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Gardasil - Fast-Tracked and Fatal by Helen Lobato
Category: Health and Wellbeing | Series: Spinifex Shorts Ser.
The author argues that there is no evidence of how much cervical cancer HPV vaccine will prevent. What is emerging, however, is evidence of its harmful effects. In the nine years since the experimental HPV vaccination program began, there have been 255 associated deaths worldwide and 43,000 adverse even ...Show more
Geopolitics: A Very Short Introduction by Klaus Dodds
Category: Social Sciences | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
In places such as Iraq, Lebanon, and Israel, moving a few feet in a territorial boundary can be a matter of life or death, dramatically highlighting the connections between place and politics. Even far away from these "danger zones"- in Europe or the US for example - geopolitics remains an important par ...Show more
German Literature (A Very Short Introduction) by Nicholas Boyle
Category: Kindergarten | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
German writers, from Luther and Goethe to Heine, Brecht, and Gunter Grass, have had a profound influence on the modern world. This Very Short Introduction presents an engrossing tour of the course of German literature from the late Middle Ages to the present, focussing especially on the last 250 years. ...Show more
Ghosts of the Shadow Market (Shadowhunters Stories) by Cassandra Clare
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Series: Short Story Collection
From New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Cassandra Clare comes an exciting new short story collection that follows Jem Carstairs as he travels through the many Shadow Markets around the world. Ghosts of the Shadow Market is a Shadowhunters novel. The Shadow Market is a meeting point for faer ...Show more
Gladiators: Fighting to the Death in Ancient Rome by M. C. Bishop
Category: Ancient History | Series: Casemate Short History
The gladiator is one of the most enduring figures of Ancient Rome. Heroic, though of lowly status, they fought vicious duals in large arenas filled with baying crowds. The survivor could be either executed (the famous 'thumbs down' signal) or spared at the whim of the crowd or the Emperor. Few lasted mo ...Show more
Global Economic History by Robert C. Allen
Category: Current Affairs | Series: Very Short Introductions
Why are some countries rich and others poor? In 1500, the income differences were small, but they have grown dramatically since Columbus reached America. Since then, the interplay between geography, globalization, technological change, and economic policy has determined the wealth and poverty of nation ...Show more
Global Warming (A Very Short Introduction) by Mark Maslin
Category: No Category | Series: Very Short Introductions
Global warming is arguably the most critical and controversial issue facing the world in the twenty-first century. This Very Short Introduction provides a concise and accessible explanation of the key topics in the debate: looking at the predicted impact of climate change, exploring the political contr ...Show more
Globalization: A Very Short Introduction by Manfred Steger
Category: Politics | Series: Very Short Introductions
'Globalization' has become one of the defining buzzwords of our time - a term that describes a variety of accelerating economic, political, cultural, ideological, and environmental processes that are rapidly altering our experience of the world. It is by its nature a dynamic topic - and this Very Short ...Show more
Goethe: A Very Short Introduction by Ritchie Robertson
Category: Culture | Series: Very Short Introductions
In 1878 the Victorian critic Matthew Arnold wrote: 'Goethe is the greatest poet of modern times...because having a very considerable gift for poetry, he was at the same time, in the width, depth, and richness of his criticism of life, by far our greatest modern man.' In this Very Short Introduction Rit ...Show more
Goodbye to All Cats : With Envelope by P. G. Wodehouse
Category: Classics | Series: Travelman Short Story
Grand Union - Stories by Zadie Smith
Category: Fiction | Series: Short Stories
In the summer of 1959, an Antiguan immigrant in north west London lives the last day of his life. A mother looks back on her early forays into matters of the human heart, considering the ways in which desire is always an act of negotiation, destruction, and self-invention. A disgraced cop stands amid th ...Show more
Gödel's Theorem: a Very Short Introduction by A. W. Moore
Category: Science | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
bVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring /b Kurt Gödel first published his celebrated theorem, showing that no axiomatization can determine the whole truth and nothing but the truth concerning arithmetic, nearly a century ago. The theorem challenged prevalent presuppositions about the nat ...Show more