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50 Ideas You Really Need to Know: Psychology by Adrian Furnham
Category: Health and Wellbeing | Series: 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know Series
How different are men and women's brains? Does altruism really exist? Are our minds blank slates at birth? And do dreams reveal our unconscious desires? If you have you ever grappled with these concepts, then this book is for you. Not only providing the answers to these questions and many more, a series ...Show more
50 Literature Ideas You Really Need to Know by John Sutherland
Category: Literature | Series: 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know Ser.
In a series of 50 accessible essays, John Sutherland introduces and explains the important forms, concepts, themes and movements in literature, drawing on insights and examples from both classic and popular works. From postmodernism to postcolonialism, William Shakespeare to Jane Austen, 50 Literatu ...Show more
50 Literature Ideas You Really Need to Know by John Sutherland
Category: Languages and Reference | Series: 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know Series
Literature suffers from appearing both deceptively easy and dauntingly difficult. We all like to think we can read a novel and understand what 'genre', 'style' and 'narrative' mean, but do we really understand them fully and how they can enrich our reading experience? How should we approach the works of ...Show more
50 Management Ideas You Really Need to Know by Edward Russell-Walling
Category: Business | Series: 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know Ser.
A complete and accessible introduction to management.
50 Management Ideas You Really Need to Know by Edward Russell-Walling
Category: Languages and Reference | Series: 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know Series
The fourth title in the Quercus Ideas You Really Need to Know series demystifies the management concepts that any budding entrepreneur would want to grasp. The 50 bite-sized topics expound the wisdom of the well-known business gurus (from Peters and Porter to Welch and Gates), explain helpful theories a ...Show more
50 Maths Ideas You Really Need to Know by Tony Crilly
Category: Science & Natural History | Series: 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know Series
Who invented zero? Why 60 seconds in a minute? How big is infinity? Where do parallel lines meet? And can a butterfly's wings really cause a storm on the far side of the world? In 50 Maths Ideas You Really Need to Know, Professor Tony Crilly explains in 50 clear and concise essays the mathematical conce ...Show more
50 Maths Ideas You Really Need to Know by Tony Crilly
Category: Science | Series: 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know Ser.
Who invented zero? Why 60 seconds in a minute? How big is infinity? Where do parallel lines meet? And can a butterfly's wings really cause a storm on the far side of the world?In 50 Maths Ideas You Really Need to Know, Professor Tony Crilly explains in 50 clear and concise essays the mathematical concep ...Show more
50 Philosophy Ideas You Really Need To Know by Ben Dupre
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know Series
Have you ever lain awake at night fretting over how we can be sure of the reality of the external world? Perhaps we are in fact disembodied brains, floating in vats at the whim of some deranged puppet-master? If so, you are not alone - and what's more, you are in exalted company. For this question and o ...Show more
50 Philosophy of Science Ideas You Really Need to Know by Gareth Southwell
Category: Science | Series: 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know Series
Science first began as a branch of philosophy, but it has since grown up and moved out of the family home, and its successes have put its parent in the shade. Thanks to scientific knowledge we have walked on the Moon, cured once-fatal illnesses, and even identified the very building blocks of life and t ...Show more
50 Physics Ideas You Really Need to Know by Joanne Baker
Category: Science | Series: 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know Series
We encounter physics before we've even left the house in the morning; an alarm clock tracks time, a mirror reflects light waves and our mobile phones rely on satellites held in their orbit by gravity. Where would we be without the Bernoulli equation to explain how planes fly, electromagnetic waves enab ...Show more
50 Physics Ideas You Really Need to Know by Joanne Baker
Category: Languages and Reference | Series: 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know Ser.
In this, the second volume in an important new series presenting core concepts across a range of critical areas of human knowledge, author Joanne Baker unravels the complexities of 20th-century scientific theory for a general readership. She explains ideas at the cutting-edge of scientific enquiry, maki ...Show more
50 Physics Ideas You Really Need to Know by Joanne Baker
Category: Science | Series: 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know Ser.
We encounter physics before we've even left the house in the morning; an alarm clock tracks time, a mirror reflects light waves and our mobile phones rely on satellites held in their orbit by gravity.Where would we be without the Bernoulli equation to explain how planes fly, electromagnetic waves enabli ...Show more