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Heidegger: a Very Short Introduction by Michael Inwood
$17.95 AUD
Category: Introducing & Short History Series | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
Martin Heidegger, considered by some to be the greatest charlatan ever to claim the title of "philosopher", by some as an apologist for Nazism, and by others as an acknowledged leader in continental philosophy, is probably the most divisive thinker of the twentieth century. In the second edition of this ...Show more
International Relations A Very Short Introduction by Reus Smit Christian
$17.95 AUD
Category: Display & Gift | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
International relations affects everyone's lives: their security, economic well-being, rights and freedoms, and the environment they share. Recently we have seen the transformation from a world of empires to today's world of sovereign states, which are enmeshed in a complex array of international instit ...Show more
Philosophy of Science: A Very Short Introduction by Samir Okasha
$19.95 AUD
Category: Introducing & Short History Series | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
How much faith should we place in what scientists tell us? Is it possible for scientific knowledge to be fully "objective?" What, really, can be defined as science? In the second edition of this Very Short Introduction, Samir Okasha explores the main themes and theories of contemporary philosophy of sci ...Show more
Poetry: a Very Short Introduction by Bernard O'Donoghue
$24.00 AUD
Category: Special Orders | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
Poetry, arguably, has a greater range of conceptual meaning than perhaps any other term in English. At the most basic level everyone can recognise it - it is a kind of literature that uses special linguistic devices of organization and expression for aesthetic effect. However, far granderclaims have bee ...Show more
Relativity (A Very Short Introduction) by Stannard
$19.95 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
100 years ago, Einstein's theory of relativity shattered the world of physics. Our comforting Newtonian ideas of space and time were replaced by bizarre and counterintuitive conclusions: if you move at high speed, time slows down, space squashes up and you get heavier; travel fast enough and you could w ...Show more
SUPERCONDUCTIVITY by Blundell Stephen
$22.95 AUD
Category: Introducing & Short History Series | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
Superconductivity--the flow of electric current without resistance in certain materials as temperatures near absolute zero--is one of the greatest discoveries of 20th century physics, but it can seem impenetrable to those who lack a solid scientific background. Outlining the fascinating history of how s ...Show more
Science and Religion (A Very Short Introduction) by DIXON THOMAS
$23.95 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
The debate between science and religion is never out of the news: emotions run high, fuelled by polemical bestsellers like The God Delusion and, at the other end of the spectrum, high-profile campaigns to teach "Intelligent Design" in schools. Yet there is much more to the debate than the clash of these ...Show more
Science and Religion: a Very Short Introduction by Thomas Dixon; Adam Shapiro
$21.95 AUD
Category: Introducing & Short History Series | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Debates about science and religion are rarely out of the news. Whether it concerns what's being taught in schools, clashes between religious values and medical recommendations, or questions about how to address our changing global environment, emotio ...Show more
Spinoza: a Very Short Introduction by Roger Scruton
$26.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
Father of the Enlightenment and the last guardian of the medieval world, Spinoza made a brilliant attempt to reconcile the conflicting moral and intellectual demands of his epoch and to present a vision of man as simultaneously bound by necessity and eternally free. Ostracized by the Jewishcommunity in ...Show more
The Apocryphal Gospels by Paul Foster
$23.95 AUD
Category: Mythology, Spirituality & Religion | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
This Very Short Introduction offers a clear, accessible, and concise account of the apocryphal gospels--exploring their origins, their discovery, and discussing how the various texts have been interpreted both within and outside the Church. Looking at texts ranging from the Gospels from Nag Hammadi to t ...Show more
The Computer by Darrel Ince
$27.00 AUD
Category: Special Orders | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
What is the basic nature of the modern computer? How does it work? How has it been possible to squeeze so much power into increasingly smaller machines? What will the next generations of computers look like? In this Very Short Introduction, Darrel Ince looks at the basic concepts behind all computers, t ...Show more
Tides: A Very Short Introduction by Bowers, David George (Emeritus Professor of Physical Oceanography, Bangor University), Roberts, Emyr Martyn (Researcher, University of Bergen)
$18.95 AUD
Category: Introducing & Short History Series | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
The tide is the greatest synchronised movement of matter on our planet. Every drop of seawater takes part in tidal motion, driven by the gravitational pull of the moon and sun. At the coast, we see the tide as a twice-daily rise and fall of sea level that moves the edge of the sea up and down a beach or ...Show more