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Introducing Baudrillard: A Graphic Guide by Chris Horrocks
Category: Biography | Series: Introducing...
Did the Gulf War take place? Is it possible to fake a bank robbery? Was sexual liberation a disaster? Jean Baudrillard has been hailed as one of France's most subtle and powerful theorists. But his provocative style and assaults on sociology, feminism and Marxism have exposed him to accusations of promo ...Show more
Introducing Bertrand Russell: A Graphic Guide by Dave Robinson; Judy Groves
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Introducing... Ser.
Bertrand Russell changed Western philosophy forever. He tackled many puzzleshow our minds work, how we experience the world, and what the true nature of meaning is. In Introducing Bertrand Russell we meet a passionate eccentric, active in world politics, who had outspoken views on sex, marriage, religio ...Show more
Introducing Buddha: A Graphic Guide by Jane Hope, Borin van Loon
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Introducing...
"Introducing Buddha" describes the life and teachings of the Buddha, but it also shows that enlightenment is a matter of experiencing the truth individually and by inspiration which is passed from teacher to student. Superbly illustrated by Borin Van Loon, the book illuminates this process through a ric ...Show more
Introducing Capitalism: A Graphic Guide by Dan Cryan, Sharron Shatil
Category: Culture | Series: Introducing... Ser.
Capitalism now dominates the globe, both in economics and ideology, shapes every aspect of our world and influences everything from laws, wars and government to interpersonal relationships. "Introducing Capitalism" tells the story of its remarkable and often ruthless rise, evolving through strife and st ...Show more
Introducing Chaos: A Graphic Guide by Ziauddin Sardar, Iwona Abrams
Category: Science | Series: Introducing...
"Introducing Chaos" explains how chaos makes its presence felt in many varieties of event, from the fluctuation of animal populations to the ups and downs of the stock market. It also examines the roots of chaos in modern mathematics and physics, and explores the relationship between chaos and complexit ...Show more
Introducing Chomsky: A Graphic Guide by John Maher
Category: PHILOSOPHY | Series: Introducing... S.
'Lucid, witty and exact.' New Statesman. Linguist Noam Chomsky maintains that the human brain has an innate language faculty, and that part of this biological endowment is a 'universal grammar', a theory of principles common to all languages. Thus, all human languages and the ways in which children lear ...Show more
Introducing Confident Speaking: A Practical Guide by Alan Woodhouse
Category: Health and Wellbeing | Series: Introducing...
Introducing Confident Speaking, by voice, acting, communication and public speaking coach Alan Woodhouse, teaches you to express yourself more clearly, persuasively and confidently. Whether you want to ask your boss for a pay rise, chair meetings better, or deliver a faultless best-man speech, this book ...Show more
Introducing Consciousness: A Graphic Guide by David Papineau, Howard Selina
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Introducing... S.
"Introducing Consciousness" provides a comprehensive guide to the current state of consciousness studies. It starts with the history of the philosophical relation between mind and matter, and proceeds to scientific attempts to explain consciousness in terms of neural mechanisms, cerebral computation and ...Show more
Introducing Continental Philosophy: A Graphic Guide by Christopher Kul-Want; Piero (Illustrator)
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Introducing... Ser.
What makes philosophy on the continent of Europe so different and exciting? And why does it have such a reputation for being 'difficult'?Continental philosophy was initiated amid the revolutionary ferment of the 18th century, philosophers such as Kant and Hegel confronting the extremism of the time with ...Show more
Introducing Critical Theory: A Graphic Guide by Stuart Sim, Borin van Loon
Category: Culture | Series: Introducing... Ser.
What might a 'theory of everything' look like? Is science an ideology? Who were Adorno, Horkheimer or the Frankfurt School? The decades since the 1960s have seen an explosion in the production of critical theories. Deconstructionists, poststructuralists, postmodernists, second-wave feminists, new histor ...Show more
Introducing Cultural Studies: A Graphic Guide by Ziauddin Sardar
Category: Culture | 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
Category: Science | 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