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Introducing Romanticism : A Graphic Guide by Duncan Heath
$12.99 AUD
Category: Introducing & Short History Series | Series: Introducing... S.
Romanticism is crucial to an understanding of modern Western culture. Philosophy, art, literature, music, and politics were all transformed in the turbulent period between the French Revolution of 1789 and the Communist Manifesto of 1848. This was the age of the 'Romantic revolution', when modern attitu ...Show more
Introducing Rousseau: A Graphic Guide by Dave Robinson
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Category: Introducing & Short History Series | Series: Introducing... S.
Illustrated guide to the crucial French philosopher who denied bring a philosopher at all. 'I am like no one else in the whole world ...' Thus begins Jean-Jacques Rousseau's defiant Confessions - an autobiography of astounding psychological insight. Musician, poet, novelist and botanist, but above all, ...Show more
Introducing Semiotics: A Graphic Guide by Paul Cobley, Litza Jansz
$16.99 AUD
Category: Introducing & Short History Series | Series: Introducing... Ser.
Introducing Semiotics outlines the development of semioticsthe study of signs and signifiers in the world around usfrom its classical precursors to contemporary post-structuralism. It identifies the key semioticians and their work and explains the simple concepts behind difficult terms. "
Introducing Slavoj Zizek : A Graphic Guide by Christopher Kul-Want
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Category: Introducing & Short History Series | Series: Introducing... S.
A unique graphic introduction to Zizek - the Elvis of Philosophy - one of the world's most maverick current thinkers.
Introducing Sociology: A Graphic Guide by John Nagle; Piero (Illustrator)
$21.00 AUD
Category: Introducing & Short History Series | Series: Introducing... Ser.
Sociology is interested in the way citizens shape a society and the way a society shapes its citizens. Simply, it is the study of how society functions, or how it doesn't. In the series' inimitable style, Introducing Sociology: A Graphic Guide traces the origins of sociology from industrialization, revo ...Show more
Introducing Statistics: A Graphic Guide by Eileen Magnello
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Category: Introducing & Short History Series | Series: Introducing... S.
From the medicine we take, the treatments we receive, the aptitude and psychometric tests given by employers, the cars we drive, the clothes we wear to even the beer we drink, statistics have given shape to the world we inhabit. For the media, statistics are routinely 'damning', 'horrifying', or, occasi ...Show more
Introducing: Stephen Hawking by Mcevoy Jp/zarate Oscar
$19.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Introducing Ser.
Stephen Hawking is the world-famous physicist with a cameo in The Simpsons on his CV, but outside his academic field his work is little understood. To the public he is a tragic figure - a brilliant scientist and author of the 9 million-copy-selling "A Brief History of Time," and yet confined to a wheelc ...Show more
Introducing Stephen Hawking: A Graphic Guide by J.P. McEvoy
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Category: Science | Series: Introducing... S.
Stephen Hawking is the world-famous physicist with a cameo in "The Simpsons on his CV", but outside his academic field his work is little understood. To the public he is a tragic figure - a brilliant scientist and author of the 9 million-copy-selling "A Brief History of Time", and yet confined to a whee ...Show more
Introducing Time: A Graphic Guide by Craig Callender
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Category: Introducing & Short History Series | Series: Introducing... Ser.
Introducing Time traces the history of time from Augustine's suggestion that there is no time, to the flowing time of Newton, the conventional time of Poincare, the static time of Einstein, and then back, full circle, to the idea that there is no time in quantum gravity. "
Introducing Walter Benjamin: A Graphic Guide by Howard Caygill; Alex Coles; Andrzej Klimowski
$16.99 AUD
Category: Introducing & Short History Series | Series: Introducing... Ser.
This beautifully illustrated guide to Walter Benjaminthe genius behind the famous essay The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproductiontraces his influence on modern aesthetics and cultural history as well as his particular focus on the tension between Marxism and Zionism, and between word and ima ...Show more
Introducing Wittgenstein: A Graphic Guide by John Heaton
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Category: Introducing & Short History Series | Series: Introducing... S.
This is a superlative graphic guide described as 'warm, witty and wise' by Jonathan Ree to an enigmatic master of twentieth-century philosophy.
Introducing the Enlightenment: A Graphic Guide by Lloyd Spencer; Andrzej Krauze (Illustrator)
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Category: Introducing & Short History Series | Series: Introducing... Ser.
Introducing the Enlightenment is the essential guide to the giants of the Enlightenment--Adam Smith, Samuel Johnson, Immanuel Kant, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson. This book provides a clear and accessible introduction to the leading thinkers of the age, the men and women who believed that rati ...Show more