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English Literature : A Very Short Introduction by Jonathan Bate
$19.95 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference | Series: Very Short Introductions
Sweeping across two millennia and every literary genre, acclaimed scholar and biographer Jonathan Bate provides a dazzling introduction to English Literature. The focus is wide, shifting from the birth of the novel and the brilliance of English comedy to the deep Englishness of landscape poetry and the ...Show more
Environmental Economics by Stephen Smith
$14.95 AUD
Category: Introducing & Short History Series | Series: Very Short Introductions
Environmental economics can be controversial, but it is also central to some key policy issues facing governments and society today, including industrial pollution, global warming, and waste/recycling. Stephen Smith looks at how economic activity affects the environment in which we live, and how environ ...Show more
Environmental Ethics: A Very Short Introduction by Robin Attfield
$17.95 AUD
Category: Introducing & Short History Series | Series: Very Short Introductions
Environmental ethics is a relatively new branch of philosophy, which studies the values and principles involved in combatting environmental problems such as pollution, loss of species and habitats, and climate change. As our environment faces evermore threats from human activities these core issues are ...Show more
Epicureanism: A Very Short Introduction by Catherine Wilson
$19.95 AUD
Category: Introducing & Short History Series | Series: Very Short Introductions
Epicureanism is commonly associated with a carefree view of life and the pursuit of pleasures, particularly the pleasures of the table. However it was a complex and distinctive system of philosophy that emphasized simplicity and moderation, and considered nature to consist of atoms and the void. Epicure ...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
Existentialism: A Very Short Introduction by Thomas Flynn
$22.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Very Short Introductions
Existentialism was one of the leading philosophical movements of the twentieth century. Focusing on its seven leading figures, Sartre, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Kierkegaard, de Beauvoir, Merleau-Ponty and Camus, this "Very Short Introduction" provides a clear account of the key themes of the movement which ...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
Global Economic History by Robert C. Allen
$14.95 AUD
Category: Introducing & Short History Series | Series: Very Short Introductions
Why are some countries rich and others poor? In 1500, the income differences were small, but they have grown dramatically since Columbus reached America. Since then, the interplay between geography, globalization, technological change, and economic policy has determined the wealth and poverty of nation ...Show more