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Introducing Sociology: A Graphic Guide by Richard Osborne
Category: Culture | Series: Introducing... S.
With innovative graphics, "Introducing Sociology" traces the discipline's history, and explains the intricacies of its major thinkers from Comte and Marx to Baudrillard and beyond.
Introducing Sociology: A Graphic Guide by John Nagle; Piero (Illustrator)
Category: Science | 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
Category: Science | 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: A Graphic Guide by J.P. McEvoy
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 Thatcherism: A Graphic Guide by Peter Pugh; Carl Flint (Illustrator)
Category: History | Series: Introducing... Ser.
Margaret Thatcher's political career was one of the most remarkable of modern times. She rose to become the first woman to lead a major Western democracy, serving as British Prime Minister. Admired by Ronald Regan and the United States Congress, Introducing Thatcherism looks at the political philosophy ...Show more
Introducing Time: A Graphic Guide by Craig Callender
Category: Science | 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 Wagner: A Graphic Guide by Michael White
Category: Music | Series: Introducing...
Wagner's operatic works rank with the supreme achievements of western culture. But acceptance of Wagner's musical genius is tempered by feelings of misgiving and many believe the composer's underlying ideas to be indefensible. A self-styled social revolutionary, Wagner thought the world could be redeeme ...Show more
Introducing Walter Benjamin: A Graphic Guide by Howard Caygill; Alex Coles; Andrzej Klimowski
Category: Biography | 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 Well-Being: A Practical Guide by Patricia Furness-Smith
Category: Fiction | Series: Introducing...
This book is full of expert, practical advice which teaches you to use the latest techniques to achieve a healthy state of mind and body. BECOME MORE ENERGIZED by adopting quality sleep patterns. OPTIMIZE MENTAL AND PHYSICAL HEALTH by harnessing your natural ability to heal. ACHIEVE CALM by learning to ...Show more
Introducing Wittgenstein: A Graphic Guide by John Heaton
Category: Philosophy and Religion | 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)
Category: Philosophy and Religion | 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
Introducing the Freud Wars: A Graphic Guide by Stephen Wilson
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Introducing...
Compact INTRODUCING guide on the debates surrounding psychoanalysis's most contested figure. Freud is universally recognised as a pivotal figure in modern culture. Yet the man and his work continually attract scandal, outrage and scientific suspicion. Was he a psychological genius or a peddler of humb ...Show more