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Introducing Psychology :A Graphic Guide to Your Mind and Behaviour by Nigel Benson
Category: Health and Wellbeing | Series: Introducing... Ser.
What is psychology? When did it begin? Where did it come from? How does psychology compare with related subjects such as psychiatry and psychotherapy? To what extent is it scientific? "Introducing Psychology" answers all these questions and more, explaining what the subject has been in the past and what ...Show more
Introducing Psychotherapy by Nigel Benson
Category: Military History | Series: Introducing series
Psychotherapy is now hardly contentious, a safety net for the perils of modern life. But what - really - is it all about? Here is a unique and valuable summary of this complex profession, focussing on the main types of therapies: the 'talking cures' of psychoanalysis; behavioural and cognitive technique ...Show more
Introducing Psychotherapy: A Graphic Guide by Nigel Benson; Borin Van Loon (Illustrator)
Category: Health and Wellbeing | Series: Introducing... Ser.
What is psychotherapy? How can we choose wisely from so much on offer? This book provides a valuable summary of the main therapies: the "talking cures" of psychoanalysis, behavioral and cognitive techniques, somatic solutions, humanist gestalt and existential approaches, and individual and group therap ...Show more
Introducing Quantum Theory: A Graphic Guide by J.P. McEvoy, Oscar Zarate
Category: Science | Series: Introducing... Ser.
Quantum theory confronts us with bizarre paradoxes which contradict the logic of classical physics. At the subatomic level, one particle seems to know what the others are doing, and according to Heisenberg's "uncertainty principle", there is a limit on how accurately nature can be observed. And yet the ...Show more
Introducing Semiotics: A Graphic Guide by Paul Cobley, Litza Jansz
Category: Philosophy and Religion | 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 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 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 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 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
Mark Rothko: Art from the Inside by SUSAN GRANGE
Category: Art | Series: Introducing Great Artists Ser.
Snappy, incisive introduction to the life and later works of one of the world's most popular artists. Mark Rothko's awe-inspiring yet deceptively simple, iconic colour field paintings belie the mythical and emotional complexity behind them. Rothko put his heart and soul into creating works that were to ...Show more
Marxism: A Graphic History by Rupert Woodfin; Oscar Zarate (Illustrator)
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Introducing... Ser.
Beautiful new edition of a classic comic-book introduction to Marxist thought. Karl Marx was one of the most influential thinkers of the late 19th century, inspiring revolutions and colossal political upheavals that have radically transformed the lives of millions of people and the geopolitical map ...Show more