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Introducing Cultural Studies: A Graphic Guide by Ziauddin Sardar
$16.99 AUD
Category: Introducing & Short History Series | Series: Introducing... Ser.
Covering the ground from Antonio Gramsci to Raymond Williams, postcolonial discourse to the politics of diaspora, feminism to queer theory, technoculture and the media to globalization, Introducing Cultural Studies serves as an insightful guide to the essential concepts of this fascinating area of study ...Show more
Introducing Darwin: A Graphic Guide by Jonathan Miller
$12.99 AUD
Category: Introducing & Short History Series | Series: Introducing... Ser.
Progress in genetics today would not be possible without Darwin's revolution, but the mysterious man who laid the rational basis for undermining belief in God's creation was remarkable timid. He spent most of his life in seclusion; a semi-invalid, riddled with doubts, fearing the controversy his theorie ...Show more
Introducing Derrida: A Graphic Guide by Jeff Collins
$16.99 AUD
Category: Introducing & Short History Series | Series: Introducing... S.
Brilliant illustrated guide to the best-known and most controversial continental philosopher of the latter 20th century. Jacques Derrida is the most famous philosopher of the late 20th century. Yet Derrida has undermined the rules of philosophy, rejected its methods, broken its procedures and contaminat ...Show more
Introducing Descartes: A Graphic Guide by Dave Robinson
$12.99 AUD
Category: Introducing & Short History Series | Series: Introducing... S.
"Introducing Descartes" explains why he is usually called the father of modern philosophy. It is a clear and accessible guide to all the puzzling questions that Descartes asked about human beings and their place in the world. It gives a lucid account of Descartes' contributions to modern science, mathem ...Show more
Introducing Economics: A Graphic Guide by David Orrell
$12.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Introducing... S.
Brand-new INTRODUCING guide to the subject that really makes the world go round. Economics was described by the English economist Lionel Robbins in 1935 as 'the science of scarcity' but these days economics is everywhere, and it's never been more popular - as bestselling books such as Freakanomics attes ...Show more
Introducing Einstein: A Graphic Guide by Joseph Scwartz; Michael McGuinness (Illustrator)
$12.99 AUD
Category: Introducing & Short History Series | Series: Introducing... Ser.
The Introducing series is renowned throughout the world for its ingenious combination of graphic illustration and intelligent, precise text by leading academics on some of the most challenging subjects around. This text is a highly accessible introduction to Einstein's life and thought.
Introducing Epigenetics: A Graphic Guide by Cath Ennis, Oliver Pugh
$12.99 AUD
Category: Introducing & Short History Series | Series: Introducing... Ser.
Epigenetics is the most exciting field in biology today, developing our understanding of how and why we inherit certain traits, develop diseases and age, and evolve as a species. This non-fiction comic book introduces us to genetics, cell biology and the fascinating science of epigenetics, which is ...Show more
Introducing Ethics - A Graphic Guide by Dave Robinson, Chris Garratt
$16.99 AUD
Category: Introducing & Short History Series | Series: Introducing... Ser. | Reading Level: very good
What is the place of individual choice and consequence in a post-Holocaust world of continuing genocidal ethnic cleansing? Is "identity" now a last-ditch cultural defense of ethnic nationalisms and competing fundamentalisms? In a climate of instant information, free markets and possible ecological disas ...Show more
Introducing Existentialism by Richard Appignanesi & Oscar Zarate (ill.)
$19.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Introducing... Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In this book we encounter Camus, Sartre, Kierkegaard, Hegel, Marx, and Nietzsche, and always in the background a history of dark times - our legacy of Nazism and the Cold War - overcasting the search.Pope Pius XII condemned Existentialism for its 'terrifying nihilism'. Anguish, despair, absurdity, nothi ...Show more
Introducing Existentialism: A Graphic Guide by Oscar Zarate, Richard Appignanesi
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Category: Introducing & Short History Series | Series: Introducing... Ser.
This is Richard Appignanesi's erudite investigation of Existentialism, the philosophical and cultural movement that prioritizes individual experience. Richard Appignanesi is a novelist, editor, publisher, and research fellow at King's College London.
Introducing Feminism: A Graphic Guide by Cathia Jenainati, Judy Groves
$12.99 AUD
Category: Introducing & Short History Series | Series: Introducing... Ser.
The term "feminism" came into English usage around the 1890s, but women's conscious struggle to resist discrimination and sexist oppression goes back much further. Introducing Feminism surveys the major developments that have affected women's lives from the seventeenth century to the present day. "Read ...Show more
Introducing Foucault: A Graphic Guide by Chris Horrocks, Zoran Jevtic
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Category: Introducing & Short History Series | Series: Introducing... Ser.
Michel Foucault's work was described at his death as 'the most important event of thought in our century'. As a philosopher, historian and political activist, he certainly left behind an enduring and influential body of work, but is this acclaim justified? "Introducing Foucault" places his work in its t ...Show more