church and the broader reality of Catholicism remain a vast and valuable presence into the third millennium of world history. What are the origins of the Catholic Church? How has Catholicism changed and adapted to such v ...Show more
Classical Literature by William Allan
$28.00 AUD
Category: Introducing & Short History Series | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
The classical world and the masterpieces of its literature continue to fascinate readers and audiences throughout the media- from popular histories to the reworking of classical subject matters by contemporary poets, dramatists, and novelists. In this Very Short Introduction, William Allan explores what ...Show more
Evil: a Very Short Introduction by Luke Russell
$19.95 AUD
Category: Introducing & Short History Series | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring We regularly encounter appalling wrongdoing, with the media offering a depressing parade of violent assault, rape, and murder. Yet sometimes even the cynical and world-weary amongst us are taken aback. Sometimes we confront a crime so terrible, so h ...Show more
Forensic Science: A Very Short Introduction by Jim Fraser
$17.95 AUD
Category: Introducing & Short History Series | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
Forensic science is a subject of wide fascination. What happens at a crime scene? How does DNA profiling work? How can it help solve crimes that happened 20 years ago? In forensic science, a criminal case can often hinge on a piece of evidence such as a hair, a blood trace, half a footprint, or a tyre m ...Show more
Free Speech: A Very Short Introduction by Nigel Warburton
$23.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
'I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it' This slogan, attributed to Voltaire, is frequently quoted by defenders of free speech. Yet it is rare to find anyone prepared to defend all expression in every circumstance, especially if the views expressed incite viole ...Show more
French Revolution: A Very Short Introduction by Doyle, William (Emeritus Professor of History and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Bristol)
$17.95 AUD
Category: Introducing & Short History Series | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
Beginning with a discussion of familiar images of the French Revolution, garnered from Dickens, Baroness Orczy, and Tolstoy, as well as the legends of let them eat cake, and tricolours, Doyle leads the reader to the realization that we are still living with developments and consequences of the French Re ...Show more
Geopolitics: A Very Short Introduction by Klaus Dodds
$16.95 AUD
Category: Introducing & Short History Series | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
In places such as Iraq, Lebanon, and Israel, moving a few feet in a territorial boundary can be a matter of life or death, dramatically highlighting the connections between place and politics. Even far away from these "danger zones"- in Europe or the US for example - geopolitics remains an important par ...Show more
German Literature (A Very Short Introduction) by Nicholas Boyle
$14.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
German writers, from Luther and Goethe to Heine, Brecht, and Gunter Grass, have had a profound influence on the modern world. This Very Short Introduction presents an engrossing tour of the course of German literature from the late Middle Ages to the present, focussing especially on the last 250 years. ...Show more
Globalization: a Very Short Introduction by Manfred B. Steger
$18.95 AUD
Category: Display & Gift | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
'Globalization' has become the buzz-word of our time. A growing number of scholars and political activists have invoked the term to describe a variety of changing economic, political, cultural, ideological, and environmental processes that are alleged to have accelerated in the last few decades. Rather ...Show more