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Humanism by Stephen Law
Category: Reference | Series: Very Short Introductions
Religion is currently gaining a much higher profile. The number of faith schools is increasingly, and religious points of view are being aired more frequently in the media. As religion's profile rises, those who reject religion, including humanists, often find themselves misunderstood, and occasionally ...Show more
Humbug Adventure (Secret Seven Short Stories #2) by Enid Blyton
Category: Early Reader | Series: Secret Seven Colour Short Stories
When the gang go star-gazing, they soon get bored and spy on the town - and see someone setting a haystack on fire. Will the Seven act fast enough to save the barn?
Hurry, Secret Seven, Hurry! (Secret Seven Short Stories #5) by Enid Blyton
Category: Early Reader | Series: Secret Seven Colour Short Stories
An injured signalman tries to give his rescuers an important message - but only the Secret Seven can understand it! Can the Seven act fast enough to prevent a disaster?
Ideology: A Very Short Introduction by Michael Freeden
Category: Reference | Series: Very Short Introductions
Ideology is one of the most controversial terms in the political vocabulary, exciting both revulsion and inspiration. This book examines the reasons for those views, and explains why ideologies deserve respect as a major form of political thinking. It investigates the centrality of ideology both as a po ...Show more
Incontinence of the Void: Economico-Philosophical Spandrels by Slavoj Zizek; Stockholm Inst Of Transition Staff
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Short Circuits Ser.
The "formidably brilliant" Zizek considers sexuality, ontology, subjectivity, and Marxian critiques of political economy by way of Lacanian psychoanalysis. If the most interesting theoretical interventions emerge today from the interspaces between fields, then the foremost interspaceman is Slavoj Zizek ...Show more
Infinity: A Very Short Introduction by Ian Stewart
Category: Science | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
Infinity is an intriguing topic, with connections to religion, philosophy, metaphysics, logic, and physics as well as mathematics. Its history goes back to ancient times, with especially important contributions from Euclid, Aristotle, Eudoxus, and Archimedes. The infinitely large (infinite) is intimatel ...Show more
Iran: A Very Short Introduction by Ali Ansari
Category: History | Series: Very Short Introductions
Iran has rarely been out of the headlines. Yet media interest and extensive coverage has tended to hinder rather than help our understanding of Iran as an idea, an identity, and a people, leading to a superficial understanding of what is a complex and nuanced political culture and civilization. This Ver ...Show more
Iraq: A History by John Robertson
Category: History | Series: Short Histories
In this insightful analysis, highly-respected expert John Robertson canvases the entirety of Iraq's rich history, from the seminal advances of its Neolithic inhabitants to the aftermath of the American-led invasion and Iraq today. Grounded in extensive research, this balanced account of a country and it ...Show more
Iraq: A History by John Robertson
Category: Popular History | Series: Short Histories
Cities, scripts, literature, the rule of law - all were born in Iraq. That so many see this ancient land as nothing more than a violent backwater steeped in chaos is a travesty. This is the place where, for the first 5,000 years of human history, all innovations of worth emerged. It was the cradle of ci ...Show more
Islam by Malise Ruthven
Category: Philosophy | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
Islam dominates the news, often in stories filled with images of violence. Yet these disturbing images are at odds with a faith that most adherents--who now number over a billion worldwide--would regard as no less pacific than Buddhism or Christianity. Indeed, the word Islam in Arabic means "self-surren ...Show more
Islam: A Very Short Introduction by Malise Ruthven
Category: Spirituality | Series: Very Short Introductions
Contains insights into issues such as why Islam has such major divisions between movements such as the Shi'ites, the Sunnis, and the importance of the Shar'ia (Islamic law) in Islamic life. This book also deals with contemporary questions: can women find fulfilment in Islamic societies? How must Islam a ...Show more
J: A Novel by Howard Jacobson
Category: Fiction | Series: Man Booker 2014 Shortlist
Set in the future, a world where the past is a dangerous country, not to be talked about or visited, J is a love story of incomparable strangeness, both tender and terrifying. Two people fall in love, not yet knowing where they have come from or where they are going. Kevern doesn't know why his father a ...Show more